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Refurbishment coming to Disney's Grand Floridian Resort lobby
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James Alucobond
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Disone
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All true except the lobby refurbishment for 1st and 2nd floors will not start at this time. At this time they are doing:
1900 park fare
Concierge lounge
All guest rooms of main building.
The construction you see on the first floor is not really construction. Rather it's a staging point/ area for the crane that will be used to do the work on 3rd 4th and 5th floors.
IanDLBZF
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So I'd expect 1900 Park Fare to reopen September?
Disone
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Unsure. There are other factors at play besides the actual refurbishment of the restaurant itself.
Disone
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This is correct.
ToTBellHop
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Hopefully, they use this extra time to consider how much they really want to change. That report also claim they’ve delayed work on “building 5”. Not sure what that means. The 5000s rooms are Sago Cay. Didn’t they just finish remodeling there?
WaltsTreasureChest
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Where’s the concept art for it
aladdin2007
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I love the marble floors in the lobby and upstairs, I hope they don't go and downgrade that....
Disone
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There is none. Actual lobby is still in design phase.
Monkee Girl
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Has anyone stayed here the last few weeks? My trip is coming up (August 22) and I was just curious how the lobby was doing
nickys
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Seems the lobby is just being used as staging for other areas for now. Walls are up but no work has been done on the lobby yet.
This thread has recent pictures and an explanation:
News - First (Small) Part of Grand Floridian Lobby Refurbishment Completed
The construction walls have shifted to now encompass the whole side of the lobby closest to the lagoon. A small portion next to the main entrance is now open to guests. No obvious changes were made.
Monkee Girl
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thanks so much!Seems the lobby is just being used as staging for other areas for now. Walls are up but no work has been done on the lobby yet.
This thread has recent pictures and an explanation:
News - First (Small) Part of Grand Floridian Lobby Refurbishment Completed
The construction walls have shifted to now encompass the whole side of the lobby closest to the lagoon. A small portion next to the main entrance is now open to guests. No obvious changes were made.forums.wdwmagic.com
Not much is really new. They've covered this old bird cage to protect from paint, which seems to indicate that it isn't going anywhere.
But if anyone has considered switching resorts before lobby work is complete then I'd suggest switching because they're not running on all cylinders right now. The construction itself is one thing, it's all over the main building and qhether that's bothersome will vary person to person, but what's annoying is that it feels like everyone is just barely hanging on and in a few hours we've had multiple negative experience. Gasparilla Grill is having tech issues with mobile orders charging guests for items that dont make it to kitchen team. And weirdly pool bars closed at 6pm ... on a Saturday night ... in July. One pool bar said the other should be open.
CMs are nice but it just feels like poor management in multiple areas, and that's stuff I can't pixie dust explain away.
But if anyone has considered switching resorts before lobby work is complete then I'd suggest switching because they're not running on all cylinders right now. The construction itself is one thing, it's all over the main building and qhether that's bothersome will vary person to person, but what's annoying is that it feels like everyone is just barely hanging on and in a few hours we've had multiple negative experience. Gasparilla Grill is having tech issues with mobile orders charging guests for items that dont make it to kitchen team. And weirdly pool bars closed at 6pm ... on a Saturday night ... in July. One pool bar said the other should be open.
CMs are nice but it just feels like poor management in multiple areas, and that's stuff I can't pixie dust explain away.How's the exterior looking? I'm supposed to stay at the DVC building end of August and I've been contemplating switching resorts if the scaffolding/exterior construction wraps around the main building to face the DVC one. I don't want to hear the banging/see the scaffolding from over there. Thanks.Not much is really new. They've covered this old bird cage to protect from paint, which seems to indicate that it isn't going anywhere.
But if anyone has considered switching resorts before lobby work is complete then I'd suggest switching because they're not running on all cylinders right now. The construction itself is one thing, it's all over the main building and qhether that's bothersome will vary person to person, but what's annoying is that it feels like everyone is just barely hanging on and in a few hours we've had multiple negative experience. Gasparilla Grill is having tech issues with mobile orders charging guests for items that dont make it to kitchen team. And weirdly pool bars closed at 6pm ... on a Saturday night ... in July. One pool bar said the other should be open.
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aladdin2007
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wowNot much is really new. They've covered this old bird cage to protect from paint, which seems to indicate that it isn't going anywhere.
But if anyone has considered switching resorts before lobby work is complete then I'd suggest switching because they're not running on all cylinders right now. The construction itself is one thing, it's all over the main building and qhether that's bothersome will vary person to person, but what's annoying is that it feels like everyone is just barely hanging on and in a few hours we've had multiple negative experience. Gasparilla Grill is having tech issues with mobile orders charging guests for items that dont make it to kitchen team. And weirdly pool bars closed at 6pm ... on a Saturday night ... in July. One pool bar said the other should be open.
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Three are construction walls around the main building for staging but I can't remember if the scaffolding wraps around to face the original DVC building.
There's scaffolding on the main building, for sure on the back side all the way up to the roof. I was in Big Pine Key (DVC resort studio). I did see a little bit of main building if I looked for it. But the way the building is situated you don't see the main building and scaffolding unless looking for to left. Here's my room view:
Main building is out of the photo to left. So I don't think DVC room view is a problem from Bug Pine. The rooms aren't a problem and are, in my opinion, very well done. Even the original DVC buildings are at least distanced that it shouldn't be too bad on view, if you even end up in one of the few rooms that'd see the main building.
But walking around you can't really avoid it. For example, they had to carve out a walkway through scaffolding to get to Gasparilla. My advice to avoid is more that it is just not as enjoyable as it will be after they've wrapped up work.
Another thought unrelated to the lobby specifically, but at the main pool bar and restroom buildings they stopped replacing the individual bulbs on the roof and so many are now out. It looks terrible. Are lightbulbs a big deal? No, but it's a middle finger to guests spending big money (not me, we were on points) that the resort doesn't take the time to keep the resort looking its best.
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