Hypothetical Boardwalk Tower

[sethschroeder]

Can we just shove it here so I am closer to Epcot, B&C, and the lake while still rerouting the road and expanding parking? I am sold!

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That is a good spot. My hope would be firework view rooms and a rooftop/top floor restaurant with DVC exclusive access.

 

[PolyRob]

Oh I know I was just saying for the new made up resort if it was a thing outside of points even.

Ahhh gotcha! They could make a rooftop CL lounge and just charge people to add-on at check-in pending availability

 

[matt and beth]

Concede the Beach area in red. Also, could connect the Yatch club parking for a BW tower. Install culvert boxes and have the drive go over the top between the Yatch and Dolphin. You could remove the tennis courts and then have a parking lot loop between drives. Fill in the pond by the Skyline turn and redirect parking lot stormwater to the river. Yatch parking may be closer than BWV

 

[sethschroeder]

Ahhh gotcha! They could make a rooftop CL lounge and just charge people to add-on at check-in pending availability

DVC is clueless I feel. Like you have RIV that has perfect views of Epcot but you put your restaurant behind the rest of the building for views of Epcots fireworks. Like if I was in charge of DVC I would fire the whole team that made that decision.

 

[muppets3d]

DVC is clueless I feel. Like you have RIV that has perfect views of Epcot but you put your restaurant behind the rest of the building for views of Epcots fireworks. Like if I was in charge of DVC I would fire the whole team that made that decision.

They put Topolino's there so you can't see the parking lot and road from the restaurant I think - the building hides the view.

 

[atthebeachclub]

You've got a fantastic idea! Although BCV is my favorite resort, it's despite the fact that the QS offerings are lacking. I'm lucky that now I have an AP and can go into Epcot to get a meal (Quiche and dessert) at Les Halles. Otherwise, no great offerings.
I don't really like the hotel-y, big and tall towers (yeah, I know some might say BCV isn't too different), but that seems to be what sells nowadays. But I prefer your idea of a food court.

We use Epcot as our BCV quick service too. But my kiddo still talks about how much she enjoyed the mac and cheese at BCV quick service over a year ago. It had goldfish crackers on it.

 

[DonMacGregor]

Can we just shove it here so I am closer to Epcot, B&C, and the lake while still rerouting the road and expanding parking? I am sold!

That would be a hard "no" from me. I don't want to be sitting outside Chefs de France, enjoying a croissant and a coffee, only to look up and see someone nuded up in their hotel room, or have a 10-12 story building filling the background as my kids are getting their picture taken with Alice or Mary Poppins in England. It would only get worse as you moved further away.

That spot is WAY too close and the sightlines from INSIDE Epcot would be ruined. People went batsh@t with the new Cosmic Rewind building, and that's a shorter building, painted Blending Blue, and situated in an area with other contemporary structures (more or less, architecturally), practically out in the parking lot. Imagine ANY hotel tower looming over the heavily (and historically) themed France and UK pavilions, and visible to everyone in World Showcase.

No thanks. There's a reason the walkway between Beach Club and Epcot rises and falls as it moves between there and International Gateway. Stand at the IG tapstiles and you can't see anything at all on Crescent Lake. For good reason. A 150' tall tower literally a couple of hundred feet from the Skyliner? Nope. That's about the same distance from the Main Street train station to the Monorail beam at MK (by comparison, Bay Lake Tower is over 1,500 feet away from the closest point on the MKRR, a point that's technically "outside the berm").

Further back, out of sight lines from inside the park, but still plenty close enough to enjoy the fireworks and still closer than BWV.

 

[samsp99]

Boardwalk area needs some reasonably priced quick serve options. Turning it into a dining hall with a series of food stations of different types - kind of like at a mall where there are many stalls and one common seating area.

The other thing that could work well would be an irish pub with live folk music. The kind of place where people come and stay for a few hours, eat, drink and be merry. There are enough guests at the 6 nearby hotels to justify it, and the dining options on the boardwalk are less than ideal.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Boardwalk area needs some reasonably priced quick serve options. Turning it into a dining hall with a series of food stations of different types - kind of like at a mall where there are many stalls and one common seating area.

The other thing that could work well would be an irish pub with live folk music. The kind of place where people come and stay for a few hours, eat, drink and be merry. There are enough guests at the 6 nearby hotels to justify it, and the dining options on the boardwalk are less than ideal.

I think people forget there are already 3 full blown restaurants on the hotel side of the boardwalk…. and then you also have a deli, ice cream, and the pizza window…. and my kids like that pizza window….

 

[CarolynFH]

I think people forget there are already 3 full blown restaurants on the hotel side of the boardwalk…. and then you also have a deli, ice cream, and the pizza window…. and my kids like that pizza window….

Yes, but there needs to be more seating, shaded and protected from sun and rain!

 

[DonkeyHoTay]

I don't want to be sitting outside Chefs de France, enjoying a croissant and a coffee, only to look up and see someone nuded up in their hotel room

Oh. Then you're not gonna like my idea either:

 

[matt and beth]

I think people forget there are already 3 full blown restaurants on the hotel side of the boardwalk…. and then you also have a deli, ice cream, and the pizza window…. and my kids like that pizza window….

This! Plus Corn Dog Stand, Leaping Libations, Abracadabra bar, and the cafe shop in the lobby

 

[matt and beth]

Oh. Then you're not gonna like my idea either:

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That makes really good sense being next to the road

 

[DonMacGregor]

Oh. Then you're not gonna like my idea either:

How about this?

 

[sethschroeder]

Oh. Then you're not gonna like my idea either:

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No ability to fit a hotel and the driveway needed to that spot.

You also would have to shutdown the path to Epcot for months and months which is a big no go.

You essentially could only put in the single tower side where Topolinos is in. So you are looking at 200-300 rooms and that's without pool space and a driveway space.

Potentially Marriot also has restrictions on Disney blocking that view as well.

 

[sethschroeder]

That makes really good sense being next to the road

The road is there but it's actually a bus height and more below the ground level at that point as it goes under the water channel.

 

[sethschroeder]

I think people forget there are already 3 full blown restaurants on the hotel side of the boardwalk…. and then you also have a deli, ice cream, and the pizza window…. and my kids like that pizza window….

No sit down quick service though. It's a problem for BW unfortunately. They need an actual quick service with a wide variety of food options.

It's not the end of the world since you can go to Epcot or BC or RIV but it would be nice to have it right there.

Burgers, chicken, salads, some specialty food main, and what not. Then have open seating.

 

[AstroBlasters]

No sit down quick service though. It's a problem for BW unfortunately. They need an actual quick service with a wide variety of food options.

It's not the end of the world since you can go to Epcot or BC or RIV but it would be nice to have it right there.

Burgers, chicken, salads, some specialty food main, and what not. Then have open seating.

Yup, I get it.

 

[theMoreDisneytheBetter]

I have no problem with towers as long as they make sense in the context of what is around them. The monstrosity at the Polynesian does not.

Once BC2 (tower or otherwise) is built I may come to regret our Riviera points. Or they may just become SAP. Who knows what the world will be like at that point in time.

 

[mort1331]

Would we also get "Boardwalk cottages" on the water?

No but you could have riverboat houses along the banks from BW to HS, sort of like the riverboats homes in Amsterdam. That would be fun.