Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Where in Orlando is "downtown Disney"? I've been in Orlando and don't remember ever even hearing about downtown Disney. But then I was not staying at a Disney Hotel at the Disney Resorts.
As I recall it's on Disney property but open to the public. We spent some time there when the hotel got old. We were staying at the "French Quarter" and you could take a water taxi to downtown Disney.
Near our local University is an area called "Dinkytown" which has a bunch of shops and restaurants. Downtown Disney struck me as sort of the same thing but targeted at Disney visitors rather than college students. I think Dinkytown just sort of happened rather than being planned.
If you look it up there's some interesting history. Disney was intended to be more than a theme park. It was also a planned community and the area now called Downtown Disney was supposed to serve as a shopping village for those that lived there. Kind of creepy in a way.