Top Ten Walt Disney World Pools

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If you spend a lot of time at hanging out at your Walt Disney World Resort hotel, you will probably be spending the majority of that time at the pool.  Please keep in mind that Disney has a strict policy where you cannot swim at a pool if you are not staying at that resort (so no pool hopping!).  Here are the top ten Walt Disney World Resort pools:

1. Stormalong Bay:  This pool at Disney’s Beach Club Resort tops most people’s lists.  A mini-water park in its own right, Stormalong Bay is made up of three-acres of a lazy river, beaches, slides, whirlpools, spas, and play areas.  An enormous shipwreck features a 150-foot water.  The main pool itself features Disney’s only sand bottom floor.  A kiddie pool area, complete with a pint-sized slide, is perfect for little ones.  Adults can lounge in one of the several spas located throughout the complex.

2. The Big Blue Pool:  Located at Disney’s newest resort, Art of Animation, The enormous Big Blue Pool is Finding Nemo themed and holds 398,000 gallons of water.  Swimmers can listen to underwater music as well as snippets of conversation from some of their Nemo favorites.   There is also a little kids’ splash pad area and a playground featuring Squirt the sea turtle.

3. Ol’ Man Island:  Ol’ Man Island at Port Orleans Riverside is an oasis of sorts. It has quiet paths, towering trees, a playground for the kids, a bonfire area, a bar (The Muddy Rivers Pool Bar), and a catch and release Fishin’ Hole. Centered on the island is a wonderfully themed pool with water fountains, leaking buckets, a spouting geyser and a fun water slide. Add in a great little wading pool and an 8-person spa and the package is complete.

4. Old Port Royale:  The pirate pool at the Caribbean Beach Resort is usually a kid favorite.  With an 82-foot slide, water cannons, tipping buckets, and spraying showers, the Fuentes del Morro pool, themed after an old Spanish Fortress, offers plenty of action.  There is also a kids’ water playground built to look like a pirate shipwreck complete with its own spray features and water slide.

5. Uzima Springs:  Uzima Springs at Animal Kingdom Lodge’s Jambo House is one of the largest on Disney property (11,000 square feet!) and features both a 67-foot pool slide and a zero-entry.  Sometimes you can even see animals from the pool!

6. Nanea Volcano:  Swim in the shadow of an erupting volcano which also serves as a slide at Disney’s Polynesian Resort.   The pool itself has some fantastic features including in-pool seating, water jets and a zero-entry from its lagoon side along a waterfall.  There’s also a children’s water jet play area for fun for the little ones.   At night, guests can see Wishes over the Magic Kingdom and the Electrical Water Pageant right from the pool.

7. Luna Park Pool:  This fun carnival and circus themed pool at Disney’s Boardwalk Inn features an awesome slide called Keister Coaster.  This pool is another kid favorite due to its fun theme.

8. Silver Creek Falls:  Located at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, Silver Creek Falls has one of the best natural locations on the Disney property.  Relax in the dazzling heated main pool surrounded by pine trees and boulders or zip down the exciting 67-foot waterslide built into the rocks.

9. Dig Site:  This sprawling pool complex boasts a Mayan ruins theme.  The Lost City of Cibola main pool features a 50-foot pyramid centerpiece with water streaming down its stone steps.  The 123-foot-long waterslide features a spitting Jaguar.  Located next to the pool is a playground compete with a modern archaeological dig.  Dig Site is also home to the largest hot tub on Walt Disney World Resort property, large enough for 22 people.

10. Beach Pool: This 111,261-gallon pool at Disney’s Grand Floridan Resort and Spa overlooks Seven Seas Lagoon.  Beach Pool features a 181-foot-long waterslide amid a serene natural springs themed setting, complete with cascading waterfalls and zero-entry.  Nearby, little ones will surely want to splash it up in the adjacent Mad Hatter’s Tea Party themed aquatic play area.  Teapots, teacups, and the Mad Hatter’s famous hat dump water on little ones.  Two mini water-slides and several sprinklers provide unlimited fun.

Do you have a favorite resort pool on the Disney property?