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Contained in this post is some useful information about Disney's Vero Beach Resort. Now it's over to you - can you add any other helpful hints or do you have some photos you can share with us of the resort? If so, please post away with your thoughts and experiences!
Vero Beach Resort
9250 Island Grove Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963
Phone: 772 234-2000
Fax: 772-234-2030
The first non-Disney World resort was in Florida, but not in Disney World itself. It’s the Vero Beach Resort at Vero Beach, Florida, two hours southeast of Walt Disney World. Vero Beach is located along the Atlantic Ocean and has a total of 26 miles of beaches. Attractions in the area include the Manatee Observation Centre and Mel Fisher’s Treasure Musuem, featuring shipwreck artefacts and treasures. For more information on the Vero Beach area, check out this website
Vero Beach Resort itself is home to the 112 room Inn, which is surrounded by clusters of Vacation Homes and Beach Cottages. The main pool has a 163 foot, two storey spiral water slide and there’s also a hot tub and sauna. Other facilities at the resort include tennis courts, an exercise room, games room, nature trail with lakeside pavilion and an exercise room. For an extra charge, you can hire bicycles and videos or get a relaxing massage. The Island Grove Packing Company store includes groceries and Disney gifts.
In June and July, you can enjoy a guided turtle walk and other activities include a telescopic tour of the stars, scuba diving in a controlled pool environment, cel painting and kayak adventures. Some activities may be charged for.
As far as dining goes, as well as in-room dining, there’s an oceanfront lounge and four places to eat at the resort:
- Shutters, a casual restaurant which offers breakfast, and dinner. It features a wood burning grill and brick pizza oven.
- Sonya’s is open from Thursday to Sunday nights.
- Bleachers Bar and Grill is a poolside grill that’s open daily, weather permitting, offering burgers, hot dogs, sub sandwiches and salads from the morning until early evening.
- The Green Cabin Room is open from lunchtime until late every day and features live entertainment every night. A limited lunch is offered, along with appetisers in the afternoon and evening.
Vero Beach offers either deluxe inn rooms (with either garden or ocean views), studios, one or two bedroom vacation homes or three bedroom beach cottages.
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Re: Vero Beach Resort - useful information and photos
Headed down to Vero Beach for a week with my Grandparents (at their home not at the DVC). They've got a beach club just up from the Disney resort though so we'll be over for lunch one day, and the mandatory souvenir to tide me over till our September WDW trip. Will get some pics and post em when we're back. If there're any pics anybody wants in particular let me know, and I'll try and get em.
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Re: Vero Beach Resort - useful information and photos
matt--
Try and get some pictures of the beach area (would be interested in seeing how wide the beach is) and the pool. Also the lobby would be nice. -HiddenMickey
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Re: Vero Beach Resort - useful information and photos
We too are heading down to VERO in July!
Can't wait for a relaxing trip!! This is our first one there! Will post something with pics when I return!
YEAH!!!!
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Wow! I can hardly wait to read everyone's reports and see their pictures of this resort. I think it might be wonderful to stay there at the end of a WDW trip for even a couple of days to completely unwind before heading back home.
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Greetings from sunny Vero Taken this afternoon on a walk up the beach.
EDIT: To make the thread more manageable I deleted all the picture posts that follow -- Pics now here: dmspics' collections on Flickr -- Just the spark I needed to start puttin some pics online.
Anyway, now it looks like the body of the posts remained behind so deleting didn't work out quite the way I thought it would. Cheryl, any way to dump all those old picture posts and shorten up the thread?
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