Where to stay at Disney World: every price tier, what staying on site gets you, and the right hotel for each park

How much does each tier of Disney World hotel cost?

From the cheapest season to the dearest, per night for a standard room, in our resort records from MouseSavers' 2026 rate charts:

All-Star Sports is the cheapest Disney hotel at $149 in the low season. Our resort finder filters every one by price, park and who it sleeps.

What do you get for staying at a Disney hotel?

Four perks, on Disney's own pages:

• Early Entry: every park, 30 minutes early, every day of the stay — All Disney hotels and select others
• Lightning Lane purchases 7 days before your stay, not 3 — Disney hotels, the Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve and Shades of Green
• Extended Evening Hours on select nights — Deluxe and Deluxe Villa guests, the Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve and Shades of Green
• Free overnight parking, with standard theme park parking included — Disney hotel guests

Everyone else pays $35 a day to park at a theme park, Disney says. Disney has confirmed Early Entry and Extended Evening Hours through 2027.

Which Disney World hotel is best for each park?

Pick the park you will use most, because the transport is the real difference between hotels at the same price:

Our guides to the monorail and the Skyliner cover each line.

Which Disney World hotels sleep five or more?

Most deluxe hotels, two moderates and a few special rooms, by the maximum occupancy in our resort records. Caribbean Beach and Port Orleans Riverside sleep five in some rooms, as do the Beach Club, BoardWalk Inn, Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Polynesian and Yacht Club. Art of Animation's family suites and the Fort Wilderness cabins sleep six, and a Fort Wilderness campsite eight.

The cheapest room type at each hotel usually sleeps four, so the five- and six-person rooms cost more than the low rates above. The resort finder filters by party size.

Is it worth staying off site near Disney World?

Sometimes. The Disney Springs hotels, DoubleTree, Drury Plaza, the two Hiltons, Holiday Inn, Renaissance and Wyndham Garden, are on Disney's Early Entry list, and in our records run about $95 to $350 a night. What you give up is the seven-day Lightning Lane window, which Disney keeps for its own hotels and a handful of partners, and the free parking.

The Swan and Dolphin sit between: Early Entry, Extended Evening Hours and the seven-day window, but $40 a day to self-park, Disney says. See our hotel tiers guide for Good Neighbor hotels further out.

When does staying on site matter most?

On a short trip to the busiest parks. The half hour of Early Entry is worth most where the headline rides queue longest; Disney's list for that window includes Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Guardians of the Galaxy and Test Track.

The seven-day Lightning Lane window matters most where passes sell out, which in our record of Disney's prices TRON's did by mid-afternoon on 9 of 11 days in September 2026.

On a long, relaxed trip, or one with a car and a lot of Disney Springs, an official Disney Springs hotel at a fraction of a deluxe hotel's price can be the better deal. Our one-day guides show what an early start buys.