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Fort Wilderness DVC ramping up
- Thread starter Goofy6294
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Pioneer Hall
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It's been the rumor for quite some time. I thought the STOLport area was the headquarters for the Grand Floridian DVC so if FW were to happen then I suppose it would make sense.
captainkidd
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Fort Wilderness seems like a VERY odd place for DVC, unless they're going to add a lot of amenities.
Pioneer Hall
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My guess is that they would. I would also expect it to function as its own resort and have much more direct transportation than FW has currently.
captainkidd
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Seems it would have to, or who would buy into it? The transportation there is a nightmare. Could be a good thing for FW though. If they could fix the lousy transportation issues, I'd love to stay there.
Here's the link:
http://www..com/2012/04/02/walt-disney-world-fort-wilderness-dvc-files-to-start-construction-soon/
Mods please remove if this is not appropriate. Looks like the plan in the blog is date April 2011. The article was dated 4/2/12, so I hope it wasn't a late April Fool's!
http://www..com/2012/04/02/walt-disney-world-fort-wilderness-dvc-files-to-start-construction-soon/
Mods please remove if this is not appropriate. Looks like the plan in the blog is date April 2011. The article was dated 4/2/12, so I hope it wasn't a late April Fool's!
Gregoryp73
Active Member
Does anyone know what the theme would be?? I don't think they would make it a FW DVC since they have the wilderness lodge so close...
Pioneer Hall
Well-Known Member
The themes of Wilderness Lodge are somewhat related, but still very different. The Wilderness Lodge is the pacific northwest around the turn of the 20th century. Fort Wilderness is more the rustic western from the 1800's (like Frontierland). They blend well together, but they still are very different.
slappy magoo
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...or arrange for rooms in the resort to have a lower point value, with a lower "buy-in" minimum, to attract guests who would otherwise feel DVC is out of their price range. Seriously, what if they just built more cabins comparable to what they have now, sleeps six, one bathroom, kitchen...so no studios, no grand villas, just a new loop of cabins...
...all the current amenities in FW is available to them...but nothing else is added on...
...and they went for around 120 points a week?
Probably not going to happen, but for a larger family that doesn't buy DVC because they would need more than one room but the 2BR that would sleep 8 it too cost-prohibitive, an arrangement like that might be the ticket.
Of course, there's also the rumor that River Country would be rehabbed and re-opened to be the "watering hole" of Fort Wilderness. If that were added into the mix, it might make a FW DVC worth more. Though from what I understand you really couldn't retro-rehab River Country, but environmental laws prohibit WDW from doing anything else to make it usable.
Makes sense to me. Have a DVC geared toward nicer, upgraded amenities for people who want to bring their travel trailer or motor coach. Nicer, larger pad sites, high speed intrawebs, nicer pools, nicer guest house, etc.
Makes a lot of sense, a budget DVC to provide some balance to the GF DVC...I tell you, though, if they could shoehorn some villas in at the Poly, I'd jump at that one...
Gregoryp73
Active Member
I believe they could redo the 3 buildings on the west side of the Poly to DVC...even if they tore them out (like they did with BLT) and built a 6-7 story aulani style building, it would be the perfect locale with enough room for a pool and close enough to the main building.