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New Disney Vacation Club Member Lounge coming to Walt Disney World
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
And what’s funny is a lot of people would read your comment and think you’re exaggerating for sarcastic effect?
…not one bit
nickys
Premium Member
News on the new DVC lounge from @wdwmagic:
forums.wdwmagic.com
Rumor - Frontierland Shootin' arcade to close and replaced with DVC Member lounge
This info seems to be out there now, so just to confirm that there are plans to replace the Frontierland Shootin' Arcade with a new DVC Member Lounge. Closure likely around the end of May. Disney has yet to announce anything beyond the previously news of a new DVC lounge in an unnamed location.
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
This makes sense. DVC is a HUGE money maker for Disney and these loyal folks who are financially committed to WDW should get perks.News on the new DVC lounge from @wdwmagic:
Rumor - Frontierland Shootin' arcade to close and replaced with DVC Member lounge
This info seems to be out there now, so just to confirm that there are plans to replace the Frontierland Shootin' Arcade with a new DVC Member Lounge. Closure likely around the end of May. Disney has yet to announce anything beyond the previously news of a new DVC lounge in an unnamed location.
This also makes sense since they want to erase Frontierland and guns and Walt Disney...
nickys
Premium Member
Buzz, TSMM, everything Star Wars and Fort Langholm still have guns (of sorts). As does Hoop De Doo.
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
It must be a slow removal so no one notices
I have with me right now, the toy pistols and toy rifle that were removed from Frontierland long ago.
nickys
Premium Member
Taking this onto the DVC forum instead.
The trend of flipping resort rooms to DVC rooms is partly to ensure 95% occupancy of those rooms which were previously under-booked. And partly because the upkeep and upgrades to those rooms, plus part of the general resort running costs are then paid for by DVC members.
Even in the case of Riviera, that replaced a section of CBR. The Cabins at FW needed replaced and creating a DVC resort with FW means the costs can then be passed over to DVC. In the case of the Poly, it’s adding capacity to the resort, and more of the running costs will be paid for by the DVC annual dues.
Beacon Joe
Well-Known Member
News on the new DVC lounge from @wdwmagic:
Rumor - Frontierland Shootin' arcade to close and replaced with DVC Member lounge
This info seems to be out there now, so just to confirm that there are plans to replace the Frontierland Shootin' Arcade with a new DVC Member Lounge. Closure likely around the end of May. Disney has yet to announce anything beyond the previously news of a new DVC lounge in an unnamed location.
Well, that stinks. The Disneyland shooting gallery is largely responsible for stoking an interest in one of my favorite hobbies and past times.
trainplane3
Well-Known Member
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
As much as I will miss the shooting gallery because Disney has determined guns=bad, I think its DVCers do deserve perks as they are laying out BIG BUCKS and are literally invested in Disney through their DVC membership.
RememberWhen
Well-Known Member
I mean, the picture looks okay. It looks small, and so that’s a bit of a concern. Looking forward to seeing real pictures sometime!
Disney Shares First Concept Art of McKim's Mile House DVC Lounge in Frontierland
Disney Shares First Concept Art and Details of McKim's Mile House DVC Lounge in Frontierland
Disney Shares First Concept Art and Details of McKim's Mile House DVC Lounge in Frontierland
www.wdwmagic.com
nickys
Premium Member
Many people are grandfathered in with fewer points than 150.
And no one should buy direct solely because of the perks. The biggest of which atm is the ability to buy a Sorcerer’s AP. Not a new Member Lounge.
John park hopper
Well-Known Member
Anyone paying the outrageous Disney prices has an interest in Disney and deserves the same perks DVC people get. Nope lets reduce perks for non DVC people and raise prices
andysol
Well-Known Member
"Reduce perks"
My man... The Imagination pavilion was storage for chairs and tables before it became a DVC Lounge.
The former Shootin' Arcade also would have held chairs and tables.
What perk was reduced? You're whining about something that never would have happened. It was literally DVC or storage. Just be happy that there will be 100 less people in the park.
John park hopper
Well-Known Member
Those venues should have never been shut down. By your reasoning Disney can shut any thing down reducing venues for paying guests and claim we will turn it into a DVC Lounge --we were just going to use it for storage.
Phonedave
Well-Known Member
You can say they should have never been shut down, but they were. And not to make them a lounge. They were shut down for other reasons. Then it became a case of they were not being used for anything (other than perhaps storage). So DVC paid (yes, DVC paid, not WDW. The money for refurbishing the lounges, staffing them, and maintaining them, comes from DVC operating funds - which are not part of dues either) to create these lounges.
So the choice really was - a glorified storeroom, or a lounge that the capital and operating costs of did not come from the park budgets.