What Makes Up Disney World

Disney World is made up of several kinds of theme parks.  The largest parks include the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom.  These are the four parks you think about most when a trip to Disney World is on the agenda.  These parks are so big that they're split up into separate lands. These lands are like mini theme parks within the larger park.  Sometimes these “lands” are connected, however in the Magic Kingdom they’re a little more random.

The style of theme parks in Walt Disney World are the water parks.  There used to be three of these to choose from, but since the closing of River Country, there are now only two.  Blizzard Beach is a water park themed on a ski resort; it also has one of the most intense water slides I've ever seen.  Typhoon Lagoon has a more classic water park theme, and it has one of the biggest wave pools in the whole world.

After all of that fun overload, some people like to relax with a bit of shopping, and you can be sure there are plenty of places to do that.  Downtown Disney has become the centre of shopping within Walt Disney world. It has many shops to buy anything Disney has ever licensed.  Many of the resorts also have restaurant/shopping areas inside then, in particular the Disney Boardwalk has many interesting shops to choose from.

As I mentioned above, many of the resort hotels have shopping and dinning, but some have even more to do, like water sports, campfires, and shows.  There are also several mini golf and full sized golf courses as well.  You also can't exclude the many forms of transportation as entertainment.  With boats, old fashion trains, and the famous monorails, getting around can be fun too.

This is just the most basic of overviews, for those who have never really given Disney World any thought.  I’m sure we’ll have more details about all of these places in future posts.