Disney World hotels have been going through a lot recently.

The Swan Resort

Tons of hotels are currently going through lots of construction, and while we’re excited for the transformations to be complete, some of them are hard to navigate right now. Not to mention that ever since the park closures in 2020, many Disney hotels haven’t returned fully to their former glory. Here are four hotel perks Disney World STILL isn’t offering.

Resort Hotel Delivery

One of the biggest perks of staying at a Disney World hotel was getting your park souvenirs sent back to your hotel for you. If you were shopping around the park and purchased a souvenir you didn’t want to carry around with you for the rest of the day, but also didn’t want to stop back at your resort, you could ask the store to send it back to your hotel.

Main Street USA

You’d inform the store in the parks where you were staying, and they would deliver the item(s) to your hotel’s gift shop for you to pick up after a certain time that day. This service was included in the price of your hotel stay.

Animal Kingdom Lodge Gift Shop

Now, since this isn’t available, you’ll need to rent a locker, or not buy your souvenirs until the end of the night, which can be hard if you’re park hopping.

The Old Extra Magic Hours

While Disney World has brought back extra time in the parks for hotel guests, it’s not what it used to be. Previously, Extra Magic Hours was a perk offered to ALL Disney World hotel guests and was available at a limited number of parks per day. Hotel guests could enter a park early and/or stay in a park late, depending on the schedule.

Early Entry

Right now, we have Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours. Early Theme Park Entry is offered to all Disney World hotel guests at all parks, all days. However, Extended Evening Hours is only offered on select nights and available to Deluxe Disney World Hotels, Deluxe Villas, and select other qualifying hotels.

Galaxy’s Edge at night

These perks were introduced for Disney World’s 50th Anniversary, but have now been extended through 2024.

Special Classes and Programs

Did you know there was once a free culinary tour offered at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge that highlighted its restaurants? Yeah, that hasn’t returned yet either.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

However, some of these have returned, such as the Wonders of the Lodge Art and Architecture Tour at Wilderness Lodge. This tour is about an hour long and teaches all about the theming of the resort.

Wilderness Lodge

We hope to see more of these special classes and programs return soon — it makes staying at a Disney hotel even more worth the price!

Access to Select Restaurants

Unfortunately, there are still a few hotel restaurants that we also haven’t seen reopen (and some of them we’re starting to really wonder if they ever will…).

1900 Park Fare

Two of these restaurants are the beloved 1900 Park Fare and the Garden View Tea Room at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, one of the more expensive hotels on property.

Garden View Tea Room

While Disney hasn’t announced anything about the fate of these spots yet, they have been giving the other restaurants around the hotel some facelifts, so they could just be planning to update them!

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort

We’ll be sure to update you if any of these perks return, so stay tuned to DFB for all the latest Disney news!

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What hotel perk are you really missing? Tell us in the comments!