The Dark Truth About Disney's Vista Way Apartments

The Dark Truth About Disney's Vista Way Apartments for the Disney College Program. We talk to Disney Cast Members about move in day the DCP housing. We did a full complex & room tour of the DCP rooms. Walt Disney World theme parks are run by College Program students.
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[@samanthaaylward2891]

Oh man. I did the DCP in 2007 and I can confirm that the hot tub ABSOLUTELY needed to be filled in and never see the light of day again lol. One of my favorite stories was coming home after working a 16-hour shift on Easter, it must have been past midnight and that pool and jacuzzi looked like 1997 MTV Spring Break. I lived in an under 21 apartment but turned 21 while on the program. I was not allowed to have alcohol and used to hide it in the air vents in the ceiling during apartment inspections. The only rules they enforced at Vista were at the guard shack and if they found alcohol in your under 21 apartment.

[@KevinHeimbach]

LMFAO the air vents LOL

[@xxshortstuffxxo]

Can confirm 😂

[@matrevel9938]

hehe i was there in 2007 too july august ! worked at animal kingdom

[@caseymichigan7576]

How dare you!!! I’m a 1994-1995 DCP graduate and Vista Way alumni and these were some of the best days of my entire life. (also the hay day of pleasure island) we had a hot tub, we had a party tent, we had the big bamboo bar (look it up), we had a free happy hour at all the Orlando bars every day, we had both international and Americans living at the Way together (epic) I have MANY MANY stories, however this is a PG-13 channel. (I’m expecting a 23 and Me “surprise”any day) Let’s just remind you that Playboy named Vista Way one of the best place for college kids to be in the world. So, “keep my Vista Way out your damn mouth, Kevin!!” Thanks for the tour and yes my shoes are in that pond

[@devinsuni]

Nice war story! 😴

[@Its_The_Doise]

SHELBY!!!!! I remember her. That throwback clip of young Kevin interviewing her was nostalgic for those who binged all of Kevin’s DCP videos EDIT: since people are sharing, I’ll share what my ex experienced as a DCP. She lived over at Flamingo by Epcot and Blizzard Beach. Her apartment was nice but just to afford it 4 roommates had to share. It was actually huge, 2 beds in each room with a bathroom

[@emilyellemagic]

Amazing video and you were spot on with like where the busses would go, and the tubs definitely look the same. Would you be able to show the other DCP complexes (Patterson, Chatham, the Commons) even if it was just from the street? I'm so curious to see what they're doing with those locations now.

[@therealventures]

It seems like when Disney owned it, it was chaos and disgusting. Now that Disney doesn't own it, it's a lot cleaner and more sturdier. That's insane tho I didn't know about the things that happened there!

[@jameseddy7485]

But it $2000 a month.

[@Themeparkhero]

​@@jameseddy7485it was always a lot a month.. 2007 I was paying 100 dollars a week with 3 other room mates. 4×4×100=1600 and that was 15 years ago.

[@kellyh.5891]

@@jameseddy7485 i mean, with disney it was way more expensive bc they had 6 people and collecting rent from all of them. my rent was $116/week so it was like $2700 total.

[@Dave-ue8ce]

This brings back nostalgia. I actually worked for the security company that did security for Vista Way, Chatham, and Commons (Patterson Court didn't exist during my time 2002-2004). Met a lot of cool and interesting people during my time there. Wish I could befriend the people (most of the CPs were my age during that tenue, 22-24) that I talked too but the company I worked for was particular about fraternization so I didn't want to chance it. I always got a kick seeing the CPs walk to Walgreens and bring back 24 packs of beer and other alcohol onto campus. A couple of interesting things. The current Chick-fil-A is where a Bennigans used to be back in early 2000s. Also they got rid of that area down the street where Jungle Gyms used to be as well. Also no more left turns from Meadowcreek onto 535 either.

[@colojeeep]

My daughter was conceived at Vista Way, Winter of 1996 College Program, room 3811. I worked at Pleasure Island!

[@jpgnna]

And this is why I made sure to house in Patterson! DCEP 2018

[@moose583]

Thank you for this video! It's actually kind of wild seeing you walk around there but it's not "vista way" anymore.. Sad but at the same time kinda awesome any of us vista veterans could live there again.

[@SkipperHoss]

Man, Vista Way was such a weird moment in my life. DCP 2006(maybe, my memory is....) I remember someone chucking a couch in the pond and "swimming" to it to sit and eat a sandwich or something... classic. Also lost a pair of sandals to the pond. The chaos.

