What to expect: Three lushly landscaped golf courses with small ponds, mature trees, and plentiful wildlife highlight this 2,300-acre resort located in a quiet, secluded area southwest of Walt Disney World® Resort. Villa neighborhoods offer a variety of architectural styles, from Key West to Colonial. Arriving guests are welcomed by a personal concierge who accompanies them to their villa and assists them during their stay.

Amenity highlights: Reunion Resort offers three 18-hole golf courses: Tom Watson’s Independence course, Arnold Palmer’s Legacy course, and Jack Niklaus' Tradition course. The Seven Eagles Pool Pavilion features a large, sloped-entry pool, two spa tubs, an activity center, complimentary fitness center, and poolside refreshments. A tropical-style water park includes a lagoon pool, lazy river, and water playground.

Insider tip: This 2,300-acre resort is home to abundant wildlife, including two herons who station themselves at the front gate.

What to expect: Celebration, a residential community created by a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, includes pastel-colored downtown shops and restaurants.

With its early 1900s Florida-coastal architecture, Celebration Hotel is a tranquil image along the town's lakefront: a three-story building with a brick courtyard in front and a veranda offering wicker-and-leather seating beneath woven, big-paddle ceiling fans.

The lobby includes more fans, along with wood rocking chairs, plush divans, a piano, and rugs on hardwood floors.

Amenity highlights: A sunning-and-sitting deck overlooking Celebration's lily-pad lake runs along the rear of the hotel. A small pool anchors one end of the deck; an eight-person spa tub anchors the other. In between, street lamps illuminate night strolls, umbrella tables provide daytime shade, and a sculpture of Chief Osceola reminds guests they're in Seminole country.

Between the hotel lobby and the deck is a cool, brick veranda furnished with wood rocking chairs and ceiling fans for relaxed contemplation of the water and of joggers/walkers using a path encircling the lake.