Review: Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, Continued
This is the second page of this review of Disney’s Yacht Club Resort. For the first page, click here.
MORE ON DISNEY’S YACHT CLUB RESORT
Disney’s Yacht Club Resort is one of 8 official Disney owned and operated deluxe resorts at Walt Disney World.
In their recommended order for first time family visitors, they are
Many of these also offer Disney Vacation Club (“DVC”) studios and villas, all for rent to the general public–see this for more on the Disney Vacation Club resorts. The Yacht Club does not have a DVC offering.
ROOMS AT DISNEY’S YACHT CLUB RESORT
All Disney deluxe resorts have standard rooms; concierge rooms, which Disney calls “club” rooms; and suites. (See this for more on suites at Walt Disney World.)
At Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, standard and club/concierge rooms sleep either four or five, in two queen beds, or two queens and a day bed.
King bed rooms that sleep two or three (the third on the day bed) are also available.
The Yacht Club also has deluxe rooms and suites. I’ll return to these in a minute.
The next part of this review focuses on standard rooms, and in particular on a five-person room.
The rooms in the Yacht Club Resort were completely renovated in 2009.
When you enter a standard room, you’ll find on one side a small chest of drawers and a good-sized closet.
On the other side is the bath, with double sinks and a separated toilet and tub area.
The hall opens into the large bedroom space.
One side of the bedroom space contains two nicely spaced and decorated queen beds, separated by a small bedside table.
Between the beds and the balcony is a small, two-part desk.
The second part of the desk is a separate wheeled oval table, which can be moved around the room and serve as a typing table or a small dining or game-playing space.
The balcony is spacious and has a couple of chairs and a table.
(Unlike sister resort the Beach Club, pretty much every room at the Yacht Club has a full balcony.)
On the opposite wall from the beds is a day bed and a dresser and minifridge, with the TV in the upper half of the dresser.
To convert the day-bed into a bed, simply remove the pillows.
This is simpler than some Disney World resort hotel sofa-bed options, but does mean that the day-bed functions less well as a couch.
I measured it as having six feet of space between the wooden ends.
See the image for the day-bed ready for sleeping.
These rooms are a hint more formal than the more charming rooms at sister resort the Beach Club, and, while nice, are not so bright and cheery as rooms in fellow Epcot resort the BoardWalk Inn.
CONCIERGE ROOMS, DELUXE ROOMS, AND SUITES AT DISNEY’S YACHT CLUB RESORT
I generally advise against special room types for first-time visitors, as they won’t be spending much time in their rooms. However, they may be well worth it for families intending to spend more time at the Yacht Club Resort than implied by this site’s itineraries.
TikimanPages.com has a great discussion of the value of concierge rooms here. Though focused on the Polynesian, it applies to any deluxe resort.
Most Yacht Club concierge rooms (Disney calls them “club” rooms) are the same size as the rest of the resort’s rooms. However, there’s also an option called a “Deluxe” rooms, and two-bedroom suites.
Deluxe rooms don’t offer any more sleeping capacity–they just give you more space, and more separate spaces, for your family to live in.
Deluxe rooms (also called junior suites) are about 80% larger than standard rooms, and include two queens and a semi-private sitting area.
The two-bedroom Turret Suites are three bays wide. The two-bedroom Presidential and Admiral suites, each with ~2000 square feet and almost 6 bays wide and the two-bedroom Captain’s Deck Suite, with ~2400 square feet and 6 bays.
For more on suites, see this, and for more on larger families seeking deluxe options, see this.
Note that to all the capacity figures above you can add a child under three in a crib. A crib fits nicely between the dresser/TV and the closet.
THE THEMING OF DISNEY’S YACHT CLUB RESORT
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