This! It isn’t really that much space. Maybe half of a closet and how much closet space do you actually need on vacation. A combo washer dryer unit takes even less and while they aren’t the best units they work fine for vacation laundry.
I was wondering about the water supply pipes and the sewer/drainage pipes that are already in the concrete slabs (and were installed 50 years ago, draining to where?) - could the necessary drain pipes be routed from the washer to those pipes, and could the drainfield, wherever it is, handle the additional load?
I'm hoping for more like a 1BR kitchen, maybe with a smaller fridge, rather than a rudimentary studio kitchenette. If so, I'd choose a dishwasher over a W/D, although I'd really rather have both!
Logistics aside, there’d be quite a bit of noise pollution from the dryer vents.
Hadn't thought of that, but with the cabins separated as they are, would it be more of a problem than it is in the regular resorts?
The big problem with Poly is one laundry room for 360 studios. Its always busy.
I haven’t stayed in one but from everything I have read, they needed to be gutted and redone. Has your experience been different?
This isn’t how trailer construction works. They aren’t hooking up the new plumbing in the locations the old plumbing was. A trailer will have main supply and a sewer main that will need to be connected to the existing main connections. The supply and drain for each appliance/fixture can be anywhere in the trailer. The floor of the trailer isn’t a concrete slab. The plumbing is below the floor and above the ground in a sort of “crawl space”.
In the quiet woods, those sounds would certainly travel. Think of how many times you hear the hydraulics and then the beeping of the buses in the idyll.
Ok, thanks. I guess I’m getting confused by them using the same footprint as the existing cabins. I thought they sat elevated on concrete pads.
Very much so
And this way DVC sales can pay for it. My hunch is it is part of a redevelopment of Fort Wilderness. I saw a post that they are no longer paying commission on travel agent bookings for camp sites. The restaurant turned to quick service. Plus the Reflections land is sitting there empty after they cleared it.
You are grasping for straws here - the campground has had RVs with washers / dryers for decades.
Oh I get that. Disney wants all the upfront profits with none of the upkeep costs.
And generators (even after quiet hours, I'm sure). I'm not sure about anyone else's home, but at my house you can hear the air blowing out of the dryer vent and that's about it. Standing right next to it.
I can’t see them getting anywhere near 2 bedroom point charts but I have been wrong before and could be wrong again. I was shocked when the charts came out for RIV and thought no one would buy in and pay the high points per night considering location and resale restrictions. Most people didn’t bat an eye.
Agreed. You could make the argument that they couldn't (shouldn't?) charge more than a lower tier studio if it didn't have a washer/dryer. Maybe even if it did. Going from 800+/- sq. ft. for a 1 bdrm down to 500 for a trailer (at a moderate resort) and charging anywhere close to 1 bdrm prices would be absolutely ridiculous if you ask me. Size matters in this case. As does location.
