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The Lake Front Pool View Room provides a peaceful escape with breathtaking views every morning. It includes a private balcony that opens directly to the...
The Resort View Room invites each guest into a peaceful space with lush scenery and comfort in every detail. It includes a personal balcony that...
The Lake View Room welcomes guests to a bright, elegant space. It features a personal balcony with views of the lake, city, or green golf...
The Club Resort View Room offers a private balcony with peaceful views of the garden and sunrise. This room provides a relaxing space with either...
The Lake Front Pool View Executive Suite provides a peaceful space with stunning sunrise and garden views. It features a private living room and two...
The Resort View Executive Suite offers a peaceful and refined escape for every guest. This roomy 960-square-foot suite has a king-sized bed. It’s dressed in...
The Lake View Executive Suite offers a peaceful setting with elegant lakefront views. This spacious suite measures 960 square feet and provides a warm, stylish...
The Club Lake View Room offers an elegant space with breathtaking views of the lake. It also overlooks the surrounding city or a green golf...
The Club Lake Front Pool View Room offers a private balcony with breathtaking morning views. It features a luxurious layout that is both comfortable and...
The Club Lake Front Pool View Suite invites every guest to experience peaceful luxury by the water. It offers two private balconies that overlook the...
The Lakefront Presidential Suite surrounds each guest with comfort, elegance, and breathtaking scenery. It offers direct views of the lake, the shimmering pool, and the...
The Family Presidential Suite offers a refined space with calm pool views. This expansive suite measures 2,645 sqft (238 sqm) with balanced proportions. The layout...
The Ritz Carlton Royal Lakefront Suite offers a grand retreat with beautiful views of lakes and fairways. It features a large living room, a dining...
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes sits within a 500-acre resort estate near the headwaters of the Everglades. It gives Orlando a calmer, more spacious frame than the city is often known for. Theme parks, shopping, restaurants, and the airport remain close, but the hotel itself feels set apart. Lakes, gardens, pools, golf, spa terraces, and nature experiences create a resort mood that does not depend only on the attractions nearby.
The architecture brings a Mediterranean sense of scale to central Florida, with arched walkways, courtyards, warm stone, palms, and broad views across the grounds. Inside, the hotel is polished but relaxed. It works for families, couples, golfers, spa travelers, and meeting guests who want access to Orlando without staying in the middle of its busiest zones. Grande Lakes feels like its own destination, with enough depth to fill several days on property.
The resort stands southwest of downtown Orlando, about a short drive from Orlando International Airport in normal traffic. Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando, and the area's shopping and dining districts are all reachable from the hotel. Yet the immediate surroundings feel greener and quieter than the main tourist corridors. Grande Lakes is shared with the neighboring JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes, which adds scale and variety to the overall estate. The Ritz-Carlton side carries the more refined tone, while the wider setting brings trails, water, golf, pools, gardens, and room to move. This is useful in Orlando, where many trips can become packed with long days away from the hotel. Returning here brings a clear change of pace.
The hotel has a large collection of rooms and suites, many with balconies or views over the lake, gardens, golf course, or resort grounds. Interiors use calm colors, soft fabrics, marble bathrooms, and classic details that fit the property's resort style. The mood is comfortable rather than flashy, with enough space for rest between park days, meetings, golf rounds, or spa visits. Standard rooms typically include king or queen bedding, a writing desk, marble bathroom, separate bath and shower, and practical technology for modern travel. The better views give the rooms more of a resort feel, especially in the morning or at sunset, when the grounds feel quieter and the lake catches the light. Families appreciate the room layouts because they are easy to use, while couples can choose calmer corners of the hotel for a more restful stay. Suites add larger living areas, broader balconies, and more defined space for longer stays. Some of the top suites bring multiple balconies, dining areas, media spaces, and generous bathrooms. They feel best suited to families, small gatherings, or travelers who want the room to be part of the trip rather than only a place to sleep. The style remains classic, with a sense of Florida resort ease.
