HauntedMansionFLA
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How many hotel rooms would this bring Universal up too since they are going up against Disney?
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JoeCamel
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10,000 + partners
HauntedMansionFLA
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Wow, pretty impressive. Plus they have a lot of new lands coming up plus a third park. Love the theme park wars.
WDWBigEd
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Orlando Business Journal has renderings
Here are some highlights:
The theme park filed plans with the city of Orlando for a development with 4,000 hotel rooms that will encompass two or three branded hotel properties. "Hotels will be branded/themed to complement existing on-site Universal hotels, and will feature resort-style landscaping, resort amenities including retail and food and beverage outlets, resort-style pools and other resort features in keeping with the brands for each respective property," said the plans.
A traffic study said the 4,000 hotel rooms will be split into 1,200 rooms on the west side of Universal Boulevard and the remaining 2,800 rooms on the east side.
Industry insiders said Universal was looking at the potential to build up to 4,000 rooms on the former water park parcel that would have inspiration similar to Walt Disney World's All-Star Resort properties. They added that requests for proposals are being gathered.
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/...orlando-shares-a-look-at-hotel-plans-for.html
Here are some highlights:
The theme park filed plans with the city of Orlando for a development with 4,000 hotel rooms that will encompass two or three branded hotel properties. "Hotels will be branded/themed to complement existing on-site Universal hotels, and will feature resort-style landscaping, resort amenities including retail and food and beverage outlets, resort-style pools and other resort features in keeping with the brands for each respective property," said the plans.
A traffic study said the 4,000 hotel rooms will be split into 1,200 rooms on the west side of Universal Boulevard and the remaining 2,800 rooms on the east side.
Industry insiders said Universal was looking at the potential to build up to 4,000 rooms on the former water park parcel that would have inspiration similar to Walt Disney World's All-Star Resort properties. They added that requests for proposals are being gathered.
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/...orlando-shares-a-look-at-hotel-plans-for.html
Disneyhead'71
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New rumors are that one hotel will be Cirque du Soleil themed and the other will be DreamWorks themed and the complex will include a Cirque produced DreamWorks show.
Well, that would explain La Nouba getting the axe. Not sure these are the most appealing themes for a hotel though.
JoeCamel
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Expect a Cirque show back at DS. It will have plenty of DIS$ IP shoved in it. Gee, I thought I went to see them for their original, unique brand of entertainment. Guess I was wrong all these years and what I really wanted was toons mixed in with my acrobatics.
trr1
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JoeCamel
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They have had a year to do it. Doubt it if it didn't happen by now.
trr1
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JoeCamel
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Been up for sale for a year. Think those guys are official arms of the company? They could have taken an option on it at any time. They have not exercised such an option to date. It did not come up for sale 3 days ago.
trr1
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not sure
JoeCamel
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Can you say Gondolas?
trr1
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how about subways/submarines
OliveMcFly
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Is the area completely cleared now? I follow Bio Reconstruct on Twitter and the last I saw a few things remained.
When I drove by it a few weeks ago I don't remember seeing anything still there, all looked like dirt
Gabe1
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I have mixed emotions. I have no problem staying four nights at the Portofino. An awesome resort. Such Charm. We split stay usually We actually didn't hit Uni, we abruptly changed our plans and stayed at Disney this trip as Hurricane Irma was in the middle of our trip. Not knowing what it would be like outside the world we stayed put vs Themepark/Resort hopping which is our norm. I can write a pro con list what is better what is worse on the topic of Disney Vs Uni. But with my stays at Wilderness Lodge in September this year Uni wins the transportation battle. The launches from the Portifino to the Hub are timely and fast. Once you are in the hub there your need to commute and waste time is over. It was designed very well. Wilderness the only complaint for a Deluxe was their transportation. It shouldn't take me 40 minutes to go to or leave the MK. It is a 5 minute bus ride. Not much more for the direct boat route. It wasn't a glitch cause it happened every trip with the MK. The other parks we were in tandem with the Contemporary as well with Springs. The added time to drive almost to the MK stopping at the Contemporary and then back tracking to the parks or Spring made for very long commutes. I didn't get it, the parks were all walk ons for us because of Irma yet the transportation system still couldn't keep up before or after Irma. Uni did it right with a central hub. At certain times of day from the Portfolio we will slip into the dock of the Hard Rock but it is all along the same channel and same in reverse. It is moments not roads away. I'm impressed with how Uni has a great grasp on their transportation. Something Disney still struggles with, keeps changing up and yet still fails upon. Uni doesn't need a $20 Minnie Mouse van.
Our solution to an expensive vacation of almost 2 weeks at the Wilderness Lodge (which we do love) was to pass on Disney's unreliable transportation and just use Uber. For $5 to $10 (a drop in the bucket for the resort/food/pass cost we dropped) Free Unreliable transportation wasn't worth the aggravation in the grand scheme of overall costs. We bit the bullet and Uber became the norm over relying on Disney to get us to their parks. We did take a pass on the Minnie-Mobile though. Paying $20 for what Uber brought to the same table for $5 to $10 wasn't worth the Polka-dots. Uber was cheaper than a car rental and I didn't have to wade to a parking lot to car that was a bazillion degrees and was free to enjoy an evening cocktail utilizing Uber. A Win all the way around.
Our solution to an expensive vacation of almost 2 weeks at the Wilderness Lodge (which we do love) was to pass on Disney's unreliable transportation and just use Uber. For $5 to $10 (a drop in the bucket for the resort/food/pass cost we dropped) Free Unreliable transportation wasn't worth the aggravation in the grand scheme of overall costs. We bit the bullet and Uber became the norm over relying on Disney to get us to their parks. We did take a pass on the Minnie-Mobile though. Paying $20 for what Uber brought to the same table for $5 to $10 wasn't worth the Polka-dots. Uber was cheaper than a car rental and I didn't have to wade to a parking lot to car that was a bazillion degrees and was free to enjoy an evening cocktail utilizing Uber. A Win all the way around.
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GLaDOS
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Universal's current resorts are at 90% capacity for the vast majority of the year the past 4 years. They need more rooms ASAP
GLaDOS
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I drink and I know things.
Universal is far behind the supply/demand curve for their own branded hotels. There's a reason they're going hard to get to 10-15,000 rooms in the next few years.