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Disney's
All-Star Sports Resort
Address:
1701 West Buena Vista Drive
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Phone: 407-939-5000
Fax: 407-939-7333
Check In: 4:00pm
Check Out: 11:00am
Number of Rooms: 1920
Price per night: $82 - $141 |
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If
you are looking for an affordable resort option that allows you to
take advantage of the onsite resort perks, Disney's All Star Resorts
are the place for you! At the All Star Sports Resort, bigger is better.
You'll find bright, bold and colorful pop art icons such as a 4-story
football helmet, giant "tennis ball can" and megaphone-shaped
stairwells.
The
five sports themes are: football, tennis, baseball, basketball
and surfing. The two 3-story Touchdown buildings have spectators lining
the railings of each floor with a giant football helmet (large
enough to fit a 200-foot tall football player!) encasing the
stairwells. The Center Court tennis-themed buildings have a giant
tennis racquet that at 51 feet tall is actually large enough
to cover an entire tennis court! The tennis balls attached to
the balconies are just about 5 feet in diameter. At the Home
Run Hotel, super-sized baseball icons such as bats, stadium lights
and scoreboards help get visitors in the spirit of things. The
giant Coke cup could hold more than 20 million 12-ounce cans
of Coke. Huge pennants of various sports teams line the roof
of the Hoops Hotel. The megaphone that covers the stairwell is
45 feet tall and the two whistles are 60 feet long and 20 feet
high. The Surfs Up buildings are decorated with surfboards, red
snappers and dolphins. The shark that could be attached to the
two 38-foot fins, would have to be 300-feet long. Each area has
two 3-story buildings and 384 guest rooms.
Guests
checking in to Stadium Hall may feel like they are entering a basketball
gymnasium with caged lighting and mini-sized red lockers, but in
this building, they will find the main check-in, Guest Services
area, food court, gift shop and arcade.
Finding
your way around: The first resort you come to on West
Buena Vista Drive is the All Star Sports Resort. The lobby building
is called Stadium Hall and houses the front desk and Guest Services,
the End Zone Food Court, Game Point Arcade and the gift shop named
Sport Goofy Gifts & Sundries. The guest rooms are located in
10 buildings divided into 5 sections. The first section you come
to as you exit Stadium Hall is Surfs Up! The buildings in
this section are #1 and #6. The main swimming pool, called Surfboard
Bay, is located between these two buildings. As you continue away
from Stadium Hall past the Surfs Up! section, you will come
to the Hoops Hotel on the right in buildings #2 and #3, and to
the left is Center Court in Buildings #4 and #5. You will find
the Touchdown! section to the left as you exit Stadium Hall contained
in buildings #7 and #10. Just beyond Touchdown!, you will find
buildings #8 and #9 which make up the Home Run Hotel section. The
second swimming pool, called Grand Slam Pool, is located between
the buildings of the Home Run Hotel section. The playground at
All Star Sports is located between buildings 6 and 7.
NOTE: This resort's "preferred" section is "Surf's Up." This area is closest to transportation, the food court, feature swimming pool and main building. Rooms in this area are higher priced.
- Babysitting/Childcare
Services
- ATM
machine in Stadium Hall - fees range $2-$2.50
- Valet
Service Cleaning - laundry bags and price lists are found
in the closet of each room. Service is available Monday through
Saturday and guests can get same day service by bringing the laundry
bag to Guest Services or the Front Desk by 9:30 a.m. and it will
be delivered back to the room after 6 p.m. that day. No service
is offered on major holidays or Sundays.
- Coin
Laundry facilities located at the Surfs Up pool
and the Grand Slam pool. Cost is $1 each to wash and dry and small
boxes of detergent are offered in vending machines for $1. A folding
table and soda and snack vending machine is also found here.
- Express
Check-out
- Refillable
mugs these 12 oz. mugs are available for $9.52
plus tax (subject to change) and free refills can be had at any
of the All Star resort food courts
- Luggage
Service - will take your luggage at check-in and deliver
it to your room in approximately one hour (runs on an hourly drop-off
system). If you want them to pick up your luggage when you are
ready to check out, you need to contact them the day before to
schedule the service.
- Sport
Goofy Gift and Sundries resort souvenirs, t-shirts,
gifts, toiletries, snacks and sundries
- Voice
Mail information on how to retrieve messages is
found in the Guest Messaging Service section of the Telephone
Information brochure found beside the phone in your room.
- Refrigerator
rentals - for $10/day plus tax (subject to change), limited
supply available
- Daily
Maid Service
- Poolside
bar Team Spirits serves thirst quenching beverages,
sandwiches and snacks
NOTE:
Coffee makers are not available at any of the All-Star resorts.

