Each Walt Disney Global fan has their dream holiday. How they’d do issues if cash have been no object, from luxurious lodging to lavish extras and upcharges, top class line-skipping, VIP excursions, fancy foods, and extra. Like someone else, we’ve dreamed about the place we’d keep–each the WDW Deluxe Hotel and the particular suite–if we gained the lottery.
Up till lately, our resolution was once beginning within the Yellowstone Suite at Desolate tract Resort (or “settling” for the smaller Yosemite Suite if our lotto winnings weren’t the mega jackpot) in an effort to have get right of entry to to Outdated Devoted Membership for the primary leg of our travel. We like Desolate tract Resort, so even if it’s now not the head of luxuriousness, it’s us.
Then we’d switch over to BoardWalk Inn the place we’d keep on the Steeplechase Suite or Sonora Suite, and feature get right of entry to to Innkeeper’s Membership. If we have been bringing alongside circle of relatives, we’d do a Grand Villa at BoardWalk (or possibly Riviera) as a substitute, which might be more cost effective via renting Disney Holiday Membership issues. My “vote” can be for the Treehouse Villas as a substitute, however that concept has been vetoed previously. Alas. Suffice to mention, we’ve given this a large number of concept through the years, and our having a pipe dream was once simply fully upended as a brand new contender has entered the hoop.
After staying in the primary construction at Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel & Spa post-reimagining and experiencing the Royal Palm Membership, that is our new favourite technique to keep at Walt Disney Global.
We haven’t performed correct analysis into the fondness suites on the flagship, however our long term lottery winnings are being allotted for a type of. Which goes to be an actual problem, since we don’t gamble. Besides, we nonetheless have about as just right of a shot at profitable as someone else.
Oh, and scratch the cut up keep. It’s simply Royal Palm Membership within the fancy suite on the Grand Floridian. No less than, till our daughter is not a baby and graduates into professional traveler. We’re getting forward of ourselves, regardless that…
Royal Palm Membership is the concierge living room within the Major Development at Grand Floridian, which is Walt Disney Global’s flagship lodge that’s inside strolling distance of Magic Kingdom, and hooked up by the use of monorail to EPCOT. This was once certainly one of two Membership Ranges at Grand Floridian, however the Sugarloaf Membership is long past; it was once got rid of all through the hot lodge reimagining.
As a part of that very same reimagining, Royal Palm Membership was once utterly redone. This concierge living room overlooks the foyer, and won a top-to-bottom overhaul as a part of that undertaking. So if you happen to’re taking a look at pictures from a few years in the past that glance a bit of antiquated, they’re. That is what Royal Palm Membership seems like as of 2026.
We’ll assessment whether or not this Membership Stage is well worth the cash and the way it compares to different choices, what’s incorporated, in addition to pictures of the meals served for breakfast, lunch, dinner & dessert.
This assessment covers most effective the Royal Palm Membership Stage enjoy. if you happen to’re on the lookout for our ideas at the lodge as a complete, take a look at our Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel Evaluate. Spoiler: it’s now certainly one of our favourite resorts in all of Walt Disney Global as of 2026.
We like the positioning, redone rooms, and recognize the eye to element and eccentric themed design. However as with every accommodations, it’s now not for everybody–in order that additionally covers the professionals & cons. We’ve additionally already discussed the lodge reimagining a number of occasions right here, and it’s included into the above assessment, however you’ll additionally take a look at Walt Disney Global’s Flagship Lodge In any case Suits Its Standing & Sky-Top Costs for an in depth evaluation of the reimagining.
We’ll additionally most commonly gloss over the more than a few perks and advantages of staying Membership Stage, as a substitute that specialize in what’s distinctive to the Royal Palm Membership. Should you’re on the lookout for common information, our Information to Membership Stage & Concierge Lounges at Disney Global provides overarching ideas on what you’ll be expecting and recommendation on more than a few Membership Ranges round WDW.
Upon arrival at Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel, you would possibly be greeted on the entrance front via a Forged Member who escorts you as much as the Royal Palm Membership for check-in. We’ve discovered this occurs about part the time when checking into Membership Stage at Walt Disney Global.
