Really? If it's "just" $37.85 million and some landscaping to link CBR to Epcot/DHS then why don't ALL resorts have a direct park access? Why don't we build a big bridge and link Coronado to AK? It's relatively the same distance as the crow flies from CBR to Epcot. Why don't we just go ahead and link all the value resorts to MK too? There's a reason it wasn't done in the beginning and there's a reason it won't be done now. The infrastructure required to do this does not exist and to make it exist will require substantial investment and then upkeep for absolutely no ROI. It creates more logistical nightmares than it solves the "how do we sell a moderate resort for deluxe DVC prices?" However, what you have come to your senses on is that if this is DVC then it MUST have park access to command the prices of DVC in it's current model to satisfy the demand of its current clientele. I just need you to come to your senses on how NOT easy and cheap it will be to do such a thing.
Exactly. While I realize the last part of your statement is sarcasm, your statement proved my point. If putting a tower on CBR property and dredging a canal makes CBR a deluxe DVC resort then what is stopping them from doing the same thing to POP, AOA, and then linking them to the imaginary CBR canal and calling them deluxe?? What will make AOA and POP command the same prices as CBR?
I used POP as my example because I knew it shared property lines with CBR. Disney does its landscaping so well, that until
@lockedoutlogic pointed it out, you had no idea that they were connected and shared a housekeeping warehouse even though we both tried to tell you they were the same property separated by some trees and a parking lot. The Disney consumer has budgets and Disney designed resorts to match those budgets. Again, you don't get to call the Hampton Inn and the Waldorf Astoria the same level of resort because they both have beds and this is what you're trying to do with CBR vs other deluxe WDW properties. In no way would you expect the Waldorf to have Hampton Inn prices and vice versa and why is that? Is it because of clever marketing schemes or is it because one of these resorts is better than the other? The answer is because the Waldorf is significantly better than the Hampton. Yes, they both have beds, but the Waldorf uses higher quality linens, bedding, and mattresses. They both have furniture, but the Waldorf furniture comes from a high end manufacturer and the Hampton comes from Target. They both have pools, but the Waldorf pool has 6 waterfalls, jets every 10 feet, and a swim up bar. The Hampton Inn pool is a blue hole in the ground with one of those motorized handicapped lift chairs. It doesn't have waterfalls, or jets, or a swim up bar. The both have interior corridors leading to the rooms. The Hampton Inn has Sears carpet and the Waldorf has fresh flower arrangements in the hallways.
Are you getting it now? You can't just build a tower at CBR, throw in a new pool, and an incredibly expensive waterway and call it a deluxe. You have to have the service to match a deluxe level resort. You have to have the amenities to match a deluxe level resort. They're not going to build deluxe level service and attach it to a lower price point hotel to "share".
So here's where we agreed before. They must make CBR 2.0 it's own resort in order for it to have the deluxe label. The question remains, can they add enough infrastructure and theming to make this stand alone and command deluxe level prices WITHOUT park access? My position is unlikely, but not impossible. They'd have to make it comparable to the Four Seasons and I don't see that happening at CBR unless they completely demolish it and then you're losing a lot of moderate level rooms unless the expansion at CSR can accommodate for that. CSR is such a big resort already that I'm not sure its infrastructure could handle the CBR capacity so that's why I believe CBR will REMAIN a moderate level resort.
