I am a huge Disney and
DVC lover but I absolutely hate these generic towers Disney’s doing now. They look like any Marriott you’d see in any city. It’s sad. I guess the days of amazingly and intricately themed resorts are over. Imagineering is a shadow of its former self, especially when it comes to the new resorts.
Disneys all about just quickly (by Disney’s terms) throwing up cheap ugly towers that will hold a ton of guests who will pay an arm and a leg to basically stay in a Marriott.
The Riviera is boring. It has a tiny, disappointing lobby. It’s not really that great of a location, the
points charts are too high and it is imo the most underwhelming of any Disney resort. I’ve been to the real Riviera several times and this resort does not remind me of it in the least bit. The new Poly tower isn’t much better. It’s an eyesore that ruins the old Polys aesthetic. The new Lakeshore will likewise ruin Fort Wilderness’ theming and I’m sure will be equally as underwhelming as the other towers.
A BW tower would be especially egregious. It would stick out like a sore thumb and completely ruin the Boardwalk theming. Hopefully it wouldn’t ruin sight lines in the two nearby parks.
Instead of trying to build endless rooms to house endless guests, when the parks are already way too crowded as it is, Disney needs to focus on guest experience and taking care of what they already have. They need to remember what made them such an attractive vacation destination in the first place and work on getting back to that, not on building endless cookie cutter towers that have no thought or care or theming put into them.
The towers are the visual manifestation of Disney’s new “wring as much money out of each guest while giving less and less in return” policy. And it’s sad.
