The Adventurers' Club was the best experience. They even had private afternoon parties from time to time that were open to anyone that really got into the theme during normal hours.

My name is Craig Dennis good morning to you i never miss your new videos you have a nice safe day today and you have a nice safe week and you take care today👍👍👍👍👍👍

I did two of my Disney college programs at Pleasure Island. I got to work at Adventurer's Club, not once but twice. It was the best job I've ever had.

This video was absolutely amazing! I had such a blast watching it. The way you combined history with modern Disney Springs was fantastic. You can tell you poured a ton of effort and time into making it just right. Your ability to switch things up and your sense of humor really made it so much fun to watch! Great job!

I remember as a kid I couldn't wait to be old enough to go to Pleasure Island. Then that day came and it was gone. 🤣 This was a great history lesson! There was way more to Pleasure Island than I even realized. And since I've only eaten at Disney Springs once, which was 3 months ago, I guess it's Chef Art Smith's Homecomin'? Haha.

I haven’t been to FL since Downtown Disney days. My fam (4 generations we travelled with from 🇨🇦) always loved Planet Hollywood there. To your credit - I’m not even a huge Disney fan and I watch every video you release! Hahaha. KZfaq algorithm suggested some of your friends to me and I’ve been watching for months! I watch your channels in particular for the laughs/good vibes. I love when Isabelle shows up - her dry humour is 🔥. The story line of your “sister” and “son” is hysterical!!!! 😂 #pityviewer

As one of your older (58) pity viewers I loved this one! Pleasure Island was so so much fun - it was New Year’s Eve every night - it was like one big party - everyone was walking around with their drinks and yes that rotating dance floor 😂 Me and my siblings would have so much fun and the bus ride back to the Disney hotels - drinking age was 19 - you can imagine lol So much fun - thnx for the trip down memory lane - love your channel you’re doing a great job and you remind me of my son 😊

Mannequins and 8Trax were the place to be on a Cast Member night. One of the best benefits of being a CM if you liked to go out.

I worked at Pleasure Island in early 90's, it was $13 entry fee, and only 21 and over wore wrist bands to get into 8 trax and manneguinn club.

I loved the rock-n-roll beach club and the band that always played, Panama! I lived in Tampa and we loved going there! Oh, and 8-Trax!!! Mannequins was 21 and up and I loved how entering you had to get into an elevator. You could go into the clubs if you were 16 but you had to be with your parents, we thought that was the coolest thing ever!

Love this video, Ryan! The history and humor is top notch. A fitting video for those of us who miss Disney in the 90s & early 2000s.

This is great, we went to Pleasure Island in 1991. The last time we visited in 2020 The Polite Pig was our favourite restaurant but, having seen so many vlogs since then we look forward to visiting some of the others when we return next year. Thanks for all the memories! Jo x

Sak Theater was/is a huge employer of improv actors in the Orlando area. Sak used to perform at EPCOT before opening Sak Comedy Lab in downtown Orlando.

Was fortunate enough to enjoy Pleasure Island to the fullest over a span of 10 years. It was one of a kind. Disney went from exciting clubs to boring eateries. But they needed to get rid of the legal risks that plagued the island.

Loved this video Ryan! This video unlocked a memory of visiting that improv show as a kid in the 90s with my parents. I don’t think I would have remembered it otherwise so thanks for that. I also never realized they kept all the buildings. I thought that they legit tore everything down and built from scratch. Learned a lot and was fun to watch. Throw that doubt away and keep ‘em coming! Also just so you know I’m not some pity viewer - on a whim visited Terralina last week and was actually pretty surprised at how good it was! Unsure if it’s my fav but feel like people sleep on it and they shouldn’t.

This video is awesome!! So nicely done. I was never able to visit Disney World until my early twenties so I was never able to see any of this. It’s so awesome to see how it’s become the Disney Springs we have today. Thank you for taking us back to the past and seeing things I would never be able to🥲❤️

This was great!! Can tell you put a lot of work into it- and it's a nice little switch- up from videos just showing what's currently going on in the parks :-) Between you, Kristen and Nate always talking up the Boathouse in your videos, Im on a mission to get there next trip! Can't believe I haven't yet!!

Pleasure Island was a lot of fun - every night was New Years Eve.

I remember being 16 and going to Videopolis and it was awesome.

Always a great video! I love anything that involves the history of theme parks! Since I’ve got so many kids- we prefer quick service at Disney Springs…Earl of Sandwich. The Thanksgiving. Still my favorite of all time!

I love this style of video. Sets you apart from other vloggers. The only Thing in remember about pleasure island was in the family matters epsiode where Steve Urquel and Laura danced haha Wild that there isn’t much documented video etc of these places.

