Bay Lake Tower refurb dates

I am here now. We have a GV on the north side. It appears no work is being done over here. The south elevators are out of service and it looks as though all the work is being done on the upper floors south of the south elevator bank.
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Lots of activity with workers but I haven't seen anything recognizable.
Except this beauty…

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See if you can slip that fine bird a fish and your phone to get some upper level spy pics!
 
We are planning on BBQing before the Christmas party, but then I thought oh no, what if the BBQ’s are gone or down due to the refurb!
I could call BLT right? Wrong! All calls go to a call center and they have no clue what is happening on property.
I could ask my son (current CP CM) for some visual confirmation right? Ha! I got a blurry movie as he drove by on a boat. It was a good close up of refurbed rooms.

Has anyone been to BLT in the last week or so and can confirm the BBQ’s are there?
OR: does anyone have the direct number to BLT?

Screen shots from the video…sorry they are blurry.

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Hi, we were there last week and did see the grills still in place. 😊
 
Ugh the Skybridge being closed in January makes me sad. I feel like probably none of the new rooms will be available for Mid January and I’ll have to walk outside and up and around to get soda refills and breakfast at Contempo Cafe. First world problems!
Even worse if you use a scooter, then you have to wait for elevators to get to cafe. I wonder if the pool bar could get soda hours and menu extended during this time.
 
I currently have a 2-Bedroom Standard (I guess now called Resort-view) in May 2025. Those are on the lower levels right ? From this post, it looks like work began in mid-October to the upper level villas on the south side, and it's two months into it and they are close to but not fully done. Trying to predict the likelihood those standard/resort-view lower floor villas will be done by the time we arrive in mid-May 2025.

We have friends we were travelling with who were able to snag a Poly Island tower but they may no longer be able to go. If so, and it's looking unlikely of getting a reno-'ed BLT villa we may be able to change the names on their ressie to ours.
 
Is there an estimated date when the sky bridge will open up after the January closure?
 
Related to above question on sky bridge - do we know when exactly it will start to be closed? Is it 1/1?
 
What are the chances that we would get a refurbed 2 Bedroom Lakeview room in early August. It seems as though they are starting from the top down on the south section which would cover the Lakeview rooms. Could they be done with the top of the North and center sections by then?
 
What are the chances that we would get a refurbed 2 Bedroom Lakeview room in early August. It seems as though they are starting from the top down on the south section which would cover the Lakeview rooms. Could they be done with the top of the North and center sections by then?
If all things progress as they have communicated it should be 100%, they are taking 1/4 of the building offline at a time, about to move to the second phase, in August all remaining rooms should be offline being refurbed in the last wave. Unless they experience major delays of course
 
Hmm….so far, from the 1 photo….it looks….fine. It kind of looks like I thought it would, but not any better, unfortunately. At least the location will stand the test of time.
Agree. I actually like it less, I think the two tiny tables are sort of strange. But BLT is still my favorite location wise so I’ll be just fine with it.
 

















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