Grand Floridian lighting

[dgp602]

Hello! Sorry if there is a post on this already. I just got back from WDW today and wanted to share. It appears that the white trim lighting that lined the roofs of the Grand Floridian are no longer working. I am not sure if this is a temporary isssue or a permanent cost saving measure. But in any case, it is visually horrible. That whole area is dark now and I feel that the loss of this lighting cheapens the hotel....

Does anyone have any info on this lighting? Has it been this way for a while?

 

[monothingie]

Hello! Sorry if there is a post on this already. I just got back from WDW today and wanted to share. It appears that the white trim lighting that lined the roofs of the Grand Floridian are no longer working. I am not sure if this is a temporary isssue or a permanent cost saving measure. But in any case, it is visually horrible. That whole area is dark now and I feel that the loss of this lighting cheapens the hotel....

Does anyone have any info on this lighting? Has it been this way for a while?

For a while now.

 

[dgp602]

For a while now.

Is it permanent?

 

[eliza61nyc]

did you ask at the resort?

 

[monothingie]

Is it permanent?

TBH I don’t know. I hope not. It seems like the popcorn lights have always been an eyesore due to lack of maintence, but I had also heard that a lot of the Roofs at the GF and GF Villas took a beating during the hurricanes last year, and there was some rehab cosmetic work done this year on the main building. I would hope this would be addressed soon.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Is it permanent?

Might as well be as they have been out for years now.

 

[peter11435]

Hello! Sorry if there is a post on this already. I just got back from WDW today and wanted to share. It appears that the white trim lighting that lined the roofs of the Grand Floridian are no longer working. I am not sure if this is a temporary isssue or a permanent cost saving measure. But in any case, it is visually horrible. That whole area is dark now and I feel that the loss of this lighting cheapens the hotel....

Does anyone have any info on this lighting? Has it been this way for a while?

Are you refering to the ones on the main building and pool structures. The outer guest buildings have never had popcorn lighting.

 

[ToTBellHop]

This has been going on for at least 10 years and they should be embarrassed. Flagship resort hotel of the company’s flagship resort can’t maintain popcorn lights as well as a local fair?

 

[monothingie]

Are you refering to the ones on the main building and pool structures. The outer guest buildings have never had popcorn lighting.

The Villas building also has popcorn lighting which isn’t in good shape either. Those appear to be LEDs though.

 

[peter11435]

The Villas building also has popcorn lighting which isn’t in good shape either. Those appear to be LEDs though.

Yeah, the villas building was built with LED lighting and it is in terrible shape.

 

[dgp602]

Are you refering to the ones on the main building and pool structures. The outer guest buildings have never had popcorn lighting.

The main building.

 

[monothingie]

From @danlb_2000 in 2012.

Since you brought up the Grand Floridian I though I would repost these pictures from another thread on this topic.

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[xdan0920]

I don't know what the lights are like now but I stayed there this past May and they were on and working and no they haven't been "out for years now" as an earlier poster said because I lived down in central FL back around 2015-2016 and we got the annual passes and went to DW a lot and they were working fine then. Also I've been since 2012 on four trips to DW, in addition to this year's trip and they were always on then, so no they haven't had problems for "years" now. It may have been recently that they're not working but as far as this being a problem and going on for a long while, no. Hopefully they'll get it fixed but I don't see it as an eyesore because even with those small lights, they weren't lighting up a whole lot to begin with so it might be a good thing if they just kept them off and left the lighting to being in and around the resorts where the guests staying there & visitors can see where they're walking at when walking through the resort.

And this, my dear WDWMagic friends, is why they will never fix those lights. What’s the point?

 

[DougK]

That whole area is dark now and I feel that the loss of this lighting cheapens the hotel....

But it sure does not cheapen the room rates. They go up constantly whether the lighting works or not!