Filled up on-site hotels is exactly what Disney wants. I'm sure they are crunching the numbers to see how many hotels can be be supported. What's interesting is that they are changing out hotel rooms to make DVC rooms. If the hotels were full, they wouldn't do that, they would just build more new DVC rooms. Another interesting thing is the conversions from hotel to DVC are cheaper to build than ground up resorts like the new Riviera Resort. The shell building with the basic infrastructure is already in place. The conversions become "renovations" vs new construction which is less. The cost per point for the Riviera Resort will be telling. The new point cost could be much more as the last 2 resorts were mostly renovation projects.
Yeah especially with the Skyliner aspect and being so close to Star Wars.
Good point, I don’t think the old water park site is a good place for another hotel. It seems out of the way, it would probably be better as some kind of attraction. Do you think they will build another park ? I think Pixar and Star Wars could of had their own parks there’s enough material there .
I honestly think they should build elsewhere around bay lake. You don’t realize how massive the shoreline is until you really scope it out in person.
See I think they can put a foot on Comcast’s throat just by building out the existing parks. If you look at the estimated attendance numbers from this past year, universal struggled simply from the opening of pandora. Universal needs a third gate desperately I feel to take on Disney head to head. And I think they need to put some original atrractions in and not just shoehorn mediocre IPs
Bill
Since DVC room are filled by purchased points, I don't see why it makes a difference what size rooms they build. They sold the points and made their money. The fact that you may want a studio and have to settle for a one bedroom doesn't bother them a bit. It will be interesting to see what the new DVD/DVC SVP comes up with.
Bill
There are plenty of dissatisfied DVC owners, they sell and someone takes their place, just look at the number of resale listings each year. If you were a company and had a customer under contract who is forced to use your product for 50 years, would you worry about keeping them happy or would you spend your efforts in making your company more money? Any negative customer complaints can often be erased by positive PR like offering membership magic.
Bill
I suspect DVC guides’ information about future DVC resorts is about as accurate as bus drivers’ information about everything Disney - which is to say not very accurate. It’s long been rumored that the former river country would become DVC and the Epcot entry hotel is certainly being considered although whether it has a DVC component is less clear, but until we see sight balloons followed by ground breaking, I won’t hold my breath.
Well the river country site does have permits at least.I suspect DVC guides’ information about future DVC resorts is about as accurate as bus drivers’ information about everything Disney - which is to say not very accurate. It’s long been rumored that the former river country would become DVC and the Epcot entry hotel is certainly being considered although whether it has a DVC component is less clear, but until we see sight balloons followed by ground breaking, I won’t hold my breath.
Actually if I thought the Epcot entry DVC was a definite go I’d be slower to commit to Riviera. As it is, they’ll have to hit a home run at Riviera to tempt me, even though
I’d like to own an Epcot/DHS resort with a later end date than BC/BWV. DVC River country doesn’t interest me at all at this point - I own at VGF, so feel like I have the MK covered