[@KittKat07]

The first rule about DCP Vista Way is that you do not talk about DCP Vista Way.

[@grantemmert2784]

Man oh man, this is throwing me back to your first few years on KZbin, great video as always! Guess it’s that time to hop in my time machine and rewatch your cp vids 😂

[@KevinHeimbach]

Little fetus Kevin LOL

[@vstylepro411]

Soooo many memories. CP 2000. I was in a 3 bdrm. I was in that 1st bdrm you showed and then moved to that back far room after we lost a roommate that was termed. My apt was right next to where you picked up the buses to go to work.

[@no_one_211]

Former on-site CM here. This video cracks me up. I didn't live at Vista Way, but the place was absolutely notorious all around the park and even possibly nationwide. I knew a ton of people who lived over there and I can honestly say that they were some of the worst people I have ever met. Lying, breaking safety rules, tons of alcoholism, promiscuity, protected and not, fighting, filth, and that goes also for the majority of the guards who worked there at the time that I saw them. Dealing with the people at Vista Way really ruined my faith in Disney as a company 😅 I'm not saying that all of the people who lived there were awful necessarily, just the dozens that I met, witnessed and knew personally. That's why my standards though. I see even in the comments that some people were fine with breaking the company rules with alcohol for example and betraying their agreements... to each their own, including the consequences.

[@user-sd8uo1sd5w]

They used to call it Vista Lay

[@brikan03]

$77 a week rent with five roommate’s so that works out to $1848 a month in 1997 and we made $7.10/hr. UTILITIES Included. So your buddy at 2k a month is getting quite a deal!!

[@PrettyPussyCat]

I did the DCP in 1997 too!! Started in Fall of 1997, and lived in Vista Way. Those pavilion parties though... LOLOL🤣

[@Skullscorpia4499]

I did the DCP from 2016-2017 and can CONFIRM all of this!!!! So many memories at these "lovely" apartments 😂

[@common_c3nts]

In 2006, Vista Way was just a normal college level apartment. Was not junky or a dump in any way. It was clean and just fine. Clubhouse was great. No complaints. As for the partying, it was an apartment complex full of college kids. Of course it was a party. So were the other disney apartments. I had an awesome time living in Vista Way. Jungle Jims was the cesspool bar you went to find someone dirty to hook up with. There was no ritual to throw your shoes in the pond, that must have been a one time thing. The new Flamingo is nice, but literally isolated and nowhere to walk to. But way closer to the parks for the bus ride. The price seems to be the same. I paid $700 a month in 2006 for rent. The flamingo shared bedrooms are $870 a month. Your own bedroom is $960 a month. Florida's minimum wage is $12 an hour, in 2006 we got $7.50 an hour and now CPs make $16 an hour. They now make $1,300 more a month before taxes.

[@moose583]

Vista Way was something special and if you lived there you know what I'm talking about. The current college program doesn't give the same vibes at all or reflect the same experience. Vista Way was like a tropical vacation resort for most of us coming from around the country/world- Flamingo crossings, while nice looking and clean, seems sanitized and sterile, corporate and lacks character. Vista Way.. all in our memories now.

[@jennithebeast]

that first room with the swiffer sure does look familiar... crazy that someone let you into those rooms without consent from them!

[@brikan03]

APT 2204 College Program 1997. I have been waiting years for this video. Everything you said about the debauchery is true and you are underselling it. The Norwegian CP indulged in providing “adult services”after hours if you will. Clients snuck into Vista in car trunks.

[@PrettyPussyCat]

OMG YESSSS!!! I remember some international students getting in trouble for offering "services"!! 🤣🤣🤣 That place was WILD.

[@SMDC2000]

very interesting little Kevin Adventure :) rent price is insane tho, but looked decent there at least (now, not how it was)

[@elisatalks]

Oh the MEMORIES!! I lived in Chatham during my CP in 2011 but I did end up at a Vista Way party once. A girl that I worked with got termed for trying to sneak into Vista in the trunk of someone's car

[@Kelsie129]

DCP 2016 alum Vista Way resident here. Our tub was so rusty and disgusting!!!

[@wrightdownmainstreet]

Omg this is so iconic. I love it 😂😂😂 I can’t believe how much it’s changed

[@texaswerewolf]

Wow! That brings back memories! I did the program back in 03 and its was pretty much how everyone said it was. However the people I met there were sone of the best people you could hope to meet. We were all in the same boat tight and survived our time there. One of the craziest things I remember was someone tossing a giant orca plush in the pond and setting it on fire. Ahhh good times.

