WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT PRICE CLASSES
Walt Disney World has a ton of hotels, and it groups most of them into three price classes:
- Deluxe resorts, with the nicest rooms and grounds, best dining, best service, and highest prices
- Value resorts, with tiny rooms, limited dining and service, but the lowest prices, and
- Moderate resorts, in between the values and the deluxes, but a little closer to deluxes.
The image below gives you more specifics on what you can expect to find in each price class.
MORE ON WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD
- For where to stay, see this
- For your next best choices, in order, see this
- For picking your resort based on appeal to kids, see this
- For picking your resort based on convenience, see this
- For where not to stay, see this
- For what you get in each resort price category, see this
- For Walt Disney World resort price seasons, see this
- For resort reviews, see this
- For the value resorts, see this
- For the moderate resorts, see this
- For the deluxe resorts, see this
- For suites at the deluxe resorts, see this
- For the Disney Vacation Club (“DVC”) Resorts, see this
- For a (geeky) overview of comparative room size, see this
- Military/DOD families should look at this
- Families seeking the most comfortable place to stay should see this
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Sue – Guests staying at value resorts must bring towels with them. You can then request houeskeeping to bring more towels to your room.
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We’ve stayed at each level and the thing that really surprised me was when we were at Art of Animation, we had to bring our room towels to the pool. I don’t know if that was because we were there in off season or if that’s how all of the values are.
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Sue, as Kelly notes, it’s always like that at the Values.
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Dave our trip is planned for March 4-10 and my grandson turns 7 on March 7th. We (my daughter, grandson and I) have a 4 day pass and will be staying in the pirate room at the Caribbean Beach resort (wish I had seen your site prior to booking my reservation). I would love suggestions on splitting up our time – and ideas to celebrate my little guy’s birthday.(have the Magic Your Way Plus Dining pkg). Thank you!
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Hi Addie!
For birthday ideas see this: https://yourfirstvisit.net/2012/02/01/is-walt-disney-world-free-on-your-birthday/
At that age I’d focus on the Magic Kingdom, planning at least two days there. I don’t have daily itineraries on this site for such a short trip, but you can find them in my book The easy Guide
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We are planning a trip in late may for 3 adults and a three year old. I am thinking that 4 days in the parks would be enough for a 3 year old, what do you think? I have MS (walk with a cane, do get tired) do you think it would be pretty important to get in a resort with the monorail? Any other good ideas?
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Dan, there’s a ton of walking within the parks, and also at all the monorail resorts except for the Contemporary–see https://yourfirstvisit.net/2011/06/06/review-disneys-contemporary-resort/ So the strongest advice I have for you is to rent a scooter! You can set it up so that it’s delivered to your hotel, and you can use it on the buses, monorail etc. You could also just rent them at the parks, but that slows you down and they may run out…
Four days should be plenty, as there’s not a lot for kids that young. Think two days at MK, and one each at AK and HS.
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Looking for a 5 day itinerary we are visiting with our 11 (girl)and 13 year (boy) old kids Feb. 17-21. Not so interested in shows (illuminations and fantastic we will see for sure)… looking for a hotel that includes a good breakfast what do you think of embassy suites? First time for the kids. An restaurant suggestions?
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Shari, I don’t have five day itineraries, but check this: http://touringplans.com/magic-kingdom/touring-plans?utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=website&utm_source=yourfirstvisit&utm_content=r1&property_id=1 Because they have almost 100,000 rooms, and I cna barely keep up wiht the on-site hotels, I don’t track the off site hotels so can’t comment on that–maybe try http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/resort.htm ? And my restaurant suggestions are here: https://yourfirstvisit.net/planning-your-first-family-trip/where-to-eat/
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