REVIEWS OF DISNEY WORLD HOTELS
There are a number of hotel reviews designed for first-time visitors on this site. This page brings to one place links to all of them.
These hotels are grouped by price category. See this for details on the features of the various resort price categories.
Within price categories, they are in order of how well they suit typical first time family visitors. See this for more on where to stay.
REVIEWS OF DISNEY OWNED AND OPERATED RESORTS
Reviews of Value Resorts at Walt Disney World
Standard 4-person rooms:
Six-person “Family Suites”
Reviews of Moderate Resorts at Walt Disney World
(Not recommended for first time visitors, see this for why)
Reviews of Deluxe Resorts at Walt Disney World
Reviews of Disney Vacation Club Resorts at Walt Disney World
(Not recommended for first time visitors, see this for why)
- The Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas–Jambo House
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas–Kidani Village
- Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- The Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa
- Disney’s Beach Club Villas
- Disney’s BoardWalk Villas
- Disney’s Old Key West Resort
- Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa, main resort
- Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort, Treehouse Villas area
Campground Reviews:
- The Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort (Not recommended for first time visitors, see this for why)
(These hotels are grouped by price category. See this for details on the features of the various resort price categories. Within price categories, they are in order of how well they suit typical first time family visitors. See this for more on where to stay.)
REVIEWS OF OTHER HOTELS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
REVIEWS OF OFF-SITE HOTELS
- Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando
- Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando
- Loews Cabana Bay Beach Resort at Universal Orlando
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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Thanks!
Wendy, the Swan and Dolphin have less of a celebratory feel, and feel more like convention hotels. You can’t use either the Dining Plan or the Magical Express airport transport for them, but they do have access to extra magic hours, as you note, and also to the Disney internal bus system…
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OK – odd question…I was just checking the boards for Thanksgiving discounts and read some posts of Swan and Dolphin hotels. I checked the Thanksgiving rates – and they are 188 with AAA. That is lower than the other Disney hotels in that class, no? What is the disadvantage to staying at one of these? It seems to include Magic Hours and such…what am I missing?
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Great, Christie!!
The cheapest on-site way to sleep 6+1 –which is how WDW will count you–with a full kitchen is the Cabins–see http://yourfirstvisit.net/2013/03/05/review-the-cabins-at-disneys-fort-wilderness-resort-2/ But these aren’t cheap–in early December, they are around $330 a night plus tax–this is less than you’d likely pay to rent points for even the cheapest two bedroom villa …otherwise it’ offsite.
If you end up without the parents and want a value, then I’d try in order Pop Century, or if it’s sold out, Movies, then Music, then Sports.