Walt Disney World Hotel Guide: The Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge

Number of Rooms
181

Location
Magic Kingdom Area
901 Timberline Drive
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

Transportation
By boat or bus – Magic Kingdom theme park

By bus -Epcot theme park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park, Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park, Downtown Disney Area, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park, Disney’s Winter Summerland Miniature Golf Course, Disney’s Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course, Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex

Disney’s Magical Express – Orlando International Airport

Dining Options
Whispering Canyon Cafe – Cuisine: American, Price Range: $$ ($15-$35.99 per person). An all-you-can-eat, family-style barbeque restaurant open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Roaring Fork – Cuisine: American,Price Range: $ ($14.99 and under per person). A quick-service restaurant

Artist Point – Cuisine: American, Price Range: $$$ ($36-$59.99 per person). Open for dinner.

Features
This architecturally grand Resort celebrates the majesty of the unspoiled wilderness with features such as:
– a stunning 7-story lobby built from 85 loads of Lodgepole Pine
– an 82-foot tall lobby fireplace
– a bubbling springs that flows into a creek, tumbles over a sparkling waterfall and empties into the featured swimming pool
– a gushing geyser fashioned after Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful

Recreation
Grand Fireplace – The most impressive of Disney’s Wilderness Lodge’s fireplaces is in the Resort’s lobby. The mammoth 3-sided fireplace—with rockwork layers in hues of green, magenta, buff, black, brown and more than 95 other colors—represents the nearly 2 billion years of the Earth’s history that are exposed in the rock strata of the great chasm known as the Grand Canyon. At 82 feet tall, the stone fireplace in Disney’s Wilderness Lodge lobby is as high as Chickapin Hill in the Splash Mountain attraction in Magic Kingdom theme park. Relax in one of the lobby’s overstuffed leather armchairs for a closer look at the grand fireplace—you may notice fossilized plants and animals from prehistoric times.

Cub’s Den – Kid’s Play Space, Study Branches Health Club, Bay Lake Beach, Fishing, Watercraft Rentals, Playground, Jogging Trails, Buttons & Bells Arcade, Bike Rentals, video rentals

Pools – The Silver Creek Springs pool has a water slide and a hot tub. The Resort’s second pool, Hidden Springs, also features a hot tub. Each pool has a lounge and bar. Open seasonally, the Trout Pass pool bar and Trout Pass Snacks serve quick snacks or small meals, as well as specialty drinks and coffees. Inside The Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge lobby, a spring bubbles over stones. Follow the water as it flows under a lobby’s window wall, widens and becomes a creek in the Resort’s upper courtyard. This quiet Silver Creek transforms again into a sparkling 15-foot waterfall, which empties into the boulder and tree-lined pool called Silver Creek Springs.

Chip’n Dales Campfire Sing-a-long – Gather ’round the campfire at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort with your nutty pals for songs and fun, then watch a classic Disney movie under the stars.

The Great Outdoors at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge – Lounge in one of the wooden rocking chairs on the back area of the lobby at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and lose yourself in the serene scene of mighty pines and delicate flowers. Water from a bubbling springs flows from inside the lobby. Follow it as it winds outside to the Silver Creek Springs. Junipers, wildflowers and natural grasses line meandering pathways. Stroll around Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort grounds and listen to the chirping of crickets beneath bridges. The Overlook Point offers views of the Silver Creek waterfall—a spectacular sight when lit at night.

Fire Rock Geyser – Fire Rock Geyser at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge is located between the Silver Creek Springs pool and Bay Lake. Fashioned after Yellowstone National Park’s famous Old Faithful geyser, Fire Rock Geyser shoots a water plume 120-feet in the air every hour on the hour from early morning to 10:00 p.m.

Disney Web site
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/villas-at-wilderness-lodge/

Hotel Rates
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/villas-at-wilderness-lodge/rates-rooms/