linoleum flooring would be my concern like so many of the rooms are getting at the other resorts.
Uh, are the rooms actually using linoleum? Admittedly, I haven’t been in most of the refurbished rooms yet, but the Contemporary at least to me seemed to be a synthetic but non-linoleum product in the room, and many of the others look like actual tile in photos. I also don’t think there’s a deluxe lobby on property that isn’t tile, stone, carpet, wood, or some mixture, but my memory might be failing me.
I was half way kidding sort of, but also kind of not.,,,based on some of the routes they have been taking recently. But yeah something like what you mentioned, and I could see them doing just that. But your right majority of lobbies are a more higher grade material as listed. I dont know what they are doing anymore, one area comes out great another comes out ill fitting and the list goes on, they have to not be using Imagineering for the resorts, clearly too many outside teams (feels like anyway) making choices and no cohesion between them.
I don’t think there’s risk of that happening. What could happen is that they use the 12x24 (or similar proportion) one-third offset in a honed finish for all of the negative space, which they seem especially keen on for whatever reason. To be fair, I have no idea what the actual tile pattern trends were during the era of the theme, but polished square-format tiles just feel more correct to my uneducated self.
I don’t think there’s risk of that happening. What could happen is that they use the 12x24 (or similar proportion) one-third offset in a honed finish for all of the negative space, which they seem especially keen on for whatever reason. To be fair, I have no idea what the actual tile pattern trends were during the era of the theme, but polished square-format tiles just feel more correct to my uneducated self.
Can’t tell if WDI has lost their expertise in place making or the uppers don’t want it. The new shop is nice but like everything lately is missing a trip to an antique market for props to root it in a story or place in time. If they toned the green down a shade and found a period chandelier to hang in the middle it would be fresh but still telling a story. Right now it’s just nice, but nothing remarkable.
And that seems to be it for me...it feels like they are purposely avoiding the story and writing a new one...One that doesn't have any story other than a nice chain hotel... Which of course, id exactly the opposite of what hooked us all as guests, fans and DVC owners... We didn't buy Westgate timeshares for more than just the location...it is also for what used to be the Disney Difference... Theme, Story, Immersion... We could stay at Gaylord Palms or the Swan and Dolphin... But we chose Disney for the magical place it was and the nostalgia... They need to stop killing the nostalgia... No one has warm fuzzy feelings for a Courtyard Express or Hilton Garden Inn....
Genslerism.
Except this project predates Bouza joining Disney.
The retheme of the GF shop started before June 2020?
Well the homogenization and removal of theming in the resorts seemed to start with the building of the Riviera... Could have been earlier though....but that was when I first started noticing.....
Yes. All three Seven Seas Lagoon hotels were supposed to have massive renovations completed before the 50th celebrations started.
What happened
My guess is the pandemic delayed things.
Supposed to. Plenty of things were paused or cancelled during the pandemic. Yet this was locked in stone pre-2020?
More timeless, more Disney.........