We have been greeted via a Forged Member on the entrance front, however now not from the Royal Palm Membership. When we started the check-in procedure, a Forged Member from the concierge workforce magically materialized to take us as much as Royal Palm Membership. They even had a welcome signal with our names published on it.
That Forged Member took us as much as couches at the decrease flooring of the Royal Palm Membership, the place they gave us particular welcome beverages and finished the method. They then escorted us to our room, confirmed us key options of the lodging, and introduced to reply to questions. All of this made a robust first influence, and felt like we have been receiving the white glove remedy.
As at all times, we suggest arriving to the Grand Floridian as early as conceivable for your check-in day. Although your room isn’t able, you’ll have get right of entry to to the Royal Palm Membership, the place you’ll living room, snack and drink whilst you wait.
We’re frugal fanatics who experience Membership Stage because the occasional splurge (certainly one of our favorites at Walt Disney Global!), and each and every hour of get right of entry to is value $X from our point of view. We’ve been identified to take redeye flights or do strategic cut up remains to maximise our hours within the Membership Stage. Time is cash!
Royal Palm Membership is other than different concierge lounges at Walt Disney Global. As a substitute of being a devoted living room this is out there to visitors on a portion of 1 flooring or a few flooring, the Royal Palm Membership is the Major Development. No less than, if you get above the eating places and retail at the first couple of flooring.
The entirety above that’s the Royal Palm Membership. The living room itself spans 3 flooring, and is on the market to all visitor rooms on those flooring. When it comes to sheer length, this makes it the most important living room at Walt Disney Global.
When it comes to what number of visitor rooms have get right of entry to to the Royal Palm Membership, that’s much more nebulous. It’s possible you’ll suppose the room depend is astronomical if it’s 3 flooring, however the Major Development doesn’t have that many rooms. There aren’t lengthy hallways radiating out like Yacht Membership or different better accommodations.
In response to the choice of folks we noticed the use of the Royal Palm Membership, it turns out just like the room depend is beautiful similar to different Membership Ranges at Walt Disney Global. That’s fully anecdotal, regardless that, and occupancy clearly varies. However this kind of comports with my expectancies simply in wandering round and estimating the tough room depend.
The table for the Royal Palm Membership is positioned at the 3rd flooring and is staffed via concierge Forged Participants from 7 am till 10 pm; along with serving to whilst you’re on the lodge, they are able to be contacted whilst you’re within the parks will have to you wish to have help.
Along with seating at the 3rd and 5th flooring, which is on the market via handy stairs or an inconvenient elevator, the living room itself is at the fourth flooring. This degree has essentially the most seating, with a lot of tables and chairs adjoining to the living room, plus top tops alongside the fringe. All advised, there’s a ton of seating and it’s well spaced out.
Right here’s a take a look at the Royal Palm Membership seating:
All of that is open get right of entry to, which is to mention that you just use your room key or MagicBand to get right of entry to the 3rd via 5th flooring at the elevator up, after which by no means once more. That is other from maximum different Membership Stage lounges, that have bodily doorways.
No less than for me, that is a surprisingly significant difference, as I get up previous than everybody else within the room and prefer having a separate area for operating. With the Royal Palm Membership, I had oodles of choices around the 3rd via 5th flooring.
Should you learn older opinions, you’ll understand the manner of the Royal Palm Membership was once extra Victorian meets grandma’s home within the Nineties. No less than, if grandma have been rich. Seating was once comfy and comfy, however the glance was once dated.
The redone living room is extra fashionable, with the similar Victorian meets fashionable luxurious sensibility discovered all over the foyer. It’s extra upscale than what was once right here prior to, and prefer the remainder of the lodge, it’s now befitting of its flagship standing. The seating remains to be masses comfy, and there’s a greater variety of it.
Something that hasn’t modified concerning the Royal Palm Membership is its location.
