Reunion Station

[bianca]

Is there any new info on how Reunion Station is going? I read one review from the guy that was the first (and apparently only) guest when it opened, but haven't heard anything since. We are staying at BRV in October and are curious about this experience. If it isn't going so well, I could see Disney doing away with it before we arrive.

 

[paults]

I hope they do away with it. IMO not worth the money

 

[sleepydog25]

Perhaps Disney will prove people wrong, but I can't imagine that it will be popular. First, it's $50 per person, per night of stay ($33 for kids 9 and under). For a family of four (assuming both kids are 9 or younger) staying five nights, that would be an EXTRA $830. For $830, by Disney's own description, you get breakfast items in the morning and heavy tapas/salad with beer and wine in the evening. That's it. The originally announced free member mixer was cancelled soon after it began. Other than that, you can plop down $40 per person for one of a set of rotating classes offered on various afternoons. Like the OP, I've not heard any reviews or reports on RS, but at this point I'm highly skeptical about its success. It's as if they threw up a building without actually figuring out what they would do with it first.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Don't forget Sleepy - they had a plan.

@LauraLea had posted live from the Dec 2016 Member meeting:

"I am ar the annual DVC meeting now. The only new info on our Lodge:
The cabins will sleep 8
The restaurant will be table service
There will be a community hall.
There will be BBQ pavilions ."

It would have been a great Community Hall - but somebody apparently thought they had a better idea to make some $$$'s instead of providing an amenity that used to be pretty common at DVC resorts.

 

[Dean Marino]

OK - just me.....

Personally hope WDW does one of....

1) Demolish it.
2) Convert it to what it SHOULD have been - a serious SIG on Waterfront property.

CCV was TOTALLY screwed by this "thing". They have NO common area. As a BRV owner? I'm going to demand that OUR contract common area is one of ENFORCED, or declared a shared resource. We never asked for CCV. Adjust our contract costs for OUR common area, or stay out.

 

[DenLo]

OK - just me.....

Personally hope WDW does one of....

1) Demolish it.
2) Convert it to what it SHOULD have been - a serious SIG on Waterfront property.

CCV was TOTALLY screwed by this "thing". They have NO common area. As a BRV owner? I'm going to demand that OUR contract common area is one of ENFORCED, or declared a shared resource. We never asked for CCV. Adjust our contract costs for OUR common area, or stay out.

It is news so me that there was a rumor for a signature restaurant, I did hear rumors about a table service restaurant, but never a signature one. So am understanding you correct that you want them to gut, Geyser Point and the QS window and make it all into a signature restaurant? Because if not Reunion station itself is way too small to be a restaurant as it would only hold less than 10 tables. Other than the Grand Floridian none of the resorts have two signature restaurants. Plus I am not sure Wilderness Lodge is large enough to support two signature restaurants.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

I honestly don't have any gripes with Geyser Point. It's been dumbed down, but it's a nice venue and the food is fine. Nothing mind-blowing, but fine. We watched some basketball and ate and everyone in my group was content with it.

The Reunion Station thing is just dumb, though. Either make it a Community Hall (small one) or don't pretend it's a public space, don't make it part of the dues-supported whatever, and use it as a broom closet.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

We were there in April. Walked by several times. Never busy. Hardly anyone there.

 

[heapmaster]

We saw the same when we stated at WL in April, no one was there, but I think its due to price and forced to have it the whole trip. We like that it is an option for any room type for DVC and we saw the menu for RS which was very similar to the club level food options (we stayed club level for our trip), minus the times. RS seems to be only two sets of food times and club level is 4 sets. I can report back more of a review once we stay and use it.

 

[DVC Jen]

turn it into a community hall. Keep the paid classes (those are nice) and just close the community hall when they are happening. Otherwise open it up to DVC only - as a community hall (since we are the ones paying for it).

 

[heapmaster]

I'd say switch it as well as it would be neat to have the stuff the others do (since I had to look up what a CH was), but keep the club option in a separate smaller section of the building, so everyone could have the best of both worlds. The CH for free as it is elsewhere, and then a paid club level section for those who want it. As a DVC member I would rather pay for the club option then have to get a regular hotel club level room with a points conversion.

