bye, bye

[tinkbutt]

when I was in WDW on our first day we took the boat to POFQ and saw this along the way

with no walls just out in the open

bye bye tree house villas!!!

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

WOW I thought the CP's stayed in those? Hmmmm wonder what is going on.

 

[ADP]

I saw an announcement a while back that they would be demolished. In fact, here is the article explaining it.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/Travel_News/Disney_Treehouse_Villas_to_get_new_life.htm

 

[WaltD4Me]

What a shame! I thought those were so cool. It's really too bad they couldn't be fixed up and used again. I would have loved to stay in one of those. When we went on a trip in 1998 we checked out the Institute, I thought it was such a great idea. I guess not many other people did though.

 

[DVCsince02]

OMG, I totally forgot to mention that in my trip report. Thanks for reminding me about it.
Nice before and after pics.

 

[Geef]

I stayed in the tree house villas back in 1995. I thought they were wonderful. We had 5 adults and a 3 year old stay comfortably. In the morning we would wake to the wild peacocks on our roof, deck & yard (a lot of them & loud).

It's a shame they are gone. They were one of the first condo/apartment style rooms on property. They had two bedrooms upstairs, a bedroom downstairs, a living room and a full kitchen. It even had an area to park your vehicle underneath out of the rain/sun.

This was one of the best places that I ever stayed on property.

 

[chickie]

I hope the plan still is to rebuild these! They bring back some great memories!
Has anyone heard any updates on the plans?

 

[BeamsofLight]

I saw an announcement a while back that they would be demolished. In fact, here is the article explaining it.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/Travel_News/Disney_Treehouse_Villas_to_get_new_life.htm

Those plans sound so neat. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with these. Never got a chance to stay at the originals but I'm definitely going to try to get into Treehouses 2.0.

 

[LilGMom]

From my understanding they will be rebuilt but with a smaller on grade footprint.