Attack of the Lakeshore Lodge

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IMO - Boathouse is the most likely to please everyone if you have a large group.

 

[Unclelude]

Jaleo is my favorite restaurant at DS. It’s tapas, so I understand it’s not for everyone, but quality is top notch.

We really enjoyed the place too. The experience with wine pairings was amazing ( lots of food ) FYI they take the “in kind” restaurant gimmick… if you are willing to play that game you can get 60 cents on the dollar from Costco.

Good Luck!

 

[Girlstar30]

Excited to try these restaurants, thanks!

 

[Girlstar30]

We really enjoyed the place too. The experience with wine pairings was amazing ( lots of food ) FYI they take the “in kind” restaurant gimmick… if you are willing to play that game you can get 60 cents on the dollar from Costco.

Good Luck!

Is this a gift card?

 

[Unclelude]

Sort of. It's more like a payment app... you can load money onto it - i.e the Costco 'in kind' cards you can buy at a discount ( or use a linked credit card).

Then at participating restaurants you use the app to pay.

It will try to upsell subscriptions etc ... to get more bonuses and discounts.... we really don't eat out much in regular life, so we just use it opportunistically.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

FWIW - Some new aerials credit to @bioreconstruct on x below and here, here, and here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987345405332292074

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Unless it's some other structure, seems like the beginnings of what may be a decent size hot tub at the leisure pool. Could have great view/setting potential, depending on how much they decide to clean up the shoreline.



Going with the idea this is the hotel side of the resort - these two banks of balcony-less rooms are likely going to be up there on the list of bad deluxe hotel views on property. Basically sitting right on top of chillers and back of Pioneer Hall mechanicals. 'Maybe' you get a little CR/BLT effect where looking "out vs down" is better, but still - they certainly made a choice to go no balconies in only this part of LSL for a reason. I guess a central location at least takes the bite out of the poor view and no balcony.



To me from the ground all the A-frame structures have looked the same so far, but you can ever so slightly start to notice the difference in the from the air in the 'narrow' vs 'wide' ones

Smaller A-Frame.... (five of them, on the east/FW boat dock/Pioneer Hall side of the resort)


Vs. the Larger A-Frames.... (eight of them, on the west side of the resort)


The waterfront restaurant (and presumably combo pool bar like Geyser Point) is turning out to be quite large...

 

[MagicCat]

I think I read somewhere that the part that’s just windows overlooking pioneer hall is a hallway. I don’t know if there’s any truth to that or if it was speculation but I just wanted to throw that out there.

 

[Girlstar30]

Since it is so huge im guessing internal bus loop?

 

[Steelers0854]

Since it is so huge im guessing internal bus loop?

The design isnt that much different than AKL, I would be surprised if it had more than 1 bus stop.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

The original stormwater plans showed a six-bus single station, although I've seen subsequent plans that show five (on the large side for most Disney deluxes). I suspect the five concrete forms in circled in the image are the beginnings of the bus station structure.

 

[tidefan]

The original stormwater plans showed a six-bus single station, although I've seen subsequent plans that show five (on the large side for most Disney deluxes). I suspect the five concrete forms in circled in the image are the beginnings of the bus station structure.

They'd best have a lot of buses running this route because you can expect that a lot of the people at the Fort will be using these as well.

 

[MerlinandtheMouse]

Unless it's some other structure, seems like the beginnings of what may be a decent size hot tub at the leisure pool. Could have great view/setting potential, depending on how much they decide to clean up the shoreline.

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Going with the idea this is the hotel side of the resort - these two banks of balcony-less rooms are likely going to be up there on the list of bad deluxe hotel views on property. Basically sitting right on top of chillers and back of Pioneer Hall mechanicals. 'Maybe' you get a little CR/BLT effect where looking "out vs down" is better, but still - they certainly made a choice to go no balconies in only this part of LSL for a reason. I guess a central location at least takes the bite out of the poor view and no balcony.

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To me from the ground all the A-frame structures have looked the same so far, but you can ever so slightly start to notice the difference in the from the air in the 'narrow' vs 'wide' ones

Smaller A-Frame.... (five of them, on the east/FW boat dock/Pioneer Hall side of the resort)
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Vs. the Larger A-Frames.... (eight of them, on the west side of the resort)
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The waterfront restaurant (and presumably combo pool bar like Geyser Point) is turning out to be quite large...
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Took the boats to and from WL last week for a visit and omg this thing is a behemoth in person and I completely forgot it has a whole second arm behind the main structure that you can’t see from the water. Wow.

Also, have we come to a common speculation of what those A-frame buildings will be? I know the original documents showed fancier treehouses and then smaller cabins but I figured since there is already a plethora of smaller cabins in that area now they might’ve nixed that plan (unless the current FWC are those smaller cabins because they plan to make FW and LSL one resort?).

They’re also not really giving treehouse to me…maybe they’ll add trees back in to surround the buildings? And since there are 2 sizes, do we think they finally made cabungalow type structures with different room configurations? 1bdrms and 2bdrm specialized units maybe?

 

[proudmomof4]

They'd best have a lot of buses running this route because you can expect that a lot of the people at the Fort will be using these as well.

But quite a lot of the LSL guests will use the Fort boats since it’ll be a shorter walk to the Fort marina.