News Disney Vacation Club announces plans for more than 350 new cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort

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DCBaker

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Reservations at The Cabins at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort - A Disney Vacation Club Resort are open as of today for all guests for stays beginning September 27, 2024.

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DisneyDreamer08

DisneyDreamer08

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Can someone please explain the difference between these two? I put in 9/28 just to see the cash price for the cabins. Why are there two options? 🤔 Will this always be the case or will all the cabins eventually be DVC?
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DisneyDreamer08

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Phicinfan said:
One price is for existing cabin, the other is for the new cabin per the pictures
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But I’m assuming eventually they will all be the new cabins? How does that work with the announcement that Cabins now qualify for deluxe extended evening hours? Is it just for the new cabins or both?
 
Phicinfan

Phicinfan

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DisneyDreamer08 said:
But I’m assuming eventually they will all be the new cabins? How does that work with the announcement that Cabins now qualify for deluxe extended evening hours? Is it just for the new cabins or both?
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Eventually they will, but for a time they will have both. So I assume for future planning and capacity they have to account for that
 
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The new photos that are going around look a little nicer than the renderings. I think the actual lighting goes a long way towards making it look cosier and less sterile. Very different to before but not bad. Continues to remind me of DCR in Paris' trailers a bit (though obviously higher quality!)

Main TV is still in a dead stupid place, though...
 
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DCBaker

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Great article by Dewayne Bevil from the Orlando Sentinel with quite a few details on the cabin replacements.

Walt Disney World is replacing and upgrading all 365 cabins at Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, a process that’s part assembly line and part intricate dance.

The existing cabins, in place since 1999, are manufactured homes on wheels. They’ll be replaced with permanent structures the same size as their predecessors — 504 square feet. The first of the outgoing trailers rolled away this week.

The replacement cabins will be Disney Vacation Club properties, although they will be available to people who are not timeshare owners, too. The average price for the existing cabins has been about $500 per night.

DVC members will be in the first set of new units on July 1. The total project is scheduled to be completed next March.

Disney is tackling the project with innovation and efficiency and minimal disruptions to Fort Wilderness visitors and operations.

The 750-acre resort, which debuted with Disney World in 1971, also hosts RVs, tents and has other recreational activities.

“We’re very close to all of the other occupied areas. It’s not like a new resort where we’re demo-ing the whole site,” said Todd Watzel, manager of programs with Disney’s facility-asset management team, which wrangles WDW renovations. Fort Wilderness has many trees and other natural features that they didn’t want to disturb, he said.

Right now, large portions of the cabins – the walls, floors, roofs – are being built and stored in a warehouse in south Orlando. Those pieces will be moved to the site to be assembled into the new dwellings.

Among the construction challenges are the tight quarters of Fort Wilderness and the placement of the cabins, which are grouped along several tree-lined loops of one-lane roadways.

“We have a very logistic challenge that we’re overcoming by pre-planning,” said Juan Quiroga, CEO and president of JCQ Services, an Orlando-based contractor.

Quiroga and contractor Jeff Friedrich formed J&J Venture Group for the Fort Wilderness project.

“From day one, [we’ve been] trying to figure out how to make this all work and do it in a year,” said Friedrich, owner of Friedrich Watkins Co.

They found efficiencies by working out of the warehouse. A steel-frame machine by FrameCAD takes metal from a spool and creates specified pieces, cut to size, that are part of the cabin walls.

“This thing prints out metal studs. It drills and dimples them. It punches all the holes for all the mechanical and electrical stuff to go through the walls, And it does it with less than 1% waste,” Friedrich said.

Watzel added, “You know things are going to match and mate when all the buildings get put together.”

All 365 new cabins are identical in construction. More than 120 walls are ready in the warehouse. Cabin plans require 14 apiece.

The warehouse is a controlled environment for workers and elbow room.

“You can have 50 people here working on it. You can’t have 50 people working in [a] cabin,” Watzel said during a warehouse tour.

Some painting and woodwork also are done in the manufacturing warehouse, where the air-conditioning units are stored. Furniture and appliances for the new cabins are kept in a different Central Florida warehouse until it’s time for installation.

Building materials will arrive on trucks at the Fort Wilderness loops in the order of assembly, moving around single file, lot by lot, before starting the next cabin on the road. Progress on the cabins will be staggered, with the project done a loop at a time.

“Once you’re about 30 days into it, you could walk that loop and see every single stage of construction of the cabin,” Friedrich said.