In truth, I had by no means essentially thought of what was once up within the top reaches of the Grand Floridian foyer previous to staying right here, but it surely’s spectacular that the Royal Palm Membership spans everything of the 3rd via 5th flooring. It’s additionally novel.
This can be a stark distinction to the lounges which might be tucked away in small rooms, and really feel like they have been shoehorned into higher flooring after the reality as soon as Walt Disney Global discovered folks would pay extra for living room get right of entry to. Grand Floridian seems like its Major Development was once purpose-built for a lavish living room. The format is unequalled, as are the perspectives down into the foyer. The living room feels spacious and lavish consequently, versus cramped and chaotic.
In each shape and serve as, Royal Palm Membership impresses. The feel and appear, plus the bigger length, 24-hour get right of entry to to the gap itself, and site perched top above the beautiful foyer of the Grand Floridian all make the bodily area of the Royal Palm Membership large winner.
Up to I like each Outdated Devoted Membership at Desolate tract Resort and Kilimanjaro Membership at Animal Kingdom Resort, this takes the cake as the finest living room at Walt Disney Global. On the subject of the living room itself, Royal Palm Membership is the unequivocal #1. Most likely there’s no use for a collection after we win the lottery!
During the day, the Royal Palm Membership living room serves the next:
- Early Riser Espresso: 6:30-7 a.m.
- Drinks: 7-10 a.m.
- Continental breakfast: 7-10:30 a.m.
- Gentle snacks and refreshments: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Hors D’oeuvres and drinks: 5-7 p.m.
- Muffins & cordials: 8-10 p.m.
Something to notice is that espresso does now not get started prior to 6:30 am. In spite of the living room being open get right of entry to and there being self-service beverage stations, they’re additionally disabled and the whole thing is oddly disassembled at night time. Even the espresso desk books are got rid of.
It seems that the gang paying north of 1 thousand bucks in keeping with night time for a room can’t be depended on unsupervised round $30 books and self-service espresso. Accept as true with me. I talk from enjoy as somebody who’s in most cases up and able for my first espresso at 5 am. The earliest it begins is 6:25 am, if you happen to’re fortunate.
Listed below are meals pictures and glimpses on the spreads for each and every of those meal products and services:
In line with different Membership Stage lounges round Walt Disney Global, we discovered the 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. unfold to be ultimate of those.
Walt Disney Global refrains from calling this dinner, as a result of they don’t need to inspire visitors to make a complete meal of it, however no encouragement is essential for me. Or, probably, someone prone to squeeze essentially the most bang for his or her greenback out of Membership Stage.
Additionally as is standard, breakfast was once the time when the living room was once busiest. The center of the day is least busy–it’s additionally the weakest of the spreads. This parallels all different WDW lounges and maximum genuine international govt or membership lounges, for no matter it’s value.
Each unfold at Royal Palm Membership was once ultimate at school or very with regards to it.
Sarah and I’ve, ahem, other nutritional personal tastes and priorities, and Royal Membership Palm checked the suitable packing containers for either one of us. Don’t name it dinner introduced a variety of choices, from wealthy convenience meals to wholesome greens to ingenious chef’s selection dishes.
Nearly they all have been just right to nice. Even the greens, which I attempted for analysis (and because of peer drive).
Particularly noteworthy are the baked items, pastries and breads from the Grand Floridian Bakery. All have been incredible and prime quality, to the purpose that I couldn’t face up to indulging in some “filler” on the expense of the scrumptious chef’s selection salmon, red meat, and seafood dishes. The charcuterie was once likewise superb; extra various and a significantly better high quality than different Membership Stage lounges.
Unsurprisingly, this carried over to the dessert unfold. Grand Floridian does truffles smartly, and our expectancies had already been set top via dinner. Dessert greater than delivered. Some Membership Ranges were essentially phoning in truffles, with high quality rivaling grocery shops. Grand Floridian’s have been obviously made in-house, and the standard mirrored as a lot.
