Originally Posted By TP2000 So the first pictures and official media coverage of the Dream Suite is coming in. The OC Register has a big spread on it on their website, with pictures and such to follow in the morning edition. <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/news/dream...park-apartment" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/news /dream...park-apartment</a> Granted, interior design is a subjective topic, and you'll never please everyone. But my first reaction at the photographs and descriptions? Much of the Dream Suite is, well, tacky! It seems to me they have gone way overboard here, and instead of turning it back into a gracious and elegant apartment themed to old New Orleans, they've turned it into a garish and trashy exhibit at the convention center Home Show. I'm reminded of a rather tasteless high-roller suite in a mid-range Las Vegas casino. LED light shows on the ceiling of the master bedroom? LED starfield and audio effects in the bathtub? Uh, that's kind of creepy. And it totally doesn't mesh with the old New Orleans vibe there. In fact, I can't think of any theme in Disneyland this meshes with. Not all of the changes to the Dream Suite came out badly; I do like how they've spruced up the main balcony, and some of the individual pieces of furniture and color schemes are lovely. But overall this new Dream Suite looks like it was a Honeymoon Suite designed by a drunken Victoria Gotti and her thug henchmen, rather than a family apartment decorated by the elegant Mrs. Disney and the sophisticated Dorothea Redmond. I think they went a bit too overboard on the Dream Suite.
Originally Posted By disnyfans <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/news/dream-disney-suite-1969018-park-apartment" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/news /dream-disney-suite-1969018-park-apartment</a> try this one
Originally Posted By Nobody Try this... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2b348f" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2b348f</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Hmmm, yet more evidence that theming emersion has been forgotten. In the DLH this would have been fine. I personally would have preferred a NOS feel throughout. I do love that bathroom though. Just not in this location.
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD Thanks. Both of those links worked. I like the suite. I think the lighting effects sound cool.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains The bathroom looked beautiful - love the window...LOVE the balcony!! That's it...
Originally Posted By TP2000 A lot of this techno stuff would have been fabulous in the Disneyland Hotel. I loved what they did with the Mickey Mouse Penthouse! But in NOS, this just seems a bit.... tacky. My opinion only, of course. Check out the video link on the main page of the OCRegister website (I won't even try a link again). The reporter goes in to the master bedroom and pushes the "Goodnight Kiss" button on the wall and the LED and audio effects all start swirling around the room; children laughing in the walls, disco lighting pulsing, thunderstorms crashing, starfields in the ceiling, etc., etc. Perhaps I was just expecting them to go a bit more refined and understated with this concept? Instead, it looks like they went to the Las Vegas Home Show with a blank check and got into a bidding war with the folks from Ceasars Palace. ;-) It would be fun to spend the night there, just to say you did it. But I don't think this concept is going to age well. The ultra-trendy techno stuff they included in every room will seem dated and fadish in 5 years time. My opinion only, of course.
Originally Posted By netenyahoo I'd really like to see it in person, but it does seem a bit much. I could see the bathroom having the stars and maybe a noise or two in the bedrooms, but light shows, etc seem too much. I agree that the balcony is nice. I cant get the video to play, but I would like to see the little court yard to see the changes there. I loved that little area.
Originally Posted By TP2000 The courtyard turned out perfect from the pictures I've seen. Nicely refreshed, returned to the elegant patio area with expensie wrought iron furniture, and accented by simple light fixtures and gorgeous silk chinese lanterns hanging overhead. The one little "plus" in this area is the firefly effect from the Blue Bayou added to the ornamental trees. Very cute. It's the LED disco light shows and audio tracks playing in the bedrooms that take it beyond "plussed up" and into the realm of Ceasars Palace for me.
Originally Posted By bean The suite in person actually looks very nice. The design was kept vry close to what Walt Disney himslef saw and approved before his death. the elements that were added (lighting and other small details) are actually not that bad. I agree that some of it is overly done but overall its quite a nice and very large suite.
Originally Posted By lauriesk I like it but that is just me, a once a year visitor who hasn't turned cynic about Disneyland. I still get excited about going because it is not my everyday or once a week thing to do.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I liked it. Before we all get too carried away with properly sophisticated interior design let's remember that Disneyland is all about a rat in red shorts and a duck in a sailor suit with no pants on.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "The ultra-trendy techno stuff they included in every room will seem dated and fadish in 5 years time." Is this even going to be around in 5 years? I think that it will be fine for what it is, and when it's time comes to an end, it will probably get turned back into the gallery or office space or just an empty room.