 

[Dean Marino]

Just us....
Gut it, rebuild it. Put the old "pool bar" back (lose the hair and nails salon), and make that land currently occupied by a loser "What is it" into what it should have been in the first place.
If any Management at the WL needs inspiration? Examine Narcoossee's at the GF.

All personal opinion - I'm not necessarily right, no one else is necessarily wrong.

 

[DenLo]

I'd say switch it as well as it would be neat to have the stuff the others do (since I had to look up what a CH was), but keep the club option in a separate smaller section of the building, so everyone could have the best of both worlds. The CH for free as it is elsewhere, and then a paid club level section for those who want it. As a DVC member I would rather pay for the club option then have to get a regular hotel club level room with a points conversion.

There isn't a small section of the building, It is really just a room in the building now. The rest of the building is the kitchen for Geyser Point and the QS there. I am not sure why the end portion was set up to an outdoors porch.

 

[heapmaster]

Maybe that's the whole reason the didn't make it into a community hall, there's not enough room in the existing building with the kitchen and QS counter taking up space, so they made it into a club level offering. The porch area i'm pretty sure had some table games like the other halls have.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Maybe that's the whole reason the didn't make it into a community hall, there's not enough room in the existing building with the kitchen and QS counter taking up space, so they made it into a club level offering. The porch area i'm pretty sure had some table games like the other halls have.

It's as large of space, maybe larger than the BWV and BLT community halls. I don't recall well enough about Kidani but I suspect it's also similar square footage to that. I haven't been in the SSR one to compare. Initially was announced that there would be a community hall so it was designed to be just that. Size was not the issue but someone apparently thought it could be made into a profit center vs an included amenity.

And what is up with the Cub's Den location now that it isn't reopening?

 

[Wakey]

Prices are outrageous, just as I'd feared. $200 a day for my family for a bit of food worth a few dollars and some glasses of $8 bottles of wine, for the 2 of us old enough to drink. Kids can have a soda that costs Disney pennies.

 

[Dean Marino]

So here is a good question?
Has anyone PAID for this thing? Just askin. If no one HAS? How is this working out for Disney?

 

[DenLo]

It's as large of space, maybe larger than the BWV and BLT community halls. I don't recall well enough about Kidani but I suspect it's also similar square footage to that. I haven't been in the SSR one to compare. Initially was announced that there would be a community hall so it was designed to be just that. Size was not the issue but someone apparently thought it could be made into a profit center vs an included amenity.

And what is up with the Cub's Den location now that it isn't reopening?

We were told in March by a CM at the concierge that Cub's Den will be remodeled as a lounge for guests arriving and their room is not ready or for departing guests to hang out in waiting DME. Of course he reminded us that it was not set in stone. LOL It was just a closed site when we were there.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

We were told in March by a CM at the concierge that Cub's Den will be remodeled as a lounge for guests arriving and their room is not ready or for departing guests to hang out in waiting DME. Of course he reminded us that it was not set in stone. LOL It was just a closed site when we were there.

That would be a new thing for WDW. Not certain it's really necessary to devote space for that as there are the pools and lots of other spots around the resort to wait. So they'll do a free waiting lounge but no community hall? We'll see if it happens but it seems like strange choices. I'd think that that location would be better for a paid Concierge lounge. Not connected to a kitchen but most of the lounges aren't and the Reunion Station, though in a nice location, wasn't designed for lakeviews. And the old Cub's Den would at least be inside one of the buildings and a short covered walkway from the other. Oh well, like everything else they didn't ask my opinion!

 

[Wakey]

We were told in March by a CM at the concierge that Cub's Den will be remodeled as a lounge for guests arriving and their room is not ready or for departing guests to hang out in waiting DME. Of course he reminded us that it was not set in stone. LOL It was just a closed site when we were there.

Suspect this waiting lounge would only be accessible at a hefty price tag, if it ever happened.