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Each
of the All Star Resorts has 1920 rooms. These rooms are slightly
smaller than the rooms at the moderate resorts (260 square
feet as opposed to 314 square feet). A typical room has 2
double beds (or one king sized bed), small table with 2 chairs,
television, nightstand, telephone, dresser, wall mirror, luggage
rack, closet area, themed light fixtures (megaphones or stars)
and a clock radio. The bathrooms have a single sink and mirror
in a vanity area that is separate from the tub and commode.
A small key-operated wall safe to hold your valuables, is
located in the closet area. Guests who need to connect to
home or work via the Internet while vacationing, will find
a computer data port near the nightstand and you do not have
to disconnect the telephone to use it.
Rooms with a king-sized bed are also available, but these
are the handicapped accessible rooms and therefore have larger
bathrooms with no tub, but a wheel-chair accessible shower
instead. All rooms are equipped with central air conditioning.
Roll-away cots may be
requested for siblings who do not wish to share a bed, (there
is a $15 per night charge for this). Also available are bed
rails and cribs (the pak-n-play variety) call Housekeeping
to request. If there are more than 2 adults in the same room,
there is an additional charge of $10 per person, per night.
The
following are available by calling Housekeeping, but supplies
may be limited on some items: irons and ironing boards, hair
dryers, extra pillows, blankets and towels
TIP: If you want a room
close to the food court and bus stop, request the Surfs Up
or Touchdown buildings. If you want a little quieter location,
request Hoops Hotel or Center Court.
Check-in time is 4 p.m.
and check-out is 11 a.m. Guests may check in as early as 8
a.m. and if the room is not ready, store your bags with Luggage
Services and head for the theme parks.
96 king bed rooms,
50% are handicapped accessible
960 connecting
rooms
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While there
is no sit down restaurant here, there is the End Zone Food
Court that seats 550 people. Decorated with football and
surfing scenes, giant sports figures are found atop the red,
green and blue dining booths. Pizza, pasta, barbecue ribs,
fruit, sandwiches, hamburgers, rotisserie chicken, baked
goods, kids' favorites such as macaroni and cheese and chicken
fingers, and "Blue
Plate" specials are the featured fare here. Hours are
usually 6 a.m. to midnight. Room service is limited to pizza,
salads, soft drinks, and beer and this may be ordered from
5 p.m. to midnight. Also, you can purchase a refillable mug
at the End Zone food court for $8.99 plus tax. This mug will
allow you unlimited refills of coffee or soda for the duration
of your stay, and can be used at any of the All-Star resorts.
There is also the Team Spirits Pool Bar which provides poolside
beverages (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic).

All
Star Sports Resort
Pools/Recreation
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The two pools
at Disneys All Star Sports Resort are surfing and baseball
themed. The main pool, Surfboard Bay pool, is located behind
the Stadium Hall (the resort's central area). Giant shark fins,
surfboards and waves circle the pool area. Lifeguards are on
duty from 10am-10pm. There is also a childrens wading
pool here. The Grand Slam pool is the quiet pool and is located
in front of the Home Run hotel. It is shaped like a baseball
diamond with an "outfield" sundeck and a water-sprinkling
Goofy pitching from the center of the pool. There
are no slides in either of these pools. Both pools range in
depth from 3ft to 5ft. Chaise lounges, tables and chairs are
found around the pool for your relaxation pleasure. Showers
and change rooms can be found at both pool areas. Guests of
any of Disney's All-Star Resorts may go to another All-Star
Resort to enjoy the swimming pools during their vacation. Pool
hours are from 8am to 12am, with . Pools are considered 'quiet
areas' from 10pm to midnight. |
TIP: Bring towels from your
room as pool towels are not available here. Call Housekeeping to
replenish the towel supply in your room.
For those who like to be active,
there is a jogging path at the All Star Sports. The Game Point Arcade,
a state-of-the-art video arcade located in Stadium Hall, will provide
hours of entertainment for kids of all ages. The games utilize tokens
that a guest can purchase in the arcade. Some of the games reward
players with tickets that can be redeemed for prizes. Between buildings
6 and 7, you will find the children's playground and the interior
courtyards are themed like a football field and an enormous tennis
court, and these act as secondary play areas.

- Magic
Kingdom® Park: Take the Magic Kingdom® Park
bus
- Epcot®:
Take the Epcot® bus
- Disney Hollywood
Studios®: Take the Disney Hollywood Studios® bus
- Disney's
Animal Kingdom® Theme Park: Take the Disney's Animal
Kingdom® Theme Park bus
- Downtown
Disney® Marketplace, Downtown Disney® West
Side, Downtown Disney® Pleasure Island: Take the Downtown
Disney® bus
- Disney's
Typhoon Lagoon® Water Park: Take Downtown Disney® bus
- Disney's
Blizzard Beach® Water Park: Take the Disney's Blizzard
Beach® Water Park bus
For
the most part, each of the All Star Resorts® has buses
dedicated to run from that resort to the park and return. However,
at some times during the day, the buses from a park may drop guests
off at all 3 resorts. This is especially true at night after a
park closes.

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