Walt Disney World lodging coverage: resort and hotel booking strategy, Disney vs. off-property price audits, DVC villa rentals, and room math for bigger families.
News
Disney's Lakeshore Lodge opens July 1, 2027, and cash stays are open to everyone now. Here's what Disney has confirmed about the rooms, pools and dining, what early-summer nights cost, and why DVC points can't book it yet.
Logistics
Off site is cheaper, and we've done it with a rental car. Here is what you give up in 2027: Disney's transportation, free parking, Early Theme Park Entry and a few booking-window perks, plus the 15 non-Disney hotels that share some of them.
Logistics
Pop Century or Art of Animation? In 2027 Art of Animation runs about $35 to $60 more a night before tax. Our pick, why the Nemo and Cars pools earn it, and when Pop Century is the better call.
Logistics
Most Disney World standard rooms sleep four. Here is where five fit in one room in 2027, with nightly ranges: a 1-bedroom DVC villa, a room with two queens and a pull-out bed, a Family Suite, and how a baby in a crib counts.
Logistics
Value, Moderate, Deluxe or a DVC villa? Where we'd start in every Walt Disney World resort tier, 2027 nightly price ranges, the resort areas and transportation, where a family of five fits, renting DVC points, and what you give up staying off site.
Finance
Two rooms or one 2-bedroom villa at Animal Kingdom Lodge for a family of five: how Disney's room offer and a DVC point rental compare, and which to book when.
Finance
Eleven guests don't fit in two Monorail resort rooms without a crib-age baby. Here's how a 5-bedroom ChampionsGate villa compares with three Deluxe rooms at the Contemporary, Grand Floridian or Polynesian, what you give up off-property, and who should book which.