The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group - 3.0

[gsdweller]

I thought their comment was ment in jest. Perhaps it could be good to take a breath before firing off an aggressive and hostile response.

You are correct. Life needs more humor.

 

[bluecruiser]

I thought their comment was ment in jest. Perhaps it could be good to take a breath before firing off an aggressive and hostile response.

You are correct. Life needs more humor.

Since it was meant in jest, I do apologize. Sometimes it's hard to interpret meanings from plain text. If I had seen a smiley face or "/s" I would have understood.

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Is it just the top floors where they left the small TVs or everywhere?

ETA: we actually occasionally do movie nights by casting to the TV during longer WDW vacations, although never have at DL. I remember we watched the last episode of the second season of Mandalorian at Riviera in late 2020 with extended family in our 2BR villa since nobody wanted to wait until after the trip to watch. Then in 2022 we watched Guardians of the Galaxy 1 with my MIL in our BLT 1BR so she would know the characters before going on Cosmic Rewind the next day (borrowed the movie from Community Hall). Sometimes it's a nice arrival day thing to do, but it's not going to make or break the vacation.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Is it just the top floors where they left the small TVs or everywhere?

ETA: we actually occasionally do movie nights by casting to the TV during longer WDW vacations, although never have at DL. I remember we watched the last episode of the second season of Mandalorian at Riviera in late 2020 with extended family in our 2BR villa since nobody wanted to wait until after the trip to watch. Then in 2022 we watched Guardians of the Galaxy 1 with my MIL in our BLT 1BR so she would know the characters before going on Cosmic Rewind the next day (borrowed the movie from Community Hall). Sometimes it's a nice arrival day thing to do, but it's not going to make or break the vacation.

Maybe that’s what my family does when I head down to the spa

 

[stagemomto3]

So it turns out that there has been some major work done to the bathrooms, at least in the 3 bedroom Grand Villa. Someone posted a video on Facebook a couple of days ago that shows a quick walkthrough, but if you pause it, you can see that they closed off the bathtub area and replaced the tub, replaced the floor tiles and reconfigured the shower/toilet, and replaced the countertops. I am comparing it to a YouTube from a year ago (Villas are on the opposite side, but I am assuming they were both redone the same way).

New tour:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2589485941260071

1 year ago:

 

[VGCgroupie]

So it turns out that there has been some major work done to the bathrooms, at least in the 3 bedroom Grand Villa. Someone posted a video on Facebook a couple of days ago that shows a quick walkthrough, but if you pause it, you can see that they closed off the bathtub area and replaced the tub, replaced the floor tiles and reconfigured the shower/toilet, and replaced the countertops. I am comparing it to a YouTube from a year ago (Villas are on the opposite side, but I am assuming they were both redone the same way).

New tour:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2589485941260071

1 year ago:

Thanks for the video! Ive never been in a GV interested to see what those who have been in one think.

 

[miksicnarf]

The new tour is unavailable, at least to me.

 

[VGCgroupie]

The new tour is unavailable, at least to me.

Silly me I watched the 1 year ago and thought it was new. I was thinking that couch looked not new. LOL

 

[stagemomto3]

The new tour is unavailable, at least to me.

It's in the Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa group on Facebook, you might have to join the group to see it.

 

[CWTC]

Maybe it is just me, but if the size of the TV ruins your vacation, you might be vacationing wrong.

Ha! You have never met us! Spouse has a custom carrying case made which holds 2 Apple TVs, their remotes, a foldable keyboard, various cables, a hotspot, a wireless router, and a hard drive that acts as a portable media server.

We are not rustic people.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Looks like some of the bathroom flooring is the same but the primary bathroom has large square tiles with just an inlay with smaller tiles. Is the tile the same in the showers? I can't quite tell.

I hope that's a soaker with no jets and I hope all the rooms get those!

 

[AstroBlasters]

Ha! You have never met us! Spouse has a custom carrying case made which holds 2 Apple TVs, their remotes, a foldable keyboard, various cables, a hotspot, a wireless router, and a hard drive that acts as a portable media server.

We are not rustic people.

Don’t tell my kids this….

 

[AstroBlasters]

Looks like some of the bathroom flooring is the same but the primary bathroom has large square tiles with just an inlay with smaller tiles. Is the tile the same in the showers? I can't quite tell.

I hope that's a soaker with no jets and I hope all the rooms get those!

Looks like soaker with no jets.

 

[VGCgroupie]

Don’t tell my kids this….

Or my husband.

 

[ehh]

...hopefully that video, or screenshots of it, end up someplace that isn't gated by Facebook sign-in

 

[ehh]

Unrelated to the refurb, looks like there's a new banner image for VGC on the DVC site.

Old:


New:



Changes are to the DTD entrance (makes sense), the sky (doesn't make sense), and the depth of the building on the right edge (doesn't make sense?).

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Unrelated to the refurb, looks like there's a new banner image for VGC on the DVC site.

Old:
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New:
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Changes are to the DTD entrance (makes sense), the sky (doesn't make sense), and the depth of the building on the right edge (doesn't make sense?).

Looks like since they needed to add the new entrance design they went ahead and spruced up the rest

 

[ClaraOswald]

Looks like they deleted a section of building on the far right as well.

 

[PiratesOfTheSea]

Screengrabs from the FB video:

 

[ClaraOswald]

The shower tile and wall border is all the same as before, right?