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3 reviews for Fantasia Gardens
Too easy!! All of the pars on the courses were 3 and I easily putted 10 under par, and I'm awful at mini golf! Of course, the Fairway Gardens course was nigh impossible (it's literally a miniature golf course!), so we opted for the cutesy, themed course. It's $12 per person, and you can get half off another game within 24 hours.
Each of the holes has a clever little rhyme that explains how best to get a hole in one on each hole. Each hole features characters from the film Fantasia. There's water tricks and moving pieces and overall it's a good time. Definitely Disney level of entertainment.
The only thing I would say that is a negative is that the water was grosssssssss like a swamp. I understand that it's Florida but the lake at Epcot doesn't look like that, nor does the lake in front of the castle at Magic Kingdom, so something needs to happen there!
Otherwise, this is a great way to pass an hour or two in the evenings or before a trip to the parks. Be careful-- there is NO SHADE here, so evenings are best to enjoy this hidden gem. You can follow signs from Buena Vista Drive to arrive here-- it's across from Disney's Hollywood Studios (you can actually hear Fantasmic! from the course), and behind the Swan and Dolphin hotels. Open until 11 pm on weekdays, I think later on weekends.
You say toe-may-toh, I say toe-mah-toh.
You say miniature golf, I say putt putt.
It wasn't until recently that I found out most people don't refer to miniature golf as putt-putt. Maybe it is a Southern Indiana or a Midwest thing. Or maybe it's a Hoosier/dullard thing, but I've always referred to the sport as putt-putt. Semantics aside this is the best course I've ever played. There is a total of 36 holes and you have to choose which 18 you would like to play...
If you want a challenge choose the Garden Pavilions as it was voted by Golf Weekly (or Golf Digest or Clubs n' Holes... I don't remember which mag. they told me) as the longest and hardest course in the world. The last hole is actually 103 feet. The course is designed to look like an actual miniature golf course. It's as if they took a shrinking ray and aimed it at a PGA course and brought it to Disney. It's gorgeous and incredibly challenging. I'm pretty decent at Putt Putt and I shot a 79 on a Par 61. Each year when the PGA tour comes through Disney they rent this course out for families but after two years of playing the pros won't play on it anymore because no one has broke 72.
For a different form of fun you can choose to tackle the Fantasia Gardens which is 18 holes of Putt Putt based on the Disney animated feature Fantasia, which was one of my favorites growing up even though there wasn't any dialog and it was based on interpretations of classical music. Yep, i was probably an odd kid. It's one of the coolest and most fun courses I've ever played. Lots of animatronics (stuff that moves) and motion sensors that causes reactions whether it be sounds, shooting water, lights, etc. An example of one of the holes is that you have to hit your ball up a steep hill and when it comes down it travels down steps made out of a xylophone. Each hole is as playful and creative as the next and follows the progression of the movie leading up to Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice. I fared much much better on this course and wasn't humbled thankfully.
Both courses have their own merits and I recommend tackling both as the first round is eleven dollars but the second if you play that day or the next is half off. Fore!
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I LOVE mini golf. Disney know how to produce an amusment park with style. Fantasia Gardens is themed to the classic 1940 movie "Fantasia" as it was indeed one of the best courses I've played.
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