The entirety we had was once decadent and scrumptious, however I need to name particular consideration to one thing it’s possible you’ll in a different way fail to remember: the Black Wooded area Cookie (above). If that is obtainable all through your keep, it’s a must-eat. I would possibly or won’t have taken one or two or a bigger quantity than that of those again to our room…and stored a couple of for the flight house. The common chocolate chip cookie may be beautiful tasty.
Strangely, my favourite meal at Royal Palm Membership would possibly’ve been breakfast. That is the way it will have to be, because it’s the meal carrier maximum visitors make the most of on the lounges, but it surely’s steadily phoned-in with most commonly chilly pieces, culmination, and pastries.
The breakfast unfold at Grand Floridian introduced all of that, plus a couple of sizzling pieces each and every morning. The place it essentially shined, regardless that, was once within the chocolates and pastries. Those have been simply thus far above and past what’s introduced at different Membership Ranges.
The outcome was once an excessively considerate unfold, which made for a a laugh and noteworthy leisurely breakfast versus one thing we powered via temporarily prior to Early Access for “gasoline.”
The noon ‘don’t name it lunch’ additionally punched above its weight. Whilst no doubt now not meant to be a complete meal, there was once extra of substance right here than some other living room we’ve performed. That’s doubly true if you wish to have a sweets-forward lunch! We have been inspired via this, and all the spreads.
Having performed contemporary remains at Chronos Membership, Kilimanjaro Membership, Regatta Membership, and Innkeeper’s Membership, I’m assured that Royal Palm Membership is the finest of that bunch. Like such a lot, Membership Ranges at Walt Disney Global typically peaked round 2018-2019 and haven’t totally recovered; Royal Palm Membership feels the nearest to 2019 high quality of any Membership Stage we’ve skilled since.
Beer, wine, and poo are obtainable at Royal Palm Membership. It kind of feels that the brand new commonplace for that is open get right of entry to within the evenings, and upon request at different occasions of the day.
Alcohol is probably outcome-determinative for Membership Stage for adults doing Walt Disney Global. I do know that if we had our honeymoon to do over these days as really-for-real adults as a substitute of fresh-out-of-college-and-broke twentysomethings, we’d completely be doing Membership Stage. However we don’t drink anymore, so booze doesn’t transfer the needle for us in this day and age.
Any other spotlight of Royal Palm Membership was once the exemplary carrier. I hesitate to remark in this in maximum opinions since I think find it irresistible will also be good fortune of the draw or variable according to staffing lines.
On the other hand, it sort of feels to me that Walt Disney Global is chasing accolades with the redone Grand Floridian, so I strongly suspect the lodge has made a concerted effort to move above and past with carrier.
We discovered a mixture of long-serving old-timers at Royal Palm Membership, in addition to fresh-faced Forged Participants desperate to assist. For causes past the scope of this publish, that’s essentially the easiest combine. Forged Participants have been attentive and proactive, a professional, heat and conversational. The final two issues are commonplace with Disney Forged Participants, who’re world-class.
Every so often, we pay attention from cynical readers wondering whether or not we get “particular remedy” as a result of Disney or Forged Participants know who we’re. The solution is that I guess we don’t according to unfavorable reports we’ve had.
Forged Participants do most often determine it out (or ask) once I’ve taken about 1,000 meals pictures, which is why I most often chorus from doing that till we’ve in fact established a connection. (That’s most commonly out of self-interest, since a number of Forged Participants dislike bloggers, vloggers, influencers, and so forth–and steadily, for just right explanation why!)
It’s been additional bolstered that we weren’t receiving particular remedy prior to, as a result of I think like we’re receiving extra attentive carrier now because of having an lovable (IMO) infant. Forged Participants are a lot more desperate to lend a hand, cross out in their technique to prevent and communicate to her/us, ask if we want anything else, and so forth. (Since turning into folks, we’ve turn out to be much more inspired with the exemplary visitor carrier introduced via Forged Participants, however that’s every other subject for every other publish.)
This was once the case at Royal Palm Membership. One explicit instance is that each and every time we entered the carrier station spaces, Forged Participants requested if we would love anything else particular for our daughter. We’re choosy about what she eats, and this adopted a request for grilled rooster breast on night time one.
