News Swan and Dolphin Tower Expansion - The Walt Disney World Swan Reserve

[Rinx]

Sounds like an argument for a 5th gate....

I know it's not going to happen, it's just a pipe dream. It's just that Pandora and SWGE are not large enough to absorb all the extra people that will be on property.

 

[NiarrNDisney]

PS. I hate how in some photos you can see the Swan and Dolphin from the boardwalk is it really that close as I have been there ???

From many vantage points including from EPcot you can see the Swan and Dolphin Resorts. As for the Boardwalk Resort being close the answer is yes they are right next door to each other.

 

[matt9112]

Seems like you don't like people who don't agree with you which is cool so I won't bother

PS. I hate how in some photos you can see the Swan and Dolphin from the boardwalk is it really that close as I have been there ???

yes when i stayed at the swalphin last year i paid less a night than a disney moderate and walked to the boardwalk to mingle with you high society types lol.

 

[danlb_2000]

Seems like you don't like people who don't agree with you which is cool so I won't bother

PS. I hate how in some photos you can see the Swan and Dolphin from the boardwalk is it really that close as I have been there ???

 

[eddie104]

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It just seems so out of place with the traditional Boardwalk architecture and this big looming more modern structure behind it. Kind of breaks the synergy of the area however like I said it is just another option of WDW vast array of hotels.

 

[Bocabear]

It just seems so out of place with the traditional Boardwalk architecture and this big looming more modern structure behind it. Kind of breaks the synergy of the area however like I said it is just another option of WDW vast array of hotels.

Swan and Dolphin were in place long before the Boardwalk came to be... the Swan Dolphin and Yacht Club all opened in 1990...Boardwalk was 1996

 

[MisterPenguin]

It just seems so out of place with the traditional Boardwalk architecture and this big looming more modern structure behind it. Kind of breaks the synergy of the area however like I said it is just another option of WDW vast array of hotels.

Not much different than the monorail loop resorts in eyesight of one another.

 

[eddie104]

Swan and Dolphin were in place long before the Boardwalk came to be... the Swan Dolphin and Yacht Club all opened in 1990...Boardwalk was 1996

Oh...thanks for letting me know as I'm usually better at researching that stuff before posting.

 

[ABQ]

Never a bad time to watch these old clips.

 

[danlb_2000]

Never a bad time to watch these old clips.

Cool, I had never seen that video before.

 

[fngoofy]

Not much different than the monorail loop resorts in eyesight of one another.

Except the monorail resorts don't look like they just escaped from the Vegas Strip c.1992.

 

[eddie104]

Except the monorail resorts don't look like they just escaped from the Vegas Strip c.1992.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Except the monorail resorts don't look like they just escaped from the Vegas Strip c.1992.

I'm not sure what you're saying. What looks like a 1992 Las Vegas Strip hotel?

 

[Missing20K]

I'm not sure what you're saying. What looks like a 1992 Las Vegas Strip hotel?

I think he is referring to the Swolphin. But in 1992, Vegas Strip hotels didn't look anything like either (Swolphin being a Post-modern design), the notable exception being the Excalibur opening in 1990, which one might argue is using Post-modernism to play up the Medieval theme (and is god-awful ugly). All the other Vegas-style Strip hotels opened in 1993 or later (Mirage, MGM Grand, Luxor, Bellagio). And other than New York, New York (opened in 1999) I'm not sure what other distinctly Post-modern Vegas Strip hotels there are. So I'm not sure what he is saying either.

 

[Jambo Joe]

It just seems so out of place with the traditional Boardwalk architecture and this big looming more modern structure behind it. Kind of breaks the synergy of the area however like I said it is just another option of WDW vast array of hotels.

I agree that the Swan and Dolphin are a little (ok a lot) over the top and eccentric. However I love the whole Crescent Lake look and feel and Swan and Dolphin are inextricably part of that place. Wouldn’t be the same without them.

 

[DznyRktekt]

I think he is referring to the Swolphin. But in 1992, Vegas Strip hotels didn't look anything like either (Swolphin being a Post-modern design), the notable exception being the Excalibur opening in 1990, which one might argue is using Post-modernism to play up the Medieval theme (and is god-awful ugly). All the other Vegas-style Strip hotels opened in 1993 or later (Mirage, MGM Grand, Luxor, Bellagio). And other than New York, New York (opened in 1999) I'm not sure what other distinctly Post-modern Vegas Strip hotels there are. So I'm not sure what he is saying either.

Mirage was the first new build mega resort on the strip and it opened in 1989. Wynn took what he learned from the Mirage and applied it to his future properties; Treasure Island, Bellagio, Wynn, and finally Encore. I believe I read somewhere that Bob Gurr was the creative force behind the original pirate ships out front of TI.

 

[MisterPenguin]

stardust

 

[Missing20K]

Mirage was the first new build mega resort on the strip and it opened in 1989. Wynn took what he learned from the Mirage and applied it to his future properties; Treasure Island, Bellagio, Wynn, and finally Encore. I believe I read somewhere that Bob Gurr was the creative force behind the original pirate ships out front of TI.

Sure. But I wouldn't consider the Mirage (or any of the strip hotels other than maybe NY NY) an exhibit in post-modern architecture.

My point was in regards to the comments that the Swan and Dolphin look like "1992 Vegas strip hotels" when in reality they look nothing like nearly any Vegas strip hotels of any era.

EDIT: I realize now I had the incorrect year for the Mirage, I may have been confused with TI, but my point remains the same.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Sure. But I wouldn't consider the Mirage (or any of the strip hotels other than maybe NY NY) an exhibit in post-modern architecture.

My point was in regards to the comments that the Swan and Dolphin look like "1992 Vegas strip hotels" when in reality they look nothing like nearly any Vegas strip hotels of any era.

Does this mean that Las Vegas never Learned from Las Vegas?

 

[Missing20K]

Does this mean that Las Vegas never Learned from Las Vegas?

Denise and Robert are gonna come looking for you.