Grand Californian Villas to be announced 9/18!

[todd222222]

It seems like a small area plus with only being 5 stories it seems like it's going to be a small number of rooms, does anyone think they will be converting existing rooms in the existing hotel? (like AKV)

I may be late to the game....so if this is common knowledge I'm sorry.

 

[LisaS]

I'm so shoping this is true!

I really like this new word you have invented -- combining "hoping" with "shopping" (presumably for more points) into "shoping"!

 

[disney-super-mom]

It seems like a small area plus with only being 5 stories it seems like it's going to be a small number of rooms, does anyone think they will be converting existing rooms in the existing hotel? (like AKV)

I may be late to the game....so if this is common knowledge I'm sorry.

No one has heard anything about converting existing hotel rooms, so I would speculate that they're not doing that.

The new rumor is the GC DVC addition will have 250 rooms. Dwelty (a disboard member) informed us that the GC DVC addition footprint is about the same size as the BCV (and the BCV has 208 rooms), so the possibility of 200 or more rooms at the GCV looks likely.

Hopefully we'll learn more tomorrow!

 

[wdw4life]

I really like this new word you have invented -- combining "hoping" with "shopping" (presumably for more points) into "shoping"!

Why thank you! I regularly invent new words. Never play Scrabble with me.

 

[dwelty]

This from the Disney investor site:

BOB IGER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, TO SPEAK AT THE GOLDMAN SACHS COMMUNACOPIA CONFERENCE


BURBANK, Calif., September 11, 2007 – Bob Iger, president and chief executive officer, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at approximately 12:00 p.m. EDT/9:00 a.m. PDT. To listen to a live Webcast of the session, please point your browser to www.disney.com/investors approximately five minutes prior to the start time. A re-play will be provided through Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. PDT.

Seems to me the announcement was timed to coincide with this.

 

["Got Disney"]

This from the Disney investor site:

BOB IGER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, TO SPEAK AT THE GOLDMAN SACHS COMMUNACOPIA CONFERENCE


BURBANK, Calif., September 11, 2007 – Bob Iger, president and chief executive officer, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at approximately 12:00 p.m. EDT/9:00 a.m. PDT. To listen to a live Webcast of the session, please point your browser to www.disney.com/investors approximately five minutes prior to the start time. A re-play will be provided through Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. PDT.

Seems to me the announcement was timed to coincide with this.

Well guess I have something to do at 9am

 

[isyt]

3 hours to go

 

[miwdwfan]

Has anyone heard any news from the mandatory DVC CM meeting this morning at 8:30?

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

I would not be surprised by a Disney Vacation Club announcement about California today. After all, Al Lutz has good sources.

But I would be very, very surprised if the announcement comes from Bob Iger at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. That's not the purpose of an investment company's question-and-answer session.

DVC resort announcements are typically made in press releases. It's also possible that Jim Lewis and/or Ed Grier would make a live announcement to invited media representatives or at an appropriate industry conference.

Of course, I could be wrong.

 

[m4travel]

I have a question. We were originally thinking of purchasing at GCV. However when dh and I discussed it we were concerned because they can only build up and not out and it will feel more like a condo than the resort feel you get in WDW. What is your opinion on that?

When we were at DLR this weekend, we tried to see as much as we could of the area of DVC construction. It's really quite a large area. It appears that the villas will connect to the GC, as they have removed protruding eaves on the main building for connecting purposes, one would suppose. And the construction area is larger than the wedding garden - it extends nearly to the edge of California Adventure. Do we think there may be a separate pool, as there is at resorts at WDW? Or is the extra space for staging the construction?

 

[bnlbebes]

Tuned into www.disney.com/investors but nothing's happening!

Does anyone see anything?

 

[3DisneyKids]

3 hours to go

Has anyone heard any news from the mandatory DVC CM meeting this morning at 8:30?

Yes, it has now been announcd! 200 new rooms and 52 DVC rooms! Officially announcement/press release forthcoming. Jim Lewis provided this information to guides just a short time ago.

 

[dwelty]

I would not be surprised by a Disney Vacation Club announcement about California today. After all, Al Lutz has good sources.

But I would be very, very surprised if the announcement comes from Bob Iger at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. That's not the purpose of an investment company's question-and-answer session.

DVC resort announcements are typically made in press releases. It's also possible that Jim Lewis and/or Ed Grier would make a live announcement to invited media representatives or at an appropriate industry conference.

Of course, I could be wrong.

Tom Staggs, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Spoke yesterday at the Merryl Lynch conference and mentioned that Disney plans on spending alot of money to improve California Adventure, and there has been no press release about that. You may be right however that they let Disney Vacation Developement make the announcement.

 

[todd222222]

http://cc.talkpoint.com/GOLD006/091807a_kk/agenda.asp?day=Tuesday

Tuned into www.disney.com/investors but nothing's happening!

Does anyone see anything?

 

[MinnieGirl33]

Yes, it has now been announcd! 200 new rooms and 52 DVC rooms! Officially announcement/press release forthcoming. Jim Lewis provided this information to guides just a short time ago.

Only 52 DVC villas ???

 

[dwelty]

http://cc.talkpoint.com/GOLD006/091807a_kk/agenda.asp?day=Tuesday

You will not see anything, just Audio, I just hear people milling around. Since The Email just went out to the guides, He may not say anyting about it.

 

[todd222222]

You will not see anything, just Audio, I just hear people milling around. Since The Email just went out to the guides, He may not say anyting about it.

They are starting, my guess is that they won't say anything about it either. Disney is a much larger company then just DVC.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Only 52 DVC villas ???

It seems that there will be 50 2-bedroom lock-off units. So that could work out to 50 1 BR plus 50 studios, etc. Lots of combinations, but still...a small number overall. Competition will be fierce!

 

[dwelty]

It seems that there will be 50 2-bedroom lock-off units. So that could work out to 50 1 BR plus 50 studios, etc. Lots of combinations, but still...a small number overall. Competition will be fierce!

Yeah, Hands off my points 3Disneykids! I'm buying first!

 

[Cricket2]

Competition will be fierce!

Not if the points per night are astronomical.