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Choosing a date for your Disney World vacation can be challenging, but if you’re on a tight budget, we’re here to help!
All-Star Music
The fall is a time of year when it’s notoriously a little cheaper to visit Disney World or stay in a Disney Resort. We did the research, and we’re sharing the cheapest nights to stay at a Disney hotel this fall…let’s get to planning!
There’s a lot for guests to see at Walt Disney World this summer, including The Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring the Muppets, Bluey’s Wild World, and the revamped Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, just to name a few. That in turn means guests are flocking to Disney World’s hotels.
Pool Party!
Those throngs of guests will encounter a lot of changes, as there are a slew of hotel perks… and hotel closures to navigate this summer.
Disney’s BoardWalk Resort is home to some of our favorite spots on Disney World property — even if it’s looking a little bit rougher than normal right now.
Disney’s BoardWalk
There are currently multiple vacancies on the BoardWalk, and we’ve been waiting on the edges of our seats to find out exactly what will be replacing the former locations. Up until now, Disney has remained pretty quiet on what they have planned for these spaces, but it sounds like that could all be changing soon!
Picking the right hotel for a Disneyland vacation is a deceptively tough task…
Disneyland Hotel
When you’re planning your very first Disneyland vacation, booking a hotel feels like one of the easiest decisions on the list. You see a Disney-owned hotel, you assume it’s the best option, you check out the theming and prices to decide between the hotels, and boom — reservation complete. But a LOT of Disneyland first-timers end up realizing way too late that they booked the wrong hotel for the kind of trip they actually wanted.
Room service at most Disney World hotels has been gone for over five years now, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and at this time, there’s no sign it’ll return to the majority of hotels any time soon.
Oh how we miss room service!
That makes us sad, and it has been every day for the past 5+ years, but we have to admit that there is something out there that makes it…at least a little bit better. At select Disney World hotel table service restaurants, you may notice an option called “To-Go.” This means that, while it can’t be brought to your room, you are able to order a meal, go and pick it up, then bring it back to your room to enjoy instead of eating inside the restaurant. Is it really worth it, though? We found out for ourselves!
Construction is all around Disney World right now, and yes, that’s a sentence we’ve been saying for several months now, but it’s still true, and will remain so for quite some time.
Pop Century construction
Over at Disney’s Pop Century Resort, we’ve known about the Kiddie Splash Pad being under construction for quite some time (it was originally supposed to be finished late April, and now has been extended through this month), and recently the lobby saw a pretty significant refresh, but the work isn’t over. Now, it appears the front of the hotel is seeing some pretty serious TLC.
For the first time since the Riviera Resort opened back in 2019, a BRAND-NEW Resort is set to open at Walt Disney World next year, and guests are reworking their plans to see it.
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Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge, a long-in-development resort, which will be “inspired by the majesty of nature and its enduring influence on Disney artists,” is currently under construction on the former site of the River Country water park near the Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground.
Summer 2026 is about to kick into high gear at Walt Disney World, but there are some things guests preparing for a June stay at a Disney World hotel need to know.
They’re already hard at work
From dining closures and refurbishments to special offers and even FREE access to two in-demand Disney World parks, a lot is going on at Disney World’s on-property hotels in June.
When it comes toDisney World, there are a lot of rules — both official and unofficial — that guests “need” to follow.
Early entry sign!
However, we’d argue that there are some unofficial “rules” that guests should break at least once!
When thinking about Disney World hotels and places to stay, we don’t see Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort getting a lot of love. Maybe it’s because this resort is targeted more towards convention goers, or maybe it’s because it’s not perceived as exciting as some of Disney’s other moderate resorts. However, we might argue that you’re missing out if you don’t consider Coronado Springs for your next stay.
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
This hotel has a clear Latin influence, with a blend of Spanish, Mexican, and Southwest American cultures that you’ll see in the hotel’s decor and architecture. We recently stayed in a Tower room in the Gran Destino Tower at Coronado Springs…and let’s just say this $400 hotel room feels like it could have cost a whole lot more.
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