Celebration Golf Club: what it costs, how it plays and how close it is to Disney

Celebration Golf Club is a public daily-fee course in the Disney-built town of Celebration, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr. and opened in 1996, their last joint design. Rates are dynamic online and were not published on the club's home page in November 2026. The course is about 10-15 minutes from Animal Kingdom or Magic Kingdom by the course's estimate.

The research calls it a tidy, solid mid-priced choice for family trips based in Kissimmee. This guide covers what the files say about the layout, how to find a rate, the drive to the parks, and where to stay and eat. Where a fact is not published, we say so.

Quick facts

• Access: public daily-fee; online tee times on the club site; 407-566-4653.
• Design: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr., opened 1996.
• Address: 701 Golf Park Dr, Celebration, FL 34747.
• Rates: dynamic online; not on the home page in November 2026.
• Local discount: Florida Elite Card holders book through a member login.
• To the parks: about 10-15 minutes to Animal Kingdom or Magic Kingdom (estimate).
• From downtown Orlando: 31 minutes, 21.5 miles (free-flow).
• Google rating: 4.4 from 1,065 reviews.

Celebration Golf Club rates

The honest answer is that our files hold no published green fee for Celebration Golf Club. Pricing is dynamic on the club's online booking, which usually means the price moves with the season, the day and the time. The local Florida Elite Card program gives card holders a member login, but its price and discounts were not read.

To put a likely price in context, here is what neighbouring public courses showed or published:

The research places Celebration in the mid-priced band. Book the earliest or latest times for value: Orlando mornings in January to April go first, and summer afternoons bring storms. For a city-wide view, see Orlando golf rates and cheap golf in Orlando.

The layout

Celebration Golf Club runs through lakes, oaks and wetlands on the edge of the town, the last course the two Trent Joneses designed together. Par, yardages, ratings and slopes are not in our files; the research did not find a scorecard, and no overseed dates were published either. If you are choosing tees for a mixed-ability family, ask the shop for the card when you book. Our Celebration course guide shows the course on the map.

Distance to Disney and the parks

That makes it one of the easiest courses for a family based on Disney's south side or in a Kissimmee vacation home. A dawn tee time leaves most of the day for a park, or one golfer can play while the family has a slow morning. I-4 and US-192 traffic often adds 15-45 minutes at park opening and closing. More in golf near Disney World.

A park-day plan around Celebration Golf Club

Celebration works best as the golf half of a family day on Disney's south side. A simple shape:

• Early morning: the first tee time at Celebration Golf Club, booked online ahead. Mornings are cooler in every season and, from June to September, beat the afternoon storms.
• Late morning: back to the hotel or vacation home to collect the family; Animal Kingdom or Magic Kingdom is about 10-15 minutes away by the course's estimate.
• Evening: dinner on Front Street in Celebration village, or Disney Springs, about 16 minutes from the town centre.

On a rest day between parks, the whole family can walk Celebration's lakefront while one golfer plays. For a week, pair Celebration with Mystic Dunes and Falcon's Fire, which are also on Disney's south side, and keep one round for Disney's own courses. Snowbirds based in Kissimmee can add it to a weekly rotation; ask the club about the Florida Elite Card, whose terms were not read for our files. Our Orlando golf family vacation guide has a full week.

Where to stay near Celebration Golf Club

Drive times below are to the course, from our hotel records:

• Gaylord Palms: 7 minutes; no golf of its own; $51.53 resort fee.
• Clarion Inn & Suites Kissimmee-Lake Buena Vista South: 10 minutes, on the US-192 budget strip.
• Hampton Inn & Suites South Lake Buena Vista: 11 minutes.
• Orlando World Center Marriott: 12 minutes; Hawk's Landing on site; $52.87 resort fee plus $40 self-parking.
• Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott Grande Lakes: 17 minutes; their own Greg Norman course.
• RV: Tropical Palms is 8 minutes and Sherwood Forest 9 minutes.

Resort fees are from a third-party list dated November 2026 or earlier; room rates are not in our files. For vacation homes nearby, read Orlando vacation homes for golf.

Eating and things to do in Celebration

Celebration's village, on Market Street and Front Street, is a Disney-planned town centre with a lakefront walk and restaurants, minutes from the course. Two after-golf options from the research:

• Columbia Restaurant: a Spanish-Cuban restaurant on the lakefront Front Street, a few minutes from the course.
• Celebration Town Tavern: a casual seafood-and-pub restaurant on Front Street.

Prices and hours were not read.

Other courses near Celebration

• Mystic Dunes: Gary Koch's rolling, sandy public course on US-192; see the Mystic Dunes course guide.
• Falcon's Fire: Rees Jones, 1993, by Disney's main gate and built for outings.
• Hawk's Landing: a short par 70 at the World Center Marriott, about five minutes from EPCOT (course estimate).

Read Kissimmee golf courses for the rest of the area.

When to play Celebration Golf Club

November and early December are the sweet spot: NOAA normals at MCO give about 78F highs in November, and they are the driest months. Thanksgiving week and Christmas-New Year are the busiest park weeks, so tee sheets near Disney fill on holiday mornings. January to April is peak, with spring breaks and Canadian March break in March. June to September is cheapest, but storms come on 14-17 afternoons a month, so take the first tee times. Summer families on the Gulf coast face the same trade-off; see Destin family golf trip.

Plan it on the map

Open the Orlando golf map to see Celebration Golf Club with the hotels and courses around it. The $49 plan can fit rounds at Celebration around your park days, or include it in a winter weekly rotation from a Kissimmee base.