Walt Disney World Moderate Resorts

Today, I’m moving up the Walt Disney World resort food chain with the moderate resorts.  There are four moderate resorts: Caribbean Beach, Coronado Springs, Port Orleans, and the Fort Wilderness Cabins and Campground.

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In general, these resorts have rooms which are a little bit bigger than the value resorts.  They also have more recreation on the resort property and some even have table-service dining options at the resort.

Caribbean Beach Resort

Located between EPCOT and Hollywood Studios.

Caribbean Beach Map
Caribbean Beach Map

The map, here, doesn’t lie.  The resort is BIG.  There are 33 buildings along the 42-acre Barefoot Bay Lake.  The nice thing is buildings are only two-story high so you don’t have worry about a high-rise building blocking the view from the room.  The 33 buildings are connected by a 1.4 mile walking trail just to give some perspective as to the size of the resort.

Everything is centered on the Old Port Royale (also called Centertown).  Guests will find the Market Street Food Court, Shutters, which is a table-service, sit-down restaurant, bicycle and boat rentals, the main Pirate-themed main pool.

Caribbean Beach Pool
Caribbean Beach Pool
Caribbean Beach Pool
Caribbean Beach Pool

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Rock Your Disney Side Information

Disney has finally released some information about 24 Hours Rock Your Disney Side event occurring this weekend.

Walt Disney World

  • The event kicks off at 6 am on May 23th with a special edition of the Welcome Show featuring heroes and villains making their way into the park
  • There will be three Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! parades.  The first parade will feature the Disney heroes at 10:00 am.  The villains take over the parade at 1:30 pm.  Voting will take place throughout the day to see whether heroes or villains will be features in the 5:45 pm parade.
  • The new Disney Festival of Fantasy parade will take place at 12:00 noon and 3:30 pm.  The Main Street Electrical Parade will have showings at 11:00 pm and 1:00 am on May 24.  The villains will take part in a pre-parade celebrating that “It’s Good to Bad.”  Celebrate the Magic will be at 8:45 pm, 9:45 pm, and 11:45 pm.  There will be one showing of Wishes at 9:00 am.
  • At 11:00 pm, Princess Fairytale Hall will be taken over by Maleficent and the Queen from Snow White and be renamed Scary Tale Hall.  Anna and Elsa will be in the other half of the hall.
  • Around 1:45 am, other Disney villains will take over some the character greeting locations.  The most notable will be Jafar instead of Jasmine and Aladdin in Adventureland.  Dr. Facilier instead of Princess Tiana and Captain Hook takes the place of Peter Pan.
  • In Tomorrowland, the IncrediblesSuperDanceParty will rock Rockettower Plaza from 4:30 pm to 10:30 pm.  Starting at 11 pm, guests can view The Incredibles.
  • Late at night, Cinderella’s Castle will be “Up All Night” and Frontierland will host the Frontierland Dance Party from 2:00 am to 5:45 am.
  • The event comes to a close with a “Special Kiss Goodnight” at the Railroad Station in Main Street USA.

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