If you wanted
to stay in all the guest rooms in all of the hotels and resorts
currently open on Walt Disney World property (at a rate of one
per night), it would take more than 61 years.
All Star Music
The musical
notes on the front desk are from 'When You Wish Upon a Star'.
All-Star Sports
It would take
more than 20 million 12-ounce cans of Coca-Cola to fill one of
the humongous Coke cups at the Home-Run Hotel in Disney's All-Star
Sports Resort.
It would take
nearly 9.5 million tennis balls to fill one of the tennis ball
cans at Center Court Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort.
That's enough to stretch from Walt Disney World to Key West.
Port Orleans
The musical
staff notes across the registration desk at Disney's Port Orleans
Resort spell out the first verse of "When the Saints Go Marching
In."
Yacht & Beach
Club
Stormalong
Bay holds 750,00 gallons of water, making it the largest sand-bottom
pool in the world.
Polynesian
A wave machine
was built under the Seven Seas Lagoon, but the waves caused erosion
of the beach, so it was shut down.
Wilderness Lodge
Wilderness
Lodge is themed after the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone.The
two 55 ft totem poles - the eagle and the raven - were carved
in Washington State.
The towering
centerpiece of the lodge is a massive, 82 ft tall, three walled
stone fireplace. There are even fossilized remains of prehistoric
animals and plants.
The cricket
noises you hear are actually coming from speakers.
Contemporary
The mosaic
mural in the fourth-floor lobby of Disney's Contemporary Resort
was created in 1971 with 1,800 1-square-foot tiles and took 18
months to construct.
One of the
goats in the mural has 5 legs.
Fort Wilderness
The small white
horses - Lippizans - at Tri-Circle D Ranch are the horses used
to pull Cinderella's carriage in certain parades.
Grand Floridian
The design
team working on the resort visited the Bellevue Biltmore in Clearwater,
Florida; the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan; and the
Del Coronado in San Diego, California. The Bellevue Biltmore provided
ideas for materials, dormer shapes and size. The Del Coronado
has similar colours and some similar elements. The Grand Hotel
fascinated the designers because its size didn't affect its ambiance
and character - it is truly grand without overpowering the guests.
"All of
the sand on the beaches of the magic kingdom resorts came from
the bottom of bay lake when it was drained and the mud removed
in 1971, during the construction of the Magic Kingdom"
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