Definitely gonna need more videos like this. Love it!

I got called up on stage in the Comedy Club and the Adventurer's Club in the same night! What a nice walk down memory lane, Ryan!

Awww I used to love the roller skating part at rock n roll

Downtown Disney was my childhood this video is pure nostalgia 🥺 Love this style of video too, you kill it all!

What a great video, fantastic!! I can just imagine the research and time this video took, thank you! This video brought back so many great memories, especially The Fireworks Factory. The mixing of the old and the new plus your great sense of humor made this video a joy to watch. Times have to change, but for a few minutes I was back at Downtown Disney. Great job!!

As someone who remembers this property as a kid back in the 80s, this was a really cool video. Great work

This video was amazing & I thoroughly enjoyed it ❤️ Not only was this a unique topic, but it was totally unexpected. Really, really loved this! & love being a pity viewer! 😊

Thank you for sharing! I really like this style of video. I'm headed to Disney in April 2024 and just so happens Disney springs is where we will be spending our first day. I'll be sure to share some of the history I have learned :)

Love this format, you’re videos are always on point. I remember going to BET soundstage in 1999. Was down there for spring break senior year of high school. Good memories.

My name is Tony Drumheller and this was a great informative video!!! My wife and I live in Michigan and we went here for our honeymoon 31 years ago! It was a blast!! Thanks for the memories. Have a great day!!!

It's still the Disney Village in this household hehe. I remember calling in that to a cast member a few years back and they genuinely looked at me with just a blank look

Great video!!

I loved this video!!

Great video! Please do more of these.

Pleasure Island was such fun. I went with my ex wife in 97, it was truly a great time.

I got to favorites…..1st being Chef Arts Home Coming and 2nd The Edison. Great video!

Hi Ryan! We really enjoyed the video. You definitely found your niche here very informative and brought back memories and nostalgia that were locked up in memory. Keep them coming 👍

This was amazing! Great job, Ryan! 👍🏻

love this video! refreshing to learn something new about a place so familiar to me! please continue to do these types of videos - I’ll watch every one!!

I’ve been the Pleasure Island many times and so I loved this vlog. It was so nostalgic to watch.

This was incredible! Thank you so much for all your hard work. Watching again 😊

Great video!! We enjoyed watching. You put so much work in your videos!!

Love this, Ryan!

Great video and you showed some things I hadn’t seen before in other Pleasure Island videos. Thanks!

LOVED the video today! Great look back at Pleasure Island days

I love videos like this...i love the history behind the new...next time I'm there will be much more interesting as i'm walking around. Great video!

Such a great video with amazing history 🙌

Amazing style vlog to say the least

Love this new style. I watch whatever you do, but this long form /post mortem content is my sh!

Wow brings back memories. I loved the adventurers club. Spent so much time there. I think your material is so fun to watch.

I really loved this vlog Ryan. Even though Pleasure Island wasn’t my thing, I remember it and loved how you pointed out where things were compared to what’s there now. I bet you & your sister are a blast to hang out with! Merry Christmas!

Love this video Ryan! Spencer here from MD. I grew up in Norcal and remember going to Videopolis in Disneyland in '88 or '89 and it was awesome!! Keep up with what you're doing man! 3k, here we come! Oh, and I love Homecomin the best at Springs

I love Boat house for sliders and Morimotos

Good Morning!! Very interesting facts!! It’s neat to see why things change. Thank you for doing all of the research and sharing it with us!! My favorite restaurant in Disney Springs is Raglan Road!! They have a lemon tart that is absolutely amazing!! I am looking forward to seeing your surprise travels this week!!

My first time at PI was in 1991. I loved it so much that I went twice a week for years. Mannequins was my 2001 Odyssey....Mike

Coming here from the test track video you just made, I love these history lessons so informative and I crave Disney knowledge 😂

Back in the early 90's, my favorite club was 8Trax, with it's 1970's disco theme and music...so much fun. Mannequins was fun, especially when you went up to the upper walkways and watched the drunks down on the dancefloor trying to enter and exit the rotating dance floor. Thursday night was employees night, with discounts for Disney property employees...which turned Mannequins into a defacto gay bar. Lolol. The Neon Armadillo was used for a CMT (Country Music Television) TV series for a few years with big country music stars of the day performing for the show. Every night at Pleasure Island was New Year's Eve, with a count down and big fireworks display at Midnight. The Fireworks Factory was an early night favorite of Disney Employees to get drunk at before they hit the clubs. Adventurers Club had a huge cult following, mostly Disney nerds who were really into the fantasy lore of the club and the island. The Comedy club was bigger for the tourists than the locals. It was all so much fun back then, I'm sorry it's all gone today...but then again, at 68 now, my clubbing days are long over. Lol...but great memories.

