News Pirate rooms at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort to be replaced with 'under the sea' theme

[Weather_Lady]

There’s something about that pull down bed that just looks cheap. The top shelf I think being what looks like basic ikea furniture?

Yes, same for this photo: if you look at the shelves in the corner (which are a great idea, as far as good use of space goes), it doesn't even look like the shelf at the top level is joined tight and flush to the vertical piece, like the one below it. The impression is that of your average Ikea or Sauder self-assembled chipboard furniture, where some of the joining holes aren't lined up properly, or at the correct depth.

 

[Tom P.]

It just looks all so bland and generic to me. Nothing feels special about the design.

 

[surfsupdon]

Great color choice!! As a Caribbean purist, this looks terrific.

 

[GimpYancIent]

It just looks all so bland and generic to me. Nothing feels special about the design.

Definitely BLAND / DRAB.

 

[Spash007]

Yes, same for this photo: if you look at the shelves in the corner (which are a great idea, as far as good use of space goes), it doesn't even look like the shelf at the top level is joined tight and flush to the vertical piece, like the one below it. The impression is that of your average Ikea or Sauder self-assembled chipboard furniture, where some of the joining holes aren't lined up properly, or at the correct depth.
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Yep. And even the main piece/counter is all different lengths. The counter is longer than the drawer which is longer than the piece under. And the fact these don’t sit flush with the wall doesn’t just look unappealing, but also means dust is going to build in there

 

[Rteetz]

For a beach themed resort I think this is great. One of the better of the recent refurbs.

 

[surfsupdon]

Here’s also hoping the 6 buildings get a new exterior color theme!!! Trinidad should not be the same colors as Barbados.

 

[SplashJacket]

For some reason they are really giving me Old Key West vibes. They are fine. Not for me personally as if I'm going to stay at Disney, I'm looking for a lot more over the top theming, but they look nice for what they are. Certainly not worth more money that any other rooms there to me (if they are charging more, no idea), but they are nice.

It's a bold strategy to charge a major premium on resort rooms and then make the rooms look like they could belong to many of the major hotel chains.

Ah yes, because this is obviously just so much better than the new refurb.

Huge upgrade. Super well done like the new Grand Floridian rooms!

 

[castlecake2.0]

For a beach themed resort I think this is great. One of the better of the recent refurbs.

I agree but It seems like half the posters here wouldn’t be happy with this update unless a cast member was on hand to splash you with a bucket of salt water and hit you over the head with a coconut.

 

[Notes from Neverland]

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Huge upgrade. Super well done like the new Grand Floridian rooms!

Make no mistake, the pirate rooms weren't great. The bed sizes alone hurt them. But, it does seem silly to celebrate Disney stripping out so much of its resort theming - the thing that made them unique - across property.

 

[SplashJacket]

Make no mistake, the pirate rooms weren't great. The bed sizes alone hurt them. But, it does seem silly to celebrate Disney stripping out so much of its resort theming - the thing that made them unique - across property.

Describe your ideal room to me in an elevator pitch.

To me, the room looks like a nice room at a beach resort, with some modest Disney touches. Perfectly fits my desires. Looks a lot better than the tacky and bland contemporary refurb. Seems tasteful, clean, and inviting. Not much more I could want.

 

[UNCgolf]

The color scheme/general design of the rooms looks okay, but I agree with others that it looks like really cheap furniture. Like they bought it in bulk from IKEA and assembled it on-site.

 

[DisneyDreamer08]

I don’t hate it at all, I just don’t get it. The Little Mermaid theme already exists. They really couldn’t think of anything else?

 

[JohnD]

VERY subtle. You can barely tell it has a theme at all.

 

[LSLS]

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Huge upgrade. Super well done like the new Grand Floridian rooms!

Me saying I want more in your face theming does not mean I want more IP rooms, or I thought the Pirate ones were great.

 

[Zipadeelady]

Half of you people are never happy with anything.

It looks fantastic. Like a room in the Caribbean. Imagine that.

 

[Notes from Neverland]

Describe your ideal room to me in an elevator pitch.

To me, the room looks like a nice room at a beach resort, with some modest Disney touches. Perfectly fits my desires. Looks a lot better than the tacky and bland contemporary refurb. Seems tasteful, clean, and inviting. Not much more I could want.

I understand some will love it and that's great. But, I'd say people come to Disney because it's not like any other place. At the resorts, that's not really the case when the rooms are looking more and more familiar to any other hotel. That goes into a long rant on whether it's worth it to stay on property now days, so I'll stop there.

That said, the biggest miss here is the furniture and finishings that don't look like they justify the price being charged for the room. Other posters have already said that well. It's also weird seeing Little Mermaid designs when a hotel on property covers that space already.

 

[Zipadeelady]

I understand some will love it and that's great. But, I'd say people come to Disney because it's not like any other place. At the resorts, that's not really the case when the rooms are looking more and more familiar to any other hotel. That goes into a long rant on whether it's worth it to stay on property now days, so I'll stop there.

That said, the biggest miss here is the furniture and finishings that don't look like they justify the price being charged for the room. Other posters have already said that well. It's also weird seeing Little Mermaid designs when a hotel on property covers that space already.

Of all the non Disney hotel rooms I've stayed in, none of them have looked like that. I'm assuming the large price tag is for the location which used to be horrible but now great since the skyliner is so close, which most people will pay.

 

[SplashJacket]

I understand some will love it and that's great. But, I'd say people come to Disney because it's not like any other place. At the resorts, that's not really the case when the rooms are looking more and more familiar to any other hotel. That goes into a long rant on whether it's worth it to stay on property now days, so I'll stop there.

That said, the biggest miss here is the furniture and finishings that don't look like they justify the price being charged for the room. Other posters have already said that well. It's also weird seeing Little Mermaid designs when a hotel on property covers that space already.

"The biggest miss here is the furniture and finishings that don't look like they justify the price being charged for the room"

I'd say that's an entirely valid complaint. Contemporary definitely suffers from that to an insane degree.

My disconnect is I don't know what you'd rather the rooms look like. Animal Kingdom Lodge has rooms that I think are on-theme, quality, and well done, but I don't know what theme you'd want, and that's what I'm trying to figure out. The rooms don't look like Little Mermaid at all. They seem to have removed tacky IP theming and replaced it with a beachy room with Disney nods.

Chapek says everything needs to be "more Disney" which to him means more IP, but more Disney might mean something else to you. I legitimately just want to know what you want to see when you walk into a room at Disney's Carribean Beach Resort.

AKL rooms below for reference.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Based on the one picture, this doesn’t look too terrible. Not great, but not terrible.