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Computing @ Disney World

Guests may access the internet and check their Web-based email at the Business Center at Disney's Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Yacht and Beach Club and Coronado Springs Resorts. Their hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The cost is $40 per hour or $10 for each 15 minutes of internet access. There is also a charge of $1 per page to print. The Center's equipment can be used for business purposes only.

You can also log onto the internet in Epcot at Innoventions which means if you have web based access to your email account through a service like INTERCOT's Mousehut.com, you will be able to send and receive mail there. Mousehut provides FREE web based email that ALSO has the capability to pull mail from your regular email account! More information on Intercot's Mousehut webmail can be found here.

It may also be helpful to know that should you be traveling with a laptop computer, the telephones in all Disney resort guest rooms (except Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground) are equipped with data ports, enabling guests to utilize the existing phone line for laptop connections. Dialing "9" is all that is required to obtain an outside line (a charge of $ .75 is billed to your room for each local call). Please keep in mind that you will also need to obtain an access number for the Orlando area (i.e. a local number) for your online service provider, to avoid long-distance charges being billed to your room account.

Disney Quest has an internet cafe (Wonderland Cafe) that has access. You can send emails through one of their programs but are unable to check personal email accounts due to the fact they are shared computers. The charge for using this cafe is admission to Disney Quest.

Resorts with High Speed Internet Service:

All Star Movies
All Star Music
All Star Sports
Animal Kingdom Lodge
Beach Club Villas
BoardWalk Resort
Caribbean Beach
Contemporary Resort
Coronado Springs Resort
Fort Wilderness
Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Old Key West Resort
Port Orleans Riverside
Polynesian Resort
Pop Century
Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Wilderness Lodge Resort
Yacht & Beach Club Resorts

Price: $9.95 for 24 hours continuously.

Resorts with Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Service:

Beach Club Resort
BoardWalk Resort
Contemporary Resort
Coronado Springs Resort
Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Yacht Club Resort

Wi-Fi access is available in most public areas like lobbies, pool areas, lounges etc. Specific locations for Wi-Fi varies from hotel to hotel. Check with guest service at the resort to be sure where access locations are.

Please note wireless access is not available in guest rooms.

Price: $9.95 for 24 hours continuously or $4.99 for a single 60 min access window.

INTERCOT Feedback:

"If you are traveling to Disney and need Internet access (and the dial-up just doesn’t cut it for you), you have the option of getting High Speed Internet from right inside your room! The rooms at the Boardwalk Villas, and many Disney resorts, have a jack labeled HSIA. You simply plug one end of a cat 5 cable (bring your own or you can borrow one from housekeeping) into the jack, and the other end into your NIC card. If you use a static IP address set it to obtain the address automatically.

Launch your browser. You should then get the Disney welcome page where you agree to pay the fee (just a note – Internet access is included at the Swan and Dolphin resorts). After you agree, you are set to go. Now, keep in mind, unless you are using web-based mail you will be able to receive incoming mail but may not be able to send outgoing mail. This is because your mail server will recognize you as trying to relay mail from another ISP. The way around this is if your ISP uses outbound authentication to send mail…you will have to ask them.

The speed is technically broadband but sometimes slows to ISDN speeds. On the wireless front, WIFI is shaky at best throughout the resorts. The signals, if even available, seem to fade in and out randomly depending on where you are. You are much better off hooking up to a hard wire line if you can.

Once you log-on you are charged $9.95 for the following 24 hours; you can log on again as many times as you want in that 24 hour period at no additional charge. However, after that 24-hour window logging on starts a new window and another $9.95 charge. They also have 24-hour technical support."