Guide to Club Level or Concierge Lounges at Disney World
Is Club Level at Walt Disney World worth the money? This guide answers that, with reviews of the best concierge lounges in hotels, VIP services, pros & cons, and more. We also have an update on Club Level, and what the experience is like now. (Updated December 28, 2023.)
Without question, the biggest benefit of Club Level at Walt Disney World is the lounges. We used to have mixed thoughts on these, but have endeavored to stay at every Club Level resort as our recent experiences have been much more favorable. It seems Disney is stepping up its game to better compete with real world luxury hotels. Here are our Club Level Lounge reviews thus far–click each to see lounge & food photos, plus full commentary about each:
- Atrium Club Level in Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Chronos Club Level in Gran Destino Tower at Coronado Springs Resort
- Kilimanjaro Club Level in Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
- King Kamehameha Club Level in Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort
- Old Faithful Club Level in Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
- Stone Harbor Club Level in Disney’s Beach Club Resort
These Club Level Lounges each serve coffee, continental breakfast, light afternoon snacks, hors d’oeuvres at dinner time, and dessert & cordials late at night. In our opinion, the lounge is the main reason to book a Club Level resort stay at Walt Disney World, with the food quality and lounge atmosphere being the most important factors to consider. We cover these things in meticulous detail in each of our reviews.
In terms of basics, all Deluxe Resorts at Walt Disney World have at least one Club Level offering. Disney’s Contemporary Resort has 2, but they’re essentially (in our view) interchangeable. Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort also used to have two, but that’s no longer the case. It remains to be seen whether that changes again in 2024 once the resort reimagining is finished. We suspect not.
Disney Villa Resorts, more colloquially known as Disney Vacation Club Resorts, do not have Club Levels. However, most Deluxe Villas are also Deluxe Resorts–examples of this would be the Boulder Ridge Villas or Copper Creek Villas (Deluxe Villas, as the names suggest) at Wilderness Lodge (Deluxe Resort). The only exceptions to this are Disney’s Riviera Resort, Saratoga Springs, and Old Key West.
Finally, none of the Value Resorts have Club Level; only one of the Moderate Resorts have a Club Level, Gran Destino Tower at Coronado Springs Resort. Because it’s at a Moderate Resort, Chronos Club at Gran Destino is the cheapest Club Level offering at Walt Disney World.
Confused yet? All you really need to know is that in addition to the above list of Club Levels, there’s also the following that we have not yet reviewed:
- Innkeeper’s Club at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn
- Tower Club at Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Royal Palm Club at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort
- Regatta Club at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort
One of the first things to understand about Club Level at Walt Disney World is that it’s not the same as concierge or executive levels at upper echelon chained-brand hotels. If you’re accustomed to the treatment you receive at Park Hyatt, Conrad, Four Seasons, or other real-world luxury hotels that are comparably priced to Disney Deluxes, you’re in for disappointment.
Those brands are renowned for unparalleled attention to detail, guest service, anticipating needs, and going above and beyond to deliver a superlative stay. They’ll book difficult dining reservations, assist with planning, and help make the experience memorable and stress-free. There are myriad ways this is accomplished at real-world hotels, but the salient point is that if you’re expecting Four Seasons or Park Hyatt concierge quality from Disney…don’t.
You really need to use a third-party Authorized Disney Vacation Planner for that type of service and even then, it’s not the same since they’re third party intermediaries. Here’s the Authorized Disney Vacation Planner that we recommend!
For Club Level stays at Walt Disney World, you will usually receive an email from Concierge Resort Cast Members prior to your trip to introduce themselves and assist with an itinerary. Whether you actually receive this correspondence is hit or miss, and it’s often sent out after dining and other reservation windows have already opened–and the most coveted options are booked up.
If you want or need this type of concierge planning assistance, relying upon the Concierge Resort Cast Members at Walt Disney World would not be our recommended course of action. At best, they’re going to spend a couple of hours providing boilerplate advice and perhaps reserve you whatever’s readily available in terms of ADRs at their convenience. They can also help a bit upon arrival at the in-person desk, but by then, it’s usually too late. (These Cast Members do not have priority access to dining reservations or anything else.)
In short, Club Level is not about superlative service or planning prowess at Walt Disney World. To be sure, there are great, long-tenured Cast Members working at the Club Level Lounges. We’ve generally found them to be personable; if you’re looking for friendly faces to greet you in the Club Level Lounges, they are perfect.
