Delighting in Disney Details
by Eileen Farnsworth
Member of the MouseEarVacations.com® Team
One can't help but be entranced by the sights and sounds at Walt Disney World® Resort. When visiting the different parks you can't help but see Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom® Park or Spaceship Earth at Epcot® - they are beautiful and bigger than life! But don't forget to take note of all the delightful details that Disney's Imagineers have added to the Walt Disney World® Resort design - they are everywhere!
On a recent tour of the Walt Disney World® Resort hotels and one of their cruise ships, our tour guide told us that throughout the properties, Disney tells its guests a story. For example, at Disney's Yacht Club Resort and Disney's Beach Club Resort, you feel as though you have stepped into a seaside resort of the past. Everywhere you look, reminders of the beach fill your view. In Disney's Beach Club Resort hotel rooms, your desk lamp has Mickey sitting in his lifeguard's chair. At Disney's Yacht Club Resort, the bedspreads are a sea-bubble blue color, with ships dotting the water. Even the art on the wall depicts a family from generations ago, enjoying a day at the beach.
Switch to another resort hotel, and the scenery completely changes. At Disney's Pop Century Resort, where the past 50 years are celebrated, giant icons dot the landscape. The hotel stairwells are decorated as Rubik's Cubes, Yo-Yo's, 8-track tapes, bowling pins and cell phones, each representing the decade in which they were popular. Two of the pools are shaped like a bowling pin and a computer. Even at the Disney's Pop Century Resort food court, a tie-dyed cheesecake can be found among the other desserts. And here is a detail that had to be pointed out to me -the Play-Doh elephant in the giant Play-Doh jar has a "thumb print" in his ear!
Disney's cruise ships are also filled with wonderful Disney details. On the Disney Wonder®, the lobby's beautiful staircase has Disney characters built into the design. The curtains covering the portholes near the Buena Vista Theatre look as though they came from a beautifully-decorated theatre from long ago. Even the ships exteriors of Disney Cruise Line® are Mickey Mouse colors - right down to the color of the "Mickey-shoe" yellow lifeboats, for which Disney had to receive special permission from the Coast Guard.
If I tried to outline each of Disney's delightful details, I would have to fill volumes of books! These are just a few of the many surprises that a visit to Walt Disney World® Resort or a Disney Cruise Line® ship has in store, waiting to be discovered by you!