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New Walt Disney World Resort Announced!
Disney's Art of Animation Resort - to be ready in 2012.
Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will feature 1,120 suites with room for as many as six people each and another 864 traditional hotel rooms, with a design theme based on four of the company’s most popular animated movies. Plans for the new resort show 10 wings of rooms and a separate building housing the check-in lobby and restaurants. The hotel wings will be separated into four distinct groups, each with a theme from a different animated movie: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Finding Nemo and Cars. Each section will have separate courtyards anchored by icons from the movies — such as a 35-foot-tall King Triton presiding over the Mermaid section — and the entire resort will use bright-color palettes evocative of the lush scenery of animated movies. Hotel designers say they have been soliciting input from artists at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios on everything from building elevations to which scenes to depict at the swimming pools. “The hope is you walk into this courtyard and you’re kind of like seeing it as a character in the movie,” said Frank Paris, a senior project manager with Walt Disney Imagineering, the company’s in-house attraction-design unit. Because the majority of its rooms will be six-person suites, the Art of Animation Resort will have roughly the same capacity as Pop Century, which has 2,800 conventional rooms. It's going to be built where the Legendary years for Pop Century were going to be built before they stopped construction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, they're going to use that place for something! |
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That sounds really cool!
Do you know if it will be a Value, Moderate, or Deluxe resort? |
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The complex will be priced as a “value” hotel, at the low end of Disney World’s scale, similar to Disney’s Pop Century and All-Star resorts, where standard rates begin at $82 a night, though I'd imagine this would just be for the standard rooms. Family rooms cost more at the All-Star Music (where they have a limited amount of family quites), so I'd imagine the case would be the same, here.
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Awesome! We stayed at Pop Century the last two times we went, so maybe we'll stay at this new resort when it's built!
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I do find this as one of Disney's most....interesting ideas. The resort is called Pop Century and they only have half a century ('50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, and ‘90s). Now that they decide to finish the other half, they decide to keep it half a century? I don't think Disney really thought this decision through very well. Not to mention, their park attendance has been quite low since Harry Potter Land opened, so why would they open another resort that is going to be empty?
Although, Pop Century is one of my favorite resorts, so it will be nice to have other option that is similar to it.
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I wondered the same thing, Etna. I mean, it seems kind of sloppy to have a bridge linking two completely-themed resorts. But still, I like the idea.
But I do not believe that the resort is going to be empty. The family resorts at the all star music and the Alligator Bayou rooms at POR that room 5 are in really high demand, so it's about time that those traveling with a group of about six got a break trying to find a hotel at Disney. |
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There are more 4, 5 and 6 person bookings than you think. Besides, this looks awesome. Next time we go, if this is open, I might try to convince parents to get a room here. Although I still want to stay in the Yacht and Beach club resort... the one with the acre pool? I think it's the Yacht and Beach club anyway.
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Sounds amazing :] looking forward to a little mermaid themed resort area :P
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I just stayed at pop century in march and was very curious what they were doing with the un-finished pop century.
That sounds very nicee tho! |
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(Back on topic) I think this resort will be nice. I wish they would make it like Animator's Palette on the Disney ships, but I know that won't happen. Ah well. -Smiles
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As a head's up: The Finding Nemo section will open first around late May, followed by the Cars section in late July, rhen the Lion King in late September, and finally The Little Mermaid section in the later part of 2011. -Stitchco
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I feel that this will be one of the better resorts. Resorts are one of my favorite part of the whole experience and this seems to be great
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It seems awfully expensive for a value resort. I realize it mostly has suites, but still it seems rather high.
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I went to the Disney travel website and priced a room for two adults and two children (one is 10 and the other is 12, it was completely random) for August 25-31(once again random date). It ended up being $249 a night and $1401 for the entire stay (that is just the hotel). While Pop Century was $92 a night and $518 for the entire stay. You could get two rooms at Pop Century and it would still be cheaper.
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