Disney's Yacht Club Resort
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Disney's Yacht Club Resort is a New England nautical
-themed resort
, at Walt Disney World. First opened on November 5, 1990, it is one of several Epcot Area Resorts
. Disney's Yacht Club is located next to a sister resort, Disney's Beach Club Resort
, and across Crescent Lake from Disney's BoardWalk Resort
. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern.
Disney's Yacht Club Resort has received designation in the Florida Green Lodging Program.
and Beach
Club resorts share amenities and resources, including staff and management. Boat transportation from the resort runs to Epcot
and Disney's Hollywood Studios
as well as the BoardWalk
and the Walt Disney World Swan
& Walt Disney World Dolphin
resorts. The resort is about five minutes walking distance from Epcot, and roughly 15 minutes walking to Disney's Hollywood Studios. Guests can use the back entrance to Epcot
through the World Showcase between the France
and the UK
Pavilions.
The Yacht Club is home to a 73000 square feet (6,781.9 m²) Convention Center shared with the Beach Club. The resort's distinctive grey siding with red and white
striped awnings distinguish itself from the light blue motif of Beach Club
.
The Yacht Club is slightly more formal in decor than the Beach Club, designed to make guests feel as if they are actually on a ship rather than inside a land based structure, and to cater more toward business clientele, rather than families. Color tones of deep blue
s, brown
s, and bronze
s are used to convey a nautical feel. Hidden Mickeys can be found in the carpeting in hallways leading to guest rooms. The Yacht Club and Beach Club Resorts share one of the nation's largest sand bottom pools, Stormalong Bay. The pool is a "mini-waterpark", featuring a sand bottom swimming area, lazy river, a large slide from a wrecked ship just outside of the play area on the beach, and even sinking sand.
Yachtsman Steakhouse - A Disney Signature Dining restaurant serves a selection of steakhouse dishes with a nautical theme in a ship-shaped restaurant layout. The restaurant features an open kitchen with a display of aged beef cooked on an oak-fired grill. The restaurant serves dinner only.
Captain's Grille (formerly Yacht Club Galley) - A casual dining restaurant with an à la carte menu selection for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a buffet option for breakfast only. The restaurant features similar nautical theming to that of the Yachtsman Steakhouse, but in a more casual atmosphere.
Hurricane Hanna's - A poolside counter-service restaurant that serves mostly fast-food American cuisine along with specialty drinks and other beverages.
Quiet pool - The Yacht Club quiet pool is located on the far end of the resort in a garden area.
Ship Shape Health Club - A fully equipped health and fitness center free of charge for resort guests. The health club is centrally located between both the Beach Club Resort and the Yacht Club Resort and offers fitness equipment, plus a steam room, sauna, and spa. The center also offers massage therapy by appointment.
Bayside marina - The resort's lakeside marina offers a variety of watercraft available for rental including private cruises and fishing excursions.
Sandy beach - The resorts offer a lake-side white sand beach on Crescent Lake. Different Activities are also held on the beach including Movie Nights and Campfire Sing-Alongs.
Tennis - The resort also offers tennis courts.
Seamanship
Seamanship is the art of operating a ship or boat.It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills including: navigation and international maritime law; weather, meteorology and forecasting; watchstanding; ship-handling and small boat handling; operation of deck...
-themed resort
Resort
A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company....
, at Walt Disney World. First opened on November 5, 1990, it is one of several Epcot Area Resorts
Epcot Area Resorts
The Epcot Resort Area is the area between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort which consists of five individual resorts that are interconnected via footpaths and waterways surrounding a large central lake known as Crescent Lake.-Resorts:*Disney's Yacht Club...
. Disney's Yacht Club is located next to a sister resort, Disney's Beach Club Resort
Disney's Beach Club Resort
Disney's Beach Club Resort is a beach-themed deluxe resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. It opened on November 19, 1990. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts....
, and across Crescent Lake from Disney's BoardWalk Resort
Disney's BoardWalk Resort
Disney's BoardWalk Resort is a hotel and entertainment complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. First opened in 1996, the BoardWalk Resort lies alongside Crescent Lake and is situated between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts...
. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is the segment of The Walt Disney Company that conceives, builds, and manages the company's theme parks and holiday resorts, as well as a variety of additional family-oriented leisure enterprises...
. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern.
Disney's Yacht Club Resort has received designation in the Florida Green Lodging Program.
Resort features
Disney's YachtYacht
A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries...
and Beach
Beach
A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...
