Top 5 Magical Places To “Go” In Walt Disney World

I don’t have to tell you Disney is hectic enough without crazy restroom experiences.

We’ve all had crazy bathroom experiences. Someone gets lost. Someone cuts in line that is out the door.

Here are the top five stress-free and beautiful restrooms in Walt Disney World:

5. Rafiki’s Planet Watch – Disney’s Animal Kingdom 

 

This smaller restroom is fun to go in just for the ambient noises (playing through the speakers people, come on). Rafiki’s is all about the protection of our natural world so it’s only natural that music doesn’t play in the restrooms. Instead, monkeys and elephants call to each other across the jungle and jaguars growl in the bushes.

Listen for a few minutes and see if you can identify each animal call! You can literally hear nature calling!

Why it came in #5: Little traffic and a fun music theme but little design in regards to the wildlife theme.

4. Any Resort Restroom – Particularly Deluxe Resorts

Any resort restroom, particularly the deluxe resorts have calm and beautiful restrooms in their lobbies. The restrooms are beautifully themed and don’t have much traffic since most people spend most of their time in the parks. If you’re going resort hopping, always check out the restrooms. Here are my favorites:

• Grand Floridian – next to the entrance of 1900 Park Fare

• Animal Kingdom Lodge – toward the back of the lobby on the right

• Polynesian Village – near the entrance to Captain Cook’s

Why they came in #4: Calm and beautiful themes but most guests spend most of their time in the parks, not in the resorts.

3. Restaurantosaurus – Dinoland, U.S.A., Disney’s Animal Kingdom

 

Dino-themed restroom playing dino-themed music? Yes please! A modern and prehistoric twist on some classic rock songs plays throughout the restrooms. Step outside and into the adjoining Restaurantosaurus and check out the fun dinosaur theme throughout the restaurant.

 

Why it came in #3: Fun music and theme but the theme doesn’t pervade the restrooms like numbers one and two. (No pun intended.)

2. Tangled Restrooms – Fantasyland , Magic Kingdom

 

These restrooms are so beautiful and magically themed, everyone stops to look at them! Inside, Rapunzel’s hair and paintings wind throughout the restrooms. Outside, wanted posters of the various villains found in The Snuggly Duckling are posted on walls and doors. Be sure to come back at night when the lanterns gleam and glow!

See if you can find a frying pan and a few Pascals. Pascal loves playing hide-and-seek and he’s really good at it! See how many you can find! Hint: look at the grassy area by the phone charging stations and on the back of Momento Mori!

Why it came in #2: Beautifully themed, hands-down but can be hectic with the number of people and strollers outside.

1. Gaston’s Tavern – Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom

Directly behind Gaston’s Tavern in Fantasyland are the most themed and calming restrooms. Charming Beauty and the Beast instrumental music plays in a provincial-style tiled restroom. Even the lighting is themed! These are most certainly the most charming restrooms and even a wonderful place to calm down in the chaos of Magic Kingdom.

 

Why it came in #1: Calm, beautiful and spacious with little traffic and themed music piped in? The perfect restroom to make a pit stop or take a break from the rush of Magic Kingdom!

That’s A Wrap

     Tonight is my last night in my dorm room. I always become attached to rooms, especially ones I’ve spent a lot of time in. These four walls have seen me through the tides of sophomore year. These walls have housed my fears, my achievements, my struggles and have seen me through my first stages of recovery. I know it’s super cheesy but I will miss this room. My mom decorated it and everyday since move-in day I have looked around and said to myself,  “Damn, I love this room.”

     On a lighter note, only three days until I am in the most magical place on Earth with my mom. We’ll be celebrating my birthday, even though we’ll be leaving the day before, as well as Mother’s Day, in Walt Disney World.

     I have been counting down the days since we first set the date. Yes, I even have the Disney vacation countdown app on my phone. Was that even a question?

I’ve been bugging Drew about the upcoming vacation every day and gabbing on all the fun stuff my mom and I will do. (I know stuff is a horrible word but that would be one hell of a run-on sentence to write all of the magical activities we have lined up.) I made all our FastPasses and dining reservations the weekend we set the date and I’ve perfected them over the last three weeks. So now I have nothing to do but to keep checking them, making sure they’re still there and telling myself this is not a dream. I cannot begin to describe how excited I am and how much Disney means to me. That would take way too long and is a topic for a later post.

     I wrote Bobby’s graduation letter today. I want him to have everything he could ever want and it was so hard to put that message in a letter. I know he and Emma will go so far in graduate school and wow their classmates. I’m so proud for all he’s accomplished in just four years. I’m so excited to brag to everyone about the books he’ll write and his future publishing deals. I don’t know if this is one of his goals, but I’d be thrilled to see him speak at a Civil War battle’s 200th anniversary.

    If you had asked me how I was doing one year ago, I would have said a little confused. Back then I felt a heavy weight telling me acting wasn’t for me but didn’t know what path to follow instead. I thought the DCP was a nice dream, but something I couldn’t follow because it wouldn’t help my acting career. A few months later I switched to PR on a hunch and began my new major with a hatred for writing.

     Now when people ask me how I’m doing, I say things are beginning to line up. My older brother is graduating with an impressive undergrad degree and heading into a just-as-impressive graduate and PhD. I am thriving in my new major. I have been accepted into the Disney College Program and have an exciting summer internship to keep me busy in the meantime. I have set goals and dreams for the future. Finally and most importantly, I am going to Walt Disney World in four days! Things are really lining into place.