If you follow Beyond Imagination Vacations on social media, you know that we’ve got some mad love for the newly reimagined Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort. We’ve recently been sharing images and the many things we love about it. But there’s another beach-themed hotel on Disney property that has been a perennial favorite - Disney’s Beach Club Resort. A Deluxe resort located in the Crescent Lake area, the Beach Club transports guest to a mid-Atlantic shorefront holiday. Featuring an enviable location within the Walt Disney World Resort, an assortment of dining options and the best pool on property, Disney’s Beach Club Resort is where you’ll want to find yourself during your next Disney World vacation.

Location, Location, Location

Fans of Epcot’s slate of seasonal festivals will want to book a stay at Beach Club which is within walking distance of the park’s International Gateway entrance. Why trudge through Future World when you can enter directly into the heart of Food & Wine Festival, Festival of the Arts and Flower & Garden Festival?

When you enter Epcot via the International Gateway entrance, you’re a World Showcase away from Future World!

Beach Club is also easily walkable to Disney’s Boardwalk. Similar to Disney Springs on a much smaller scale, the BoardWalk is a charming quarter-mile entertainment district featuring shops, nightlife, live entertainment and eateries. Beach Club guests can cool off with a quick stroll to Ample Hills Creamery for unique ice cream flavors or catch their favorite sports team at ESPN Club after a long day at the parks. (To read more about the Boardwalk, check out this blog post.)

The Boardwalk is located across Crescent Lake from Disney’s Beach Club Resort.

Catch your favorite team on the big screens at ESPN Club at the Boardwalk ⚽️🏀🏈

For those who don’t mind a longer walk, Disney’s Hollywood Studios is only about 20 minutes away by foot.

Trouble-Free Transportation

Leisurely ride on the Friendship Boat to/from Disney’s Beach Club Resort to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

In addition to its great location, Disney’s Beach Club Resort offers convenient modes of transportation to the parks. We’ve already mentioned that you can walk from the hotel to two of the parks, Epcot and Hollywood Studios, as well as the Boardwalk mini-entertainment district. If you’re too tired from walking or want to take a more scenic route, you can take a charming boat ride from the Friendship Launch in front of the hotel to Epcot and Hollywood Studios. Guests of Beach Club will find the Epcot Skyliner gondola station almost right outside their hotel doors. Instead of using Disney’s newest transportation option to the parks, we’d use it to participate in the latest dining/drinking trend, the Skyliner Pub Crawl. Akin to the Monorail crawl, Disney guests have been hopping on the Skyliner to drink and eat their way around venues accessible by Skyliner like Caribbean Beach Resort (Banana Cabana is a favorite for tropical concoctions), Riviera Resort (try Le Petit Cafe for a glass of wine), and stops in Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

Bonus tip courtesy of Beyond Imagination Vacations planner Stephanie Orlowski: if you have park hopper tickets, walk through Epcot to catch the Monorail to Magic Kingdom Park.

And of course, like any of the other Disney hotels, the Beach Club offers bus service to Disney Springs, the water parks and theme parks.

Delicious Dining

Disney’s Beach Club Resort has so many dining options that you’ll need a week-long stay to try them all. For families with youngsters, you don’t have to leave the hotel to enjoy a character meal with beloved Disney friends. Your Beyond Imagination Vacations travel planner can make reservations at Cape May Cafe for Minnie’s Beach Bash Breakfast. Of course, kids and those young at heart will have a blast with Minnie; we’ve also seen Daisy Duck, Donald Duck and Goofy palling around with guests. The breakfast menu shifts to a bountiful New England seafood feast for dinner including shrimp, crab, mussels and snow crab legs. Although both meals redeem one table-service credit per diner, the characters are only available for breakfast.

Daisy Duck interacts with guests during Minnie’s Breakfast Bash at Cape May Cafe. ❤️

The signature eatery at Beach Club is actually a quick-service restaurant, Beaches & Cream Soda Shop. Beaches & Cream is themed after an old-fashioned ice cream shop where you can cool down with thick milkshakes, flavored sodas and the cult-classic “Kitchen Sink.” Serving four people, the Kitchen Sink features scoops of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, cookies and cream, and mint chocolate chip smothered in every topping from the ice cream bar. There’s a mini-version for those who want to try it but can’t commit to the entire sink! Not limited to desserts, the menu also includes grill items like hamburgers, grilled cheese and onion rings.

Wonderful Water Park

Build an entire non-park day to enjoy Stormalong Bay at Disney’s Beach Club. 🏝

Disney’s Beach Club Resort is unequivocally home to the BEST pool on property. To call it a pool is an understatement. Stormalong Bay is a three-acre water park. The area features an expansive sand-bottomed pool; a shipwreck replica with a 230-foot-long waterslide, one of the highest slides at any Walt Disney World hotel; a lazy river; three whirlpool spas; and an elevated tanning deck. If your kiddos are old enough to have remote parental supervision or if you’re enjoying an adult-only trip (jealous), find yourself a bar stool at Hurricane Hanna's Waterside Bar and Grill. You’ll have a great view of Stormalong Bay (but far enough not to get drenched by splashing kids) while sipping a Strawberry Margarita or Frose.

Another bonus tip from Beyond Imagination Vacations travel planner Stephanie: don’t throw out the vessel holding those scoops of ice cream after consuming the Kitchen Sink from Beaches & Cream. Clean it out so that your kids can use it as a pail on Stormalong Bay’s beach!

Reuse that Kitchen Sink pail to scoop up all that sand!

Twice as Nice

Disney’s Beach Club is a sister resort to Disney’s Yacht Club. In fact, the resorts are literally connected and share amenities like the aforementioned Stormalong Bay, convenient location and transportation modes. When you book a stay at Beach Club, you get to enjoy two resorts rather than one. That opens up more dining options including the stately Yachtsman Steakhouse and the more casual Ale & Compass. The Yacht Club is also home to two nautical lounges, Ale & Compass Lounge and Crew’s Cup Lounge.