Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort

1940s-style Hilton Head lodge on a private island

General Information

Property Amenities

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Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort is located on a 15-acre island within Hilton Head Island, at the southernmost tip of the South Carolina coast. A pine-floored, beam-ceilinged den in the resort's main building—which is called Live Oak Lodge—includes a pool table, game tables, a TV, and deep leather seats. Coffee is provided in the lobby every morning and lemonade throughout the day—both are complimentary. Hammocks, Adirondack chairs, and rope swings are scattered throughout the resort, offering additional places to relax.

Disney's Discovery Club offers supervised activities for children age 3–12 and, once or twice weekly, a night out with activities and dinner (surcharge). Depending on the season, various family activities are offered, some complimentary and some for a fee. These activities include puppet shows, magic shows, gyotaku (Japanese fish printing), kayak tours, cooking classes, nature walks, and campfire nights featuring singing, dancing, and s'mores.

Complimentary charcoal grills are available for guests to cook outdoors. A fitness center contains cardio machines, weight machines, and free weights. A kiosk in the lobby provides high-speed Internet access (surcharge). And a general store on site sells sundries, beverages, beer and wine, ice cream, snack foods, gifts, and clothing, and rents video movies.

Rooms

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Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort offers 123 studios and villas in 20 three-story, gray-wood buildings with red and green roofs. The main building includes an elevator; other buildings have exterior corridors and no elevators. All guest units feature private porches furnished with wooden rocking chairs. Rustic decor inspired by vacation lodges of the 1940s and 1950s includes colored-tile entries and carpeted interiors, green furniture, lantern light fixtures, bathroom floors made of terra-cotta tile, and sand-colored walls with accents walls of maroon or green. Units all provide both air conditioning and wood-paddle ceiling fans, and TVs and VCRs; movies are available for rent. A folding playpen/crib (infant bed) is included in each guest unit.

The one- and two-bedroom villas offer bathroom suites with two-person jetted tubs separated from bedrooms by folding shutters. Vanity sinks adjoin the jetted tubs, and separate rooms contain stall showers and pedestal sinks. All villas contain fully equipped kitchens with four-burner ranges, microwave ovens, full-size refrigerators, and dishwashers, as well as stacked washer/dryers. Vintage fishing creels, rods, and photos are arranged in decorative displays.

Studios units provide bathrooms with shower/tub combinations, and wet bars with microwave ovens, compact refrigerators, and coffeemakers. Plates, cups, and utensils are paper and plastic. Studios do not include washer/dryers, but complimentary machines are available in a common laundry room for use by all resort guests.

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Recreation

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The resort has three pools (heated in winter), including two at the main resort and another 1.5 miles away at the 13,000-square-foot Disney’s Beach House, which faces three miles of Atlantic Ocean beach. The main-resort pool complex is composed of a long, irregularly shaped pool with a spiraling, 70-foot-long waterslide; a large toddlers' pool; and a 25-person spa tub. On the second floor above the pool complex, an air-conditioned Community Hall contains a big-screen TV and features activities such as bingo. Complimentary shuttles zip guests to the 3.5-acre Disney’s Beach House complex, which includes a 50-foot-long, H-shaped pool; a toddlers' area with a soft floor and water-spurting beach balls; and a Coast Guard–themed clubhouse with a big-screen TV and table games, a small room with coin-operated video games, and a covered area with ping-pong and foosball tables.

Fishing and crab netting is available off the end of a long, weathered-wood dock that juts out over a marsh to Broad Creek, the estuary running through Hilton Head Island. (Rental gear is available and no license is required.) The resort's naturalist leads complimentary tours of the marsh and also offers bird-watching excursions and after-dark astronomy lessons. Shuffleboard, horseshoes, and bocce are available at the main resort. In addition, the resort also rents out adult, child, and adult-child tandem bicycles with fat tires suitable for the beach and the island's hundreds of miles of bike paths. Rental kayaks are available for use on Broad Creek and nearby lagoons. At Disney's Beach House, an independent operator on the beach rents chairs, umbrellas, and boogie boards as well as ocean kayaks, AquaBikes, sailboats, and low-slung three-wheel beach buggies.

The 2,000-acre Palmetto Dunes residential/resort community, of which Disney's Beach House is a part, features three golf courses: the Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront, the George Fazio, and the Arthur Hills. Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center offers 23 clay and two Nova ProBounce courts (eight are lighted for night play). Instruction is available. A half-mile away on Broad Creek, the Mediterranean village–style Shelter Cove Harbour offers deep-sea and inshore fishing charters, sport crabbing, sailboat and power-boat rentals, sightseeing and nature excursions, and dinner cruises.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

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