It’s WEDNESDAY and this WEEKLY WISHES REPORT is brought to you showcasing some of the Disney Resorts at the Walt Disney World Resort and two of Disney’s Vacation Club Resort Properties. The resorts at Disney are another piece of the magic for the resort guests. My family has enjoyed stays at the Disney Resorts. To date, our family has experienced 24 Disney resort stays with another stay coming very soon. One thing our family likes to do is stay at a different resort each stay and photograph each resort inside and outside. After our return home, I begin the process of renaming the photos and the post-processing. I have noticed that even our children enjoy getting the photo-books out and looking at our trips from the past.
Some of my favorite Resorts from each level of the Disney Resort collection follows.
The Value Resorts at Disney are a collection of four resorts: Disney’s All Star Movies Resort, Disney’s All Star Music Resort, Disney’s All Star Sports Resort and Disney’s Pop Century Resort. My family has stayed at all four resorts. In fact, we have stayed at All Star Movies and Pop Century for a few repeat stays. One of the things that I think the Disney Imagineers did BIG that makes the Value Resort level fun to to stay at is what I call the “larger than life” statues at each resort. I think that if I were about 5 years old, I would love these statues. Wait, I’m an adult and love them! The beds are comfortable and the pools are fun. Different times of the year Disney makes the price on these really nice and that can make a Disney trip budget a little lower. The Disney Imagineers also themed each of the resorts with the “larger than life” statues to match that particular resort and that is what makes it so magical to experience!
Disney's All Stars Value Resorts
An addition to the Disney Value Resorts is this abandoned resort below. This is a Disney Value Resort that was once started. It can be viewed from Disney’s Pop Century property. It is the unfinished part of Disney’s Pop Century that was begun but later abandoned around the timing of the September 11th events. It was originally planned to be the Legendary Years section. While the Classic Years opened in 2003, this part remained unfinished. A bridge was planned to connect the two parts called Generation Gap Bridge. I do love how Disney has a name for everything! It is now being transformed into Disney’s Art of Animation Resort and plans are to open fall of 2012.
Disney's Art of Animation Resort
The Moderate Resorts are just that…..they are right in the middle of the Value & Deluxe Resort collection at Disney. My family likes them for that reason. As the Value Resorts are the furthest from the parks and the Deluxe Resorts are the closest, the Moderate Resorts are in the middle. There are four resorts: Disney’s Carribean Beach Resort, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside & French Quarter, and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Cabins. My family has stayed at each of these except for the Cabins. Our family has been to the Fort Wilderness area to dine at Trails End and the Hoop-te-Doo Revue dinner show. My favorite out of Disney’s Moderate level Resorts is Disney’s Port Orleans Resort: Riverside and French Quarter. We have stayed at the French Quarter once and Riverside twice. We enjoyed the water taxi to Downtown Disney from this resort as well as the sit down dining and activities available.
Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort
DIsney's Port Orleans Resort, Riverside
Disney's Port Orleans Resort, French Quarter
The Disney Deluxe Resort collection comes with monorails, close walks and water taxis to the parks depending on the location or park chosen to be closest to. This helps with the bus issues for some. Our family has stayed at Disney’s Polynesian Resort twice, Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort and Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort. The Polynesian, Grand Floridian Resort & Spa and Contemporary Resorts have monorail service and Wilderness Lodge as well as The Swan & Dolphin offer water taxi service. The Epcot area deluxe resorts are close for walking to Epcot Center or to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. When we stayed at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, we were upgraded to a Magic Kingdom view room with full view of the castle. It was at Christmas and that was magical. We kept the curtains in the room open in case we woke up at night and wanted to see the castle. Disney keeps the castle and lights at the Magic Kingdom lit up all night! The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort offers discounts to Nurses, Teachers, and Military as well as the Resort accepts points with Sheraton/Starwood Hotels. That is a nice extra! For an upcoming trip, a stay at the Boardwalk Inn is booked with future plans for Grand Floridian and Beach Club & Yacht Club. Below are a couple of the deluxe level resorts.
The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort
Disney's Beach Club Resort
In addition to Disney’s Deluxe Resort Collection is Disney’s DVC (Disney Vacation Club) Resorts. We have stayed at two of the DVC Resorts: Disney’s Old Key West Resort and Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort.
Disney’s Old Key West Resort is quiet and away from the parks. Some may see that as a downside to the resort, but it is a quiet resort surrounded by golf courses, a fun pool, and daily activities. There is a water taxi to Downtown Disney available. The menu at Olivia’s is wonderful. My family enjoyed our stay at Disney’s Old Key West Resort.
Disney's Old Key West Resort
Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort is located in Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. It has a nice lowcountry theme. The pool has a cool slide, there are lots of activities, and the rooms are nice. There is counter service dining at the resort as well as the beach house. The beach house is a short drive or bike ride from the resort. Local restaurants are good at Hilton Head Island as well. It’s a fun resort I plan for our family to re-visit.
Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort
My family has also stayed at two of the Hilton properties located within the Walt Disney World property. I will blog about those at another time. We had a good stay at those two resorts as well.
Each visit, our family enjoys the magic provided by the Disney Resorts.
Thank you for stopping by for a dose of blog candy in the WEEKLY WISHES REPORT. I hope your day is like a spoonful of sugar!
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