When opting for a luxurious lodge inside strolling distance of EPCOT and Hollywood Studios and likewise at the Skyliner at Walt Disney Global, holiday planners have a couple of choices, however we’ve discovered the 2 hottest Deluxe Accommodations on this space are Seaside Membership and BoardWalk Inn. This head-to-head comparability weighs the professionals & cons of each and every, selecting a “winner” in theme, eating, transportation, swimming pools, and different classes. (Up to date August 6, 2024.)
This continues our Walt Disney Global Lodge Comparability Collection, which contains a number of different tough dilemmas it’s possible you’ll face when making an attempt to pick out a lodge. Different as opposed to posts come with Animal Kingdom Hotel vs. Barren region Hotel, Port Orleans Riverside vs. French Quarter, or even Caribbean Seaside vs. the Poly. It additionally compares lots of the different motels within the Crescent Lake or EPCOT space (Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve, Riviera, Yacht & Seaside Membership, BoardWalk) to each other.
With that stated, this makes a speciality of the 2 Disney motels that rank the easiest in our Scores of ALL Walt Disney Global Resorts from Worst to Perfect. That checklist takes worth and a lot of different variables into consideration. In case you’d wish to learn that for a rundown of ways all motels rank–from price range resorts to monorail loop, have at it. However, spoiler alert, each Seaside Membership and BoardWalk rank very extremely. In case you’ve already determined on a Disney hotel close to EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios and are having a tricky time deciding between the 2 best possible choices, this will have to can help you slender it down…
Theme: BoardWalk – Each resorts are equivalent in theme. DisneyWar comprises an anecdote about former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s obsession together with his youth holidays within the seashore communities of the Northeast, which no less than partly drove the design of those Crescent Lake motels. At the plus aspect, Walt Disney Global were given a fab hotel ‘district’ out of it. At the problem, the three Disney resorts within the space are very equivalent in taste.
Of those motels, BoardWalk Inn has probably the most distinct theme, and is going the furthest to execute it. Past the true Atlantic Town-esque boardwalk, there are design references all through the hotel to Luna Park, Coney Island, and so on., and turn-of-the-century items of decor pulled from the ones puts.
Seaside Membership is extra generalized, supposed to recreate the seashore hotel cottages scattered round New England within the early twentieth Century. In case you’re judging strictly based totally upon thematic execution, BoardWalk wins. Then again, for most of the people, that is almost definitely going to return right down to how they digest each and every theme, and the way it makes them really feel. Numerous other folks–us incorporated–choose the vibe we get from Seaside Membership, however this subjective “really feel” from the theme goes to change from individual to individual.
Rooms: BoardWalk – In relation to structure, dimension, and contours, there are not any noteworthy variations between the usual rooms in each and every. A minimum of, no longer that I’ve spotted. With that during thoughts, let’s flip to taste. I’ve spent numerous time in this weblog not too long ago harping at the steadiness of theme and comfort.
Particularly, what number of motels at Walt Disney Global used to skew (too some distance, personally) against theme on the expense of luxurious, however have sense overcorrected and now don’t incorporate a enough quantity of theme. Seaside Membership’s new rooms are arguably Show off A on this regard. Apart from a couple of thrives and Donald Duck artwork, it’s tough to differentiate Seaside Membership’s rooms from a classy, modern-day lodge on the seashore. I view that as an issue.
BoardWalk’s rooms have a couple of further design main points, from the artwork at the partitions to the Minnie Mouse lamp and extra, that lend a hand them do higher with the steadiness. In addition they don’t really feel like they’re seeking to be trendy or fashionable, and but nonetheless organize to really feel subtle and great. On that foundation, they’ve the threshold.
There’s a photograph of the brand new BoardWalk rooms above, but when you need an intensive glance, see Excellent & Dangerous of BoardWalk Inn’s New Rooms. With regards to the lodge as a complete, the multi-year reimagining could also be most commonly completed–however to be fair, maximum of this isn’t noticeable.
