I cant find a certain Disney Resort HELP!

[dizneygib]

Can any one help me. The last time we where in Disney we drove past a Disney Resort that I had never heard of. It was not far from Saratoga Springs on one of the back road. Its not listed on here or in any brochure. Many thanks

 

[HeatherC]

Could you be thinking about Bonnet Creek Resort? It is next to the Caribbean Beach Resort. But it is owned by Wyndham not Disney.

Awesome resort though.

Not sure if this is what you are thinking of.

 

[Al and Kate's Mom]

I was thinking Bonnet Creek too

 

[dizneygib]

Yes thats the one Thankyou

 

[WillCAD]

Bonnett Creek Resort is not affiliated with Disney at all. It's surrounded on all sides by WDW property, but the property is not owned by Disney.

The story I heard about it goes thus:

Back in the 1960s Walt had his people secretly buying property for the Florida Project. But there was one holdout who wouldn't sell for some reason. And when the news finally broke, and surrounding land shot from $180 per acre to $1000 per acre, Disney had already bought enough land to build the project. The holdout parcel was on the southeastern corner of the property, anyway, and it was expected that DIsney would probably be keeping those outer areas undeveloped for a long time, to block out the outside world from intruding on the park. So they left it alone and never bought the parcel.

Fast forward almost 40 years, and that last non-Disney parcel has changed hands at least once. It's prime real estate, smack dab in the middle of the biggest, most lucrative tourist destination on Earth. And somebody was finally able to broker a deal to build a resort hotel on that land, which eventually became the Bonnett Creek Resort.

I don't know how accurate that story is, but it fits the facts and makes sense.

 

[aubriee]

Bonnett Creek Resort is not affiliated with Disney at all. It's surrounded on all sides by WDW property, but the property is not owned by Disney.

The story I heard about it goes thus:

Back in the 1960s Walt had his people secretly buying property for the Florida Project. But there was one holdout who wouldn't sell for some reason. And when the news finally broke, and surrounding land shot from $180 per acre to $1000 per acre, Disney had already bought enough land to build the project. The holdout parcel was on the southeastern corner of the property, anyway, and it was expected that DIsney would probably be keeping those outer areas undeveloped for a long time, to block out the outside world from intruding on the park. So they left it alone and never bought the parcel.

Fast forward almost 40 years, and that last non-Disney parcel has changed hands at least once. It's prime real estate, smack dab in the middle of the biggest, most lucrative tourist destination on Earth. And somebody was finally able to broker a deal to build a resort hotel on that land, which eventually became the Bonnett Creek Resort.

I don't know how accurate that story is, but it fits the facts and makes sense.

That's the same story a bus driver told us one time, when someone specifically asked about why the resort was allowed to open. He also said that the original owner round up selling it to a Japanese corporation, who then built Bonnet Creek and that even though Disney allowed and even encouraged the Swan and Dolphin, that Bonnet Creek has always been a sore spot with them. There's just nothing they can do about it. If you notice Disney buses go to the Swan/Dolphin, but not Bonnet Creek.

 

[WillCAD]

That's the same story a bus driver told us one time, when someone specifically asked about why the resort was allowed to open. He also said that the original owner round up selling it to a Japanese corporation, who then built Bonnet Creek and that even though Disney allowed and even encouraged the Swan and Dolphin, that Bonnet Creek has always been a sore spot with them. There's just nothing they can do about it. If you notice Disney buses go to the Swan/Dolphin, but not Bonnet Creek.

Yes, but that's because Disney had a friendly deal with Sheraton and allowed them to build Swan & Dolphin on Disney property.

Bonnett Creek is not even on Disney property, so the owners didn't have to have any sort of agreement with Disney to build.