BoardWalk Villas Resort Facts and Fun
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Visit
the Screen Door General Store on Disney's BoardWalk for groceries,
dry goods, snacks and beverages. The store is open daily from 8:00
a.m. until midnight.
Disney's BoardWalk
Resort opened on July 1, 1996.
Luna
Park, the free-form pool at Disney's BoardWalk Resort, is named
after an early amusement park in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and features
Keister Coaster, a 200-ft water slide in the form of a classic wooden
roller coaster.
The "Hippocampus
Electrolier" ( Hippocampus is a mythological creature; electrolier is
a chandelier for electric lamps) in the Resort lobby features fanciful
carousel animals that are half horse and half sea creature. The chandelier
weighs 3,000 pounds (1.5 tons) and is finished entirely in 22-karat gold
leaf, hand-cut Austrian crystal and custom-blown glass.
The crystal globe
at the bottom of the Hippocampus Electrolier chandelier is a time capsule
scheduled for opening during the 50th Anniversary celebration of the
Walt Disney World® Resort.
Hidden Mickeys
On the carrousel
in the lobby, on the back leg of one of the horses.
On top of the lamps
in the lobby seating area, next to the wicker sofas.
In the hallway carpets.
On the lampshades
in the hallways.