Great video . Thank you for featuring Disney Springs/ Downtown DIsney History. i ususally stay at Saratoga Springs across the water because I love traveling all the way from Long Island to stay at a Disney World resort named after a Upstate New York town. Just kidding. My favorite Disney Springs resturants are Raglan Road and House of Blues. Thanks for featuring them. I have not tried Marie and Enzo's but have tried Enzo's Hideaway. Loved it . I also like City Works. I will have to try the sliders at Boathouse. Again, great video. Thank you for the history lesson.

I love then and now history. Awesome vid. Never been to Disney Springs. Remember Downtown Disney, think I ate at earl of sandwich!😂

Really enjoyed this one too! No pity viewers here, just love your take on the parks.

Awesome throwback 🎉 I actually went there in 1997. I love Wine Bar George ❤

This is a great video! …. Also Boathouse

BIG respect and appreciation for all the research and work that went into making this video!! The pacing was great for all the information you had to cram in. ALSO, because the youtube algorithm is so terrible I wanted to let you know I found your channel through your lakeland antique mall video. It was recommended to me in a "theme park content" tab I clicked on :)

Excellent video. I will be sharing it with my daughters who all remember Pleasure Island. In fact one of them attended the last night of the Explorers Club. My favorite restaurant is The Boathouse, husband’s is Wolfgang Puck. We have never been to the Edison or Maria and Enzo’s but will be rectifying that on our next trip. Thanks!!

Great video! So glad those maps have been useful 😄 we did a bunch of shopping at Disney Springs but only had Starbucks so we don’t have a favourite restaurant yet… we’ve promised ourselves we’ll eat more next time

Great video! I miss the Comedy Club. It was truly the best!

In my mind it the 90s and I’m in a sick Panama pit at the Rock & Roll Beach Club while they play Domination by Pantera

I loved this style just like the Pooh election video. These show your true talents, and that you are not just a funny vlogger. I think mixing in some history, as well as your usual videos is a great way to change it up. As a teen, I went to Church Street Station. As an adult, I remember walking through Pleasure Island but did not enter the clubs I don’t think. Boathouse is so good so I never want to go elsewhere. Honestly, did not love the Edison, but did enjoy my one visit to Maria and Enzo’s.

Elizabeth from San Diego- I LOOOOOOVE these types of videos 😊

I’m so happy I ran across your video! I currently work at the Edison and I’m so happy you called us your favorite ^_^ Also from what I’ve heard about my restaurant is that Enzo’s hideaway (the restaurant just across Maria and Enzo’s.) was also apart of the adventures club too and I think some parts of Maria and enzos too! All 3 of those restaurants connect to eachother B)

Hi Ryan, my name is Kim M from the grey frozen north (where Frank in your video is from... I think he lives down the street). We really enjoyed this video as we love the history of the parks and surrounding area. Proud to say my husband and I were too young to visit / remember much of Pleasure Island. We did take our kids to "Downtown Disney." Unfortunately, our favorite Disney Springs restaurant no longer exists. It was the pineapple building formerly known as "Bongos." We don't get down there very frequently (hopefully changing that soon), so we haven't tried many restaurants. We have eaten at and really did like Polite Pig for a quick service location. While I know this type of vlog is harder to create, it's so worth it! Your voice is perfect for reciting historical information in an entertaining way which engages the viewer. More of this and more Isabelle please! :) Also... great cookie jar, we have the same one proudly displayed.

This was an awesome & informative video! Lots of things I didn’t know. “Downtown Disney” is so nostalgic to me and brings me back to my childhood 🥹 I would be more than happy to send you my address so you can personally hand deliver the filet mignon sliders 🤣🤣 they sound delish! My favorite restaurant in Disney springs is raglan road. I haven’t tried all of them though! They just have a great GF menu that I’m thankful for and it’s delicious! PS I’ll definitely be waiting for the next installment of the 💩 videos 😂👀

I would love to experience Pleasure Island as an adult today.

My name is Barbara Hotep and I met my ex husband at pleasure island during the New years celebration. We did more than kiss, and were happily married for 6 and a half years. Unfortunately he fell down an elevator shaft in Kankakee Illinois. Thanks for the memories

This was such a cool video. I would love if you did more kinds of vids like this, but I understand if I'm in the minority, it's okay. Happy to be a "pity" viewer of yours. :) Thanks for providing such a wealth of information about this stuff.

