sleepydog25
Been here awhile
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2004
I'm also ok with change as long as it's change I like!
What is killing me with the Disney rooms is that they are Disney and I could imagine having so much fun designing the rooms. You can see that it was done in the past (better at times than others) but now you could compare the hotel rooms to hotel rooms at so many places. It truely is an area that they should not become "standard" IMO. And oddly they still don't when they are building the resorts. Why the refurbs are so lackluster makes no sense. As I said though, I'm going to share my input for VWL.
Regarding darkness of the rooms my input will actually be to keep that. There's light colors at so many other resorts and I actually get a nice feeling of calm and reprieve from the FL sun with darker woods and paint. IMO their making everything too much alike and it's nice to be able to walk into a room and know for certain where you are.
I agree with the comments above, obviously. Those things have been my mantra the past couple of years. I, too, enjoy some of the new touches, such as the change in bedding and the addition of storage under beds to name a couple. For me, and certainly I'm not automatically right (nor is anyone else wrong), I enjoyed that Disney was willing to be who they were, embracing the Mouse and his friends. Now, they seem reluctant to be so overt. . .yet, that's what won me over to Disney. I can get sleek and impersonal anywhere. We recently stayed at a Country Inn & Suites in Asheville, and it had been refurbed recently to sleek and rather impersonal. It was a nice enough room, and it didn't have any small touches of Disney at all such as a cute picture or a small throw pillow. But, it cost $120. I know we are DVC, but paying the big bucks we have and for those who pay OOP to stay in "true" Disney hotels, I just believe it would be nice to continue to wholeheartedly embrace the imagination that made them a company to admire not one where so many scratch their heads and say "huh?"I remember there was a website that sold Disney resort furniture, bedding, shower curtains, and such as refurbishments took place. Not sure if it's still even around. This stuff is so generic. The only change that I have loved was the double sheeting duvets. I hated the old bedspreads that they continued to use, even after they were certainly not the industry standard. They were icky! I didn't want to touch them! So I was happy about that change. These new designs looked like they let some person who has never been to Disney design them. I just don't get it. Do they think because these resorts are deluxe that people don't want the touch of Disney in them? The value resorts, and some of the moderates still get the themed look when those are redone. Most of these designs look like Ikea showrooms in my opinion, and while I love Ikea, it is not deluxe furnishings.