Orlando's Most Unique Resort Experiences

Orlando is full of resorts, hotels, time-shares, condominiums, and other places to stay. The competition between them can become quite fierce. Each one is vying for your vacation dollars and in order to win you over, some of them offer very unique events and experiences to add to your vacation enjoyment. It may be the addition of a luxurious spa or the addition of specialty cruises, but they all want to “one up” the other. All of this competition is great for the common vacation consumer who now has an abundance of choices in booking the perfect stay for themselves and their family.

The Disney resorts have all taken the idea of unique resort perks to an all new level. This company knows how to come up with a complete vacation experience package that is very hard to beat. For instance, people who stay at the Animal Kingdom Lodge in the savanna view rooms can awake every morning to wild animals such as zebras, giraffes, and gazelles roaming in the natural savanna just outside of their balcony. Nothing like having your morning coffee as a giraffe looks you in the eye!

The Grand Floridian is based on San Diego's Hotel del Coronado and has that old world veranda style charm, but on a huge scale. This resort is linked with Disney's monorail system, which allows it to be minutes from any park. The Grand Floridian is most unique for its weddings. They offer any couple a fairytale wedding full of special one-of-a-kind service and one of the most romantic services that you could ever find.

The Polynesian Resort is full of cascading waterfalls and offers a spectacular view of the nightly firework displays over Cinderella's castle in the Magic Kingdom. The Polynesian Resort offers many children programs with babysitting service from 5 p.m. to midnight every day. There are also Luau dinner shows every night.

The Portofino Bay Hotel is not a Disney resort, but it is a very unique Italian village recreation on a beautiful man-made bay. This resort is affiliated with the Universal parks and can offer easy access to their nightlife and the rides. The bay is dotted with small watercraft and the resort offers nightly shows at the harbor of live musicians playing lovely tunes from Italy. They also provide a supervised activity area for the children, which allows for a romantic dinner for the adults. The restaurants are amazing and an outdoor movie is shown every night at sunset next to the main pool. Definitely a very unique and charming resort.

Many of the resorts offer live dinner shows and in the case of the Disney resorts endeavor to entertain you with character meals that allows you to have a meal buffet-style as some of the most-loved characters sign autographs, take pictures and entertain everyone for a couple of hours.

All of the major resorts offer marvelous shopping facilities right on site and all of them are equipped with state-of-the-art exercise and spa facilities. The staff at all of these 5-star locations are there to serve you and make your stay with them better than you have ever experienced anywhere else.