I'm with you. I wish we could get a hotel like the one at Disneyland Paris:
That's awesome. It's a little like the Grand Floridian, but way better IMO - just seems more magical. I too don't like the glass-and-steel resorts. I'm not even crazy about the Disneyland Hotel, which to me doesn't look all that Disney-ish, at least on the outside. It looks too "executive", and kinda meh. The Grand Californian is, eh, better, but still not as cool as Paris'. Disneyland deserves better. If WDW ever built a DVC that looked like a castle, it'd get my money, no doubt about it. I don't know why Disney doesn't draw from its iconic films or attractions for resort ideas. Who wouldn't want to stay in a Haunted Mansion hotel, or Tower of Terror, or the Beast's Castle? Those would be awesome, and I bet TDO wouldn't have much trouble keeping them full.
I always thought that too...Using the land that was originally supposed to be the Venetian Resort (Someone said the land couldn't be used), but build a DVC only resort there, directly on the monorail line and let the theme of the resort be The Magic Kingdom...they could even call it the E-Ticket Resort....Check out the old artist rendering for Disneyland hotel expansion, it looks like a version of this hotel was considered at one time. Did it become the Grand Floridian? The Paris hotel in the photo? A blend of both?
I thought it would be cool if Disney World could have a WDW Hotel, or Magic Kingdom Hotel like they have at DL... I also like the themed areas in the Disneyland hotel themed to Adventureland, Frontierland ETC... It would be cool if there was a posh WDW hotel on the land between the Contemporary and Polynesian that featured all the themed lands around the various parks...
Also: A Haunted Mansion area in PO is genius! I would love to see them eventually do this!
Now the part that will anger the few noisemakers who live on this site: A New Orleans Square (Towns of America around Rivers of America) in the MK, or if they want something original maybe Savannah or another town... But theres no room? Ok, lets move Its a Small World to World Showcase and use that space for a throughway. Oh! And expand the monorail to DHS and some choice EPCOT resorts! (Can't wait for the backlash for suggesting this)
Check out the old artist rendering for Disneyland hotel expansion, it looks like a version of this hotel was considered at one time. Did it become the Grand Floridian? The Paris hotel in the photo? A blend of both?
I thought it would be cool if Disney World could have a WDW Hotel, or Magic Kingdom Hotel like they have at DL... I also like the themed areas in the Disneyland hotel themed to Adventureland, Frontierland ETC... It would be cool if there was a posh WDW hotel on the land between the Contemporary and Polynesian that featured all the themed lands around the various parks...
Also: A Haunted Mansion area in PO is genius! I would love to see them eventually do this!
Now the part that will anger the few noisemakers who live on this site: A New Orleans Square (Towns of America around Rivers of America) in the MK, or if they want something original maybe Savannah or another town... But theres no room? Ok, lets move Its a Small World to World Showcase and use that space for a throughway. Oh! And expand the monorail to DHS and some choice EPCOT resorts! (Can't wait for the backlash for suggesting this)
Expand the monorail? 
Everything is usable if they want to purt the money in to stabilize it... Let's face it most of the land on the WDW property was unstable at one time or another... judicious ground prep and draining... Not wanting to spend the money might be another issue...Move IaSW to World Showcase?
Reality is calling, you may want to answer.
IIRC, the land that was earmarked for a Persian resort was found to be unstable/unusable. And a majority of the undeveloped land within the confines of the Walt Disney World Resort is not usable for buildings.
You can see if from upstairs in Canada. It blends well behind Germany, kind of how Tower of Terror blends well behind Morocco.The latter I think I read somewhere was intentional.
Not Quite that easy... Most of MK and original resorts were built on Inland Wetlands, which have since been deemed protected from development (yes, even on Private Property). It would take one heck of a variance to be able to build on those same lands now.
