Disney News, Discussion & an Element of Fun - 2023 Edition

[ArielRae]

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Cabins are Becoming DVC Properties

The Cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resortare becoming the next Disney Vacation Club property at Walt Disney World Resort . The current cabins at the resort will be torn down and rebuilt as refreshed hideaways. This project between Walt Disney World Resort and Disney Vacation Club is part of the overall refreshment of Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground and is projected to open in 2024. There will be no impact on the campground sites at the resort, but the cabins will close in phases as the project begins.
More than 350 new cabins will replace the existing cabins nestled across the 750 acres of scenic woodlands. The cabins will be built with an eye toward the environment. That means utilizing the footprint of the existing cabins instead of developing more land and taking advantage of more energy-efficient features. Each proposed, stand-alone cabin offers spacious accommodations, sleeping up to six adults, and features a bedroom, bathroom, living room, full kitchen, and private patio. Expect them to feel very similar in layout, but refreshed. A select number of cabins are also expected to be dog-friendly.

You know they are not going to tear them down. They have sold them off before Intact. They will just trailer them away one by one to be sold and then drive in and plop down a newly designed one to replace it. Disney isn’t going to loose money on the old ones if they can sell them.

 

[TikiRob]

You know they are not going to tear them down. They have sold them off before Intact. They will just trailer them away one by one to be sold and then drive in and plop down a newly designed one to replace it. Disney isn’t going to loose money on the old ones if they can sell them.

Coming soon to the Lakeland Antique Mall parking lot...

 

[zebrastreyepz]

Thanks for the MNSSHP info. Moving my trip back a week so we can go!

 

[middlechild]

Disney loves DVC. Recurring revenue to offset minimal operational costs, and setting the hook to keep families coming back for decades under the sunk-cost fallacy. The web site WDWNT is reporting around a 40% discount on resale points. It will be interesting to see the rate per point, and the minimum buy for these unique accommodations. Wonder if Disney could not fill them anymore, or if the lure of easy recurring revenue just got too strong to ignore?

 

[jpeterson]

Disney loves DVC. Recurring revenue to offset minimal operational costs, and setting the hook to keep families coming back for decades under the sunk-cost fallacy. The web site WDWNT is reporting around a 40% discount on resale points. It will be interesting to see the rate per point, and the minimum buy for these unique accommodations. Wonder if Disney could not fill them anymore, or if the lure of easy recurring revenue just got too strong to ignore?

Based on the current trend, I would expect resale on these to be restricted just as Riviera and the new Disneyland Villas are. Not sure how that has affected the resale of those properties, but it certainly makes resale a lot less attractive going forward.

 

[AvidDisReader]

You know they are not going to tear them down. They have sold them off before Intact. They will just trailer them away one by one to be sold and then drive in and plop down a newly designed one to replace it. Disney isn’t going to loose money on the old ones if they can sell them.

I love this idea. DVC should be about variety. This gives a whole new type of resort (a have heard it also might be dog friendly). I was never a fan of the Reflections resort, this in my opinion is much better. Kind of like camping but not really camping.

 

[Dcgc28]

I love this idea. DVC should be about variety. This gives a whole new type of resort (a have heard it also might be dog friendly). I was never a fan of the Reflections resort, this in my opinion is much better. Kind of like camping but not really camping.

I agree we’re looking at joining in the next 3 years so the more places the merrier in our opinion !

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

I love this idea. DVC should be about variety. This gives a whole new type of resort (a have heard it also might be dog friendly). I was never a fan of the Reflections resort, this in my opinion is much better. Kind of like camping but not really camping.

This is how I feel, too. If on a given trip we want to take a more relaxed pace but still have some access to theme parks, we will look at booking these cabins. Great idea... plus, we can big our pups for once!

 

[Brocktoon]

I love this idea. DVC should be about variety. This gives a whole new type of resort (a have heard it also might be dog friendly). I was never a fan of the Reflections resort, this in my opinion is much better. Kind of like camping but not really camping.

I like this idea way more than plopping Reflections next to the campground, but my (selfish) concern is that this could be the slow end of campsites at the Fort.

They already have a cabin or two in preferred loops closest to Pioneer Hall and Bay Lake. If these DVCs are successful, could they then convert the preferred loops near the lake into more DVC plots? Sure it's not as easy an overbuild as the cabin sites, but there are plenty of sites that are full hook-up and power/water/sewer available to start.

