Listen to the live music playing from one of the upper floors. Look up and see the 2 gigantic chandeliers. Take a few steps around to the right and descend the wide marble staircase onto the main floor. When you arrive on the monorail, you step off on the second of 5 floors. The lobby of the Grand Floridian Hotel is breathtaking. If you don’t stay in the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, at least take the resort monorail to the Magic Kingdom and jump off and see this world-class “architectural marvel”. The resort is built in the style of the great railroad hotels in eastern Florida around the turn of the century when railroads were king.ĭisney’s description of the hotel uses words like opulent, Victorian-style, gleaming white, gorgeous and marvel. When you walk into the Grand Floridian, you’d expect to see men in white sweaters and knickers and women in white dresses. This is the flagship hotel at Walt Disney World. The Grand Floridian Hotel is, in the immortal words of Obi Wan Kenobi (slightly modified), “a more elegant hotel for a more elegant time”.

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