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News Reflections – A Disney Lakeside Lodge (Project 89 - Development near Fort Wilderness)
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DVCakaCarlF
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Airships?
lazyboy97o
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nickys
Premium Member
I think delayed. DVC isn’t dead, just lying injured for the moment.
Whether the same plans get resurrected, or they come up with something else in a few years, is a good question. I would hope the latter.
Magic Feather
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DVC wasn’t doing too hot in the last year-ish either. I wouldn’t be surprised to see no more new DVC builds for the next few years at WDW as they work to see off Riviera. Maybe one more conversion/expansion of an existing property before Reflections would be restarted.
EpcotCenter82
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Don't think that will ever happen. There was a resort themed to Venice planned for the area between the Poly and Contemporary in the original designs for WDW. When Eisner was CEO, a resort themed to the Greek isles was planned for the same area but was never built.
Sirwalterraleigh
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My insiders tell me 100% “The Villas at _____”
...you meant DVC, right? They’ve been busy these last 32 years otherwise
floydbeatle
Active Member
I'm all for a Greek island resort. If Disney could recreate Santorini, Rhodes, Mykonos, etc. that would be impressive. I also just watched "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" on Netflix, and I am all for a Western themed resort. Maybe like Deadwood they could do a Disney "shootout." Just random thoughts.
Heppenheimer
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If I recall correctly, the soil under this piece of land was found to be unsuitable for supporting the weight of a large hotel. Pending some kind of technological breakthrough in building material, we'll likely never see anything substantial constructed here.
My vote for a hotel theme? A grand Alpine chalet-style. Something like this:
Put it near Blizzard Beach for thematic consistency. Or in the spot they had designated for Reflections and surround it with pine trees to make the transition between the Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness more naturalistic.
jt04
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Greek themed resort by Disney in Florida can't lose.
PS great western. Only Once Upon a Time in the West is better.
homerdance
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Between the new price points, DVC II and the small 2 person studios not surprised at all Riveria wasn’t selling that great.
peter11435
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Materials are being removed from the site to make it safe. It won’t exactly be anything near pre construction condition. Just no longer an active construction site, essentially a field. Construction could pick back up again down the road as the same project or something new. Similar to art of animation nearly a decade later, in that case the theme and several things changed but the site plan remained largely the same.
I don’t expect any new or future construction to be redesigned with social distancing in mind.
Well if anyone is upset by this devastating cutback/loss and really wanted to experience the wonder that would have been Reflections: A Disney Lakeside Resort, I can point you to any number of Embassy Suites by Hilton or Courtyard by Marriott so that you can get your fill of generic nondescript blandness.
Horizons '83
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I'd prefer the Embassy, at least you get free drinks at happy hour along with a pretty good free breakfast.
Club Cooloholic
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Im kinda happy about this. What I wonder then, are the stables, maybe Mickeys Backyard BBQ at Fort Wilderness etc going to come back if this is shelved for a year or more?
peter11435
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They already built the new and expanded stables.
Club Cooloholic
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That's awesome, thank you for the update! I wonder if the trail connecting Fort Wilderness and the Lodge will reopen, it being down was ones of the reasons I held off booking.