The lounges are really where Club Level shines at Walt Disney World, and are the primary selling point of booking Club Level. You’ll get the most bang for your buck out of the stay if you make a point of eating multiple meals per day in the lounge. Most people will take advantage of continental breakfast, but not lunch, dinner, or late night desserts.
Breakfast is almost exclusively cold items, plus oatmeal and maybe one other hot dish. If you’re lucky, you’ll find some nice meats and cheeses that can be made into a sandwich for something substantive. Maybe an exclusive/unique item or two. It’s enough to fill you up and get you through until lunch, but it’s not exactly a luxurious spread.
The light afternoon snacks are exactly that–usually chips, hummus and pita, a variety of vegetables, and various other random things. This definitely should not be considered lunch, as there’s almost no way to make a meal of this service at any of the Club Level Lounges at Walt Disney World.
As a general rule, the evening hors d’oeuvres are the best offering, with numerous small plate dishes that are typically prepared by chefs from Signature Restaurants (Disney’s term for fine dining) located at the resort. These tend to be very good to great, and despite being ‘small plates’ and Disney deliberately avoiding the term dinner to describe this service, you could easily make a meal of them.
The quality of this service varies from resort to resort, but across the board, we think it has improved in the last couple of years. In fact, elevated hors d’oeuvres quality is one of the big reasons we’ve started revisiting all of the Club Level Lounges. If you can take advantage of breakfast (which should be a given) and dinner plus dessert service most nights of your stay, Club Level can be much easier to justify from a value for money perspective.
In addition to access to the Club Lounge, guests staying at each Club Level have access to the Concierge Resort Cast Members between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. These Cast Members are found at desks outside of the lounge or nearby, and can assist with tickets, dining, recreation, transportation, child care, and daily itinerary planning.
These Cast Members cannot get you into restaurants that are fully booked, or score Lightning Lane access for attractions that have run out of their daily allotment. However, if you call or text a Concierge Resort Cast Member while you’re in the parks and ask for help booking an ADR, they might just be able to work some magic. (No promises on that.)
When it comes to what Signature Services does not do, Walt Disney World no longer offers enhanced VIP services for Club Level guests for $50 per person per day. With paid Genie+ replacing free FastPass, it is no longer possible to buy 3 extra FastPass+ entitlements when staying Club Level.
At present, there is no comparable service offered for Genie+ or Lightning Lanes when staying Club Level. That could change, but we’re skeptical given the fundamental differences between FastPass and Genie. In any case, everything you need to know, including ride priorities, strategy for avoiding pitfalls, maximizing your time saved & ride count, and much more is covered in our Guide to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes at Walt Disney World.
We do expect this to change sometime soon, as advance-booking is coming for Lightning Lanes in Spring 2024. Our guess is that Club Level guests won’t immediately have access to purchase extra Lightning Lane selections, but we’d still expect that to happen at some point in 2024. We’ll keep you posted.
Objectively, the cost of staying Club Level ranges from around +$120/night to +$375/night depending on the resort, room tier, and season. For a general rule, the more expensive the hotel and room category, the greater the added cost. However, this isn’t always true.
For instance, adding Club Level at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa would “only” be an additional $228 on New Year’s Eve. That’s Walt Disney World’s most expensive hotel on its most expensive night of the year. The surcharge for Wilderness Lodge on that same night would be $274.
This is further complicated by discounts, which can change the gap depending upon what’s excluded, available, and so forth. You rely shouldn’t rely on a resource for this to determine the price difference. You’ll see for yourself when you actually price out a room for your travel dates and can see the Club Level cost versus that of other available rooms.
With that said, the premium for staying in Chronos Club at Gran Destino is always the lowest. It can be less than $100 extra for many nights after discounts. Again, this is because Chronos Club is at a Moderate Resort, so the baseline price is lower to begin with.
Despite this, we view Chronos Club as one of the best Club Levels in all of Walt Disney World. Like Gran Destino Tower as a whole, it punches far above its weight, and offers tremendous bang for buck. In fact, if your only consideration is value for money, you can stop right here: Chronos Club is the clear winner, and the competition isn’t even close.
Assuming you cram 4 adults in the Club Level room–because nothing says posh hotel stay like 4 adults in one hotel room–you’re looking at around $25 to $50 per person per night for Club Level. If you do two meals per day (breakfast and dinner) in the Club Level Lounge, or even just breakfast plus dessert and a couple of beers when you return from the park, you’re already getting your money’s worth on the lower end of the pricing premium spectrum.
