Staying within the Cinderella Fortress Suite, the one in a single day “lodge” room inside Magic Kingdom is a bucket listing dream for Walt Disney World followers, and it’ll be potential once more in 2025 because of Give Youngsters the World! This covers particulars of the giveaway, what’s included on this trip package deal, the precise retail worth of an evening contained in the suite, and rather more.
We’ve been lucky sufficient to step contained in the Cinderella Fortress Suite twice, and it’s completely unbelievable. The lodging are match for royalty, with consideration to element and lavish flourishings in every single place you look. For these followers who bemoan who lodge rooms at Walt Disney World have gotten generic and unthemed…that is the precise reverse of that.
Each inch of the Cinderella Fortress Suite is meticulously detailed and thoughtfully themed. Not solely that, however the design is extremely intelligent, showcasing Imagineering on the prime of its design sport. House within the suite is utilized brilliantly, reworking what’s in actuality a reasonably small area into one thing that feels extravagant.
For these unfamiliar with it, the Cinderella Fortress Suite is definitely a comparatively latest addition that’s not practically as previous because the 50+ yr previous centerpiece of Magic Kingdom. The Cinderella Fortress Suite opened in January 2007, and its function at the moment was to function a each day prize for randomly chosen visitors in the course of the 12 months of a Million Goals.
Previous to that, what’s now the Cinderella Fortress Suite was a utilitarian backstage space for storing (it’s wonderful what number of of these occupy prime actual property in Magic Kingdom). In Magic Kingdom’s early days, Walt Disney World cellphone operators used it as a workspace. (Discuss concerning the final workplace!)
Quick-forward to at the moment, and the Cinderella Fortress Suite largely sits empty. As soon as used on a near-nightly foundation in the course of the 12 months of a Million Goals, after which steadily for celeb stays and giveaways, the Cinderella Fortress Suite hasn’t gotten practically as a lot utilization since ~2019.
The largest exception to that was a sequence of sweepstakes for Forged Members as a part of the “Magic Backstage” program a few years in the past. Disney Trip Membership has additionally finished a few contests for stays within the suite. Commonest has been auctions and sweepstakes for most of the people, largely of the charitable selection, within the final a number of years.
Give Youngsters the World is the one charity that does a Cinderella Fortress Suite keep giveaway with any diploma of regularity–it appears to have grow to be an annual factor. With that in thoughts, listed here are the main points of their 2025 fundraiser…
Essentially the most unique room at Walt Disney World can’t be bought…however it may be received!
Give Youngsters The World Village is providing the prospect for one fortunate winner and three visitors to take pleasure in a once-in-a-lifetime Magical Celebration Trip Bundle that includes a one-night keep within the Cinderella Fortress Suite, situated inside the long-lasting Cinderella Fortress 4 tales above the Magic Kingdom and Walt Disney World Resort.
From at the moment by means of March 17, 2025 at 11:59:59 p.m. Japanese, Disney followers can enter for the prospect to remain in a single day inside Cinderella Fortress Suite and be handled like royalty throughout this distinctive fairy story expertise. However there’s extra to the prize package deal than only one enchanted night! This dream Walt Disney World trip package deal consists of the next:
- 1-night keep on the Cinderella Fortress Suite in Magic Kingdom for as much as 4 (4) individuals.
- Breakfast for as much as 4 (4) individuals at Cinderella’s Royal Desk
- 2-night resort keep in an ordinary room at a Deluxe Resort, topic to availability for as much as 4 (4) individuals.
- As much as 4 3-day Theme Park Tickets with Park Hopper Choice for 3 days of enjoyable for as much as 4 (4) individuals.
- $500 Disney Present Card for prize winner.
- Home roundtrip coach airfares for the prize winner and their journey get together (as much as 4 (4) individuals whole), offered the prize winner and touring get together reside outdoors a 200-mile radius of Orlando, from the key United States gateway airport closest to the prize winner’s residence to Orlando Worldwide Airport.
Easy methods to Enter the Cinderella Fortress Suite Keep Giveaway
There are two (2) methods to enter:
- Methodology 1 – Buy Entry: Through the Promotion Interval, click on right here and buy an entry. For each $10 buy (along with cost of relevant service charges), the participant will obtain one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes.