Is Disney going to 'slow boil a frog' by converting sites over time if the $$$ is there? ... just speculating

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

I like this idea way more than plopping Reflections next to the campground, but my (selfish) concern is that this could be the slow end of campsites at the Fort.

They already have a cabin or two in preferred loops closest to Pioneer Hall and Bay Lake. If these DVCs are successful, could they then convert the preferred loops near the lake into more DVC plots? Sure it's not as easy an overbuild as the cabin sites, but there are plenty of sites that are full hook-up and power/water/sewer available to start.

Is Disney going to 'slow boil a frog' by converting sites over time if the $$$ is there? ... just speculating

So far we haven't see Disney convert a cash resort entirely to DVC. It's usually a wing converted or an additional wing built. So as long as the remaining cabins are selling for the cash rates, they will stay that way.

 

[HokieRaven5]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649119629590003754

 

[wabbott]

So far we haven't see Disney convert a cash resort entirely to DVC. It's usually a wing converted or an additional wing built. So as long as the remaining cabins are selling for the cash rates, they will stay that way.

Well, there was the demolition of the "Luau" pavilion at the Poly to construct a DVC building. The end of one of the most popular shows on the entire property. Boo, hiss!!

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Well, there was the demolition of the "Luau" pavilion at the Poly to construct a DVC building. The end of one of the most popular shows on the entire property. Boo, hiss!!

I thought it wasn't selling out anymore? I never got to see it so a bit sad about that. Have seen Hoop Dee Doo and love it.

 

[Lsdolphin]

Ok so was DeSantis responsible for that public service emergency drill at 4:45 this morning???

 

[wabbott]

I thought it wasn't selling out anymore? I never got to see it so a bit sad about that. Have seen Hoop Dee Doo and love it.

Last show we saw was in April, 2019, and IIRC it was full. I can remember seeing it back in the early 80s.

 

[Gusey]

No set date for when Hatbox Ghost is coming to Magic Kingdom, but he is still coming according to the Disney Parks Blog :
Disney Parks Blog Presents Disney Paper Parks: Happy Haunts Edition Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, Part 7

The Hatbox Ghost is one of the most well-known grim grinning ghosts to appear in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland park. He is set to materialize in the attraction at Magic Kingdom Park, as well, with hatbox in hand and his head vanishing and appearing within it!

 

[ddluvsdisney]

This seems so weird to me because it's April vacation week up here. Prime Disney vacation time.

We live in MA. It was great this week in Disney!!! I know RI had their spring break last week so wondering if that made a difference. Maybe other states too.

 

[Moliphino]

We live in MA. It was great this week in Disney!!! I know RI had their spring break last week so wondering if that made a difference. Maybe other states too.

I'm in MA, too. I know VT was last week because my sister lives up there. MA, I think, always coincides with Patriots' Day.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

I'm in MA, too. I know VT was last week because my sister lives up there. MA, I think, always coincides with Patriots' Day.

Yes you’re right!! Some states just make it when Easter is. It was unusual that RI wasn’t the same as us. I couldn’t remember the last time that happened but not complaining about how pleasant it was in WDW.
I can’t remember the last time April vacation was this fantastic!!! We are going home tomorrow….

 

[OKW Lover]

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Cabins are Becoming DVC Properties

The Cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resortare becoming the next Disney Vacation Club property at Walt Disney World Resort . The current cabins at the resort will be torn down and rebuilt as refreshed hideaways. This project between Walt Disney World Resort and Disney Vacation Club is part of the overall refreshment of Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground and is projected to open in 2024. There will be no impact on the campground sites at the resort, but the cabins will close in phases as the project begins.
More than 350 new cabins will replace the existing cabins nestled across the 750 acres of scenic woodlands. The cabins will be built with an eye toward the environment. That means utilizing the footprint of the existing cabins instead of developing more land and taking advantage of more energy-efficient features. Each proposed, stand-alone cabin offers spacious accommodations, sleeping up to six adults, and features a bedroom, bathroom, living room, full kitchen, and private patio. Expect them to feel very similar in layout, but refreshed. A select number of cabins are also expected to be dog-friendly.

I love how they've attached an outhouse to the side