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News Disney Riviera Resort announced
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Disney rooms look like hospital rooms now, so maybe it's just fitting?
peter11435
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It’s the quiet pool. Pretty much every quiet pool is standard and mundane. This is not the resorts feature fool.
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surfsupdon
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Although I don’t much care for the design, I very much like another resort sharing the lake with CBR. These Resorts can share their dining, lounges, shops, and activities to create some energy for Guests at both locations.
Part of the brilliance of the Deluxe Epcot Resorts are their proximity to one another. It’s fun to leave your room and explore a minimum of four other Resorts and their amenities. It adds some kinetic energy to the resort stay compared to the isolated aspect of many others.
So though I don’t like the look of this new building, I very much like what it is bringing to Barefoot Bay.
Part of the brilliance of the Deluxe Epcot Resorts are their proximity to one another. It’s fun to leave your room and explore a minimum of four other Resorts and their amenities. It adds some kinetic energy to the resort stay compared to the isolated aspect of many others.
So though I don’t like the look of this new building, I very much like what it is bringing to Barefoot Bay.
peter11435
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It is not the center pool. This is the quiet pool.I hope they add more to the pool areaI expected a little more. I saw someone mention that is a quiet pool, but it looks like that is the center pool of the resort.
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GoofGoof
Premium Member
It’s the smaller pool in the upper middle of the picture linked below between the buildings which is the quiet pool. The feature pool is on the peninsula area closer to the lake.I hope they add more to the pool area
Bioreconstruct
Thank You!!! I’ve seen this picture before but I guess it didn’t click with me when I saw the new photo. This makes me feel better
GoofGoof
Premium Member
I don’t think there’s too many of those around this thread.
As I’ve said from the beginning this resort will be sold based on views from the top and having its own gondola station. The theme will not be the primary draw unlike a place like AKL.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
I’m not saying I have high confidence that the feature pool will be something on par with BC/YC but I would expect a slide and kids splash area at minimum with some sort of more unique focal point. There’s a lot of space out there to make the area pretty nice.
MickeyMinnieMom
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Cheerleaders? I’m in the camp that doesn’t clutch their pearls if every Disney hotel doesn’t dial “theme” up to 11. We adore our BLT vacations. So I’m not here to hurl over-the-top insults at some hotel concept art, but I don’t have pom-poms out for it either either. Meh.
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
The Beach Club image makes the resort look beautiful and highly themed. Compared to the Riviera...
Also, is this the feature pool or the quiet pool? We need some more posts clarifying that or people might be disappointed at how bland the PROMOTIONAL ART is.
dothebrdwalk
Well-Known Member
Personally, I don't like everything Disney does, but after our recent stays at some of the resorts (such as the Boardwalk Inn and Port Orleans) it became clear to me that something Disney is lacking is a modern luxury hotel. This "vibe" looks similar to the Four Seasons. What Disney does by having like 45 different hotels on property, each uniquely different, is it allows families to choose what they like best and what will make their vacation work for them. Does this hotel appear to be as inherently Disney as say the Animal Kingdom Lodge? No. But- it does look appealing and may be the type of hotel that brings new customers and perhaps old costumers that are over the kitchy vibe of many of the others. I know many people who look right past Disney vacations as they consider them too "low brow" for some reason. Resorts like this and the new Reflections Lodge might be what Disney needs to attract these customers.
Except for jt, maybe, that's not going to happen. No one drooled over the concept art. They're just not going to depise it at the appropriate levels.
Sir_Cliff
Well-Known Member
I don't really know why they'd bother releasing this as it looks even more generic than the image they have already released. Surely they must be able to produce one piece of concept art that makes it look nice or vaguely interesting, even if it's just an image of the interior of the lobby?
I know people are pointing out that quiet pools never look that great. Why, then, release art of the quiet pool to whet everyone's appetite?
I know people are pointing out that quiet pools never look that great. Why, then, release art of the quiet pool to whet everyone's appetite?
Bocabear
Well-Known Member
Because there is some convoluted story that they don't want to make it look that good until they are ready to sell the units, then evidently the hotel will magically morph into an amazing spectacular design that they will finally release to the public... or so they keep telling me....
And I agree...if not to show something wonderful, why bother?
I think in fact we are seeing the resort as it will be...
And I agree...if not to show something wonderful, why bother?
I think in fact we are seeing the resort as it will be...
Lensman
Well-Known Member
Excellent procataleptic straw man! I think it will work to suppress alternative points of view that we don't want here!
I don't think this will be the best themed DVC, and it's hard to see how it will be the flagship property - and certainly it won't be architecturally. Though I do think I might be more inclined to stay here rather than the horribly named Reflections property.
I suppose there's no hope that the interior will be more interesting than the outside?
The one interesting aspect from the concept art is the big arched exit-way from the hotel to the pool area with the fountain in it. Does anyone see evidence of this architectural feature in the construction photos?
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jaxonp
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It may be but methinks that this company, who employees a massive marketing team, screwed this up. This looks very pedestrian.
peter11435
Well-Known Member
It is the quiet pool.
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