No — the Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando on Hotel Plaza Boulevard charges no resort fee. Self-parking runs $28 a night plus tax, but there's no nightly resort fee piled on top. On this road, that sentence is rare.

Now here's what the booking page can't tell you, and it's the reason you're reading a guy who actually stayed here instead of a fee chart:

How does it really feel?

You walk into that lobby and it's impressive. The bar, the pool, everything looks nice — nicer than the number on the reservation had me expecting. The front desk was genuinely helpful (Grace, if you're reading this, you were awesome). After 40-some Disney-area hotels, I know within about ninety seconds of walking in whether a place feels good. The Drury feels good.

And that's not a small thing on this street. Walk across to the DoubleTree and the feeling is completely different — it did not sit right with me at all. (I did a full honest review on that one; go watch it before you book over there.)

The Drury has a calm, taken-care-of feeling the moment you're in the door. That's the part no AI Overview will ever tell you.

Let's talk about the free stuff honestly, because "free" gets oversold. The hot breakfast in the morning is genuinely good — that one's not hype. The 5:30pm Kickback is a lighter evening meal: when I ate, it was simple like pasta, that kind of thing. Real food, and free, but let's be clear — it's not dinner at Disney Springs, and it's not pretending to be. Same with the free drinks: yes, they hand every adult a card for three, and that's great. But they're not strong, and it's not whatever you want. You're not walking up and ordering a triple. It's a nice perk, not an open bar. The free popcorn is a lovely touch and a great advertisement — it's popcorn, not a meal. I'd rather tell you exactly what it is than let you build it up in your head and feel let down.

Here's where no resort fee actually lands, in feeling, not just dollars. At the Wyndham down the road, the parking fee stacks on every single night, and with breakfast added in it dang near doubles what I thought I was paying. You get a cheap room rate and then feel the cost climb every night you're there. At the Drury, that doesn't happen. The room is the room. $28/nt to park, no resort fee bleeding on top of it — you know what you're paying, and it doesn't creep. That "they're not nickel-and-diming me every night" feeling is worth more than people realize until they've been on the other side of it.

One honest heads-up on parking: you pay the $28/nt to park at the Drury, and if you then drive your own car over to Magic Kingdom or any park, you pay another $35 to park there. So don't drive. This is exactly where the Drury's shuttle earns its keep — it runs every hour, and here's the part that matters: the Drury runs its own shuttle. It doesn't share a loop with the hotel next door the way the Wyndham shares with Holiday, Renaissance, & DoubleTree. Its own bus, roughly hourly, to all four parks. If you've read my Flamingo Crossings stuff, you know how limited some of those shuttle windows get — the Drury's setup feels like a different tier. Take the shuttle, skip the second parking fee, and the math turns in your favor fast.

One honest catch, because I'm not going to let you get surprised. The Drury is an "Official Walt Disney World Hotel" — that sounds like staying on Disney property, but it's not the same as a Disney-owned resort. You do get real perks: Early Theme Park Entry 30 minutes before opening, and that free shuttle to all four parks. What you don't get is the 7-day head start on booking Lightning Lanes that Disney-owned resort guests get — you're on the standard 3-day window, same as any off-site visitor.

For most families the free food and no-resort-fee savings outweigh that easily. But if your whole trip hinges on grabbing a ride like TRON the second it opens, know it going in.

If you're weighing the Drury against the rest of the hotels on this stretch, the whole Hotel Plaza Boulevard corridor comes down to which fees are real and which "free" claims hold up — and I've been checking them one front desk at a time. See how the neighbors stack up at ddadbudget.com.

One more thing before you book: 

"no resort fee" is true, but it's one line on a folio, and every hotel on this road plays the fee game differently. Before you put money down, grab my free Disney Hotels Hidden Fees Guide — the checklist of exactly what to ask at each front desk so nothing shows up at checkout you didn't agree to: Disney Hotels Hidden Fees Guide.

And if you want the full picture — every off-property hotel I've stayed in, ranked, with the walkthroughs — it's all in one place: full access.

Stop guessing. Don't book the wrong hotel. 

I stayed at 36 so you don't have to guess.

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