Dining is a major part of the Grande Lakes experience. Knife and Spoon is the hotel's signature restaurant, with a focus on steak, seafood, and a polished dinner setting. It brings a sharper, more contemporary edge to the resort, while still feeling connected to the relaxed rhythm of Orlando. Highball and Harvest has a warmer, more Southern-inspired mood. It draws on the resort's garden and local ingredients, making it a natural choice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or drinks. The resort also includes Norman's, known for elegant cooking with Latin, Caribbean, and Asian influences. First Drop works well for coffee, pastries, smoothies, and an easy start near the lobby. Bleu brings poolside dining with fresh flavors and a casual pace. The Lobby Lounge gives the hotel a comfortable place for cocktails, small plates, and conversation after a day outdoors or in the parks. Across the estate, the dining range is useful because Grande Lakes can be a full resort stay. Guests can move from a relaxed breakfast to a poolside lunch, then dinner at a more formal restaurant without leaving the grounds. The mix suits families as well as adults who want a more polished evening.
The spa is one of the hotel's defining features. It is large, calm, and designed for serious downtime, with many treatment rooms, salon services, relaxation areas, and a private spa pool. Treatments include massages, facials, body therapies, and rituals that draw on herbs from the resort garden. The spa feels closely tied to the landscape rather than separated from it. The wellness areas are supported by a fitness center with cardio and strength equipment, movement options, and personal training. Guests can combine a gym session with a spa treatment, a swim, or time in a cabana. The resort setting makes wellness feel less formal and more part of the day. It can be active or quiet, depending on the pace of the trip.
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes has a strong pool culture. The main resort pool is framed by palms, loungers, and cabanas, with a calmer tone than many large Orlando pool decks. The spa pool adds a quieter adults-focused setting. Guests can also use the wider Grande Lakes pool landscape, including the lazy river and family areas at the neighboring JW Marriott. Golf gives the estate another clear identity. The 18-hole course, designed by Greg Norman, moves through wetlands, water, and Florida landscape. It adds a serious sporting layer to the resort without making the hotel feel like a pure golf property. Tennis, biking, walking paths, and outdoor spaces add more ways to spend time outside. The property is especially useful for travelers who want Orlando to include fresh air and open space, not only park tickets and restaurants.
The setting near the headwaters of the Everglades gives the hotel a nature story that feels specific to central Florida. Guided eco experiences on Shingle Creek can include kayak or canoe routes through quiet waterways, with chances to see birds, native plants, and wildlife. Egrets, ospreys, turtles, and alligators are part of the landscape. These activities make Grande Lakes feel different from a standard city resort. A guest can spend one day at a theme park, then the next morning on the water with a naturalist. The contrast is part of the appeal. It allows an Orlando stay to include both the famous attractions and a more grounded view of Florida's ecosystem.
The resort is well suited to families because it has space, pools, outdoor activities, dining variety, and easy access to the major parks. Children can move between swimming, nature programs, lawn games, and casual meals, while adults still have the spa, golf, restaurants, and quieter corners of the hotel. The property feels structured enough to be easy, but not so rigid that each day needs a strict plan. Couples and adult travelers find a different rhythm. The spa, golf course, restaurants, balconies, and quieter pool areas make the hotel work for a slower Orlando stay. It is also a strong setting for meetings, weddings, and group events because the estate feels self-contained. Guests can gather, dine, relax, and move around the grounds without losing the sense of being at a resort. The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes is strongest when it is treated as more than a base for theme parks. Its setting, spa, dining, golf, pools, and nature experiences give it a full resort identity. It keeps Orlando close, but gives the trip room to breathe.
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This luxury hotel is south of Orlando, with easy access to golf, shopping, and all the theme parks.
John Tesar serves Steak & Seafood at his Knife & Spoon restaurant. Reserve a table upfront to enjoy this Michelin Star experience!
Use the complimentary shuttle service from the hotel to get to the theme parks and back!
4012 Central Florida Parkway, United States
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Yes. The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes is a strong choice for travelers who want luxury resort space near Orlando attractions. The resort has 582 rooms and suites, balconies, dining, spa, golf, water park access, Grande Lakes Sports, and family-friendly amenities.
The resort is on Central Florida Parkway within the 500-acre Grande Lakes Orlando resort area. This location works well for Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, the convention area, golf, and resort days.
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes has 582 rooms and suites. Room options include lakefront rooms, suites, Club Level rooms, and family-friendly adjoining accommodations.
Rooms are designed with calm colors, marble bathrooms, dual sinks, work space, and private balconies. Guests can choose views toward lakes, pools, gardens, or the broader Grande Lakes resort grounds.
Yes. Grande Lakes Water Park adds a lazy river, waterslides, lagoons, cabanas, and poolside dining. This makes the resort useful for families who want Orlando fun without leaving the property every day.
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