[@orlandoflores942]

I was there in 95 and 96. There was also a safe in the closets. There was 6 of us in the apartment and they would take 85 dollars a week to pay for the place. I remember the mail was outside right by the bus stop. It was a great time back in the day. I have pictures somewhere

[@kello.jello9]

i lived in vista for my 2018 DCP, two different apartments, and omg. the first one was first floor so we had bugs and stuff but generally that apartment was just old and crusty- i wasn’t there for long. the SECOND ONE THOUGH. my bedrooms doorknob fell off one time, the bathroom air vent fell halfway off while my roomie was in there - the nails were so gross. and the microwave handle fell off i think?? this video made me so nostalgic 🥹

[@Koyaskye]

I did my DCP back in 2010, I lived in Chatham Square. But, I do remember going to Vista Way a few times to visit friends and yeah, the way you described them is exactly what I experienced lol I'm glad to see that this company cleaned them up and reusing them.

[@melaniemccready6169]

I lived there as a cultural Rep in 1993. I loved it!! I worked in the 🇨🇦 pavilion and we did "throw ins" when new Canadians arrived. Security hated us lol. We never threw shoes in the pond. Maybe that was just for the Americans

[@catie123456789]

The way this made me weirdly nostalgic lol

[@MRebeca]

I was there in 2002-2003. It was something else. Haha.

[@AVNewb]

I chose VW but got PC instead. Kinda glad that I got the newest complex even though it's the quietest and farthest one. And that old Chick-fil-A was a memory.

[@mikemorrison4125]

Hi Kevin, you always have awesome videos. Happy I found your channel and proud to be part of the family. Enjoy your day😊👊

[@KevinHeimbach]

What's your wildest DCP story?

[@jvaldez1896]

Got lucky once in one of those closets, surprisingly a lot of space in there. Wasn't that bad in 05, pretty clean and organized, but the reputation was always well known.

[@lisalewars9637]

Vista security literally had no cares in the world 😂😂😂 they literally wouldn’t check anything except your ID! Going to the other locations was like entering a prison for visitation 😂😂

[@lisalewars9637]

I AM DEAD!!! Lived in vista during DCP ‘16 😂😂😂😂

[@nuggetstump]

I stayed there 2019 and it was very tame at the time 😅 a few days before our program ended though, there was a burst pipe which completely flooded the apartment and they ended up ripping everything out. EVERYTHING.

[@maddygodt]

I was in an unrenovated vista apartment for fall 2018.. I was so mad that other people got renovated and paid the same price 😂 $108 a week for 6 of us, Disney was making $2600 a month off the crusty unit!! I would’ve paid $20 more a week to live at the commons 😅 but at least I can say I lived at vista wayyyy. I also hated that the bus was the last stop on the way back from work. It took over an hour to get home usually at like 2:30am. I wish I would’ve made more of my program, I was young and self-termed a month early but I live in Orlando now after moving back a few years ago and it’s way better on my own terms :)

[@dancingangel95]

Oh Patterson was for the old people 😂 stayed at vista slay twice

[@yearsoffear]

I worked Disney back in 2013 and never got invited to any Vista Way parties but heard about it. Wish I could went by there back in the day

[@loz_nz]

Lived in Vista Way 2017-18 and damn it looks so much fancier now!

[@roblutter]

I have many fond memories of Vista Lay (where my wife lived during her College Program and we met). There was some real freaky shit going down there 20 years ago, lol.

[@CaptCutshaw]

Man, I live about 15-20 minutes away from here and have a four bedroom, 2k square ft. house with a pool and am paying $1,950 a month rent on it. I wonder as you get closer to WDW if it raises like $100 a mile, a block or a foot.

[@andysorensen1737]

Here I was gonna mourn the Chick Fil A, but man, that new location is SWEET. The train is wholesome af.

[@joedavenport5293]

OMG I did the DCP in the fall of 2000 and that is where I stayed. APT 3901. We had a party on new years day 2001 at our apartment. I remember be against it because I would go to parties at other apartments and man, I did not want ours to be that tore up.

[@JoshuaNicholas650]

Seeing all the throwback clips made me realize Kevin did not age well 😅😅😅

[@KevinHeimbach]

8 years of living and working in Orlando does a lot to you LMFAO

[@missmiss2721]

When I was in the program, I slept in the closet of the room I was assigned to because the roommates and guys across the way partied too much and I couldn't sleep. LOL Eventually, I transferred to an apartment with quieter inhabitants.

[@Rebecca-zp4gm]

Omg!!! Apple juice guy - such a legend. Does Jacob still get drunk and enjoy 4 items for $4 from Wendy’s?

