Disney's All-Star Sports Resort in Orlando, FL

On June 9th, we completed our 16th on-property stay at All Star Sports Resort, which we chose because of a free-dining, resort-specific promotion. Our first visit was back in 2004, when our children were 4 and 7 years old. At 40" tall, our younger child met the height requirements for most rides and attractions. If you’re debating the best ages to visit the most magical and sweaty place on earth, plan your trip around height rather than age—once your party reaches 40", they’ll be able to enjoy most attractions. The All-Star family resorts, Music, Movies, and Sports, are identical in layout. Each room is 280 square feet, and appointed with everything that is necessary for lodging. We don’t need strollers or electric carts, but both of those would eliminate the available space in these rooms in a hurry. For us, 53 and 52, the rooms are prefect. We’ve stayed at four different deluxe resorts, three moderates, and three value resorts. While Caribbean Beach remains our favorite, we wouldn’t hesitate to return to All Star Sports. After years of experience, we’ve decided we won’t pay for deluxe accommodations at Disney World again. The food court at All Star Sports is the best we’ve experienced, with a wide variety of options, great taste, and efficient service. (Check out the photos for a closer look at the selections.) During our most recent stay in September 2024 at the Contemporary Resort, we found its food court had fewer options and lower quality compared to All Star Sports. We reserved a preferred room and were assigned to building 10—the football building. Our third-floor room was about a two-and-a-half-minute walk to the main building and pool. The main pool area was fantastic; we swam daily and always found plenty of chairs. Every cast member we interacted with was kind, professional, and welcoming. My wife and I had our own room, as did our 24-year-old son and his friend. Although we didn’t request adjoining rooms, we were assigned them at check-in. While I couldn’t hear their conversations, the noise from watching the NBA game was noticeable. If privacy is important to you, consider requesting a room without an adjoining door. The bus transports were timely. Housekeeping is every other day. As an 80’s kid, I love the arcade and my son and I spent quality time playing. The main pool is huge! We had plenty of room to swim. Also, for those with Disney mugs, the drink station in the food court is now open 24 hours a day.

I am moving to Celebration from Michigan so for the price, Disney All-Sports was perfect for me. Close to Celebration, Epcot, the Boardwalk, etc. It’s great for a family as well as solo. I didn’t like that the normal cleaning the room is every three days that can be easily changed with a call to Housekeeping.

Absolutely fantastic hotel. Clean, comfortable rooms. Staff throughout were more than helpful. Check in quick and easy. Phone as a room key we thought was a good idea. Early park entry is always a plus. Food was good and reasonably priced. I found the shuttles were in high demand and I was shocked how far the hotels are from the parks, but this wasn’t an issue. Fantastic stay and would book again.

We just returned from a 5 night trip, 6 of us in 3 separate rooms, and All Star Sports was perfect for our trip! Our group was my husband, myself, and 4 young adult family members. We've stayed at multiple different Disney Resorts (Value, Moderate, Deluxe); this was our first stay at All Star Sports (had stayed at All Star Music before) and it was perfect for our trip. We mainly needed the resort for a place to sleep, shower, grab some food, and occasional pool time while we spent the majority of our time out and about at the Parks. Everyone in our group loved the resort! We specifically chose All Star Sports because it's budget friendly; we booked through Disney and were able to use a discount promotion for even more savings. Used that money instead for some amazing dinners at the Parks - a great trade off! NOTE: I did check prior to booking to make sure no youth sports tournaments were going on during our stay, as the youth sports groups usually stay at Sports and I'd heard that can get noisy. So just to be on the safe side I checked that. Ironically, there was a very large senior HS group there and honestly we never really heard them or noticed any noise issues. ROOMS: Rooms are fine size for two adults or a family with a couple of young kids. Rooms are recently renovated and are identical to the rooms at Pop Century. They're clean, new, and have a lot of storage space including space beneath the bed(s) to store suitcases out of the way. Hardwood flooring. There's one queen sized bed and a table with two chairs that converts into another bed. Beds are comfortable, we all slept great. Rooms includes a small fridge, basic coffee pot, coffee and teas. There's a little pantry stand that easily held our Instacart food order. Plenty of outlets. I really like that there's a heavy sliding door that separates the bathroom sink/storage area from the rest of the room - nice when someone is up early getting ready or washing up later at night. Toilet and tub/shower have a separate door so there's sink access while someone is using the shower. I'd say the room would be crowded with four adults or parents with a couple of teenage kids. Better to get two separate rooms in those cases. The resort does have adjoining rooms options. When the fold down bed is in place there isn't much extra space. I noticed a lot of strollers parked outside of rooms, for this reason. Also when the second bed is folded down then there's no table (whereas Moderate or Deluxe rooms have two beds plus a table). POOL: Pool is large, basic (no slides), and was often lively. There's usually a movie playing in the evenings. There's a small bar adjacent to the pool FOOD COURT: Basic, clean, well run. There's different food stations, cafeteria style, and a cold storage area with grab and go sandwiches, salads, yogurt, drinks, etc. There's plenty of coffee and soft drink stations. Lots of tables and booth. Food was a decent variety - something for everyone. Very kid friendly. Opens at 6 AM and is plenty busy before 7 AM, and busy after the parks close as well. Even when busy it wasn't a long wait to get/pay for our food and we never had trouble finding a table. OVERALL RESORT: Several fun themed buildings. Our building was farther from the food court and lobby, but honestly we've had much longer walks at some of the higher end resorts (Port Orleans Riverside, for example). Everything was well maintained and well lit. TRANSPORTATION: Buses only. The waiting queue for the buses doesn't have shade, but we could also wait under some shade and check the time buses would arrive on the display boards. Bus rides were fairly short to each Park - we've had longer rides from other resorts. One thing to note though - the All Star buses are usually at the farthest drop off/pick up bus spots at each Park. After a long day at the Park keep in mind it will also be a long walk to the bus back to All Star Sports. Didn't bother us, but noting this for review purposes.

This is the perfect place to stay if you are on a budget but want the fully immersive Walt Disney World experience from start to finish. From the huge sports equipment centrepieces to the friendly staff it really has it all. Great pools, nice food and comfortable rooms, it won’t disappoint. We’ve been coming to Disney since 1996 and whilst we’ve stayed in moderate and deluxe resorts we always have a soft spot for all star sports. The first hotel we stayed in on property.