We were staying in tents while we were there. On our very first night there, it was raining. NOT the best weather for setting up tents... Overall though, the weather was quite nice. It was chilly most mornings, and even throughout some of the days. And the evenings were absolutely perfect. It was in the low 50's/upper 40's most nights. Perfect for snuggling up in a warm sleeping bag! I brought a little space heater for the mornings when I was getting ready in the tent and in the evenings when we were just chillin' on our phones and stuff.
Where our premium site was, we were within walking distance of the boat docks to Magic Kingdom. It was also within walking distance of the Hoop-de-doo Revue and the Trail's End Restaurant, since those are right next to the lake. We ate at Trail's End one night and it was fabulous. We did have to drive to the main bus stop to catch busses to the other parks. You CAN take a bus to the main bus site, but it ended up being much quicker and easier for us to just hop into our car and drive there.
We made this mistake on our very first day of going to the bus stop to catch a bus to MK rather than taking the boats... We waited about an hour and no bus ever came. So we didn't make that mistake again!!
The little "path" we stayed on.
The campsites ended up being better than I could have imagined. Since we went during off season, it wasn't crowded at all. It was mostly old people in their campers!! Which was good for us cause the bathrooms were rarely crowded. If you tried taking a shower at about 8 in the morning, it was a bit crowded, but I always took mine around 10 at night and never had to share the entire bathroom with another human being during my whole shower time.
Cute little mat inside the bathroom door.
You walk in and go straight back for the showers, to the right for toilets.
The showers each have a stall door. There is a little bench inside each one, and a curtain that closes off the shower.
The line of stalls, and my bathroom bag hanging on the hooks.
We were able to fit two 6-person tents very comfortably on the site. Since it rained the first night, we had to run to Wal-Mart to buy towels and a tarp for Devon's tent because, for some reason, the tent came without a roof already attached, and so it quickly filled with water during the set up process. Good thing Wal-Mart is just a short drive from the campsites!! Mine and Ean's tent did really well keeping the rain water out, so that was good.
Our site number
Long driveway to fit a big camper!
Our two tents sitting nicely on the sand pad.
Mine and Ean's tent plus our extension cords.
We had some trees behind the tent that we tied string to to make a clothes line for our bath towels.
We had a picnic bench and a water hook-up that ran good, clean water. We also had an electrical hook up where we plugged in two extension cords- one running to mine and Ean's tent, the other to Devon's. We brought breakfast items with us and a stove to boil water for coffee, which saved a lot of time and money. Ean would boil the water while I got dressed and ready for the day (and while Devon slept for an extra 10 minutes, haha!). The only thing we didn't have at the campsites was Wi-Fi. We didn't spend much time hanging in our tents though. Not only were we trying to cram as much as possible in for Devon since he hadn't been to Disney in like 15 years, but we also were never so hot and drained that we needed to go back and rest.
Overall, our experience with the campsites has been one of my favorite Disney experiences so far. Ean and I will definitely be staying here again. I'm not sure we'd want to tent camp in the middle of summer, but if we go again during the winter months, the campsites are a wonderful option.
My cute gang in Disney World!!!
