News Pickeball comes to Walt Disney World

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Pickleball is now available at several of WDW tennis courts including Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas – Kidani Village, and Disney’s Old Key West Resort. Complimentary equipment is available at each court.

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Pickleball comes to Walt Disney World Resort hotels

Pickleball comes to Walt Disney World Resort hotels
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Here is the modified tennis court at Contemporary

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networkpro

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It's following the trends of popularity. Televised Tennis has been dropping viewership in the US for years at both the collegiate and professional levels. I could see them replacing the golf courses with something else as well.
 
surfsupdon

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Dad and I took a weekend down at Disney for a hotel stay, some nice food, and tons of pickleball back in mid March (we were tired of the NJ cold). At that point, only Yacht and OKW had finished courts.

Worth noting-- pickleball is available to ALL WDW Resort Guests, not just the guests of that specific Resort. You just needed to show a MB or Key Card to be given the equipment.
 
UNCgolf

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networkpro said:
It's following the trends of popularity. Televised Tennis has been dropping viewership in the US for years at both the collegiate and professional levels. I could see them replacing the golf courses with something else as well.
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I think that's pretty unlikely. If they were going to do it, it would have made more sense to do it 10 years ago -- not now, when golf's popularity is skyrocketing and courses are absolutely slammed all the time. All the public courses near me are almost fully booked morning through late afternoon a week out, even on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and private clubs that were offering discounts to get people to join a few years ago have jacked up their initiation fees and have wait lists for new members.

That said, I don't know if Disney's courses are that busy, because I'm not sure how many people at WDW want to take the time to play golf (and there are tons of other options in the area), but in general the golf industry is in a massive boom phase at the moment.
 
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UNCgolf said:
I think that's pretty unlikely. If they were going to do it, it would have made more sense to do it 10 years ago -- not now, when golf's popularity is skyrocketing and courses are absolutely slammed all the time.

I don't know if Disney's courses are that busy, because I don't know how many people at WDW want to take the time to play golf, but in general the golf industry is in a massive boom phase at the moment. All the public courses near me are almost fully booked morning through late afternoon a week out, even on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
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Interestingly, I know a few different people who go to Disney exclusively to golf and for the resorts. They don’t go into the parks at all. I think Disney is a pretty decent golf destination.
 
UNCgolf

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Interestingly, I know a few different people who go to Disney exclusively to golf and for the resorts. They don’t go into the parks at all. I think Disney is a pretty decent golf destination.
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That's interesting. I've played one of the Disney courses and they're fine but not anything special IMO -- but there aren't really any special public courses in the Orlando area anyways. Streamsong between Tampa/Orlando is the closest place that has really top of the line public resort courses.

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What the crap is pickleball?
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It's like tennis, but on a smaller court using solid paddles and a smaller ball, less bouncy ball. It's also MUCH louder than tennis, so they'll probably have to be careful about location and/or people playing early in the morning or late in the evening (not sure if they have opening/closing times for the courts).
 
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UNCgolf said:
That's interesting. I've played one of the Disney courses and they're fine but not anything special IMO -- but there aren't really any special public courses in the Orlando area anyways. Streamsong between Tampa/Orlando is the closest place that has really top of the line public resort courses.



It's like tennis, but on a smaller court using paddles and a smaller ball, less bouncy ball. It's also MUCH louder than tennis, so they'll probably have to be careful about location and/or people playing early in the morning or late in the evening (not sure if they have opening/closing times for the courts).
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Ayla said:
It's ping pong on a tennis court, using a bigger paddle and a wiffle ball.
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Hm. Sounds like something I definitely don't want to do outside in Orlando Florida.
 
Soluna16

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UNCgolf said:
Don't they do disc golf at the smaller/less nice golf course? Or maybe it's just foot golf.
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It's just foot golf. Orlando has some of the best Disc Golf courses in Florida and since Disc Golf exploded the last two years I'm surprised Disney hasn't cashed in on having a "Disney themed" course nearby.
 

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