However, I am guessing that your only consideration is not value for money…or you probably wouldn’t be looking at Club Level in the first place. (But if you are that rare guest looking to splurge on Club Level while squeezing as much value out of it as possible, look no further–Chronos Club is the one for you!)
It should go without saying, but the larger your party and the more meals you eat in the lounge, the better the value proposition. Add the Resort Concierge service to the mix, as well as the views and ambiance in the lounge, and it becomes pretty easy to justify Club Level.
At the other end of the spectrum, if you’re a party of 2 adults and will only do breakfast in the lounge before rope dropping the parks and staying until park closing (thus missing all subsequent food services in the lounge), it’s literally impossible to justify Club Level. In general, this is not something for “park commandos,” it’s for those wanting a more leisurely, luxurious, and pampered Walt Disney World experience.
In scenarios that don’t fall on either end of those extreme spectrums, there’s doing Club Level simply because you want to treat yo self to an excellent, once in a lifetime kind of experience. Maybe you want the best view in the house at Wilderness Lodge, or to strut around the Polynesian wearing your lei like a rockstar—a modern day Jon Bon Jovi. Sometimes it’s fun to splurge on a taste of luxury because it’s just something you flat out want to do.
Everyone makes purchases that would not pass muster if scrutinized from a value for money perspective. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. There’s no reason to feel bad about wanting what you think will be a cool or convenient experience for the sake of that experience. Anyone who claims every decision they make is 100% rational and 0% emotional is lying. If you want to stay Club Level at Walt Disney World for one of these reasons—or some other intrinsic sense of happiness—more power to you. Only you know what will make your vacation special to you!
We are a party of two adults, and we’ve made Club Level work for us. We discuss the specifics in each of those reviews above, but here’s the CliffNotes version of that: we do split stays, with the Club Level portion of our trip for 1-2 nights at the end of a trip.
If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a split stay, see our How to Do Split Stays at Walt Disney World Hotels. As you can see there, we are huge advocates of split stays for a number of reasons. When it comes to this, we highly recommend doing the Club Level portion at the end of your trip, rather than beginning.
In part, this is because it’s really tough to go from Club Level back to normal accommodations. More importantly, we recommend this because you’ll spend the first portion of your trip racing around the parks doing everything that you want to get done, exhausting yourselves in the progress. Then at the end, you’ll have a Club Level stay to relax, rejuvenate, and actually vacation.
When we stay Club Level at Walt Disney World, we seldom leave the resort. With this in mind, our least favorite is the Atrium Club Level at Contemporary Resort. Chronos Club is normally a great value and something we really enjoy, but we don’t like hanging around Gran Destino all day, so it’s out from this perspective.
Our two favorite Club Levels at Walt Disney World are those at Beach Club and Wilderness Lodge. We love taking advantage of Stone Harbor Club during breaks from floating around the lazy river in Stormalong Bay, or sitting in a comfy overstuffed chair in Old Faithful Club while gazing down at that glorious lobby. We like to unwind and make the most of the luxurious stay while doing Club Level.
For choosing the right Club Level for you–or getting the details right on a split stay, once again Here’s the Authorized Disney Vacation Planner that we recommend. They can help you come up with a split stay “hotel plan” like this that works for your needs. Your interests are going to differ from ours, but they can listen to your family’s interests and priorities and book something customized just for you. (Plus, they get their commission from Disney, so there is no charge to you for them to book your trip and help you plan!)
The math on Club Level only works out if you’re viewing it as a luxury experience or splurge. If you’re singularly value-oriented, Club Level is never going to make sense. You could simply do grocery delivery and have snacks at your leisure in your Walt Disney World hotel room and come out way ahead in terms of savings. Of course, nothing screams “luxury hotel stay” like having groceries delivered and preparing oatmeal in your room.
Not that we’re knocking that. We’ve done grocery delivery several times and Club Level several times. Some trips we want to travel as inexpensively as possible, other times we want to splurge and treat ourselves to luxurious experience. There’s certainly a place for both styles of traveling.
One thing to reiterate here while we’re discussing a luxurious experience, is that this refers almost entirely to the Club Level Lounge, its food and atmosphere. Concierge Resort Cast Members are generally great and helpful with planning questions you might have.
However, concierge service at Walt Disney World is not the same as it is in real world hotel counterparts. We have stayed at Grand Club level at several Hyatt hotels, among other chains, and the difference at luxury hotels is that the service there is truly above and beyond.
