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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

4. Enhanced Theming All Disney resorts have the magic touch, but Deluxe resorts have much more attention paid to theming than moderate resorts (in some cases, value resorts are actually more themed than moderates).  Perhaps the most well-themed of the resorts is the Animal Kingdom Lodge, with its African artifacts in the lobby and actual

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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

3. Incredible Resort Restaurants You’ll find some of Disney’s finest dining located at the deluxe resorts.  Some notable examples include the California Grill at the Contemporary, known for its' Magic Kingdom views, Jiko at Animal Kingdom Lodge, Artist Point at the Wilderness Lodge, and Victoria and Albert’s at Disney’s Grand Floridian Re

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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

2. Variety of Transportation Everyone loves a Disney bus- ahem, *motorcoach*- right?  There's nothing wrong with a Disney motorcoach, but once you've tried the other forms of transportation at Walt Disney World you may come to prefer them.  Many of the deluxe resorts offer alternative methods of transit to the parks.  Several of the Magic

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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

1. Proximity to Parks All of the resorts on Walt Disney World property provide guests with complimentary transportation to the parks.  Although nothing on-property is too far from anything else, it could still take 30-45 minutes (or more!) on a bus to get from one point to another, especially when stops at multiple resorts are taken into

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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

Have you been dreaming of staying at one of Walt Disney World's many beautiful deluxe resorts?  Visiting Walt Disney World is magical no matter where you stay, but staying on-property at a Disney resort only makes the trip more convenient and extraordinary.  Value and moderate resorts are nothing to scoff at; they're all well-kept, beauti

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

7) The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights For many Disney fans, this is the single saddest closure in Walt Disney World history, myself included. This beautiful Christmas lights and decorations display danced its way into the hearts of millions of guests from 1995 until 2016. The display was in the Streets of America section of Di

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

6) SpectroMagic This parade had two wildly popular runs at Magic Kingdom when the Main Street Electrical Parade wasn’t in operation. This dazzling parade featured over 65 performers with more than 45 Disney characters featured in 24 units. There were five different themes, ranging from Sleeping Beauty’s Garden to The Little Mermaid’s Ocea

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

5) River Country Disney’s River Country was the first water park on Disney property, well before Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon came onto the scene. It opened in 1976 as an old-fashioned swimming hole near Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. The park featured two pools, one with clean-water and one with a sandy bottom with wa

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

4) Mickey’s Toontown Fair This area, which made you feel as though you had stepped inside of a cartoon land, had many different names over the years. It was Mickey’s Birthdayland when it opened in 1988, then became Mickey’s Starland in 1990 and was briefly named Mickey’s Toyland in 1995. In 1996, after a massive refurbishment, it reopened

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

3) Pleasure Island This section of Downtown Disney, now Disney Springs, was a hot spot for adults to party into the wee hours of the morning. Similar to Church Street Station in Downtown Orlando, Pleasure Island had night clubs, the Comedy Warehouse, Adventurer’s Club and various shops and restaurants. For quite some time, there was even

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