Which Magic Kingdom Resort Fits an End-of-the-World Tale?

In the premise of The Last Man at the Happiest Place on Earth, a Walt Disney World custodial employee named Jim wakes to find the rest of humanity gone after an apparent plague. The character chooses to remain on Disney property, making Disney’s Contemporary Resort his initial home base.

The book’s author says the Contemporary was selected in part for its location near Magic Kingdom, where Jim plans to spend his days. In the accompanying fictional survival comparison, the author also points to the resort’s large A-frame interior, multiple exits, guest rooms and dining locations including Contempo Cafe and Chef Mickey’s as reasons it works for the character’s imagined needs during severe Florida weather.

Jim later moves to Disney’s Wilderness Lodge. The author describes that resort’s rooms, restaurants, large lobby, fireplace, store and arcade as features that make it feel more livable for the story’s lone survivor, while keeping much of the experience under one roof.

The comparison is explicitly fictional and opinion-based. The author views Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa and Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort as less suitable for the scenario because their guest accommodations are spread across multiple buildings. Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, meanwhile, is portrayed as too isolated, with cabins farther from Magic Kingdom and without a connected hotel-lobby setting.

The author says he does not know which Magic Kingdom-area resort would actually be safest in an end-of-the-world situation; the exercise is meant to explore the choices made for the novel.