Real world concierges can pull strings and make coveted bookings, quickly have tickets delivered to a hotel, etc. Walt Disney World concierges can make the same bookings available in the My Disney Experience app in lieu of you doing it. This can be a nice convenience, but it’s usually nothing you couldn’t do yourself.
Additionally and more importantly, those real world resort concierges go out of their way to make you feel special and pampered. Their service is very attentive and proactive. Disney’s service is much more reactionary; if you need help, it’s there. If not, there’s a decent chance no Concierge Resort Cast Members will interact with you after check-in.
In that regard, calling it “concierge level” or “concierge lounges” at Walt Disney World is really a misnomer. While the company itself sometimes refers to the level or lounges as concierge, those references are infrequent and often just aimed at convention guests. (Presumably due to their experience with real world concierge levels, but not Club Level? I dunno. Sometimes Disney’s verbiage is confusing and inconsistent.)
In general, this is a fundamental difference that really must be stressed for Walt Disney World first-timers who are used to real world 5-star hotels. If you pampered service is your paramount concern, you are better off booking the Four Seasons Resort Orlando.
With that said, one thing we should note here is that Disney has been improving by leaps and bounds on this front. Walt Disney World wants this audience of “whale” guests, and has lost market share to luxury hotels that have opened around Orlando. There are plenty of reasons to believe Disney is catering to more affluent guests, and improving Club Level offerings to capture this clientele certainly makes sense.
Overall, we’re generally fans of Club Level at Walt Disney World and, for us, it’s worth the money on some trips. The Club Level experience has improved in quality the last couple of years, which certainly makes it easier to justify, too. The lounge atmosphere and views are important to us, and having the services of the Resort Concierge Cast Members is a nice bonus for us.
Still, we like to mix things up. Sometimes we splurge on Club Level and almost no park time; sometimes we focus on parks and simply book a cheap hotel and do quick, inexpensive meals. It varies from trip to trip–and can even vary within trips.
Ultimately, by staying Club Level as part of a split stay during our ‘resort days’, we are able to make the most of our Club Level stays, relaxing in the lounge, eating and drinking as much as we can. From this perspective, we think Club Level works well and is a compelling option. Your vacation plans may vary, in which case the value that Club Level offers to you will differ. Either way, we hope this introduction to Club Level at Walt Disney World has proven helpful for planning your trip, and determining whether the concierge experience is right for you!
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Your Thoughts
If you’ve stayed Club Level at a Walt Disney World hotel, do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Do you think it is worth the money? Which Club Level Lounge is your favorite? Have you considered staying Club Level? Share any questions, tips, or additional thoughts you have in the comments!
We were upgraded to Club Level at the Beach Club on a trip we returned from yesterday. We had no idea until we arrived and checked in. It was a wonderful experience! Cast members were terrific. We stayed there due to Food and Wine. After reading the article, I wish we’d had been informed about the upgrade so we could have had the option for the 90-day FastPass+. Also, we wouldn’t have purchased the dining plan given the meals provided. Either way, it was a wonderful experience and my wife and I are thankful!
Upgrades are usually determined within a few days of your arrival or even day of (typically due to overbooking in your room category or maintenance issues with the room you booked, or sometimes to address some customer service issue–e.g., we were once upgraded because our regular room still wasn’t ready 4 hours after check in). So they would not have known you were going to be upgraded 90 days in advance.
We were upgraded for free to club level at Beach Club this past November/December. It was amazing. We’ve been to Disney several times, so we didn’t stay until closing any night except one or two. So the evening food made for a fantastic dinner! It really was enough food that we were stuffed. And the breakfast in the morning was nice because we could grab a few extra bananas to throw in our park bags for a quick snack while waiting in lines at the parks. Would I ever PAY for club level??? Maybe if it was going to be a short relaxing trip with minimal park time and max resort time. That would be the only way I could justify the cost.
