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Are you heading to Disney World in 2025? If so, how stoked are you to hitch a ride on the Skyliner?!
Disney World’s Skyliner
Honestly, there’s nothing quite like riding high above the crowds as you head back and forth to the parks from your Disney World resort hotel. If your visit happens to fall in January, well, there’s this complication you’re definitely going to want to know about and plan for!
This has been the year of BIG Disney World announcements.
The newly announced Lakeshore Lodge ©Disney
We finally got more details about the DinoLand, U.S.A. replacement in Animal Kingdom. We learned about a Monsters, Inc. land coming to Hollywood Studios. Magic Kingdom is getting a huge Cars expansion PLUS a Villains-themed land (FINALLY). Disney has NOT been playing around. We also found out about a project that we thought was shelved that has been resurrected: a project now called Lakeshore Lodge. We asked you, our readers, what you thought about it, and you told us!
Big changes are coming to Disney World in 2025.
Disney’s Grand Floridian
We’re about to see a lot of construction as EPCOT finishes up its reimagining of Test Track and Magic Kingdom starts work on its Cars expansion and Villains land. Hollywood Studios will be building a Monsters, Inc. land, while Animal Kingdom will be transforming Dinoland, U.S.A. into Pueblo Esperanza, a Tropical Americas-themed land. However, something ELSE is coming to Disney World, too, on January 1st — and it’s going to be a game-changer for folks staying at Disney World hotels.
Okay, hear us out: Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort is SO underrated. It’s one of the cheapest hotels on Disney World property, and the theming is generally ON POINT.
Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort
Sure, it’s not like you’re staying at the Grand Floridian, but it’s comfortable enough if if you plan to mostly just sleep in your room and spend most of your time in the parks. Plus you get transportation (although it is JUST buses) to the Disney Parks, Early Theme Park Entry, and you get to stay within the “Disney bubble.” However, as a value resort, we still think there are some things at All-Star Movies that just haven’t aged well.
Are you a member of the Disney Vacation Club?
Riviera Resort
The pricey timeshare-style program from Disney allows owners to buy points that they can then use to book stays at a variety of Disney properties, including hotels at Disney World and Disneyland Resort. You don’t have to be a DVC member to stay at those particular resorts, but if you travel to Disney destinations often enough, it might be worth buying into the program. However, recently there has been a big problem facing DVC members.
Choosing a hotel for your Disney World trip can be a challenge!
Port Orleans French Quarter
There are quite literally dozens of them available, and there are hundreds and hundreds of rooms in each. With all those options, how do you know you’re making the right choice? Well, we’re here to warn you about a few hotels that you might want to avoid in 2025!
If you’re planning a Disney World trip, you’ve probably done all your planning and picked out your hotel, right?
Pop Century
You’ve probably budgeted for that hotel and have an idea of what kind of perks that hotel offers (like certain transportation options, whether that be buses, Monorail, or Skyliner). You might even be aware of the 2025 perk where you can get a FREE ticket to Disney World’s water parks on your arrival date. We’re sure you know about Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours. But we’re about to tell you about some free Disney World hotel perks and upgrades you might not know about.
You can save by doubling down on Disney vacations.
Want to spend next Christmas at the Grand Floridian as well?
We’ve all been there. You reach the end of a Disney vacation and… start daydreaming about your next trip. Sometimes that happens when you get home, sometimes it happens before you’ve even left the resort. Now, Disney has extended a popular discount that offers big savings to those who wish to book another Disney trip immediately.
Black Friday deals are coming!
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The Central Florida/Orlando area is home to hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms. There are Disney and Universal’s on-property resorts, as well as seemingly every other brand one can imagine outside their properties. Now, one of those area hotels is offering a massive Cyber Week deal.
Not all hotels are created equal.
World Center Marriott
The Orlando area features almost 150,000 hotel rooms, ranging from the tiniest motels to large luxury resorts. There’s the sprawling Disney World resort complex, the ever-growing Universal Resort, and seemingly every other brand one can imagine in the area. However, for every great hotel in the area, there are some that our readers would – – to put it mildly – – avoid.
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