lake compounce: Planning a trip to go to Walt Disney world and i was wondering where we should stay? We want somewhere that offers breakfast with sponge bob we were thinking the nickelodeon hotel but have heard bad reviews about it there.. any tips on finding a nice hotel that offers a lot to do with a 3 year old. thanks!|||It sounds like you are just at the beginning of planning this. There are a few basic things that you need to understand that confuse most folks early on. Disney World is 4 theme parks, two water parks, Downtown Disney, and a whole bunch of hotels. The 4 parks are Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom. There is 'free' transportation from the disney hotels to all of the fun stuff at Disney. Except for the transportation within Disney World, transportation to the other attractions in the are is not great. Your best bet is a rental car, or your own car if you drove to Orlando. If you fly to orlando and stay at a Disney hotel, they will pick you up in a bus at the airport for 'free'. That way you don't get a rental car and you are more likely to stay on the Disney property for more days. Sea World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure (which includes the Harry Potter attractions) and all other parks are not part of Disney. Tickets to Disney are good for any of the 4 disney parks. But the other parks are owned by different companies and they have different tickets. The nickelodeon hotel is not part of Disney. You can stay anywhere you want and travel to any theme park you want. You do not have to stay at a Disney hotel to go to disney. At Disney, the more days you spend in their parks the cheaper per day the price gets. After about 4 days it is just a couple bucks per day to go again. what else? Hmmm.|||There are a lot of water parks in Orlando, including two that are on Disney property. Sea World has one, but I've never been there...yet. Right next to Sea World is Discovery Cove. You can swim with Dolphins there! There are also a lot of miniature golf places. Disney has two. In Downtown Disney (West side) there's Disney Quest. That's an indoor Virtual amusement park. You can go out to Cocoa Beach. That's about an hour away. Of course, maybe it doesn't take that long. My husband got lost! NASA is out there too. Clearwater Beach is on the Gulf side and it's farther. It takes about 90 minutes, could be longer if you hit a lot of traffic in Tampa. There's so much more... Maybe get a vacation book on Orlando.|||There is a real confusion in this question. You say you are going to Disney World. The nickelodeon and sponge bob are not at Disney. They are part of Orlando Resorts. There is no free connection between the two different parks. BTW I have received very different comments about Nickelodeon. Check trip advisor Where did "hear" the bad reviews. There are many other hotels at Universal.