Disney's Old Key West Resort, hotel at Walt Disney World
Disney's Old Key West Resort is a hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida, designed to look like a coastal town from the Florida Keys, with rooms ranging from studios to multi-bedroom villas. It sits along a canal within the Disney property and has its own pools, dining, and recreational facilities on site.
The resort opened in 1991 as the very first Disney Vacation Club property, marking Disney's entry into the timeshare market. It set the model that many later Disney Vacation Club resorts across the property would follow.
The resort takes its look from the laid-back style of the Florida Keys, with pastel-colored buildings, wooden porches, and palm-lined paths that feel more like a small beach town than a theme park hotel. The pace here is noticeably slower than at other Disney properties, which many guests find appealing.
The resort is one of the more spread-out hotels on the Disney property, so getting around on foot takes longer than at hotels closer to the parks, and using the Disney shuttle is often the easier option. Guests planning to visit the main parks daily should factor in some extra travel time each way.
Although the resort welcomes regular hotel guests, most of its rooms are officially part of the Disney Vacation Club timeshare program, which means availability for standard bookings can vary widely depending on the time of year. Guests who book well in advance tend to find a much better selection of room types.
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