PRICE:
Frommer's Exceptional

This property re-creates the grand turn-of-the-20th-century Victorian seaside resorts of Cape Cod and has a more casual ambience than its sister, the Yacht Club, with which it shares restaurants, shops, and numerous recreational activities. Striped and floral wicker furnishings, seashells, and beach umbrellas adorn the hotel's casual interior. The Beach Club is close enough to Epcot to allow you to walk to the park, though most guests prefer to take the ferry (the parks are workout enough!). The shipwreck at Stormalong Bay (a huge free-form swimming pool and water park that sprawls over 3 acres) invites you to explore its decks, climb around, and slide into the water waiting below. It includes a stretch of sandy beach, sand-bottom pools, whirlpools, and water slides (including a toddler slide, so no one misses out). Room views range from the pool (more expensive) to the parking lot. Some rooms have balconies.

Note: Both the Beach Club and Yacht Club offer the chance to charter a reproduction of a 1930s mahogany runabout to cruise Crescent Lake or see Epcot's IllumiNations fireworks display (from $179 plus tax for up to seven people for a 45-min. cruise to catch the fireworks). Daytime cruises ($80 for 30 min.) are available departing at 2:30pm and 5:30pm (tel. 407/824-2621).

Facilities:2 restaurants; grill; 4 lounges; 3-acre pool and play area; 2 outdoor heated pools; kids' pool; 2 lighted tennis courts; health club; jogging trail; volleyball; croquet; Jacuzzi; watercraft rental; fishing; playground; supervised children's program; video arcade; WDW Transportation System; transportation to non-Disney theme parks for a fee; business center; limited Wi-Fi access (fee); salon; 24-hr. room service; babysitting; laundry service; valet.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Walt Disney World & Orlando 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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