- Methodology 2 – Alternate Methodology of Entry: To enter with out making a purchase order: On a 3” x 5” card, handwrite your full identify, handle, metropolis, state, ZIP code, age, e-mail handle, and cellphone quantity and place in an ordinary dimension envelope with correct postage affixed to earn one (1) entry and mail to: Give Youngsters the World 2025 Magical Celebration Trip Bundle, PO Field 595, Social Circle, GA 30025-0595. Mail-in entries have to be postmarked by March 17, 2025 and obtained by March 24, 2025 to be eligible for the prize drawing. Every mail-in entry have to be mailed individually.
Word that this Cinderella Fortress Suite keep giveaway is, in the beginning, a fundraiser for Give Youngsters The World Village, an 89-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort in Central Florida that fulfills the desires of kids with crucial sicknesses and their households.
When want granting organizations from all over the world obtain a request from a critically in poor health youngster who needs to go to Orlando and its world famend theme parks, Give Youngsters The World fulfills all of those needs and offers each youngster and their household with an all-inclusive expertise that features transportation, lodging, theme park tickets, nightly leisure, each day items, and extra.
Since its founding 1986, practically 200,000 want households from all 50 states and 77 nations have been welcomed to the Give Youngsters the World Village to spend priceless time collectively away from hospital stays and medical therapies. Give Youngsters The World Village is charging $10 per entry within the hopes of elevating as a lot cash as potential to assist its mission.
Give Youngsters the World is a 501(c)(3) charitable group (that means your donation is tax-deductible) with a 98/100 rating on Charity Navigator. Greater than 90 cents of each greenback it spends goes to program providers, and solely 2.2% of their income is spent on administrative bills, which is an exceptionally low quantity.
It ought to go with out saying, however we’re not receiving something for this ‘endorsement’ of Give Youngsters the World and promotion of this giveaway. On the contrary, it feels prefer it’s been too lengthy since we’ve final plugged Give Youngsters the World, a charity that we strongly consider in, in order that’s why we’re sharing this. (That, and readers typically ask concerning the Cinderella Fortress Suite, so it’s a two birds with one stone sorta deal.)
Readers sometimes ask how they’ll assist the location since we don’t have Patreon or that sort of factor. The reply is pay it ahead by donating to Make-A-Want, Give Youngsters the World, or a comparable charity of your selection. (We additionally prefer to assist Second Harvest of Central Florida and Orange County, CA.)
Think about your entry into the Magical Celebration Trip Bundle Contest a win-win, as you’re supporting a incredible trigger and getting an opportunity at successful a keep within the Cinderella Fortress Suite! Even in case you lose–and realistically, you in all probability will–you’re nonetheless a winner in our ebook simply by enjoying!
Sarah and I strongly consider in Give Youngsters the World’s mission, and have been moved by our visits to the Village. It’s evident within the enthusiasm of the households staying, the eagerness of the volunteers and employees, and the collaborative sense of group leaders that assist make this place one thing particular–one thing magical.
Suffice to say, please don’t use “methodology 2” for coming into the competition. That solely exists due to authorized necessities to which Give Youngsters the World should adhere. We hope that everybody who desires to enter will contribute not less than $10 to the trigger as a result of that cash straight impacts GKTW’s mission and the dear households they serve. Simply skip a espresso or two.
Cinderella Fortress Suite Keep Worth & Phrases
Test-in for the Cinderella Fortress Suite is at 4:00 PM and check-out is at 9:00 AM. The two-night resort keep at a Deluxe Disney Resort lodge might happen earlier than or after the keep on the Cinderella Fortress Suite.
Journey for this Trip Bundle have to be accomplished by March 31, 2026, topic to availability and blockout dates. Advance reservations are required. Requests have to be submitted ninety (90) days prematurely and confirmed not less than forty-five (45) days previous to arrival.
The Precise Retail Worth or “ARV” is $9,308. The precise worth of the Trip Bundle might fluctuate relying on dates of keep, level of departure and fluctuations of charges and airfares. Any distinction between the ARV and the precise worth of the prize won’t be awarded. There are a bunch of different disclaimers, guidelines, and necessities that may be discovered within the contest guidelines.
Crucial two issues are that the approximate retail worth of the holiday package deal is $9,308. That is the estimated worth of the whole Walt Disney World trip package deal, and never simply the evening in Cinderella Fortress.
