Disney Resort Hotels - Your Pocket Guide to Resorts at Disney World

If you're planning on staying on property at Walt Disney World during your next vacation, you have quite a selection of Disney resort hotels to consider and they come in variety of price ranges. Hopefully, this quick guide to the resorts at Disney World will help you as you try and narrow down your decision.

There are four different categories of resorts at Walt Disney World - value, moderate, deluxe and deluxe villa. The Deluxe villa resorts are actually part of the Disney Vacation Club, Disney's timeshare program, but they also rent condos to non-owners as well. Here's a list of each resort class that you can use as a pocket guide when booking.

Disney Value Resorts

Pop Century
All-Star Music
All-Star Movies
All-Star Sports

Disney Moderate Resorts

Caribbean Beach
Coronado Springs
Port Orleans
Cabins at Fort Wilderness

Disney Deluxe Resorts

Animal Kingdom Lodge
Beach Club Resort
Boardwalk Inn
Contemporary Resort
Grand Floridian
Polynesian Resort
Wilderness Lodge
Yacht Club Resort

Disney Deluxe Villas

Animal Kingdom Villas
Beach Club Villas
Boardwalk Villas
Old Key West Resort
Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge

Pricing for the Value resorts starts under $100 nightly; the moderates start at about $150 and the deluxe start anywhere from $225 to nearly $400 per night for the Grand Floridian. The deluxe villas are all part of the Disney Vacation Club and so they also offer the most spacious accommodations on Disney property. So if you like to spread out, this would be your best bet. You can expect to pay $300 and up nightly for any of the DVC resorts.

There are also some Walt Disney Hotels that are not owned by the Disney company that you might want to consider. The Swan and Dolphin are both located near Hollywood Studios and they are owned by Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Shades of Green is owned by the US Military and is located near Magic Kingdom, but you'll have to be in the armed forces (or retired) in order to stay there. Also, there are seven additional hotels located at Downtown Disney that are on property, but owned by third parties.

While all of these hotels and resorts are not Disney-owned, they share many of the same perks available at the other Disney resorts, such as early entry and exits from a different park each day.

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