This is what I was thinking. Some sort of hanging/climbing garden plant. Concept art for this “lounge area” looks beautiful, just hope they deliver. Would be an amazing view of the fireworks over the lake with a cocktail.it kind of looks like those vertical gardens on the living in the land boat ride
There’s some really good zoom-in action here. I am so intrigued!
Yep, that's the part I'm wondering about as well. Interesting looking for sure.
As I was (not) falling asleep last night I was wondering—can they have concierge rooms in the new tower but put those guests in the same concierge club that already exists at Poly hotel?
What building is the current lounge in? Is it near(ish) to the tower, as far as the overall resort layout goes?As I was (not) falling asleep last night I was wondering—can they have concierge rooms in the new tower but put those guests in the same concierge club that already exists at Poly hotel?
We have never used the club so I don’t know how crowded it gets, but seems like it would be a great way to free up another 1000-10000 (?) points to sell even if you only offer a handful of concierge rooms. Do I have my math approximately right, for each each concierge room you can charge another 10-20 points a night, x 365= 3,650-7,300 points for slapping on the word concierge…at $200/point, each room given the label would be $600,000-$1,500,000 in additional points they could sell upfront(!) and then each night they get $100-200 (in dues, but more like $200-400 in point rentals?) for a lounge that already exists.
It would significantly degrade the quality of the experience, but make them a lot more money, so....As I was (not) falling asleep last night I was wondering—can they have concierge rooms in the new tower but put those guests in the same concierge club that already exists at Poly hotel?
We have never used the club so I don’t know how crowded it gets, but seems like it would be a great way to free up another 1000-10000 (?) points to sell even if you only offer a handful of concierge rooms. Do I have my math approximately right, for each each concierge room you can charge another 10-20 points a night, x 365= 3,650-7,300 points for slapping on the word concierge…at $200/point, each room given the label would be $600,000-$1,500,000 in additional points they could sell upfront(!) and then each night they get $100-200 (in dues, but more like $200-400 in point rentals?) for a lounge that already exists.
Hey, I can dream.-
Degrade the quality of the experience for the existing club hotel guests or for the DVC guests who have to walk 5 minutes to the existing (waterfront) club lounge?
I meant the former. If they added a lot of rooms to the existing lounge, it would be a more crowded, worse experience. And if they only added a tiny number of hard-to-book rooms, what's the point?
Got it. I agree that adding a lot would make it worse. But adding 10 could potentially make $10 million for Disney and I wouldn't imagine it would dramatically impact crowd levels? I guess the other point is tempting people who typically book concierge to become DVC members?
I don't want it to be a free public space because it's not that big and I feel like it could get very claustrophobic, especially during the fireworks and water pageant.
Yeah, I was thinking of some of the hallway ocean view spaces at Aulani as a point of comparison, but those are smaller spaces on every floor. And of course, they want to justify the fireworks view up-charge!Got it. I agree that adding a lot would make it worse. But adding 10 could potentially make $10 million for Disney and I wouldn't imagine it would dramatically impact crowd levels? I guess the other point is tempting people who typically book concierge to become DVC members?
That would free up the mystery hole in the tower to be a member lounge or bar/restaurant (or ideally both).
Oh please, not public spaceGot it. I agree that adding a lot would make it worse. But adding 10 could potentially make $10 million for Disney and I wouldn't imagine it would dramatically impact crowd levels? I guess the other point is tempting people who typically book concierge to become DVC members?
That would free up the mystery hole in the tower to be a member lounge or bar/restaurant (or ideally both).
I don’t want to come off as “food guarding” the tower, while actually food guarding the tower *low rumbling growl* 
I’m not following— you want nothing in the tower so nobody visits or you do want paid food spaces?Oh please, not public space
oh, paid food spaces are fine. It's the free open public spaces that draw hoards of people.
I’m with you. I’m good with a paid bar/lounge. If it’s just going to be an open public space for viewing fireworks, then restrict access to these spaces to only poly guests via keycard/magicband to get into the elevator.
Given how crowded Poly is already, I think it’s a popular opinion that there should not be free open access prime viewing spots without crowd control.
This seems very fair to me.
I have often wondered why they don’t off it for the final year of the contract. This would help with the end of contract worries where people don’t have a full year to use their points.