Which means that we will take the identified approximate prices of all the pieces else within the package deal, take away these from the equation, and give you an ballpark “worth” for an evening within the Cinderella Fortress Suite. At the least, based on Walt Disney World. So right here goes:
- Breakfast at Cinderella’s Royal Desk for 4: $296
- 2-night Deluxe Resort normal room keep: $938 to $2,558
- 3-day Park Hopper ticket for 4: $1,900 to $2,500
- $500 Disney Present Card for prize winner: $500
- Airfare for 4: $800 to $2,000
Complete: $4,434 to $7,854
That’s an enormous vary–and remains to be imperfect as a result of airfare is a wildcard, and the potential get together dimension may additionally fluctuate (the price of 1 particular person vs. 4 folks is clearly fairly totally different). Nonetheless, from that we will conclude that Walt Disney World considers the approximate retail worth of 1 evening within the Cinderella Fortress Suite to be round $1,454 to $4,874, if not greater.
That is the bottom vary for the Cinderella Fortress Suite that we’ve ever seen from one in all these giveaways. So both the worth of the suite has declined (uncertain) or the ARV has not stored tempo towards worth will increase. The latter clarification is nearly definitely correct. Ticket and menu costs went up an honest quantity for 2025, which explains why the worth of the Cinderella Fortress Suite may very well be as little as $1,454 per the high quality print of the competition.
That’s nearly definitely means too low if we’re making an attempt to find out the honest market worth–or what folks would pay for an evening within the Cinderella Fortress Suite in an open and free market. The shortage of the suite coupled with the variety of diehard Walt Disney World followers and rich vacationers craving an unique, once-in-a-lifetime expertise would nearly definitely drive the worth a lot, a lot greater.
What the honest market worth of a keep within the Cinderella Fortress Suite can be if it had been open 365 nights per yr is anybody’s guess. There’s seemingly numerous fan demand, plus an limitless stream of disposable wealth that would maintain insanely excessive costs. My guess is round $10,000 per evening for the suite alone. Even perhaps greater for the primary few years.
After listening to fan suggestions praising Lightning Lane Premier Cross–a extra mass product product–I’m inclined to up that quantity to $20,000 for an evening within the Cinderella Fortress Suite. Even that quantity may considerably underestimate the honest market worth of the room–or what Disney would cost if it had been bookable on DisneyWorld.com.
If you wish to see extra glimpses of the rooms contained in the suite, take a look at our Cinderella Fortress Suite Picture Tour put up (that rest room is past perception!). In that, we additionally cowl why it’s not lifelike for Walt Disney World to make use of this on a nightly foundation for Make a Want households and even money bookings. Nonetheless, it feels nearly legal that it simply sits empty most nights.
In the end, it’s nice to see that Walt Disney World is as soon as once more placing the Cinderella Fortress Suite to make use of after a couple of years of it just about sitting empty. It’s even higher to see that this giveaway goes to assist Give Youngsters the World. We can not consider a fundraiser for a extra deserving group, and one with a ‘distinctly Disney’ connection.
It’s incredible that the Cinderella Fortress Suite is put to make use of every now and then for charity. Even that’s fairly rare, although, and it’s actually unlucky that this unbelievable area isn’t used on a nightly foundation. I might additionally see it put to make use of on a each day foundation–if Walt Disney World launched a brand new behind-the-scenes tour that took visitors contained in the Cinderella Fortress Suite, we’d be the primary to ebook it.
Going ahead, it’d be cool if there have been a extra egalitarian method to Walt Disney World providing nights within the Cinderella Fortress Suite frequently, such because the random giveaways like in the course of the 12 months of a Million Goals. It was all the time extremely thrilling to see somebody who was randomly chosen return from their journey and put up about it. You couldn’t assist however really feel joyful for the winners, albeit with only a bit of good-natured jealousy. Few prizes at Walt Disney World are fairly as thrilling as an evening within the Cinderella Fortress Suite!
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Your Ideas
Blissful to see that Walt Disney World is bringing again contests for in a single day stays within the Cinderella Fortress Suite? Happy that the primary fundraiser in ages is to assist Give Youngsters the World? What would YOU pay to spend an evening right here (assuming no budgetary limitations)? Do you would like that Walt Disney World convey again random, each day giveaways of the Cinderella Fortress Suite? Any questions we may also help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