On each and every next talk over with, somebody from the culinary workforce temporarily got here out and inquired about what they may get ready. We don’t have any nutritional restrictions or anything else, but it surely jogged my memory of that form of carrier that I’ve noticed at desk carrier eating places.
Forged Participants and repair in Royal Palm Membership to be exemplary. We’ve had just right reports in different lounges, however the ones can most often be described as pleasant carrier (in keeping with Forged Participants, as entire) or reactive carrier. Royal Palm Membership was once attentive and proactive, like an actual international membership degree.
When it comes to price, you’re taking a look at rack charges beginning at over $1,300 in keeping with night time for usual Membership Stage rooms, relying upon your view. Suites or multi-bedroom devices price much more. Even with a just right bargain, you’re most likely taking a look at $900 in keeping with night time to stick Royal Palm Membership Stage.
Against this, usual rooms at Grand Floridian get started at round $800, or $500 or so after bargain. This quantities to a minimal unfold of round $500 in keeping with night time prior to reductions. To the finest of my wisdom, that is the most important value differential of any common room to Membership Stage at Walt Disney Global.
At the plus aspect, there may be most often discounted Membership Stage availability for this actual explanation why (in reality, that is exactly what ended in us in any case doing Royal Palm Membership–it was once probably the most only a few choices obtainable in all of WDW when reserving final minute).
It’s additionally truthful to show that we’re evaluating Major Development Membership Stage rooms to Outer Development usual rooms, which is the one technique to do it–but additionally now not apples to apples. There may be no doubt price in staying within the Major Development, with simple get right of entry to to all the facilities and monorail.
We most often give a cop out “it relies” resolution relating to questions of price for cash or whether or not it’s “value it.” Lately, we’ve deviated from that, giving Innkeeper’s Membership a thumbs down. (Spoiler alert: when re-reviewing or reviewing different upcoming Membership Stage remains, the similar goes to occur once more.)
On the other hand, we’re going to move within the different path right here. That is in equivalent portions since the Grand Floridian is now the transparent flagship and Royal Palm Membership has been a long way and away our ultimate Membership Stage enjoy shortly.
Sure, the cost tag is astronomical, however this very obviously feels like a ‘deal with yo self’ splurge. Or the type of factor being booked basically via folks for whom cash is not any object.
Royal Palm Membership is extra “value it” than different Membership Ranges at Walt Disney Global, even the less expensive ones. This was once costlier than our different contemporary Membership Stage remains, however on the similar time, the worth felt extra commensurate with the associated fee. This was once nearer to an actual international membership degree–and a just right one–than the rest we’ve performed in recent years at Walt Disney Global.
With that mentioned, there’s no one-size-fits-all resolution to “which Membership Stage at Walt Disney Global is ultimate?” What I’ve realized through the years is that each and every of those has its diehard fanatics. Visitors who’ve been staying at a definite Membership Stage–and most effective that Membership Stage–for years, possibly even a long time. And even if Royal Palm is now our favourite, it’s now not one thing we’ll be doing steadily because of price.
As at all times, we extremely counsel asking for a quote from Be Our Visitor Holidays, a no-fee Approved Disney Holiday Planner. The brokers there won’t most effective lend a hand with opting for the finest room and lodge for you, lend a hand with customized making plans, e-book your holiday with the best-available particular be offering, and observe your package deal for long term reductions that may be carried out retroactively.
In the end, we liked our keep at Royal Palm Membership. If cash is not any object or you wish to have to splurge on the perfect position to stick at Walt Disney Global, that is it. Royal Palm is the finest Membership Stage and Grand Floridian is as soon as once more worthy of its flagship standing.
At the same time as somebody who traditionally discovered the Grand Floridian a bit of overvalued, I’ve to confess that that is the transparent #1 lodge and room class combo at Walt Disney Global. My private desire remains to be with the motels, however I’d take a keep at Royal Palm Membership over all else if we gained the lottery. And it’s now not even an in depth name for Sarah–that is #1 via a large margin.
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