Pros and Cons for Staying at Every Disney World Resort

Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning

Dan and Leslie Lowry

Kids & Family, Education, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On today’s Disney Podcast, we are talking through all of the Walt Disney World resorts and the reasons why we would stay at or avoid each of them. Depending on what your budget allows and the priorities for your family during your vacation, there are reasons to book each of these resorts…and reasons to stay away from them. These are all of our reasons for staying and avoiding each resort, whether they are Value, Moderate, Deluxe, or Good Neighbor. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	One of the first and often most difficult decisions when planning a Walt Disney World vacation is where to stay, and we are tackling that today.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to a tick to the mouse.
0:09.2	Today is Sunday, November 30th. We're listening to episode number 750.
0:12.5	And today we're talking about why we would stay in each of the Disney World resorts.
0:32.6	Music Disney World Resorts. Hey everybody, Dan and Leslie here. Thanks for joining us today. Oh my goodness, I'm excited to talk about
0:37.7	the resorts at Disney World because I love staying in Disney World resorts. I do as well.
0:45.3	I love everything about it. And we are going to talk about each of these, all of the everything from
0:49.8	values to moderates to deluxe's and kind of the pros and cons in each one.
0:54.4	And why for our family, like, what would move the needle?
0:57.8	Like, why we wouldn't necessarily want to stay at one particular resort with a particular vacation
1:03.7	style in mind.
1:05.2	And we would go to Disney World and have, like, different things that we want to accomplish
1:09.3	on all of our trips.
1:10.2	And so we're going to talk kind of through this. Yeah. Yeah. So shockingly with Thanksgiving, I mean,
1:15.2	not so shockingly, there's no news. So we don't really have news to talk about. But I do want to say
1:20.8	we had a great Thanksgiving. We went to some friends house and thank you so much to them for
1:26.4	opening their home to us and inviting us over to celebrate Thanksgiving.
1:30.2	And we just got some great fellowship time and hanging out and all of that.
1:35.1	And of course, lots and lots of food.
1:37.4	The leftovers are almost gone from our refrigerator.
1:42.5	So there's a little bit of macaroni casserole left.
1:45.8	And did you leave any of that pie?
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