Eating: Seaside Membership – Each motels have highs and lows in relation to eating. Being a lodge that doubles as an leisure district, BoardWalk has a numerous eating lineup with one thing for everybody at the desk carrier entrance. A minimum of, in idea (and previously). Then again, BoardWalk misplaced ESPN Membership and its alternative, Cake Bake Store, remains to be beneath building. BoardWalk additionally misplaced Plentiful Hills Creamery, and its alternative is a generic ice cream store. Large River Grille & Brewing Works additionally closed with out alternative…and not anything of price was once misplaced.
At the plus aspect, BoardWalk nonetheless has Flying Fish and Trattoria al Forno, either one of that are implausible. With regards to desk carrier eating places, Seaside Membership technically best has Seashores & Cream and Cape Might Cafe. With that stated, the eating places all through Crescent Lake are so extremely simple to get entry to–particularly those in Yacht Membership–that desk carrier eating is hard to imagine a promoting level.
As a substitute, it would (will have to?) almost definitely come right down to the simpler, handy counter carrier choices at each and every lodge. Each are actually susceptible. If you need counter carrier at BoardWalk, you’re caught heading out of doors to BoardWalk Deli, which has a restricted menu along with the baked items.
The scene at Seaside Membership is somewhat higher, as Seaside Membership Market has advanced lately and now has a extra tough menu and wide variety of snatch and cross choices. Typhoon Hanna’s is a good possibility, however it’s important to cross out to the pool–and that’s a bother.
For now, we’ll give the slender edge to Seaside Membership, however that may alternate throughout the subsequent 12 months or so when Cake Bake Store (with a bit of luck) opens and Disney unearths a alternative for Large River Grille & Brewing Works.
Transportation/Location: Push – Location is among the largest promoting issues of those motels, because it’s simple to stumble house after an afternoon of Ingesting Across the Global or playing some wine seminars throughout the EPCOT World Meals and Wine Pageant. Each are strolling distance to Epcot by way of the World Gateway and likewise strolling distance to Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
The diversities within the strolling instances are negligible, and influenced by means of the site of your room, anyway. BoardWalk is nearer to Disney’s Hollywood Studios (on moderate) and Seaside Membership is nearer to EPCOT (once more, on moderate).
The Skyliner station at World Gateway could also be nearer to Seaside Membership, and that’ll take you to Disney’s Hollywood Studios or a spread of different motels (particularly Riviera and Caribbean Seaside, the place it’s possible you’ll wish to devour). We don’t view this as an actual benefit, as strolling to DHS is quicker.
Boat carrier could also be to be had to those two parks. Bus carrier is identical at each, even supposing the shut proximity of those motels makes it simple, at the long ago, to only hop off anywhere the bus stops first.
Swimming pools: Seaside Membership – Ranked #1 by means of us and everybody else, Stormalong Bay is the gold same old of Walt Disney Global swimming pools. This sprawling pool advanced 3 acres in dimension with sand on the backside and a lazy river is in a league of its personal. It additionally has a 230-foot ‘shipwrecked’ water slide, plentiful lounging area, and an interesting atmosphere that makes it a laugh to discover.
Simply because the sand within the pool will actually keep on with you and get in every single place your room, it’ll additionally stick on your reminiscence and be probably the most highlights of your commute (or no less than, your children’ commute). Stormalong Bay competitors Animal Kingdom Hotel’s savanna is the only maximum compelling amenity in all of Walt Disney Global. This would be the explanation why you’ll in finding your circle of relatives spending inordinate quantities of time on the hotel, and BoardWalk Inn has not anything even remotely similar.
In the meantime, over at BoardWalk Inn, there’s Luna Park Pool. This was recognized informally because the Creepy Clown Pool because of a clown face that spit out visitors from the water slide, however Disney killed the clown (none of that could be a funny story). Now it’s simply an uneventful Mickey Mouse slide that doesn’t spit or creep out somebody. Unhappy.
