Disney's Yacht Club

So you're headed to Walt Disney World ... But where to start? Disney offers such a wealth of fantastic resorts, restaurants and top-drawer entertainment experiences it can be difficult to choose which fantasy you wish to please. How can I plan a visit in which each day comes with the best Disney has to offer? Here are some tips that can make the difference between a mediocre trip and a fantastic

Best time of year for Disney Vacation
If at all possible plan a trip to Disney during the slower seasons of the year you will find half-filled parks, little waiting in line, and lower hotel rates. If you can not bear the guilt and your children are good students, take them out of school, either to avoid the busiest times of the year. Otherwise, the summer or holidays are certainly better than nothing and, with a little planning and a lot of energy, can be most enjoyable. These are the least busy times of the year: Just after the New Year on the first week of February (by avoiding the weekend Martin Luther King holiday in January), the third week of August to early October, the month of November excluding Thanksgiving weekend, just after Thanksgiving and again the week before Christmas week, a moment where parks and resorts are decorated for the feast for the holidays.

Top Luxury Resort
Disney's flagship resort, The Grand Floridian, with its gabled red roofs and Victorian elegance, draws inspiration from the sea in Florida grand palace "of 19th century America's Gilded Age. Just a short monorail tour and Magic Kingdom, it spreads along the shore of Seven Seas Lagoon, offering spectacular views of Cinderella Castle and fireworks show wishes.

Best Home Away From Home Property
Disney's Home Away From Home Resorts are a great choice for those who want a holiday with all amenities, including a fully equipped kitchen, living room and a bathroom for each bedroom. To choose the unique atmosphere at Wilderness Lodge Villas with its Bay Lake location and nature of National Park or the new Beach Club Villas located next to Epcot International Gateway. But the search for the new Animal Kingdom Villas, now under construction, to start two of the list.

Best Resort For Access to parks
Disney's Contemporary, Polynesian, and Grand Floridian Resorts offer monorail access to the Magic Kingdom, Epcot and the Ticket & Transportation Center.

Best Resort nature lovers

Wilderness Lodge is a dramatic description of a Disney resort early 1900s the National Park. In its lobby are impressive eight-story walls of ponderosa pine logs, a huge fireplace 82 feet high, and two authentic 55-foot totem poles of the Pacific Northwest. Outside is a breathtaking scene of sparkling waterfalls, rushing creeks, towering pines, and water heater clean Disney. And all just a boat ride away from the Magic Kingdom.


Best Resort Pool
Stormalong Bay, as eye-popping free, complex mini-water park at Disney's Yacht and Beach Club, is simply divine. Three acres of winding, water fun, it offers sandy bottom pools, a giant "shipwreck" waterslide, tidal whirlpool, bubbling hot tubs, a kiddie pool with its own slide next to the beach and waterways enough to float lazily in inner tubes to your heart's content.

Best Resort Lounge
California Grill Lounge on the 15th floor at Disney's Contemporary Resort offers a spectacular view of the Magic Kingdom and Seven Seas Lagoon with cocktails, sushi and a view of the fireworks show wishes. NOTE: If you are only coming for drinks may be difficult to get a seat around fireworks time. You'll need to check first with the second floor Podi.