Wi-Fi Now Available At All Disney World Resorts

POSTED: Thu, 03/22/2012 - 06:00 | POSTED BY: Melinda Gregory

Wi-Fi has caught up to Disney. As of this month, all Walt Disney World resorts and hotels will have complimentary Wi-Fi high-speed internet access in certain areas.

Each resort (with the exception of Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground) will have Wi-Fi access at the following areas:

Porte Cochere
Main Lobby
Bus stops
Guest rooms
Feature Pool (one pool at each; specified for some resorts below)

Some of the resorts have additional areas where Wi-Fi can be accessed by guests. Here's a list of those resorts and additional areas:

Animal Kingdom Lodge

Jiko
Boma
The Mara
Sanaa
Bus stop at Kidani
Lobby and villas at Kidani

Beach Club

Main Lobby
Stone Harbor Club Concierge Lounge
Stormalong Bay Pool Area
Cape May Cafe
Beaches & Cream
Marketplace

BoardWalk

Convention Center Hallways/Common Areas
Main Lobby
Luna Park Swimming Pool Area
Inn Keepers Club Concierge Lounge
Bellevue Lounge
Arcade
The Boardwalk (from ESPN to Atlantic Dance... NOT inside the locations on The Boardwalk)
Conference Center lobby and porte cochere
The Attic
Meeting rooms and pre-function rooms (Conf. Center)

Contemporary

Main Lobby
Tower Club 14th Floor Concierge Lounge
Outer Rim Bar
Main Pool
California Grill (including private rooms)
Chef Mickey's
The Wave
Contempo Cafe
Arcade
Convention Center lobby and porte cochere (as well as 2nd floor common areas)
Meeting rooms and pre-function spaces (Conv. Center)
Rooms, lobby and Porte Cochere of Bay Lake Tower

Coronado Springs

Main Hotel Lobby

The Dig Site Pool
Francisco's Lounge
Maya Grill
Pepper Market
Food Court
Arcade
Convention Center lobby and porte cochere
Meeting rooms and pre-function rooms (Conv. Center)

Dolphin

Lobby Bar
Outside at Cabana Grill (near pool)

Ft. Wilderness

Reception Outpost Internet Cafe
Meadows Trading Post
Crockett's Tavern

Grand Floridian

1st Floor Lobby area including Garden View Lounge
Royal Palm Club 4th Floor Concierge area
Narcoossee's
Victoria & Albert's
Citricos
1900 Park Fare
Grand Floridian Cafe
Gasparilla Grill & Games
Feature pool enabled is the Beach Pool (NOT the courtyard pool)
Convention Center lobby and porte cochere
Convention Center parking lot
Convention Center courtyard/patio
Meeting rooms and pre-function rooms (Conv. Center)

Old Key West

Olivia's
Turtle Shack

Polynesian

Ohana
Kona Cafe
Captain Cooks
Luau Cove
Arcade

Saratoga Springs

Turf Club
Arcade
High Rock Springs Pool is enabled (not Paddock)
Treehouses (Guest rooms)

Swan

WiFi in the lobby area across from the Business Center Desk through a separate vendor that charges per minute or through a longer-time plan. Ask at the hotel's Business Center for details.

Wilderness Lodge

Whispering Canyon Cafe
Artist Point
Roaring Forks
Lobby and rooms in the Wilderness Lodge Villas

Yacht Club

Main Lobby area
Regatta Club Concierge Lounge
Convention Center Lobby area
Stormalong Bay Pool
Captain's Grill
Yachtsman Steakhouse
Arcade
Convention Center lobby and porte cochere
Meeting rooms and pre-function rooms (Conv. Center)

To utilize the service, look for the network option called "Guest-Access (unsecured)" and click on it. This brings up a new page with the terms and conditions for using the service; after accepting these, guests can then surf the net for free with Disney's Wi-Fi service. Guests having problems with the service can call Walt Disney World Telecom at 407-827-2732.

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Mase wrote on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 05:51:

This is amazing... But I'm sad that there isn't wifi for the bus stop at Jambo. Sometimes we do get a 15-20 minute wait... Especially for MK and DTD since they ate the farthest. But this is great great news! Now we just need it in the parks!!! Lol

Miriam wrote on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 17:47:

Finally! This is awesome news and right before I am headed down there again! Thank you, Disney!

BarbT wrote on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 18:51:

This is good news but we were at Bay Lake Tower last week and had a lot of diffuclty in our room with the wi-fi. We had two laptops and an iPad with us. I think you can only have one device connected at a time which is a pain. Some times we could not even get one device connected. I hope when we return in October it will be better. There were no instructions in the room and I had to call to have our modem rebooted. Just a little disappointed.

Todd wrote on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 23:06:

Was pleasantly surprised in Nov'11 at the Contemporary to find that we arrived two weeks after they installed complimentary wifi.

Kristen K. wrote on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 16:44:

This is such huge news to people like me who often work their way through WDW. Not to mention that the Social Media savvy can tweet and post to their hearts delight with ease!

Larry K wrote on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 06:47:

Need to keep expanding and have it available in the parks.

Cheryl C wrote on Sat, 10/06/2012 - 11:56:

The in room WIFI at Port Orleans Riverside worked great for a Windows laptop, but not nearly as reliably for a MacBook. I could NEVER connect to WIFI anywhere with my iPad and only sporadically OUTSIDE my room with an iPhone 4S. I think Safari is the problem. A more troubling issue is that I couldn't make cell phone calls or text message from inside my room at Acadian House. I had to stand outside because the signal was so poor! Otherwise, the hotel was very nice and we enjoyed our stay there.

Judy wrote on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 18:32:

Wi-Fi working well at the All Star Sports Resort...even in parking lot! Glad it is not at the parks and hope they never do. Already enough phone zombies walking around in a daze and hidiously annoying mystery messages for the kids which are loud and obnoxious and so.o.oooo repetitive because every kid HAS to hear the same loud message even though you can hear it over and over by just standing within 100 feet of the spot. Worst idea they've ever had next to overselling Mickey's nighttime Christmas parade which is so mobbed it has ceased to be fun.
a shame. But I am sure they will cave to the techies and have it in the parks by next year...Good-bye peace and quiet.

Kristen K. wrote on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 15:18:

Glad that the WiFi is working well at the All Star Sports Judy! And yes, there's is already WiFi in Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Animal Kingdom. :-)

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