Hotels, Walt Disney World Rumors

Confirmed: Disney Announces Plans to Build Nature-Inspired Resort on Bay Lake

As we’ve been keeping tabs on in the rumor section of our blog, Disney has been doing some exploratory work over near the former River Country site. This was first reported by Tom Corless of WDWNT, who we’ve poked fun at before as his rumors reports are hit and miss. Turns out his initial hunch was true and we will be getting a new hotel on Bay Lake in 2022 which will be “mixed-use,” basically meaning part DVC part regular disney resort. So hats off to Tom for breaking this one. Can’t wait to see how these new digs shape up.

Here’s the Press Release:

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.Oct. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — A new nature-inspired, mixed-use Disney resort will welcome families in 2022 along the picturesque shoreline of Bay Lake. Located between Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, this resort project joins three others underway at Walt Disney World Resort, bringing a total of more than 1,700 new hotel rooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas online over the next four years. 

The deluxe resort, which will be themed to complement its natural surroundings, will include more than 900 hotel rooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas spread across a variety of unique accommodation types.

“Walt Disney World is in the midst of our most significant expansion in the last two decades and the combined 1,700 new hotel rooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas we are building at four different resorts will create thousands of new construction and permanent jobs and will drive economic opportunity and incremental revenue for Central Florida,” said George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort. “We continue to add new attractions, new lands — and these beautiful accommodations will be right in the heart of all that magic.”

The soon-to-be named resort is slated to be Disney’s 16th Disney Vacation Club property and it will continue to build on the value and flexibility of a Disney Vacation Club membership.

“This resort experience will be a celebration of Walt Disney’s lifelong love and respect for nature, with some fun and even surprising accommodation types that families will find irresistible,” said Terri Schultz, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Vacation Club. “It will give our members and guests yet another opportunity to stay in close proximity to all the newest attractions and experiences in our theme parks, and with the flexibility, value and world-class service families expect from Disney.”

 

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