Review of the Swan and Dolphin hotels at Disney World

The Swan and Dolphin are interesting resorts – you use the official Disney transportation, get access to Extra Magic Hours but don’t get access to Magical Express and you can’t use Magic Bands at the resort. It’s an odd in-between of an offsite resort and an official resort where you get all of the perks.

You also aren’t quite surrounded by the “Disney Magic” 24/7 like you would at one of the official Disney owned resorts. When actually at the Dolphin it felt like a hotel that could be anywhere but was definitely on the much nicer side. Both the Swan and Dolphin are separate resorts though they’re just a couple hundred feet apart from each other, separated by a walkway and Crescent lake. The Dolphin, which this review is about is the much larger property with the Swan being slightly smaller.

I did find the layout of the resort slightly confusing. First off the place is enormous so you can easily get lost just wandering around the myriad of hallways that go off of the center lobby. There are also a few different banks of elevators which can get confusing if you don’t remember which one you’re suppose to go up. Eventually we found the right set of elevators are were headed up to the West elevators. The room was slightly smaller than I was expecting for the price that these rooms go for. Since we were upgraded to a Resort Room we had a mini-fridge, cordless phone and the “heavenly” beds which are very comfortable.

I did know this going into it but was still disappointing were the fact that the rooms only had full beds instead of queens. I would have much preferred to have queen beds in the room instead of full beds. The entry area had a wet bar with a standard hotel room sized fridge below. They do stock the coffee with Starbucks which was a nice treat, it was much better than your standard hotel coffee.

Overall nothing special about the room at the Dolphin. Everything about the room was very average from the double beds, the decor and the small & awkward bathroom. – just wish the room had a little more to offer. There is a parking free of 25 dollars. And you will need a credit card on file. And if your in the Dolphin you will need to walk to the Swan for Disney travel to parks. Boats from the Dolphin will take you to Epcot and Disney Hollywood Studios.

By Vikki
v.tonnesssen@traveltimetravel.com

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