[@doing-things-differently]

Best summer of my life 😂 Being british, I never got to experience the US college experience. Doing a summer here felt pretty close 😁 Circa 2005. The apartment below us, def shouldn't have been placed there. They called security on us about 25 times.

[@mikeholczer]

When I was a CP in 2000, had a coworker that was in the apartment our manager was in when she was a CP like 10 years prior, and she correctly described the stain still on the couch.

[@elizabethnausicaa]

CP 2006. I lived in vista way. I threw my shoes in the lake. I still have the pics. The parties were crazy but the drug culture was WILD. It was so much worse than all of this. The dark underbelly is WILDLY understated.

[@hootowl2112]

Apt 1402 in 2006. One of my roomies was on too many Coricedens down at the hot tub and claimed he saw the devil.

[@sea_bahaha]

My FIRST WEEK at vista, a drunk neighbor of mine that i’ve never met came into my apartment late at night and relieved himself all over our living room and bathroom. i woke up with cops and paramedics in my living room. 🥲

[@Sergeofsocal]

Damn Kevin from what I’m hearing that sounded like the place to be!!! I definitely missed out!!!

[@Codogcodog]

I lived at The Commons Spring 2016 and Chatham Fall 2017, great times at all the apartments!

[@lauredesrentes9100]

The best part of my young life in 1994 1995. It was great to live with young People coming from China Mex Germany... How do you dare.. The vest expérience in my life. And i am Still keeping touch with my friends.

[@ninabeena83]

I appreciate this. I would have lived at Vista (and probably been mad about it) if I hadn’t eschewed my DCP offer for a PI. Thanks for showing the Wendy’s, many many a late night meal was had there 🍔 Closed Chick is also something I have literally never seen lol

[@WanderAndMagic]

2006 Vista Way DCP kid here! 18 years ago. Yikes lol!

[@jazziegurl09]

The closets at Patterson were definitely very small.

[@richardsantiago429]

their apartment complex was across disney mk cast members entrance. i see bus drop college programs at entrance .

[@grantdavidson1783]

having flashbacks to my 8 months at Vista lay 😳

[@LittleFootProduce]

Me realizing Disney was making bank on us since they charged rent. I just did the calculations and for my apartment in vista way with 6 people total they were taking back $2,304 a month for my apartment alone and we were the cheapest apartment for my program.

[@jammedback]

Had this crazy roommate while doing DCP, made videos all the time to put on KZbin. He had me and another CP do a whole pirate challenge that he filmed for a vid. I wonder what happened to him.

[@lourdesaponte5810]

I did the DCP in 2009, and I did live at Vista. I didn't remember being that bad. I have one of the best times of my life there 😂

[@LittleFootProduce]

I was a DCP in 2009 I remember getting out of work at the end of the night and would get off the bus which had roaches btw but people would be doing the deed in the hot tub. Vista way was ratchet but it was home 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SammyIAm819]

Wow this brought back so many memories good and bad 😂 I did two stints at Vista Way

[@mcgravybiscuit]

CP May 2009 - Jan 2010 I was at what is now 13501 Oak Pond Cir. top floor apt overlooking the pond. Crazy to see it now.

[@jameseddy7485]

You kids have so good that room that you said was so small. I lived in an off campus dorm in 1989. In that room would been i single and bunk style bed and 3 desk. Then a smaller room with a bunk bed and 2 desk. The 5 guys shared one bathroom.

[@starshine3940]

Gross I bet!

[@jameseddy7485]

Surprisingly since it was so small we keep it clean. Now 3 sweaty guys in that space may have not smelled good lol.

[@matertater2]

Man thought we would hear the corn story but also. Did you see the boot print on that table in Chick-fil-A

[@kbaccari88]

$2000/mo seems high. Orlando is expensive.

[@therealventures]

12:55 1st time seeing an abandoned Chick-fil-A 😮 that's crazy!

[@legionofdoom1939]

1900/mo for a place like that is absolutely outrageous 😵‍💫

[@CHR0MARC]

In 2018 I lived at Vista Way. One morning I was awoken to a smokey smell. I thought to myself, huh that's odd. I opened the door to the common area to see one of my rooming towel whipping a giant fire on the stove and then another roommate walked out and said holy f*** I'm going back to bed now. I got the fire extinguisher to put out the fire. Funny thing is the smoke detector didn't go off for a good couple of minutes while the fire was occurring. Vista Way security didn't seem to concerned about all the burn marks all over the wall and panty when they brought another fire extinguisher.

