Walt Disney World Miniature Golf
Disney's Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Courses
Now accepting
in-person reservations at time of payment. Telephone
reservations are not accepted. The tee-time issued
will be equal to the normal waiting time to play. Guests
may also choose to reserve a tee time for later in
the day
This course
is based on Disney's classic animated film "Fantasia" and features
18-holes of interactive obstacles from the film's most famous scenes. It's
open 10 am until 11 pm, seven days a week.
There's an adjacent 18 hole "Fairway" course that resembles a minuature version of a traditional golf course.
Fantasia
Gardens is located within the Epcot Resort area,
across from the Disney-MGM Studios. The courses
are within walking distance of Disney's BoardWalk
Inn, Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Hotels and
the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin. It's open from 10 am to 11 pm, seven
days a week.
Please
Note: Hours are subject to change due to
weather conditions.
Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature
Golf Courses
This Golf
course offers two miniature golf courses
where Santa and his elves come to play. The winter
course
has 18 holes of chilling fun as you make your way to
the North Hole. The Summer course features
18 holes of
fun in
the
sun
with
sandcastles
and surfboards.
Winter
Summerland is located
within the Disney's
Animal Kingdom Resort area and adjacent to Disney's
Blizzard Beach water park. The courses
are also very close to Disney's All-Star Resorts
and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. It's
open 10 am until 11 pm, seven days a week.
Cost: $11.75 (adult) and $9.75 (child aged 3 to 9) for either course. (Annual Passholders get a 50% discount.) Additionally, guests will receive one Walt Disney World Miniature Golf logo golf ball for each round played.
Please Note: Hours are subject to change due to weather conditions.
Click Here for a Map of Disney World to locate the Mini golf course locations.
by Regina Hinrichs
After a kajillion visits to WDW, I finally did something I always wanted to do, play a round of mini-golf on one of Disney's courses.
The obstacle has always been 'how do we get there?' There are no Disney 'mini-golf' buses so you're pretty much on your own.
Since we were staying at the Dolphin, we simply strolled over to Fantasia Gardens. If you're staying at any other resort, you can take theme park transportation to the Swan. Fantasia is right across the road from that hotel. (If you want to play at 'Winter Summerland', your best bet is to take the Blizzard Beach bus.)
When you arrive, you have to decide which course you want to play on. The 'Fairways' look more like a regular golf course that got zapped by Wayne Szalinski from 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids.' We chose the 'Fantasia' course. After all, who can resist Mickey and Hippos?
We were very happy that our Disney Annual Pass gave us a 50% discount. That meant 3 adults playing for less than $18. (Try to go to a movie for that.)
There were a few people already playing. They do stagger the start times and we were on the course in about 10 minutes. (This was around 1pm on an afternoon in June.)
I teed up my pink golf ball and off I went. It's been years since I played and I forgot something important. You have to bend down a lot. (My apologies to anyone who got a rear view of me doing this that day.)
While the theming is very cute, one thing was very annoying. They kept playing the same little snippet of music from 'Fantasia' over and over and over again. It was something from Mozart or Beethoven (or some other dead guy.) Whatever it was, after awhile you wanted to take a swing at the speakers.
Other than that, we had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs. During our play, one of those classic Florida afternoon 10 minute rain showers popped up. We ran for cover and went right back onto the course once it passed.
If you happen to be left handed like yours truly, there are two holes that will make you crazy, 6 and 17. I created a 'shortcut' with 6 and asked my right handed buddy for help with 17.
I have one regret, we should have done this on previous trips. Sure it was hot, but instead of standing on long lines and battling crowds, we were having fun. Could we have gone swimming? Of course, but this was something really different.
If you're visiting WDW and are looking for a break from the parks, give Disney mini-golf a try. While I haven't played 'Winter Summerland' yet, there is one 'surprise' at Fantasia Gardens that you won't forget.
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