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News Disney Riviera Resort announced
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deeevo
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For the $$ they want I will stay at Poly or WLDifferent strokes for different folks I guess. I can't imagine ever staying here though. I like my Disney hotels to be themed.
BoarderPhreak
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So apparently a murphy bed ripped out of the wall and fell on an elderly guest in the middle of the night. Emergency help was declined/unecessary.
Build cheap, get cheap. Anchors ripped right out of the drywall.
Build cheap, get cheap. Anchors ripped right out of the drywall.
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I don’t see this on the menu at Topilinos, where is this found?
I would be ecstatic if I could get my favorite Disneyland meal at WDW.
peter11435
Well-Known Member
It’s at bar riva
Wow at quick service, at a place on the skyliner, thanks!
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Won't take long to blame the guest. You can count on that.
Everything in the images I've seen reeks of BLT level cheapness. So, it's not overly surprising to see this happen.
carolina_yankee
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It doesn’t work for everybody. For us, it gives us Deluxe accommodations at moderate prices and the ability, with points and an AP, to plan a trip budgeting only food costs. It holds its value, so if we ever sell, we may break even or even make a bit of a profit on the initial cost, which means our accommodations only cost us membership fees. Or, if we don’t sell, we had awesome trips and great memories.
As with everything, you have to look at all the variables and decide if it works for you. DVC isn’t for everybody, but it works for a certain group of guests.
As for the resort experience, I would call it “Disney Deluxe Light” depending on what resort you are staying it. DVC is positioning Riviera as a flagship. We’ll see if that works out. There is a lot of uncertainty with how with resale restrictions (resale owners will only be able to stay at Riviera) will affect both Riviera and the rest of the DVC system. Since the average owner holds a contract 7-10 years, resale value is important. If you don’t think you’ll get a good chunk of that $188 per point back, then you may look elsewhere.
I’m in the “wait and see “ camp, though with SSR and CCV in my portfolio, I’m likely done anyway.
carolina_yankee
Well-Known Member
That’s distressing and has echoes of the Jim Lewis days and BLT’s “IKEA quality and (lack of) comfort” furniture. I’m glad treatment wasn’t necessary and hope it was a weird event and not evidence of systemically shoddy work. Surely they knew to anchor the durn thing in the risers and not the dry wall!
I hope the family also gets comped - significantly. That’s at least a free night for each night it’s not functioning.
Even as DVC members, these days a week-long WDW vacation runs my family (of 6) around $8-10k.
While curious about Riviera, I don't see myself staying there anytime soon. Unless my wife, who is in love with the Skyliner, wants to, then we will.
ImperfectPixie
Well-Known Member
I'm glad assistance wasn't necessary. That reeks of shoddy installation - they should have been anchored to studs.
Disnutz311
Disney World Purist
Should have been secured to the wall, absolutely, and that's the construction punch list fail. But this was not the large Murphy bed but the pull down kids bed under the TV. If you read the tweet it seems like a person bigger than a kid was sleeping on it...
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
Blocking should have been installed before the drywall to anchor to but maybe the installer just missed? Maybe the blocking was installed in the wrong place? Who knew?
ImperfectPixie
Well-Known Member
I mean, you can install heavy things using certain kinds of drywall anchors and not mounting to studs or blocks, but I wouldn't do it that way for something that 1) gets moved a lot, and 2) has a human on it in any fashion.
ImperfectPixie
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I'm also wondering if maybe things in the room got moved prior to being installed, but after the drywall was up. I used to do site visits for large apartment and housing complexes during construction to create a punch-list for signage, and seeing that happen wasn't uncommon. Neither was seeing the location of specific rooms completely changed from the plans, or doors hung in opposite directions, etc.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Took about 7 posts for the guest to be blamed. Good times.
BoarderPhreak
Well-Known Member
Now they just have to check a few hundred rooms to make sure they're all secure. 
ABQ
Well-Known Member
Without any sort of images or further details, speculating on exactly what went wrong is not going to get anywhere. What would be interesting is, do DVC "Owners" as they supposedly are, get any detail on the construction or repairs of the property they supposedly own a portion of?