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Overview
This Disney Value Resort allows you to feel like a character in your favourite Disney and Disney•Pixar stories. In addition to Standard Rooms, Family Suites offer the room families need to spread out in comfort. With four playful courtyards and animation-inspired décor, Guests will be surrounded by magic like never before. The Resort hotel draws its inspiration from four classic Disney Animated films: Finding Nemo (Family Suites), Cars (Family Suites), The Lion King (Family Suites), and The Little Mermaid (Standard Rooms).
Check in
3 p.m.
Check out
11 a.m.
Rooms
864
Inclusions
- Guests MagicBand or Card allows to charge purchases to their room and purchases can be delivered directly to their room.
- Any guest celebrating a special occasion while staying at any Walt Disney World Resort hotel may request to receive a Disney Character voicemail message on their in-room phone. Occasions for Character calls can include birthdays, romantic celebrations or any other special event.
- All Disney resort transportation is included within the grounds, including motor coach, ferry, and tram.
- Extended Theme Park hours, known as Extra Magic hours
Rooms
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- Smoke-free
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Crib (on request)
- Iron/Ironing board
- Safe
- TV
- Pack 'n Play Playard available
- Fridges can be provided on a "request basis only" and will be based on need priority.
- 1 queen bed, 1 double bed, and 1 sofa bed
- Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- 1 queen bed, 1 double bed, and 1 sofa bed
- Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Coffee maker
- Kitchenette
- Living room
- Microwave
- Mini fridge
- Smoke-free
- 2 Bathrooms
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Crib (on request)
- Iron/Ironing board
- Safe
- TV
- Pack 'n Play Playard available
- Fridges can be provided on a "request basis only" and will be based on need priority.
Amenities
Landscape of Flavors
Landscape of Flavors
Pool
The Big Blue Pool
Cars
Cars
Location
Reviews
TripAdvisor Traveler Rating
A lot of value for a value resort
Sandy C (Manheim, Pennsylvania) on Dec 19, 2024
We are Disney Vacation Club members and generally stay at the deluxe villas when we go to Disney World. This trip was a booked relatively last minute to hear our daughter sing in the Candlelight Processional and took advantage of the annual passholder discounts that were available for the week we went. Art of Animation is now our favorite resort to stay outside of DVC. We stayed in a Lion King suite courtesy of a surprise upgrade from the Little Mermaid room we originally booked. The suites are spacious and well equipped. (We had stayed at AoA once before in a Cars suite with six adults and we all slept very comfortably in the sleep accommodations provided.) Disney's Art of Animation is conveniently located at the end of the Skyliner line and the stop is shared with the adjoining Pop Century Resort. The only time we found this to be a problem is at the end of the evening when departing EPCOT, the line could be somewhat long, but it moves quickly enough. The Skyliner connects the resort with EPCOT and Hollywood studios and Caribbean Beach and Riviera Resorts. There is bus service to the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Disney Springs in front of Animation Hall, the main building. Animation Hall is also where you'll find the Landscape of Flavors dining and the Ink and Paint Shop, the store for merchandise and assorted groceries. The rooms are spacious with a full kitchen There is a master bedroom with 1 Queen Bed and 1 Double-Size Sleeper Sofa and 1 Double-Size Table Bed in the living area. The Lion King buildings are conveniently located near the skyline and the main building, but I didn't get the feeling that even the farthest buildings were too far from any of the important areas. Housekeeping came every other day, so the rooms were kept clean and paper goods were regularly replenished.
Overall lacking.
christianp578 (Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico) on Dec 01, 2024
The lobby is very nice, but once you enter the cafeteria, things start going downhill a bit. The food is not good for the price you pay. Then the hotel is divided by different movies and decor: lion king, cars, little mermaid and Nemo. We were different groups and some stayed in lion king, we stayed in little mermaid. The room is lacking, it feels old and very small for 4 people as it only have 3 little drawers. Everything feels dated. Housekeeping works one day yes and one day no, which is less than ideal when traveling with kids. Plus, the day they came in, although beds were made, a piece of trash on the floor was still there (a coffee stirring stick) from the day before, on the floor next to the tv. So you start thinking maybe the cleaning is not good and thorough if they missed an obvious piece of trash. When we checked in there was a luggage problem and 3 rooms spent more than an hour waiting and looking for some of our bags. All were found after more than an hour. Little details like having 3 towels instead of four (we were a party of 4) and no water bottles don’t help. You can do a lot worse, yet, not a very good property.
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