[@HeyItsMeeTee]

OMG PLS!!!!!I did the DCP summer 2019 through spring 2020 (covid lockdown). She wasn't pretty and she wasn't very clean, but she was my beautiful Vista!!!! Honored to call myself a "vista way baby" and the last group to ever have lived at Vista Way before it closed for COVID (yes I was given THREE DAYS to pack everything and vacate the state........). So many amazing drunken memories here (honestly don't know how I made it home safely some nights)! Prime location for Walgreens, Dunkin, Starbie, and Chick-fila. Honestly as a 22 year old, there was nothing better! I miss my little ceiling gecko who lived outside my front door everyday (I think it was dead tbh) but we named him Rufus (because he lived on the ceiling)! You will forever have my heart apartment #2709! I would love to rebuy my old apartment becuase it really was the peak of my life!!! Huge ceiling!

[@SirSpaceboots]

seems fine lol they're kids. You should see a college dorm or off campus student housing

[@TheyCallMeFouts]

Vista way 1307 in fall advantage 2004!!!! Hahaha it’s as wild as what people’s stories are. They just started putting in internet in the apartments when I was there. During hurricane charley we had people jumping off the roof into one of the ponds. So did the chick fila take over the old Bennagins (sp?)?

[@brisbanenight]

oh how i love hearing about the DCP

[@christiancedeno9846]

😂😂😂 it was crazy

[@maddisonmccormick2578]

I lived at flamingo crossing when it first opened and there were a lot of crazy things people doing there i also lived in building 2 on my last program are walls are so thin you could hear what other people were doing in the apartment above you 😂

[@kyle5555]

Wow. So weird. I stayed in 3208. RIP! lol

[@alexis.hartman04]

Im starting the DCP in may 😂. Im staying at Flamingo tho

[@ballbag]

$2000 a month for that? In the UK you could rent a 5 bedroom detached house for that.

[@alexandriabowser6105]

They just moved the Chic Fil A down the street next to the McDonalds

[@peggyfillmore1971]

8.00 for gas ...we are paying only about 3.00 in Ma ..and Ma is expensive to live in 🤣

[@stevenolson7167]

I lived at Vista Way in 1996-97. I found out the hard way that if you ever put a pair of denim jeans in the shared washers, they would be stolen mid-cycle. Everyone just hand washed and hung-dried their jeans in the sink. And I never got laid. Worst!

[@thegsk]

i'm sure every lay came with a free std so be glad u didn't..

[@Campspencer]

Totally disagree I did the College Program in 1993 and the place was beautiful back then and had the most amazing time. 30 years later I still hang out with many Disney Alum

[@JimEpcotLive]

I lived at Vista Way it was fun

[@Azerod]

That wendy's was always the coldest wendy's in the world.

[@markritchie8740]

Vista Way 2009 Resident

[@nuggetstump]

VISTA WAAAAY VISTA WAAAAAY

[@eric-mouse]

how many vista way babies have been born? that’s gotta be a thing. they probably have their own fbook group er somethin. 🤔

[@MrFunkadeIic]

Vista Way improved but your friend seems to have never left. I have never seen an air filter black. That's disgusting

[@dancingangel95]

I had more bugs in Chatham actually

[@ChelsLynneD]

Vista Slayyy lol gosh fun times and some drama there 😂 I lived with 5 others. We embraced it lol lucky we never had bed bugs or anything. I was a CM in 2016. Time sure flies. Gosh based on some of the things you said and others back then.. we got SO lucky with our apartment it seems. Never went to any crazy parties as I had only just turned 20 while there and I wasn’t about to get caught drinking and being sent home. We had Italian guys live below us and almost every single night they’d be chanting about soccer. We ended up liking it haha passionate also roommates and I ate wayyy too much cicis and McDonalds lol #3608

[@ChelsLynneD]

Omg the ducks and geese 😂

[@Pumba368]

Kev, help me. Just saw what I thought was a massive Easter Egg in the Simpsons ride in Universal. On the TV screen in the holding area was a picture saying Haunted Villa closed for Annual Ghostbusting? Is this a coincidence or sign of good things to come?

[@StevenSimz]

this has nothing to do with this video lol but they have been doing Annual Ghostbusting since the ride opened

[@supersanic1254]

So glad I didn't have to live in these trash apartments when I was DCP. Place was a dump, and the people weren't much better lol

[@heather957]

Vista Waaaaaay

[@akcalo]

Vista waaaaaay

[@MK_1Ultra]

It's a program, they won't spend money on some snot nose kids they are training to be professionals.

[@Jemmyjammer]

Vista Slayyyyyy