Deluxe Resorts · EPCOT area · $$$$
Disney's BoardWalk Inn
A recreation of a 1930s Atlantic City boardwalk, where your hotel sits above a quarter-mile waterfront promenade that comes alive at night with magicians, jugglers, surrey bikes, and midway games. The BoardWalk's location matches the Beach and Yacht Clubs, with a walk to EPCOT and a boat or stroll to Hollywood Studios, but its personality is its own: evenings here feel like a seaside carnival, and the dining lineup got a major glow-up with the Cake Bake Shop's over-the-top pastries joining Flying Fish and the BoardWalk Deli. Rooms are freshly renovated in soft pastels with subtle Mary Poppins touches. The pool's clown slide is famously polarizing (the renovation softened it, slightly). For couples especially, the evening boardwalk-stroll lifestyle is hard to beat.
🛏️ The Rooms
Rooms just got one of the best refreshes on property: soft pastels, carousel inspired art, and a bright, airy finish that finally matches the setting. Most sleep five with a daybed. Boardwalk view rooms trade quiet for the fun of the lights and music below; garden and pool views sleep easier. The attached Villas add studios through grand villas with the same address.
✨ The Lobby & Grounds
The lobby channels a grand seaside hotel: a miniature carousel under glass, rose velvet seating, and a back porch with rocking chairs overlooking Crescent Lake. The real lobby is outside: the boardwalk itself, which wakes up at night with jugglers, magicians, midway games, and surrey bikes rolling past. Staying here means living above a small nightly festival, and that is either the whole appeal or the one warning.
🏊 Pools & Recreation
Luna Park pool commits to the vintage amusement theme with the Keister Coaster slide dropping out of a giant clown mouth (endearing or unsettling, choose your camp) plus two quiet pools tucked among the villas. Surrey bike rentals, lawn games on the green, and the promenade circuit around the lake handle the rest. It is the most walkable evening at Disney World.
🍽️ Dining at BoardWalk Inn
The boardwalk below is the dining room: Trattoria al Forno for Italian breakfasts and dinners, the BoardWalk Deli for stacked sandwiches, Funnel Cake Cart for the obvious, and pizza by the slice at night. Flying Fish is the fine dining anchor upstairs, and the AbracadaBar pours cocktails in a magician's parlor. EPCOT's World Showcase is fifteen minutes on foot when you want to eat internationally.
Full menus, grades, and what to order for every restaurant live on the Dining page.
🚌 Getting to the Parks
- 🏰 Magic Kingdom
- Bus
- 🌐 EPCOT
- Walk about 10 minutes around the lake (or Friendship boat)
- 🎬 Hollywood Studios
- Friendship boat or a 20-minute walk along the canal
- 🦁 Animal Kingdom
- Bus
How each ride type actually works is covered in the Transportation guide.
🎀 Mal's Tips
Ask for a room away from the boardwalk side if you are early sleepers; the music runs into the night. Rent a surrey bike first thing in the morning when the promenade is empty. And like its Crescent Lake neighbors, this hotel makes EPCOT festivals effortless, you can walk home between rounds of food booths.
Best for: BoardWalk entertainment, walkable to two parks, Flying Fish