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New 350 room DVC tower coming to Disneyland Hotel
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TP2000
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Now that's nice. Classy. Fresh. Crisp.
As an oldster, it's so funny to me how mod architecture from the 1960's has come back into style 60 years later.
Also notice how thin the tower is with all the rooms facing due east for all the glamour views and fireworks, so you avoid the lackluster view of endless tract homes and parking lots to the west and south that many Disneyland Hotel rooms have.
If I'd bought into the DVC pyramid scheme, I'd be furious if my view was like this one at the Disneyland Hotel.
Disney Analyst
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Now that's nice. Classy. Fresh. Crisp.
As an oldster, it's so funny to me how mod architecture from the 1960's has come back into style 60 years later.
Also notice how thin the tower is with all the rooms facing due east for all the glamour views and fireworks, so you avoid the lackluster view of endless tract homes and parking lots to the west and south that many Disneyland Hotel rooms have.
If I'd bought into the DVC pyramid scheme, I'd be furious if my view was like this one at the Disneyland Hotel.
It’s a nice mid-century style but with the same vibe as the original. I hope they slowly tear down the old towers and turn them into this look.
Darkbeer1
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Disneyland plans Mickey-shaped spa and outdoor pool bar for Disney Vacation Club time-share tower
A final site plan and conditional use permit application for a proposed Disney Vacation Club Resort next to the Disneyland Hotel was filed with the city of Anaheim.
www.ocregister.com
>>The new Disney Vacation Club time-share tower expected to open in 2023 will boast a Mickey-shaped spa, outdoor pool bar and multi-level grand villas with expansive balconies overlooking the Disneyland Hotel property.
A final site plan and conditional use permit application for a proposed Disney Vacation Club project next to the Disneyland Hotel was filed with the city of Anaheim, Disney officials said.
Disney has set a 2023 proposed opening date for the 12-story Disney Vacation Club tower. The proposal for the new property is still in the early planning stages and details could change. The proposed 280,000-square-foot DVC time-share tower would be built on approximately 2 acres next to the Disneyland Hotel. The project would include 307 on-site parking spaces within an existing lot.
The 350 Disney Vacation Club rooms would include 271 larger studios, 38 smaller two-person studios, 20 two-bedroom suites, 19 one-bedroom suites and two Grand Villas.
The smaller two-person studios are expected to be similar to the two-person tower studios at the new Riviera Resort DVC property at Walt Disney World in Florida. The Riviera’s 255-square-foot tower studios have a queen-sized bed housed in a wall unit, full-size bathroom, sofa, desk and balcony. The Riviera’s sprawling and luxurious Grand Villa suites each sleep 12 people.
Besides a small outdoor pool bar, the new Disneyland project would add no new food, retail, meeting or banquet facilities. A Mickey-shaped spa would be part of a new pool amenity area. DVC guests would use Disneyland Hotel services for arrivals, valet parking and check-ins.
An artist concept rendering of the proposed project shows a Disney Vacation Club tower designed to compliment the look of the 1955 Disneyland Hotel.
A two-story open-air ground floor would allow DVC guests to pass through to both sides of the building. Lounge chairs would surround pools on either side of the Disney Vacation Club tower.
Multi-colored panels would stretch the height of the Disney Vacation Club tower on the end of the building with the multi-level grand villas. A crackled cream pattern would wrap around the other end of the mostly glass building. Balconies would offer views for rooms at both ends of the building.
The proposed Disney Vacation Club project has yet to go before the city of Anaheim for approval and may not be built, Disney officials said.
Disneyland previously submitted an application in November to the city of Anaheim for a conceptual development review of the proposed Disney Vacation Club tower.
The Disney Vacation Club tower project area is located on a grassy area between Walnut Street and the Disneyland Hotel’s Frontier Tower, swimming pool and convention center. Construction would remove an existing laundry facility.
The DVC applications submitted to the city of Anaheim are the first in a series of filings and approvals Disney will submit and seek with the project. Construction is estimated to take 3 to 4 years, which could push back the proposed 2023 opening date.
The vacation ownership project would increase Disneyland’s time-share capacity nearly six-fold — adding to the 71 Disney Vacation Club rooms at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
Disney says the proposed DVC resort would create 550 construction jobs and 100 time-share operations job if the project is approved.
