Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
It is a Victorian themed hotel and spa that is located at Walt Disney World Resort in famous Lake Buena Vista in Florida. The property was opened on June 28, 1988 as the Grand Floridian Beach Resort. This name changed to Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in the fall of 1997.
This resort contains 867 rooms among 6 buildings at an average of four hundred square feet (37 m²) per room. Its standard room can sleep up to 5 people.
The Grand Floridian is categorized as a luxury resort, one of 4 types of accommodations at the Florida site. And according to The Walt Disney Company, this resort is considered Disney's flagship resort.
This hotel was inspired by the wonderful Victorian era beach resorts that was built
along the east coast of Florida during the early 1900s; hotel’s exterior was modeled after
the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego in California, with red gabled roofs and beautiful
white walls.
Grand 's outer lodge buildings include Big Pine Key, Sago Cay, Conch Key, Sugarloaf Key,
and Boca Chica named for islands in the Florida Keys.
And along with Disney's Polynesian Resort and Disney's Contemporary Resort,
the Grand Floridian is situated on the shores of the Seven Seas Lagoon near the
famous Magic Kingdom. This hotel occupies land that was earmarked for an Asian themed
resort in the late 1960s in the development of Walt Disney World Resort.
Services & amenities here include 24-hour room service, daily children's programs,
wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet access, beauty salon, laundry facilities/services, concierge
desk, babysitting and child services, health club/spa, self-parking, Pak-n-Play crib available,
valet parking available for a fee, rooms and facilities for guests with disabilities and many
others.
Smoking is permitted only in outdoor smoking locations.