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News Disney Considered Building Hotels Inside Magic Kingdom, Court Records Reveal

lentesta

lentesta

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monothingie said:
The GF doesn't necessarily have the most expensive rooms on the monorail. That distinction now goes to the Poly. If anything in the past decade, the GF has lost many of the touches that distinguished itself from the other resorts.

Turndown service, a mint on your pillow daily, 24 hour room service, actual personal concierge are now things of the past that will never come back.
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Is the Grand Flo the only resort that still has room service?
 
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doctornick

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The location that @wdwmagic suggests on Bay Lake is where the Persian Resort was planned to be. I can't really imagine they would use that spot now. For starters the "theme park view" would be directly of the Tron show building. And in general I don't think you'd be able to see the castle well given both Tron and Space Mountain in the way. Also there wouldn't be a great spot for a "walking in" entrance which is the main selling point of a "in park" hotel. If you'd have to go around to go into the main entrance of the park, what's the point?

I'm sure if they do a resort attached to the Magic Kingdom in the near future that it would be next to the Villains land
 
_caleb

_caleb

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Hotels INSIDE parks are different than hotels adjacent to parks, right?

Inside would mean guests are confined to their hotel after park hours (or the parks are open to guests 24/7).
 
_caleb

_caleb

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nickys said:
I doubt that would be legal. It’s presumably possible to have a route in & out.
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I didn’t mean that guests would literally be locked in without emergency exits. I’m just trying to understand how they’d prevent hotel guests from wondering around the park in the middle of the night.
 
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nickys

nickys

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_caleb said:
Are guests confined to the hotel while the park is closed?
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Yeah, they’re locked in the minute the park closes. 🙄 Too bad if your flight is in the early hours, should have thought of that before booking. Ditto if you’re late back.

There’s a path from the monorail station directly to one entrance, and one from the park itself.
 
_caleb

_caleb

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nickys said:
Yeah, they’re locked in the minute the park closes. 🙄 Too bad if your flight is in the early hours, should have thought of that before booking. Ditto if you’re late back.

There’s a path from the monorail station directly to one entrance, and one from the park itself.
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What’s with the eye roll? I’m asking sincerely. You gave good examples of when guests would need to come and go while the park is closed.

A path that runs only from the hotel to the perimeter of the park makes sense, I suppose.

It seems a hotel in a park would need to be close to the perimeter and not in the middle.
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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_caleb said:
Are guests confined to the hotel while the park is closed?
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No.

There is an entrance and exit that is non-park facing. It would not be allowed to have the only entrance and exit to the hotel be into the park. Every single theme park resort, be it Disney or someone else, that has an in park entrance and exit must also have an entrance and exit outside of the park, which is why they're all placed on the park's perimeter rather than in the middle of it.

DL Hotel in Paris is accessible from the park and from the plaza out front and from the parking lot. GCH at Disneyland is accessible from DCA, Downtown Disney, and a parking lot. Miracosta is accessible via the park and a parking lot. Helios at Universal is accessible from the park and from a parking lot. So on, so forth.

Disney, and other parks for that matter, cannot legally sequester anyone in their hotel.
 
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JMcMahonEsq

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danlb_2000 said:
Technically Magic Kingdom has a hotel in the park, but it's just one room and rarely available.
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I've actually wondered about _caleb's question in connection with the castle suite. I can't imagine they lock the people in the castle. Are there staff that basically sit around and make sure the guests in the room don't leave and wander around the park? Is it just an honor system thing, and if you are caught by any of the security/maintenance people working overnight you are kicked out?
 
_caleb

_caleb

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Mr. Sullivan said:
No.

There is an entrance and exit that is non-park facing. It would not be allowed to have the only entrance and exit to the hotel be into the park. Every single theme park resort, be it Disney or someone else, that has an in park entrance and exit must also have an entrance and exit outside of the park, which is why they're all placed on the park's perimeter rather than in the middle of it.

DL Hotel in Paris is accessible from the park and from the plaza out front and from the parking lot. GCH at Disneyland is accessible from DCA, Downtown Disney, and a parking lot. Miracosta is accessible via the park and a parking lot. Helios at Universal is accessible from the park and from a parking lot. So on, so forth.
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To me, “inside the park” seems more like “park view” with no real benefit over, say, the Grand Californian, which is just outside DCA and has its own entrance.
Mr. Sullivan said:
Disney, and other parks for that matter, cannot legally sequester anyone in their hotel.
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Of course not
 

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