Disney counts down five hidden details in the refurbished Treehouse Villas

By entgrove · August 7, 2026

Disney Vacation Club's Details We Dig series has posted an official walkthrough of the refurbished three-bedroom Treehouse Villas at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort, naming the characters worked into the murals, tiles and carvings of each room. The countdown runs from a Fox and the Hound mural above the primary bed to Bruni hiding under the dining bench, and the villas are back on sale in Disney's booking system.

Disney Vacation Club has posted an official walkthrough of the refurbished Treehouse Villas at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort, and it doubles as a scavenger hunt list. The new Details We Dig episode counts down the Disney Files staff's five favorite touches inside the three-bedroom villas, naming the character art worked into the murals, tiles and carvings of each room.

An official tour, not a fan walkthrough

The Treehouse Villas sit on the forested banks of the Sassagoula River, on the far edge of Saratoga Springs, and the narrator calls them "among the most unique accommodations you'll find anywhere at Walt Disney World Resort." Details We Dig is made by the staff of Disney Files Magazine, the Disney Vacation Club member publication, so what the video points at is Disney naming its own design choices rather than a fan guessing at them. The episode describes the three-bedroom villas as newly refurbished, and the look it lands on is treehouse living read through New England craftsmanship and the Arts and Crafts movement.

Five: Todd and Copper over the primary bed

The countdown opens in the primary suite, where a mural above the bed shows Todd and Copper chasing a butterfly through the woods. The pair come from the 1981 animated feature The Fox and the Hound, and the video presents the mural as one of several in the villa built around Disney characters "who feel at home among the trees." Two other touches in the same room get a mention: hidden Mickeys carved into the nightstands, and a bathroom with what the narration calls one of the neighborhood's most spacious showers.

Four: Sleeping Beauty and the shape of the trees

The second bedroom carries a mural of woodland creatures from the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, branching out above the bed. The staff's pick there is not the animals but the trees, which reproduce the geometric shapes Disney Legend Eyvind Earle used to build that film's forests. The narration goes a step further, placing Earle's style, described as "playfully bridging fantasy with reality," in the movement known as magic realism, then borrowing the phrase for the reimagined villas themselves.

Three: a kids room designed to sleep three

The third bedroom is built for children and sleeps as many as three. Bunk beds back onto a mural of woodland creatures from 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and even the throw pillows on the bunks carry artwork inspired by Snow White's forest friends. Across the room, under the television, a foldaway bed hides a mural of two resting raccoons. Those are not generic woodland animals. They come from Far From the Tree, the 2021 Walt Disney Animation Studios short that ran in theaters ahead of Encanto, about a curious young raccoon whose protective parent struggles to keep them both safe.

Two: framed art and the insect tiles above the kitchen

Not all of the art is painted on the walls. Framed pieces around the villa cover the flora and fauna of 1951's Alice in Wonderland and Maximus the horse from 2010's Tangled. The pieces the Disney Files staff single out are the craftsman style tiles displayed above the kitchen, each one an insect from a Disney film or short:

• Cri-Kee, the lucky cricket from 1998's Mulan
• Evinrude, the dragonfly from 1977's The Rescuers
• Ray, the firefly from 2009's The Princess and the Frog
• Squeaks, the caterpillar turned butterfly from The Fox and the Hound
• Spike, the bee who tormented Donald Duck across numerous shorts before becoming a mainstay of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

One: the carvings you have to hunt for

The top spot goes to sculpted characters tucked into the woodwork, which take the most looking. Above a beam framing the kitchen are two of the bluebirds who helped with the housework in 1950's Cinderella. Under the nearby dining table, hiding beneath the bench, is Bruni, the lizard from 2019's Frozen 2. Back in the kids room, Gus the mouse is carved into a leg of the bunk bed, a second Cinderella nod in the same villa. The video ends by saying there are plenty more to find and asking viewers which detail is their favorite.

Whether the villas are bookable now

The episode talks about the refurbishment in the past tense, and Disney's own booking system agrees: the Treehouse Villas are back in cash inventory at Saratoga Springs and returning live rates. A check on August 6, 2026 returned an available Treehouse Villa for a four night stay beginning September 8, 2026 for four guests, at an advertised average of $1,173.50 per night before tax, with the nightly rate running $1,090 for the first three nights and $1,424 for the Friday. A five night stay in January 2027 for six guests came back at an average of $1,233.80 per night.

Availability is not blanket. A five night window in mid October returned a length of stay restriction instead of a rate, and so did five of the seven room types at the resort on those dates, so the villas are worth checking date by date rather than writing off after one search. The villas are also Disney Vacation Club inventory, which is why the video carries Disney's standard timeshare solicitation disclosure in its description.

What this means for guests planning a stay

Three bedrooms on the water with a kids room built for three is a rare shape at Walt Disney World, and the rate reflects it. A Treehouse Villa costs more per night than most standard rooms, but it sleeps a group that would otherwise be booking two or three of them. For anyone already holding a reservation, the video works as a checklist: Todd and Copper over the primary bed, Earle's trees in the second bedroom, the raccoons under the television, the insect tiles above the kitchen, and Gus carved into the bunk bed leg. Rates and dates are on the Saratoga Springs page at DisneyWorld.com.