Although the new cabins will occupy the exact footprint as the previous models, the look and the floorplan have been updated. The bathroom will occupy the front end of the cabin, nearest the parking space, and the midsection will be a living room/kitchen space looking out onto the deck. The bedroom is in the back with a queen-size bed and bunk beds.

The space previously devoted to a small hallway was given to a vanity sink outside the bathroom. The cabin is designed to sleep six people, thanks to a pull-down bed in the living area.

The 1999 models were all brown and log-inspired on the exterior, but that’s changing.

“The new cabins are going to kind of be skittled with a flavor of a green, a brown, a red – kind of randomly around the loop,” Watzel said.

“It’s a more modern, rustic aesthetic than maybe a log cabin,” he said.

Along with architectural and interior design teams, members of Walt Disney Imagineering have applied touches, leaning into characters such as woodsy Chip ‘n’ Dale characters, who appear as part of the fabric of curtains.

The new cabins have bigger windows, tongue-and-groove wood ceilings and other natural materials.

And they’ll be there to stay.

“Twenty years from now, we will not be putting wheels on these and driving away,” Watzel said. “These are long-term investments.”
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www.orlandosentinel.com

Disney World’s 25-year-old Fort Wilderness cabins make room for new ones

Walt Disney World is replacing and upgrading all 365 cabins at Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, a process that’s part assembly line and part intricate dance. The existing cabins, in p…
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CaptainAmerica

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DCBaker said:
Great article by Dewayne Bevil from the Orlando Sentinel with quite a few details on the cabin replacements.

www.orlandosentinel.com

Disney World’s 25-year-old Fort Wilderness cabins make room for new ones

Walt Disney World is replacing and upgrading all 365 cabins at Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, a process that’s part assembly line and part intricate dance. The existing cabins, in p…
www.orlandosentinel.com www.orlandosentinel.com
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There are like five factual inaccuracies in the first three sentences.
 
John park hopper

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The 1999 models were all brown and log-inspired on the exterior, but that’s changing.

“The new cabins are going to kind of be skittled with a flavor of a green, a brown, a red – kind of randomly around the loop,” Watzel said.

“It’s a more modern, rustic aesthetic than maybe a log cabin,” he said.
IMO there is nothing more rustic than a log cabin --Disney is just trying to justify these horrible looking trailers
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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John park hopper said:
The 1999 models were all brown and log-inspired on the exterior, but that’s changing.

“The new cabins are going to kind of be skittled with a flavor of a green, a brown, a red – kind of randomly around the loop,” Watzel said.

“It’s a more modern, rustic aesthetic than maybe a log cabin,” he said.
IMO there is nothing more rustic than a log cabin --Disney is just trying to justify these horrible looking trailers
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They're not saying they're "more rustic" than a log cabin, I think the author of the article used crappy punctuation choices.

"It's a more modern-rustic aesthetic than maybe a log cabin."

Like

"This frozen yogurt is more creamy-cold than maybe a block of ice" isn't saying that the frozen yogurt is colder than a block of ice.
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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GhostHost1000 said:
DVC Trailer Park Wilderness Resort
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More than any other project, this one has brought out the biggest group of A-holes dumping on things that people might like in the most obnoxious and condescending way imaginable.

If you don't like a new ride, fine, you're free to say so. But you don't jump into the ride thread and be like "this ride is for imbeciles and other mental defectives." That's what all the "trailer park" crap comes across as.
 
UNCgolf

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CaptainAmerica said:
More than any other project, this one has brought out the biggest group of A-holes dumping on things that people might like in the most obnoxious and condescending way imaginable.

If you don't like a new ride, fine, you're free to say so. But you don't jump into the ride thread and be like "this ride is for imbeciles and other mental defectives." That's what all the "trailer park" crap comes across as.
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There are absolutely people who do that, though!
 
GhostHost1000

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CaptainAmerica said:
More than any other project, this one has brought out the biggest group of A-holes dumping on things that people might like in the most obnoxious and condescending way imaginable.

If you don't like a new ride, fine, you're free to say so. But you don't jump into the ride thread and be like "this ride is for imbeciles and other mental defectives." That's what all the "trailer park" crap comes across as.
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Seriously? These are actual trailers…not cabins…and whatever things you’re trying to assume here is on you.

I’m also a DVC member and I have my own opinion on these and that resort compared to other deluxe resort accommodations

If some people like them and enjoy paying that much for dvc ownership there and that many points then that’s great. Same with the over murky swamp water bungalows.
Have at it
 
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