Despite the fact that you suppose Stormalong Bay is somewhat overvalued, it’s tough to contend that Luna Park Pool is awesome to it in any respect. And because there’s no pool hopping to Stormalong Bay, it’s important to keep there to experience that pool. That means this is some distance and away Seaside Membership’s largest promoting level. Stormalong Bay is the difference-maker, and why you will have to keep at Seaside Membership over BoardWalk. In case you’re no longer a “pool individual,” the result right here might be very other than if you’re.
Value: Seaside Membership – Those are each expensive Deluxe Accommodations which are some of the costliest in all of Walt Disney Global. Then again, costs are constantly decrease at Seaside Membership. It’s not up to a 5% distinction on moderate, but it surely all provides up. (Reductions and room availability can alternate the equation, however in keeping with printed rack charges, Seaside Membership is inexpensive on moderate when making an apples to apples comparability of same old rooms.)
The distance grows as you progress to nicer view tiers–no wonder because the BoardWalk view rooms are some of the coolest at Walt Disney Global and Seaside Membership has not anything that compares in that regard. Identical tale with the respective Membership Stage charges, even supposing you almost definitely aren’t rather as cost-sensitive in the event you’re eager about reserving concierge, as the ones rooms are simply various levels of very pricey.
Verdict: Seaside Membership – Although we’re stating Seaside Membership the winner–and in the event you price the entire variables we’ve set forth right here, it’s–that is in the end a case of “it relies.” Maximum classes right here may well be overridden by means of non-public desire, with the exception of one: swimming pools. Stormalong Bay is objectively higher, and by means of an important margin.
The query thus turns into, does that topic to you? In case you’re making plans a commute for December, January, or any other time of the 12 months when the swimming pools may well be too chilly so that you can use, or in case your birthday party simply doesn’t actually care concerning the pool, that issue will have to be taken off the desk.
With out Stormalong Bay serving because the trump card, BoardWalk has benefits in theme, rooms, and eating, however your individual desire may range. Possibly you just like the previous timey Atlantic Town setting, giving BoardWalk the threshold. Or, possibly you like the ethereal, laid again taste of Seaside Membership and are advantageous with its elegant however bland rooms. Possibly no longer having to head out of doors to get entry to Seaside Membership Market is the difference-maker for you.
So the place, precisely, does that go away this? It relies. In case you’re a first-timer, particularly one with children, we’d counsel erring at the aspect of Stormalong Bay pool being a deciding issue. Children have a tendency to like this pool, and Seaside Membership is most often inexpensive, in order that’s the more secure wager. In case you’re no longer a primary timer however are nonetheless having bother deciding…it almost definitely nonetheless comes right down to the pool.
As for us, it actually is determined by the time of the 12 months. If it’s a hotter month, Seaside Membership–no query. I really like Stormalong Bay and suppose that plus a revolutionary dinner all through the realm makes a super ‘hotel day.’ Plus, the entire setting of the hotel simply feels proper for summer season…no less than to us. If it’s a chillier time of 12 months, we choose BoardWalk. (Despite the fact that realistically, chillier most often method Christmas, and I’d choose to stick somewhere else utterly then.) In case you’re nonetheless having bother come to a decision and wish extra footage & ideas, we advise supplementing this with our complete evaluate of Disney’s BoardWalk Inn and our Disney’s Seaside Membership Hotel Evaluate.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Does Stormalong Bay supply sufficient price so that you can be the difference-maker? Is cash the deciding issue for you, or is theme, counter carrier eating places, rooms, and so on? Are we lacking a key variable that might, probably tilt the scales in BoardWalk’s choose? Do you settle or disagree with our choices? Any questions we will be able to can help you resolution? Listening to your comments–even while you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please proportion your ideas beneath within the feedback!
