Bay Lake Tower refurb dates

[Brittleebee]

Checking into a 2 bed standard view on Oct 27. Not been moved.

 

[rlk]

I am considering staying in a BLT LV studio for a few days this coming May before moving to a 1B at Boardwalk. It will save us points, but I'm a bit concerned due to the ongoing rehab; mainly the possibility of the bridge to the Contemporary being closed.

 

[pangyal]

Checking in on Monday and haven’t been called. Lake view studio.

 

[RachaelA]

I’m checking in on the 29th in a standard view studio and I have not received a call.

 

[mousehouse23]

I'm curious if the renovated 1-bedrooms will still sleep 5. With two older kids, I'm tempted to book our summer 2025 trip at BLT, so they can sleep apart, while we save on points and still have two bathrooms. But I don't know if that sleeper chair will survive.

Any guesses?

 

[LadybugsMum]

I'm curious if the renovated 1-bedrooms will still sleep 5. With two older kids, I'm tempted to book our summer 2025 trip at BLT, so they can sleep apart, while we save on points and still have two bathrooms. But I don't know if that sleeper chair will survive.

Any guesses?

Disney kept the one at HHI ; so I’d hope they’d keep it at BLT as well.

 

[CarolynFH]

I'm curious if the renovated 1-bedrooms will still sleep 5. With two older kids, I'm tempted to book our summer 2025 trip at BLT, so they can sleep apart, while we save on points and still have two bathrooms. But I don't know if that sleeper chair will survive.

Any guesses?

Removing the sleeper chair and not replacing it with some other single sleeping surface would reduce the capacity of those villas from 5 to 4, and I don’t think they’ll do that.

 

[mousehouse23]

Disney kept the one at HHI ; so I’d hope they’d keep it at BLT as well.

Removing the sleeper chair and not replacing it with some other single sleeping surface would reduce the capacity of those villas from 5 to 4, and I don’t think they’ll do that.

Thank you, ladies! That's great news.

 

[brilsei]

I'm curious if the renovated 1-bedrooms will still sleep 5. With two older kids, I'm tempted to book our summer 2025 trip at BLT, so they can sleep apart, while we save on points and still have two bathrooms. But I don't know if that sleeper chair will survive.

Any guesses?

I’m inclined to say no as given the latest example at vero I was expecting the removal of the single sofa chat and moving to the under tv fold out but they replaced them with new sofa chairs!

 

[kanerf]

I have a 1bdrm LV booked for 4 nights starting 22 Jan. Perhaps I will get a refurbished room.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847653568678953470

 

[foodiddiedoo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847653568678953470

Thanks for sharing! Gives me some hope for my 2 bed TPV villa will actually be refurbed for my January trip.

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

Interested in seeing how this progresses. BLT is our home and we have a room booked there in August. So it seems like refurb could be mostly done if it goes well. I love current but a lot of stuff is pretty dated.

 

[adi1138]

You all seem wonderfully knowledgeable and I would love some help!

I have a reservation for Bay Lake Tower is mid November. We’re staying in an 3 bedroom villa, which only exist on the higher floors that are currently under renovation. Will those rooms be renovated by then? If not, what happens? I rented points through a DVC website and am not a DVC member myself. Would Disney contact me directly about any changes or would it all go through the third party company I rented from?

Thanks for your help! This is my first time renting DVC points so having this curveball thrown at me is making me anxious about our trip!

 

[foodiddiedoo]

You all seem wonderfully knowledgeable and I would love some help!

I have a reservation for Bay Lake Tower is mid November. We’re staying in an 3 bedroom villa, which only exist on the higher floors that are currently under renovation. Will those rooms be renovated by then? If not, what happens? I rented points through a DVC website and am not a DVC member myself. Would Disney contact me directly about any changes or would it all go through the third party company I rented from?

Thanks for your help! This is my first time renting DVC points so having this curveball thrown at me is making me anxious about our trip!

Is it lake view or theme park view? Doesn't seem like they are doing the entire top floor at once according to the photos.

 

[adi1138]

Is it lake view or theme park view? Doesn't seem like they are doing the entire top floor at once according to the photos.

Lake view. Could they maybe only renovate a few of the 3 bedroom villas at a time to keep the others in circulation? I know they’re aren’t many of them in total.

The complicating factor is that we booked an accessible room, and I think there’s only one of those among the 3 bedroom villas (at least according to the room finder on Touring Plans!)

 

[kes601]

Lake view. Could they maybe only renovate a few of the 3 bedroom villas at a time to keep the others in circulation? I know they’re aren’t many of them in total.

The complicating factor is that we booked an accessible room, and I think there’s only one of those among the 3 bedroom villas (at least according to the room finder on Touring Plans!)

It appears they are doing the south tower and the center tower currently. If the accessible one is in the north tower I would think you'd be ok.

 

[adi1138]

It appears they are doing the south tower and the center tower currently. If the accessible one is in the north tower I would think you'd be ok.

There is one accessible room and according to Touring Plans, it’s in the north tower. So hopefully that means we’re in the clear!

 

[Brittleebee]

Update! Someone saw these rugs/carpet(?) outside waiting to be installed today.

 

[foodiddiedoo]

Update! Someone saw these rugs/carpet(?) outside waiting to be installed today. View attachment 906550

I wonder if they are just doing under the bed carpets like in Grand Floridian refurb.