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With a brilliant swirl of color, Roman architecture, and Disney magic, another hotel amenity designed for Guests and conventioneers appeared between the Walt Disney World Dolphin and Walt Disney World Swan on May 20, 1996: Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf. There are two putting courses, Fantasia Gardens and Fantasia Fairways. Fantasia Gardens re-creates five different scenes of the Disney animated feature Fantasia, complete with Gothic statues and dancing fountains. Set in the traditional style of miniature golf, this course is interactive, requiring Guests to putt around hopping mushrooms, falling snowflakes, and pirouetting ostriches in a variety of challenges. Fantasia Fairways is a regular putting course, but designed to challenge even the most skillful golfers. It is literally a miniaturized golf course complete with exaggerated contours, water hazards, and tricky sand traps. There is also a 22,000-square-foot meeting facility for outdoor events next to the courses.
The last of the Epcot resorts planned around Crescent Laked July 1, 1996. Disney’s BoardWalk re-creates the vacation charm of the Mid-Atlantic coastal cottages of the 1930s. The resort complements the similar atmosphere found across the lake at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts (all three were in fact designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern). This resort is unique in that it combines a regular Guest room section named Disney’s BoardWalk Inn with a number of units belonging to the Disney Vacation Club named Disney’s BoardWalk Villas. The buildings wind along a large, wooden promenade (made of Ekki wood from South America) overlooking Crescent Lake. Guests can enjoy an entertainment district featuring a lively collection of restaurants, merchandise shops, a sports bar, a dueling piano bar, and a 1940s-style dance hall which showcases music from the ’40s to the ’90s.
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