Can you tell me about club level at the dolphin
I’m looking for this as well, mostly for the 6 FPP. However, there technically isn’t a club level there, but if you book a Presidential Suite, Governor Suite, Parlor Suite, or Premium Alcove Room, you’re able to get this benefit (from what I’ve read). I haven’t booked the fastpasses yet as I’m 120 days away and it must be 90 days from your last day in the park. I’ve called signature services to inquire if my room reservation meets the room requirement. I have an alcove room reserved, but nothing I’ve seen online says they’re “premium”. So either they changed the name or there isn’t any available at this time. I will find out when I call back at 90 days out. The cast member was vague and said she didn’t know and to call Dolphin, I will do that soon. The cast member told me NOT to book club level just based off the extra fastpass perk as it’s a “Pilot program and may not be available when you’re here”. I asked her if she was tying to say it will be going away. She didn’t answer, rather said we advise to book those rooms because you like club level. She then went on to pitch the VIP tour. So I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ll know more in a month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can dvc members do club level ?
We booked the summer discount at Grand Floridian for an outer building room earlier this summer for a first and probably last stay at GF (just way beyond our usual budget) for our 35th anniversary.
We were upgraded to CL main building.
We are not drinkers but enjoyed the breakfast, soup at lunch and snacks in the evening.
We actually cancelled several restaurant reservations because we snacked throughout the day.
We felt so spoiled and pampered! What a wonderful treat!
1) Disney Signature Services is a benefit of staying Club Level at any Disney hotel. I used them last month to book my 180+ ADRs and a BBB appointment. They got me everything I asked for. I could have done it, but my 180 day was a weekday morning where I had other plans. Instead of bending over a laptop and phone hoping to grab BOG and Artist Point, I got a call at 10am telling me all the bookings were done.
2) For the CL FP program, you only need TWO nights’ stay, not three. Your three CL FP days would have to include your check-in and check-out dates to get the three minimum park days in.
3) A benefit for my party of six is that Deluxe CL rooms at WL and BWI turn out to be the most affordable way for a party of six (rather than four or eight) to stay at a deluxe resort at WDW. For us, we just wanted BWI to be able to walk to Epcot and DHS. CL was just a bonus!
Thanks–I’ve updated the post to reflect some of this info!
Great to read such an in-depth account. If taking advantage of Disney dining offers, can club level ever make sense?
We always stay Club Level and always upgrade to Deluxe Dining. We love all the Signature Restaurants. Club Level is by no means our dining plan.
we like to stay at the beach club and always stay on the club level. however last year it was a huge disappointment. many of the cast members were rude and the food was lacking in so many ways. we were told we could get a king sized bed, but that didn’t happen. when it came to rainy days, trying to find information about the boat or bus options was impossible. their boarding sites are at opposite ends of the hotel. one rainy day we were headed to hollywood studios. the boats were still running so the bus was not available. we got on the boat and i said to the captain, “i just spotted lightning, i thought you didn’t run when there was lightning.” he laughed and said, “ only when the lightning is sideways.” sure enough, halfway to the next stop the boats were shut down. we were stranded at the swan and dolphin. i asked their hotel manager when their bus was coming and i was quickly informed that they were not a disney hotel and had no responsibility to get a bus to take us to that park. for three hours we tried to get a bus. we were told to walk, in the lightning and rain. by the time we got to hollywood studios, we missed all of our fast pass reservations and we were an hour late for our dinner time. our concierge people could’ve cared less. i talked to several managers and finally on our last day found one woman who cared. we spent thousands on this 5 day trip and left angry. it will be awhile before i go back. that one woman did send us a complimentary invitation back, but since then my husband was in the hospital, i had surgery and recently my husband lost his job. so i say to disney, get it right the first time because we never know what life will throw at us !
You spent all 5 days complaining about that day? Then finally found someone on the 5th day to listen?
Disney doesn’t control the weather
Great info here! (Always enjoy your posts!)
Do you have a similar post for the Disneyland Club Levels?
We stayed club level at the Poly (just a few months before they instituted the bonus fast-passes! Rats!) and found getting to rope drop early (especially for FoP at AK) was hard to do with the club breakfast not opening until 7.
We stayed in our club level rooms in May of 2019 at the Wilderness Lodge and all of us age 4-60 really enjoyed the wonderful food, snacks, desserts and adult beverages. We especially liked to breakfast and ate there every morning. The coffee machine was the best. It was the way to go! Karen.
I have stayed at the Presidential Suite at the Wilderness Lodge. Like Tom says it’s not the same as a Ritz or Four Seasons lounge. I found the food good at the wilderness lodge. We still want more of the chocolate chip muffins from the breakfast. Some of the best I have had. I did find the cast members very friendly and would often find when the end of the offering time was close before the new food came out. They would make us plates of food to take to our room since it would be thrown out if we didn’t take it. Also with as many cokes we drink I save cash on a drink mugs and don’t have to keep running back to the drink fountain on main level. You can’t make the math work if your on a budget but we enjoyed it.
