Bay Lake Tower, a nice dvc building, but...

IfWeCanDreamIt

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Does anyone else think that the Bay Lake Tower shouldn't have necessarily connected to the Contemporary A-Frame. It's just that since I was down in August (23rd-31st), with the crowds like they were, it seemed the Grand Canyon Concourse's capacity was being stressed past it's original capacity.Take for example, the stress on the Monorail station. When I was down there, it was the first time in a long time that the monorail queue was full almost every hour of every day (for me anyways). They ended up having to use the separation corrals to load during one of the busier days. Another capacity being stressed is the elevator system. It was brutal trying to get an elevator up to our eleventh floor room because a crowd of lazy people would be trying to use the elevators to get down to the bus stop, instead of the escalators/stairs. Yes there is a rush to get to the buses, but I'm sure the crowd level could be cut in half if the Bay Lake Tower had their own bus stop. I understand that it wouldn't have made sense to get a separate monorail station for the Bay Lake Tower, but what about a separate bus station, and even perhaps its own restaurant. Just my two cents. I still like the general look and feel, but feel certain things could've been better implemented.
 

raiden

Member
Probably the wrong area to start this thread in but anyway...The north wing had roughly 250 rooms so does BLT. So the capacity should not have changed dramaticly. The tower is new so it is expected to be quite busy, quite so for the timing that you visited(summer/blt opening) It's almost like saying the north and south wings should have there own bus, dining options, etc, eh?
 

IfWeCanDreamIt

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I didn't realize the wing that the blt was replacing had comparable room number specs. I had thought that they would have wanted to have more capacity, given the location of the tower. Did they not foresee how well rooms would sell? They could have made an even bigger killing, just by increasing the number of rooms ever so slightly. And as far as the bus deal, Kidani Village has their own bus stop, yet the Jambo House's stop is not all that far away. They also have their own restaurant, Sanaa. I guess that is what kind of confuses me.
 

raiden

Member
AKL and BLT are two different setups. Kidani village is like it's own seperate resort and BLT is more like a building attached to the CR. Akl has it's own bus stop and dining options because it's much bigger than BLT and most importantly kidani village is a much farther walk(I think almost a mile) from jambo than BLT's short walkway from CR. Therefore blt guest use the CR dining options and kidani has their own

BLT may actually be slightly(maybe 30 more rooms) bigger than the north wing and may have a higher capacity due to 1bdr and grand villas. I don't think they did so that it would stress the transportation system.

I talked to friend and we discussed the same issue. He doesn't think it was that much busier when the north wing exsisted when he stayed just that it was the hustle of being new. I stayed at the CR when BLT was being built and I thought is was slower than usual but when I stay at BLT soon I may preceive it being super busy bc last time I stayed there 300 or so less rooms were unavailable.
 

IfWeCanDreamIt

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Ahhhh..OK...My Bad! I'm still a little miffed from the crazy zoo we experienced this trip. It hasn't normally been real bad, and we've gone during the same time frame for three years in a row now (23rd-31st). Atleast I had a good laugh at the people who couldn't find the monorail after they had just walked by the escalator to the platform, or under the sign near the elevators, or even after being near a directory.
 

vonpluto

Well-Known Member
The north Wing had 264 rooms, at a max occupancy of 5 plus a child = 1584 guests.

BLT has the equivalent of 265 two bedroom units at a max occupancy of 9 = 2385 guests.

:)
 

raiden

Member
The north Wing had 264 rooms, at a max occupancy of 5 plus a child = 1584 guests.

BLT has the equivalent of 265 two bedroom units at a max occupancy of 9 = 2385 guests.

:)

Nice. Well it certainly can hold a third more but does every 2bdr equivalent max 9 on average? It could be more or less. Looks like they may have to add another bus line and mono:p
 

vonpluto

Well-Known Member
Nice. Well it certainly can hold a third more but does every 2bdr equivalent max 9 on average? It could be more or less. Looks like they may have to add another bus line and mono:p

From the members site:

Studio - 4
One BR - 5
Two BR - 9

forgot to look for Grand Villas:hammer:
 

raiden

Member
From the members site:

Studio - 4
One BR - 5
Two BR - 9

forgot to look for Grand Villas:hammer:

Indeed. But I was talking about DVC members sleeping habits. For example when wifey and I stay we get a studio but if we bring somebody else we get a 1bdr. But I'm sure there would be people to offset that by my stuffing 6 in a studio.

Either way I guess in time from guests reports we will see if its going to be a "mad house" or not. But from the looks of it 700 or 800 more guests at full capacity may just do it?
 

vonpluto

Well-Known Member
Indeed. But I was talking about DVC members sleeping habits. For example when wifey and I stay we get a studio but if we bring somebody else we get a 1bdr. But I'm sure there would be people to offset that by my stuffing 6 in a studio.

Either way I guess in time from guests reports we will see if its going to be a "mad house" or not. But from the looks of it 700 or 800 more guests at full capacity may just do it?

I'm thinking that the Christmas Season could be the first possible "CR/BLT Madhouse".:lookaroun
 

Marijil

Well-Known Member
not to get too far off topic...dont know about capacity and whatnot but i think it ruins what was a classic skyline
 

raiden

Member
not to get too far off topic...dont know about capacity and whatnot but i think it ruins what was a classic skyline

It blends in fairly well. Wait until they build the second tower:lookaroun:
I heard reports that BLT intrudes the view from FW and WL. Is that true?
 

Pumbas Nakasak

Heading for the great escape.
One large dod of concrete and glass next to another dod of concrete and glass, remove the location and you have two eye sores.

IMHO of course, I dont know much of architecture but I knows what i likes.......
 

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