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Caribbean Beach has two dozen colorful, two-story model-style buildings separated into areas named for Caribbean Islands. It's got great landscaping and theming, with access to Disney's Skyliner.
Cost Range
$268 - $612
Lodging Area
EPCOT
Category
Moderate
Transportation
Bus, Skyliner
Room: B
Pool: A-
Lighting: B
Pillows: B
Colorful Caribbean theme
Newly refurbished Finding Nemo rooms look good
Lakefront setting and lush landscaping
Large food court
Child-size Murphy beds in select rooms increase capacity to 5 people
Disney Skyliner service to EPCOT and Hollywood Studios
Check-in is far from rest of resort
Dining gets low marks from readers
Multiple bus stops make it slow to go anywhere
Some "villages" are a good distance from restaurants and shops
No elevators
Most rooms' decor has neutral beach tomes, bright tropical accent colors, and furnishings in darker woods and rattan.
Rooms don't have balconies, but the access passageways have railings. Rooms in the buildings' corners have two sets of windows for more sunlight.
We’ve mapped and taken photographs of the views from every single room on Walt Disney World property! Our Room Finder helps you find the perfect room for you and then request that room from Disney.
Caribbean Beach's restaurants and food court are not well regarded by guests. It's fine for a quick bite before or after the parks, but better food is abundant elsewhere.
Sebastian's Bistro Unless you have no other options, walk over to the Riviera for better restaurants.
Spyglass Grill Walk-up food option close to the Trinidad pool. Serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Joffrey's Coffee - Caribbean Beach A nice little coffee stand so you can grab a to-go before boarding the adjacent Skyliner.
Refillable Mugs Allows guest self-service soft drink refills from quick-service locations in hotels (NOT in theme parks) for $22.99 for the length of stay.
Amenities
SWIPE TO EXPLORE
Caribbean Beach's main pool is the Fuentes del Morro Pool, built like a Spanish fortress. It's got a zero-entry feature for small children, and a 102-foot water slide. In addition, the resort has 5 other pools, one in each island section.
Free Disney Movies Under the Stars are shown most evenings, weather-permitting, on Caribbean Cay Island in the middle of the resort.
The jogging path around Barefoot Bay is 0.6 miles and offers some great morning and evening views.
Caribbean Beach hosts marshmallow roasts around 5:30 PM nightly near the Martinique beach. It's better during the cooler months of the year.
Playgrounds are available around each island area of the resort. An interactive water play area is available near Jamaica.
Disney resort guests get into each theme park 30 minutes earlier than off-site guests, every day.
Disney's Skyliner, an enclosed ski-lift-like gondola system, provides fast access to EPCOT and Hollywood Studios with very pretty views.
Practical Matters
Check-in is 3:00pm
Check-out is 11:00am
All Disney resorts participate in Disney’s Online Check-In program. If you’ve checked-in online and provided a mobile phone number or email address, you will receive your room number electronically. Then you can go straight to the room and use your smart phone or MagicBand to open the door, skipping the lobby altogether.
These rubber and plastic wrist bands can function as your room key, park admission, charge card, and more! MagicBands cost money, but if you'd like a free option you can use the official Disney World app on your phone or request an RFID-embedded card at the front desk.
Park tickets are best purchased online in advance either directly through Disney or via our Least Expensive Ticket Calculator. However, if you arrive without park tickets, head to the concierge desk in the hotel lobby.
Dining reservation are best made online in advance or on your phone or tablet during your visit. You can also use our Disney World Reservation Finder.
Washers and dryers are availabile in laundry facilities at each Disney World hotel. Cost is $3 per wash, and another $3 per dry cycle. A small selection of soap, fabric softener, and dryer sheets are also sold, for around $1 each. Only credit/debit cards can be used for payment. For more information, see our Disney World Laundry Facilities page.
If you lose something in a theme park or during your stay at a Disney-operated hotel, visit Disney's Lost and Found website or call (407) 824-4245.
Disney hotels have gifts shops near their lobbies with a decent collection of Disney-branded souvenirs. You will also find basic pharmacy items such as sunscreen, aspirin, allergy and cold medicine, baby diapers and formula, shampoo, and the like. Resort hotels with Deluxe Villa rooms offer an assortment of groceries, as well.
Disney recommends a third party company, Kid's Nite Out, to provide babysitting services at the resort hotels. See our Disney World Child Care page for more information.
Transportation
Caribbean Beach is located in the EPCOT Resort Area. All modern GPS apps, and Google Maps, will have clear driving directions to it. As a backup, look for Disney road signs directing you toward the EPCOT resorts (not the EPCOT theme park - they're two different things) once you're on property, and then look for signs for Caribbean Beach once you're close.
Destination | Bus | Car | Skyliner |
---|---|---|---|
Magic Kingdom | 27 min | 37 min | – |
EPCOT | 26 min | 18 min | 16 min |
Hollywood Studios | 24 min | 15 min | 10 min |
Animal Kingdom | 27 min | 17 min | – |
Disney Springs | 26 min | 7 min | – |
Disney's Skyliner gondola system has a station near the Jamaica section of Caribbean Beach, and one close to the Riviera. From the station, the ride to EPCOT's International Gateway is about 13 minutes, and the ride to Disney's Hollywood Studios is about 12 minutes (plus waiting time in line.)
Disney provides free bus service to the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, and Disney Springs from the bus stop at the front of the resort. Buses run about every 20 minutes. For the Animal Kingdom, water parks, and Disney Springs, it's probably faster to drive.
If you have your own car, it's faster to drive yourself everywhere except Hollywood Studios, EPCOT, and the Magic Kingdom.
You can walk between the Caribbean Beach and Riviera Resorts. The Skyliner can take you to the EPCOT resorts, Pop Century, and the Art of Animation Resort. For all other resort destinations, the fastest option is an Uber, Lyft, or taxi. Disney's bus service is free but slow, and will probably require you to use an intermediate destination like Disney Springs, to get to your destination. And that can take a couple of hours each way if you're unluckly.
if you have a car, the easiest way to get to Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, and other tourist destinations is to drive. Alternatively, Mears Transportation operates shuttle services between the Disney hotels and other theme parks.
Driving to the Resort
Getting to the Parks
and Disney Springs
Getting to Another Hotel
from Caribbean Beach
Getting to Universal Orlando
Caribbean Beach is located in the EPCOT Resort Area. All modern GPS apps, and Google Maps, will have clear driving directions to it. As a backup, look for Disney road signs directing you toward the EPCOT resorts (not the EPCOT theme park - they're two different things) once you're on property, and then look for signs for Caribbean Beach once you're close.
if you have a car, the easiest way to get to Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, and other tourist destinations is to drive. Alternatively, Mears Transportation operates shuttle services between the Disney hotels and other theme parks.
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