We are booked at Animal Kingdom Lodge Club Level for November. It is our 3rd time to stay Club Level- our family loves it. I read that they were starting this pilot program but I’m wondering how I sign up for it:
UPDATE: Starting this Friday (January 12, 2018), Walt Disney World will launch a pilot program with enhanced VIP services for Club Level guests for $50 per person per day, which will include 3 extra FastPass+ entitlements bookable 90 days in advance (with no park restrictions, meaning you could use them for Avatar Flight of Passage, Frozen Ever After, and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. It will also include VIP viewing for nighttime spectaculars. This will require a minimum three night stay, and must be booked by all guests staying in the room.
Call signature services 90 days out. They will make six fastpass + reservations for you . I can’t insist enough to call 90 days out. They’ll take care of it all.
I have stayed there once and we are going again . I loved it and thought it was totally worth it ! I have young children so it was nice to not have to rush around for breakfast every morning . The cast members were amazing and accommodating. There’s nothing like it. I say if this is something you want to do go for it !! You will not regret it !!
Hey I saw this youtube video after reading your article and thought it was very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl1G-HjiZrA&index=100&list=WL
Still not convinced of the “value”, but she seemed to have a much higher quality experience than yours seen here. Just interesting to see how it can vary!
I couldn’t have stumbled upon this post at a better time. We are leaving for the World in 4 days (4 days! YAY!) Our first night we have a concierge level room at, you guessed it, the Poly. I appreciate your honest post, as always. I knew going in, it was a big chuck of money and wondered if it was worth it. My justification – as you said, a once in a lifetime opportunity. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary and wanted a special night. We get in early and will be leaving for Pop the next day. We don’t have park passes for the day we come in or the following day, so we are looking forward to a relaxing night, sitting on our balcony, taking in the animals and enjoying the peacefulness before the parents and siblings come in on day 2. Our family is, let’s say resourceful, with our money, especially due to the fact, when we go to the parks, the only reason we get a room is for a bed and shower.
Always look forward to your reviews and AMAZING pictures. Keep up the great work!
Have stayed club level on a few occasions at different resorts (AKL,GF,and the Polynesian) and have always found it worth the extra exspense. We are not wealthy by any means but a 5 night stay is roughly 1k more so if I am shelling out 5k I’ll go to 6k. Well worth it to me to roll out of bed and get beakfast, come home from the parks exhausted and grab a snack and beverage. Honestly we might eat out once a day. The rest of our food and beverage is from the lounge less water and drinks in the park which you could take from the lounge and bring with you. I am not saying it is a wash but the time saved not trying to find some place to eat and the hassle of getting everyone out the door at once is worth it to me. Most mornings I’m not even up yet and the wife and kid are at a table waiting for me. I’m on vacation and I want a few extra winks. Plus it is a great place to wait out the showers that often come with FLA weather.
Hello, In October 2017 my mom, daughter and I went to Disney for 5 days we stayed at the poly and yacht club. We were upgraded to the club level at both hotels as a surprise by the hotel staff ( we think it was b/c it was my moms birthday but we are really unsure of why we received the upgrade). The yacht club was in my opinion a better food spread then what the poly had to offer. It is something that everyone should experience at least once in their life time especially is you are a big Disney fan. When you have to use your magic band to access the club level from the elevator you feel pretty important!
We recently got unexpectedly upgraded at the Grand Floridian to main building club level and the food was fantastic! There were warm offerings at almost every “meal time” and the scones at tea time were a great afternoon touch with different options daily. I would definitely go for it if there was a room discount going on
It’s useful to know I shouldn’t expect the club food to be of the caliber of other high end resorts. I’m looking for a one bedroom kitchenette style for our family of 5 and the Polynesian looks fabulous! We like having separate space because it’s sucks to put kids to bed and sit there in the dark until adult bedtime. Also, as mentioned above breakfast at a restaurant is a hassle and little kids don’t eat that much anyway. Conversely, our pre-teen eats non stop! I can’t help thinking the near unlimited snacks could be helpful. We’re thinking of making this a park and resort vacay. I want to break up the crazy with relaxing resorty days by the pool – so, maybe it does still make sense? Not dollarfor doLlar with food but in terms of space and amenities? Ideally, we’d stay in the new Star Wars hotel but that really does look pricey!