The Shades of Green Resort is an Armed Forces Recreation Center located on Walt Disney World property near Orlando Florida.
Shades of Green opened it’s doors on 1 February 1994 in what was the Disney World owned Disney Inn previously.
Shades has always set their room rates based upon military pay grades, just like the other AFRCs. There are 3 different price categories.
For most of its history these prices were very attractive compared to Disney resort room rates.
Enter The Armed Forces Salute
In 2009 Disney began their almost constant offering of steeply discounted rooms to the military as part of their Armed Forces Salute. This new discount began to undercut the low rates at Shades of Green. Shades responded by beginning to offer their own discounts.
Shades offers long, mid, and short term discounts, which are announced periodically through the year.
Shifting Discounts
Over the last year or so Shades has begun to alter their discounts from what they initially announce.
- They will make an initial announcement with the dates and discount details, but as rooms fill up they will start altering the offer in different ways.
- They will reduce the discount percentage. For example, the initial 40% off will shrink to 30% or 20%
- They will reduce the dates the discount is offered, a full month offer is suddenly only available for a week and a half.
- A percentage off offer for all categories will be changed to a dollar value per night which is above the original percentage off for category 1 members
Get Your Deal Early
So the take-away from this post is that if you are planning to stay at Shades of Green, jump on a discount for your dates as soon as it is announced!
Look at this discount as an example, by booking early you’ll save around $20 more per night!
You can find a list of the current Shades of Green discounts here.
For more info on Shades of Green check out the links below:
Information on Shades of Green the Military Hotel on Disney World propertySee all the current Shades of Green Discounts and Packages
A Special Note on Shades of Green Discounts: Something to be aware of is that Shades constantly changes the dates and discounts offered of their specials and packages.
Shades of Green Links
- Shades of Green
- Shades of Green Rooms
- Shades of Green Room Rates
- Disney Tickets at Shades of Green
- Shades of Green Services and Activities
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We go to Disney every year and we get our military discount too. But even with that; its still so expensive. So we’ve done some research and started following The Ultimate Disney World Savings Guide. It is awesome and I do it with our Military discounts and we can actually afford it.
Your website is great. I am taking my family with grandkids to DW in may/jun. total of 11 family. So I have learned a lot by using your website. Thank you. I do have a few questions if I may; you mention the AAFES store is closed for remodeling and the temp facility has limited items. By any chance do you know if I will be able to buy diapers at the temporary AAFES? Also you didn’t mention when the new AAFEs will be ready; I did see the Magnolia pool is closed thru July. Thanks for all the info. Great help.
Hi Tim,
I do believe that they have some kind of diapers.
Unfortunately I do not know how long it will take them to do the remodel of the normal location.
Hope you guys have fun! Steve