Coronado Springs expansion and CBR upgrade

Coronado is their business resort; smart move to add to it. I think I’m one of the few who enjoy this resort.

steve wrote:

Coronado is their business resort; smart move to add to it. I think I’m one of the few who enjoy this resort.

I love Coronado, I’ve stayed there twice and loved it both times. It’s so centrally located, it doesn’t take long to get to any of the parks from there.

So I’m excited about them adding some new stuff there, because that rooftop area sounds amazing, but what concerns me is the pool area. We’ve found the feature pool to be pretty crowded there, and adding so many rooms can’t help but add to that. It would be nice if they would add a secondary feature pool to take some of the stress off the main pool.

steve wrote:

I think I’m one of the few who enjoy this resort.

You’re not, I will always be biased in favor of this resort since I got married there

I’m sure it is cheaper to add a new building to an existing resort than to make an entirely new resort, but it’s been how many years since they added a new resort? I would rather them create a new one than expand the current ones…like Kelly said, the pool is already crowded and you add 500 rooms to it? Um…no. Why not create another family style resort (meaning cheaper suites like AoA) themed off of Star Wars and near Hollywood Studios? That would be EPIC.

@Steve right? There would never be an empty room. EVER.

starbee wrote:

Okay, having read the article I’m not sure how I feel about this. The resort is already huge, I don’t know why they would need to add 500 extra rooms. I’m glad the current rooms will be refurbed because I think they need it. I’m concerned about how this giant “tower overlooking Lago Dorado” will affect the landscape overall. It’s already so pretty! They have a great mix of lake, beach, and gardens, I hope whatever they do will improve and not take away from this beautiful resort.

I’m right there with you on this. And there are rumors of a tower going in at CBR as well. Part of the appeal is the ambiance of the resorts. I would likely not be such a fan of CBR if it were not for the immersive feel it has.

Disney is long overdue for a new resort (even though if anything were to go up it would likely be another DVC resort), and I find it hard to believe that they could not do it in a profitable fashion. There are enough fanatics out there that would keep a new resort jam-packed even in the slowest of weeks at the ‘World. Further, you cannot tell me that they cannot come up with a good theme for a new resort.

A Star Wars resort would be epic, but I could understand not wanting to make a resort based on a single movie/franchise… especially one that is not original to Disney. But, there are plenty of untapped themes out there that could be used easily; especially with the new, more bland approach to rooms & lobbies.

I am just patiently awaiting the moment the imagineers are finally set free to begin a WDW renaissance.

Like several of you have mentioned, I’m usually optimistic about the new expansion ideas, but I’m not sure about this one. The idea of adding a higher guest density to a resort by building a tower seems to make sense from a $ perspective, but I wonder about the sight lines from HS and Epcot. This, plus the rumor of a skyway gondola transportation system makes me worried that the experience of the value and moderate resorts will become less of a retreat into an immersive themed experience and instead become more of a homogeneous metropolis with some nod toward theme to differentiate the various resorts. I’d rather see investment into a completely new resort and improvement of transportation by creating bus-only lanes around the property with the ability to upgrade to semi-autonomous bus transportation when the technology appropriately evolves.