Disney canceled construction of a planned 2021 Downtown Disney hotel after Anaheim eliminated a tax rebate agreement worth $267 million to the company. Hotel construction had been set to begin on a 17-acre parcel between the original Disneyland Hotel and the Downtown Disney Monorail station when Disney canceled the expansion plans in October 2018.
Disney officials said the proposed Disney Vacation Club and the former hotel proposal are two completely different projects.
Disney will not be seeking a tax incentive from the city of Anaheim for the Disney Vacation Club project, officials said. The Disney Vacation Club rooms would generate a city bed tax similar to hotels that would be calculated using a slightly different formula — accounting for club members using points rather than dollars to book their rooms.
The Disney Vacation Club debuted in 1991 as a flexible points-based membership system rather than the traditional fixed-week time-share model. The club’s 220,000 members have access to 15 DVC resorts around the globe.
A new Disney Vacation Club resort is planned near Florida’s Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in 2022. The proposed 2023 Disneyland project would be Disney’s 17th DVC resort.<<
lazyboy97o
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Looks like a “luxury” apartment building.
PymParty
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Agree, I really think they are going to use it as DCA expansion plot in a distant future when more parking spaces have been added elsewhere.
Phroobar
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It is where Star Wars land SHOULD have gone along with a Star Wars hotel acting as a berm.
Phroobar
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I think it would fit right in with the canceled 4th hotel. I wonder if this tower was originally part of that project as a phase 2. I bet we were suppose to get the 4th hotel concept as a makeover and expansion of the Disneyland Hotel and then each of the old towers would be demoed to look like this DVC tower to go with new hotel concept.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
I mean... The Disneyland Hotel isn't exactly a stunning piece of architecture as it stands in the first place.
Animaniac93-98
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At least it’s not go away grey blank walls.
Darkbeer1
Well-Known Member
Not yet. There will be a Planning Commission Hearing due to the CUP, but very limited in scope, since it is in the DLSP.
Chris Jarrett
Member
Is there much of a chance that they encounter any problems this time around? Or is this one much easier because it’s a timeshare on existing hotel property with out any subsidies involved?
Ismael Flores
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If i am looking at the concept art correctly and also reading the description right, The whole bottom floor of the tower will be more like an opened passage way with most likely a bar and eating/snack area.
This area would serve the existing pool area as well as a new pool/spa area behind it.
If this is true then even though the tower is not very deep it will have open views to the western sunset and sadly miles of housing. Of course that is better than parking lot view.
So going by that information it looks like the tower will not be built in the far western plot of land but instead closer to the pool. The orange is the approximate new tower and the blue is the new pool/spa area which is visible in the concept art past the bottom floor of the art.
I wonder what the side facing west will be like. The art show the sides as being a bit more plain in contrast to the main facade facing the rest of the hotel. Disney might be making the western side look more like the more subdued, plain hotels going up. This could be to avoid outcries from the housing behind it.
This area would serve the existing pool area as well as a new pool/spa area behind it.
If this is true then even though the tower is not very deep it will have open views to the western sunset and sadly miles of housing. Of course that is better than parking lot view.
So going by that information it looks like the tower will not be built in the far western plot of land but instead closer to the pool. The orange is the approximate new tower and the blue is the new pool/spa area which is visible in the concept art past the bottom floor of the art.
I wonder what the side facing west will be like. The art show the sides as being a bit more plain in contrast to the main facade facing the rest of the hotel. Disney might be making the western side look more like the more subdued, plain hotels going up. This could be to avoid outcries from the housing behind it.
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Darkbeer1
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As I said, the CUP is very limited in scope, and should go smoothly.
NobodyElse
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Is there anything left of the actual 1955 hotel to compliment the look of? Or is this the equivalent of "Macy's is building a new store in Anaheim to compliment the look of the SQR store, which only exists in photos and memories"?
Stevek
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I think the DVC tower won't extend quit that far south...maybe just to where the existing tower starts? Otherwise those list few rooms will look directly at the end of the Frontier Tower. And yes, that view west will be hideous.
DonaldDoleWhip
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That's what it looks like to me. Not only do those southern rooms appear to stop before Frontier Tower, but they should have a better view than most because their vantage point extends toward DTD instead of ending at Adventure Tower. They also appear to be grand villas, at least on the top floors.
Color me intrigued by the concept art.
Ismael Flores
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yeah i just drew a rectangle i also do not think it would go that far south. The only reason would be if they decide to add the emergency staircase down that side. An emergency exit there would have direct access to an open area for evac.