Club resorts share amenities and resources, including staff and management. Boat transportation from the resort runs to Epcot
Epcot
Epcot is a theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was initially named...
and Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s...
as well as the BoardWalk
Disney's BoardWalk Resort
Disney's BoardWalk Resort is a hotel and entertainment complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. First opened in 1996, the BoardWalk Resort lies alongside Crescent Lake and is situated between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts...
and the Walt Disney World Swan
Walt Disney World Swan
The Walt Disney World Swan is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios behind Disney's BoardWalk Resort and across from its sister resort, the Walt Disney World Dolphin...
& Walt Disney World Dolphin
Walt Disney World Dolphin
The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, next to Disney's BoardWalk Resort area...
resorts. The resort is about five minutes walking distance from Epcot, and roughly 15 minutes walking to Disney's Hollywood Studios. Guests can use the back entrance to Epcot
Epcot
Epcot is a theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was initially named...
through the World Showcase between the France
France (Epcot)
The France Pavilion is part of the World Showcase within Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort.-Layout:The France pavilion is themed to look like a Paris neighborhood with a pool and fountains and with a view of the Eiffel Tower in the distance. Most of the shops on the streets are actual shops...
and the UK
United Kingdom (Epcot)
The United Kingdom pavilion is part of the World Showcase within Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort.-Layout:The United Kingdom Pavilion, designed to look like a typical British village, looks like 1/100 villages that are in the UK, although it could be argued that it is more stereotypical, with...
Pavilions.
The Yacht Club is home to a 73000 square feet (6,781.9 m²) Convention Center shared with the Beach Club. The resort's distinctive grey siding with red and white
White
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be...
striped awnings distinguish itself from the light blue motif of Beach Club
Disney's Beach Club Resort
Disney's Beach Club Resort is a beach-themed deluxe resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. It opened on November 19, 1990. The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts....
.
The Yacht Club is slightly more formal in decor than the Beach Club, designed to make guests feel as if they are actually on a ship rather than inside a land based structure, and to cater more toward business clientele, rather than families. Color tones of deep blue
Blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
s, brown
Brown
Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color....
s, and bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
s are used to convey a nautical feel. Hidden Mickeys can be found in the carpeting in hallways leading to guest rooms. The Yacht Club and Beach Club Resorts share one of the nation's largest sand bottom pools, Stormalong Bay. The pool is a "mini-waterpark", featuring a sand bottom swimming area, lazy river, a large slide from a wrecked ship just outside of the play area on the beach, and even sinking sand.
Dining
Captain's Grille (formerly Yacht Club Galley) - A casual dining restaurant with an à la carte menu selection for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a buffet option for breakfast only. The restaurant features similar nautical theming to that of the Yachtsman Steakhouse, but in a more casual atmosphere.
Hurricane Hanna's - A poolside counter-service restaurant that serves mostly fast-food American cuisine along with specialty drinks and other beverages.
Recreation
Stormalong Bay - is the resorts' main pool complex that resembles a beach-side water park with its sand-bottom pools, a circular lazy river, waterfall, and the "Shipwreck"; a large replica of a ship wreck with one of the highest resort water slides at Walt Disney World. The Stormalong Bay pool complex offers a poolside counter-service restaurant and bar, a children's shallow area, and an elevated tanning deck. Stormalong Bay is centrally located between both the Beach Club Resort and the Yacht Club Resort facing Crescent Lake.Quiet pool - The Yacht Club quiet pool is located on the far end of the resort in a garden area.
Ship Shape Health Club - A fully equipped health and fitness center free of charge for resort guests. The health club is centrally located between both the Beach Club Resort and the Yacht Club Resort and offers fitness equipment, plus a steam room, sauna, and spa. The center also offers massage therapy by appointment.
Bayside marina - The resort's lakeside marina offers a variety of watercraft available for rental including private cruises and fishing excursions.
Sandy beach - The resorts offer a lake-side white sand beach on Crescent Lake. Different Activities are also held on the beach including Movie Nights and Campfire Sing-Alongs.
Tennis - The resort also offers tennis courts.
Convention center
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Convention Center is centrally located between the two resorts and features over 73000 square feet (6,781.9 m²) of meeting space including two large ballrooms and 21 breakout rooms. The convention center is primarily accessible from the Yacht Club Resort via a covered walkway to the Yacht Club Lobby. To access the convention center from the Beach Club Resort, guests must either use an outdoor sidewalk by the bus stop or walk over to the Yacht Club resort to use the covered walkway.External links
- Disney's Yacht Club Resort official site