Location Location Location - No Car Needed

Emerald Island Resort is located 1.5 mile south of US 192 off Funie Steed Road / Formosa Gardens Boulevard

3 miles to Disney Main Entrance
20 minutes to Orlando International airport
35 minutes to Sanford International airport
20 minutes to Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure
Less than 1 minute to shops, restaurants, golf, banks, etc.

Getting Around Without A Rental Car

Maingate Transportation provides daily shuttle service serving Emerald Island Resort with 2 morning pick-ups and 2 evening return runs that are at scheduled times. These runs are shared with other guests from the resort. Pricing per round trip for this service is as follows:


Disney World: $10 per person
Universal Studios: $14 per person
Sea World: $11 person
Orlando Premium Outlets: $10 per person

If you have 6 or more people it makes sense to hire a private van since it's charged by the trip and NOT per person. This can be arranged any time of day for morning pick-up and evening return as you don't share this service with other guests. The van holds up to 14 people and the round trip costs are as follows:

Disney World: $56 per van
Universal Studios: $80 per van

They also provide service to and from the airport. They will have the driver waiting with a sign showing the guest's name and he will help with their luggage, etc. They charge $78 for airport pick-up and $68 for return (if they are used for pick-up as well).

In terms of food shopping, they have a minimum charge of $6 per person to drop up to 5 people off at the store. They will come back to pick them up at a specified time for another $6.

Please contact Maingate Transportation at 407-870-5553 to get more information and to arrange transportation.

Another shuttle company that provides service from Emerald Island Resort to EPCOT/Animal Kingdom is Cool Transportation. They can be reached at 407-432-1990

Emerald Island Villa Rentals on Disney's Doorstep

I read the letters about holidays in a newspaper last Wednesday and just had to add my moans for good measure. OK, in our case it was a holiday in Orlando, Florida, and we got back home a month ago. Florida was fine, no complaints there, but value for money it wasn’t. But I know now that it could have been which annoys me even more!

You see, we thought we were being smart when we booked into a hotel. My friend Mary booked the same area, for the same period, but they went for a Disney villa rental, and we thought that’s not a holiday, what with preparing your own meals and that. So we suggested they could have a break from time to time from their Disney villa rental and join us for meals and other activities at our hotel.

We duly arrived at our hotel and checked out the rooms, pool, restaurant, etc. After our flight we decided to have an early night. Mary phoned the next day to describe her Disney villa rental, about which she was, shall we say, gushing? I was not in the best of moods because none of us could say we slept, what with the racket coming from adjacent rooms and the floor above. Our complaints to the hotel management were countered with comments about mutual tolerance, and the like. Mary phoned again, asking if we would like to join them at the pool at their Disney villa rental. I must confess I did respond with some smugness, imagining their Disney villa rental would have a postage stamp of a pool, whereas the hotel’s was what you would expect at a hotel.

I said maybe we would drop by later and check out their villa . Later that day my Husband had a disagreement at our hotel pool - something about drenching a few German sunbathers when he jumped in. Anyway, we couldn't keep putting it off, so we looked up the location of the Emerald Island Resort and were surprised to find it was only a few minutes away from our hotel and indeed right on the doorstep of Walt Disney World.

Imagine our surprise when we arrived at the Emerald Island Resort to find that it is surrounded by 300 acres of genuine wildlife conservation area, which includes a large shady woodland area of natural woodland in the centre of the community. I would not have believed you would find such a haven from the hustle and bustle of Kissimmee only 3 miles from the entrance to Walt Disney World.

When we arrived at the impressive dolphin fountain feature we knew that we had arrived at the Emerald Island Villa Resort Rental entrance. On arrival at the gatehouse a security guard took our names, car registration number and then asked us to wait whilst he checked that we were actually invited guests. Whilst I was quite indignant at this inconvenience I was quietly impressed at the 24 hour security this afforded everyone staying on this Disney villa rental resort.

We drove through the entrance passing the huge community swimming pool, clubhouse and Tiki Bar. Then I saw the villa rental home in front of me and I could not contain my feelings of envy. It truly did look like the most luxurious villa rental pool home I have ever seen. Mary was waiting for us when we arrived and thoroughly enjoyed showing us around the villa rental, room by room. I must say it looked fantastic, the furnishings all gave a real feeling of luxury. By the time we got out to the private villa pool at the rear of the villa I was almost choking with pure envy.

Once I had recovered from my feelings of jealousy we all had a thoroughly lovely afternoon watching the children playing in the pool whilst we enjoyed a relaxed lunch. In the evening we enjoyed a drink at the Tiki bar before heading back to our hotel as we still had to sort out our theme park tickets for the following day. Mary of course already had her Disney tickets, Universal Tickets, Sea World Tickets which she had purchased from Kissimmee Guest Services and had the Disney tickets delivered direct to her Disney villa rental.

When I consider that Mary paid at least 50% less than I did, I know who got the better deal. I will not make the same mistake again....I definitely plan to rent an Emerald Island villa pool home for our next trip to Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida. In fact Mary and I have talked about maybe renting one large villa rental for both families to share or doing a multiple villa booking and renting two villas next door to each other on the Disney Villa Resort in Kissimmee Orlando Florida.

Emerald Island Resort Villa Rentals

Are you thinking of a trip to the sunshine state with a resort vacation in Kissimmee, Orlando Florida? Would you like to stay in a resort townhouse rental home or resort villa near Disney, Orlando? We have numerous privately owned resort townhouses and villas for you to choose from on the exclusive Emerald Island Resort, Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida - only 3 miles from Disney World.

We are Emerald Island Resort, a group of private resort townhouse and villa owners who have chosen to showcase our privately owned Emerald Island Resort Villa Rental and Emerald Island Resort Townhouse Rental, together on one convenient resort townhouse and villa rental website. You will deal direct with the resort townhouse or villa owner with no middlemen to drive up prices, you get the best value and choice of high quality Emerald Island Resort townhouse and villa rental, Florida resort townhouses and villas, or Orlando resort villas and townhouse in the Disney area.

All our vacation resort villa and townhouse rental, resort villas and townhouses and Emerald Island Resort villa and townhouse rental have private pools or private plunge pools and direct access to the excellent Emerald Island Resort community pool.

We invite you to spend some time browsing our Emerald Island Resort villa and townhouse rental, check availability and prices, pre-order discount attraction tickets (free delivery direct to the resort townhouse) for Disney, Universal Studios, Sea World, Busch Gardens and the other major theme parks, get quotes for cheap flights to Florida, Florida car hire, travel insurance and airport parking.

Emerald Island Resort villa and townhouse rental is considered a premier vacation resort with first class resort amenities, located only 3 miles from Disney's main gate. This highly popular gated Emerald Island Resort community features wide tree lined boulevards, pavements, street lighting and resort recreation areas - a safe resort environment for children of all ages, especially the community swimming pool on the popular Emerald Island Resort villa and townhouse rental.

Florida has more to offer than just theme parks. Florida is also a major golfing attraction. All our luxury resort villa rental Orlando and resort vacation rental homes on Emerald Island Resort are close to countless public golf courses.

Your Emerald Island Resort villa or townhouse rental enquiry for resort villa or townhouse rental is dealt with professionally. When you book a vacation home or resort rental villa or townhouse you deal directly with the resort villa or townhouse owner. All correspondence will be from the resort townhouse owner assuring you of the best rates at all times.

Emerald Island Resort private villa owners can even accommodate large group bookings with multiple resort villas or townhouses or even resort villas or townhouses next door to each other.