Originally Posted By Mr X Yuck, barf (yeah, Seuss deserves a double comment)... The Jurassic Park room is surprisingly intriguing though (I could imagine that might be similar to a REAL hotel room on Isla Nublar, before a raptor bursts in and eats you ). Nikki, agreed. My four year old is way into it though (I don't get it...but it's apparently very popular since it's even on regular JAPANESE TV these days too, dubbed of course).
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey The Seuess room is kind of neat, but the Jurassic Park room looks cheesy.
Originally Posted By danyoung I just saw on the MousePlanet update that Disney will be charging $25/night more for the pirate rooms. Guess I'll never see one for myself!
Originally Posted By jkayjs You can't please all of the people all of the time. I think the themeing is spot on for what it's intended to be. Lot's of whimsey and a dash of pixey dust. It gives another option and since they plan on charging extra many folks will pass. It won't be my choice when Mr.jkayjs and I go but when my grandson gets older if he loves pirates we'll be ponying up the extra $25 in a heart beat. I wonder how many rooms they will do? One bldg or a whole section? It really doesn't matter because they won't have any trouble filling them with all the pirate lovers out there. As long as they use quality material and don't cheap out they will be cute. I don't really see a cheesy factor in the drawing, will have to wait to see an actual mock up.
Originally Posted By jkayjs Oh and BTW, race car drivers don't sleep in beds made of cars either but that doesn't keep many little boys from going to bed in their favorite NASCAR mobile.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The pirate rooms look more like Capt. Hook's pirate ship than POTC. Which is appropriate enough considering the market they're aiming for. I can easily imagine little kids getting a big kick out of this room.
Originally Posted By DOGWITKEYS So lets see, If my memory serves me correctly...the first time you see a sleeping pirate in the attraction (WDW and alive) is when he is sleeping in a mud puddle with pigs, and the first time in the films is in Dead man's chest when Jack goes down for rum and meets bootstrap, they were sleeping in barracks about three or four high. Now as cool as it would be to have little billy and Susy sleep in simulated mud while they dream of their upcoming day of fantasy at a disney park (especially if your that parent and your mad at your kids). I just don't see how the kids would buy it and how disney would tell you to sell it to your kids so you lay $200 per night for it. This goes back to the age old argument that disney focuses more on the kids well-being that the adults, which is the way it should be. As far as the themeing goes...Disney always has and will continue to make their most realistic interpretations of every project they tackle, but would you want to sleep on top of those realistic interpretations.
Originally Posted By kennect I think the best idea is to wait and see what these rooms really look like in the flesh...I am not crazy about the artists rendering of them but they could be a lot different in the flesh...Time will tell....
Originally Posted By Route66 I think its super cool.. I dont go to Disney parks for a history lesson. I'll take fantasy any day.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo No thanks. I go for a mix, and if toons are the fantasy element, then I am close to stopping going.
Originally Posted By DOG1 The Caribbean Resort was the very first WDW property I stayed at back in '90 and given that there was a pretty wild storm going on when we arrived, the overall effect was pretty convincing. As it was originally executed, the CBR was a nice place to stay for a reasonable price (by WDW standards) where you didn't have to go far to get to the resort bus stops, each area had a convenient pool (and laundry!) and it wasn't far to the main building where the food services were located. But over the years the prices went up and now it looks like the concept will be much more juvenile in nature and an attempt to capitalize on the POTC franchise. So what? WDW has plenty of other resorts in all price ranges so if they want to provide a place to stay that is way over the top in terms of a particular theme, let them.
