Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1450.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Grand Floridian Pool and Construction Update</b></a> Pictures of the newly remodeled Courtyard Pool at the Grand Floridian and a construction update on the Disney Vacation Club villas.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 The pool looks great, thank you for the update. How many rooms is this new DVC going to have?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks graet! I noticed that there's the lift for the hot tub to make it accessible, but it appears that guests must go up a couple stairs to get to it. Is there also a ramp available?
Originally Posted By Doobie I don't believe they've announced how large the new DVC will be. Though they have confirmed it's coming, few details have been released so far. It wasn't mentioned at all at the recent media event even though the media was staying at that hotel and the main presentation took place there. I'm pretty certain there's a ramp available, just not from the angle our pic was taken.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Let's hope there's several big cupolas and architectural flourishes that will be dropped onto the roofline of the DVC building. As it is now, the DVC wing is a big blocky thing that barely meshes with the ultra-themed Hotel Del Coronado buildings of the main GF Hotel. It looks like a Howard Johnson's fell from the sky and landed next to the Grand Floridian. Unless they can add some major gingerbread charm and rooftop cupolas and Victoriana to that blocky structure, this isn't going to end well.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks like there will be several cupolas closer to ground level (~2 story round buildings, with pointy roofs), but not so much on the big buildings themselves. There appear to be some dormer windows poking through in a few places (why didn't they make those part of the units? that would have been way cool), but nothing super distinct. Then again, that fits perfectly with the existing buildings, where the rooflines of the bigger structures are somewhat plain, and it's the smaller structures surrounding them that give the hotel its distinct look
Originally Posted By TP2000 Okay Ferret, I'll keep a good thought. But based on what they did with the DVC wing attached to the Contemporary, I reserve the right to say "I told you so!". ;-)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Fair enough! Even Jambo House at the Animal Kindom Lodge leaves something to be desired. While the rooflines and balconies fit the style of the original resort, the majority of the walls have all the charm of the Indiana Jones show building at DL (aka corrugated steel walls painted 'go away green')
Originally Posted By tonyanton I'm not sure if I like any of the "added later and not in the original master plans" DVC add-ons (and I'm a DVC member!). The Boardwalk remains the best laid out of the resort/DVC combo locations, most likely because it was built that way from the start. Wilderness Lodge is okay, Contemporary just continues the destruction of that resort's symmetrical architecture begun in the 90s with the convention center expansion, and Beach Club feels ill-placed and shoe'd-in.