Hi, my name is Noelle Williams, lol, my favorite Disney Spring restaurant is Boat House also. You did a great job with this history. I myself one visited Pleasure Island only about two times. Mainly because my children were babies at the time. Also, because of another price tag just to get over the bridge. Over all, not great. The other side was better with the shopping. I did do the new years thing, and the comedy club was great. Awesome improv! I am sad that I never got the chance to do the adventures club. I thought skippers canteen would be similar, but sadly, it's not. They could have rebuilt it somewhere else, right? Disney Springs did a good job of adding more restaurants, but I still call it downtown disney.

Boathouse is not the best on property and I’m not even sorry. 😂 Loved this history lesson and style of video!

I had the pleasure of going to pleasure island a few times

Very well done looking forward to going to Art Smith restaurant when I go in 2025

I made it to the end of the video (which was great, btw), but we haven't eaten at Disney Springs.

Pleasure Island was the best. Best 3 places was 8 trax, adventure club and mannequins. Why loved 8 trax was the 70 and 80 themed stuff and the video screen. I would grt my first drink at the beach club. Why was for the sand bucket they made the drink in. Then you could take it to any bar and get a reduced price refill. They had coconut monkeys at adventure club. It was a great place because it was very Disney but with an adult swing to it. Then mannequins was fun The floor did go fast. But best time was during gay days it was so busy off the chain. They had to add outside bars to keep up on that weekend. I meet so many great friends from that. We still friends almost 20 years later.

I busted my butt on that rotating dance floor but it was worth it!!!

Wristbands? Wristbands?!? We don’t need no steenking wristbands! Admission to PI is included with your Ultimate Park Hopper ! A few months after 9/11 my now-wife’s already planned trip happened and she only booked 2-3 nights at All Star Sports and didn’t have a WDW Travel Co. package so no UPH. We had to buy tickets to PI from that charming ticket booth. As I recall it was the same sort of media entering the parks or Disney Quest. Either a plastic card like a room key or a Tyvek not-paper thingie. If you’re curious we stayed at Magic Castle (yes, that same dump in the Florida Project movie with Willem Defoe) for or Universal portion of the vacation. BUT our following trips we stayed on property all the time. And with booking a package you got the UPH. Just put your room key in and go through the turnstile like entering a park ! Those were the good old days (especially during the Disney 100 celebration) when the local riff raff couldnt barge in (unless they paid in which case they wouldn’t be riff raff). Then they got rid of the turnstiles and things went downhill. The last time we were there we just swiped our passes at the first club we entered and maybe then we got a wristband. That’s hard to remember. My memories are engraved with the “classic” experience. FWIW, I remember driving on Osceola Pkwy and Victory Way at night and seeing giant glowing Rubik’s Cubes. I couldn’t wait for Pop Century to open. The date kept getting pushed back. And when it did only 50s-90s opened. I have some telephoto shots of the other side were a handful of skeletal buildings awaited completion. Zooming in I could see 10s 20s 30s 40s outside the main hall. I’m still waiting for the other half to open. Won’t hold my breath.

great video but i feel the need to correct a few things! you were never able to pay at the door to get into each club! you always had to have a ticket purchased from the ticket booth that was scanned at the entrance to the clubs! The wrist band was only there to verify you were 21 and able to purchase alcohol! The new year’s eve show was always at midnight not 11 pm as stated in the video! This caused issues since the resort paid child care ended at midnight which never made any sense to me! This prevented a lot of guests from being able to stay for the new year’s eve show at midnight

Loved downtown Disney had my honeymoon there. Sadly hubby took me to fultons crab house he never had seafood before spent over $100 in food and we are sadly disappointed and still hungry went back to the hotel and had pb&js. Other than that absolutely loved downtown Disney

I worked at pleasure Island from 1998 to 2001

My favorite Disney springs restaurant is chicken guy.

Love the video, but one thing that gets me is the people who hold these dji / rode mics. There’s a clip for a reason! So many people do it lol.

Love him or hate him disney was special during the Eisner years

I use to work there and still have my name tag

Off topic, but do you have a tesla referral link? I'm in the market and would love for it to help someone who seems like a genuinely cool person! Btw I'm not a pity viewer.

Kids chicken fingers and fries at deluxe

This isn't pleasure island! Where's the model destruction? Where's the rough house? Where's the pickles and icecream?Where's the beer and cigars? This place has rules! Rules suck! I wanna speak to the coachman and give him a piece of my mind! 😅

Why don't u do the diarrhea videos anymore? They were my favorite

the bet crowd was why it started to go down. that is facts. this is why changed yet again. downtown disney was mostly us Floridians .

My name is Chris and great video as always dude! A different style for sure but i enjoyed it. I'll check out the Edison next time I'm at Disney springs. What concert did yall go to?

Boathouse and STK

Great video!