Resorts 'Pirates' remodel WDW Caribbean Beach Resort

[Tom Morrow]

'Pirates' remodel WDW Caribbean Beach Resort

Pirates of the Caribbean Beach Resort Orlando Sentinel Walt Disney World has unveiled a rendering and a few details of some retheming and renovations in the works for Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort — theming it after the hugely-popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride/movies/games franchise. Beds that look like ships. Dressers that look like old crates. Curtains that look like tattered sails. The attached artist's rendering shows a few of the details. Disney is planning the look for 384 rooms in the Trinidad South Village Area, set to be ready sometime next year. The resort has a total of 2,112 rooms. by Scott Powers complete article

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[TimmyII]

That's where I stayed on my only trip so far to WDW back in 2001.

[PeoplemoverMatt]

I warned you it wasn't going to stop with the ride...

But, y'know, they're going to do what they're going to do. They just better hope they keep coming up with new box office booming movies when the most recent ones become too aged. Riding on the coattails of Pirates & Pixar movies of this decade won't last forever.

[rgoofy]

Dead Men Tell No Tales.

[spacedest]

It sounds interesting to have at WDW since its Pirates of the Caribbean and the hotel is the Caribbean Resort.

These guys are going to regret changing so many things into cheap marketing tools for DVD sales.

[PeoplemoverMatt]

Well at this point, I think they're just following consumer trends.

The gamble point was when they bet heavily on remaking MK's generally considered sub-par Pirates ride to include Jack Sparrow. That gamble paid off so well that Jack Sparrow was still on MK's park map over a year later. If that had failed, there wouldn't have been much of anything to turn to. Now, combine that with the perceived mega-success of the Pirate and Princess hard ticket party. That's another thing that's ridden on the coattails of the Pirates movies, and Disney is watching people pay them even more money, after Disney reduced the hours the guests already paid for, just to get those hours back at a hard ticket party event. To take a fledgling Moderate resort like Caribbean Beach and turn it Pirates is something of the next logical step, even though I wish they'd never gone down this road to begin with.

-- PMM

[CoryTheRaven]

Actually, rooms with actual themes are kind of fun... The hotel in West Edmonton Mall up here has rooms with several different themes - Caribbean, Victorian Coach, Railway, Arctic, Old West, Roman, etc. - and as a kid, it was always a highlight to stay in one of the "fun rooms". The armchair imagineer in me would even think that was a good idea for the Disneyland Hotel: theme floors to different rides and films, and then theme the rooms to different price points accordingly.

I don't know about a whole Pirates of the Caribbean Beach Resort, but it's really not so bad of an idea to have at least some themed rooms.

[PeoplemoverMatt]

^ The West Edmonton Mall is serious business. That place is pretty impressive.

-- PMM

[tomserwin]

Ughh... this is disgusting.

I'm beginning to hate POTC with a violent passion. I thought changing the ride was bad enough but his is just too far.

Let's see... rip up the curtains and put in crates for furniture. It sounds like a ghetto dorm room from hell. Maybe the windows could be shattered, the bathrooms can be ripped out, and the dry wall can have holes punched in it. Perhaps a soiled floor and a pool of vomit in the corner to top it off. Oh yeah, and charge more for this lovely set up.

[AraBrokenDreamer]

They'll do as they please, boys, so I see no point in being too peeved abou this, and I agree with Cory, it they'd themed the floors in certain hotels to different films, it would be wicked sweet, as long as the theming didn't go too far, which... I think here it did. The beds were okay, the crates were okay... the curtains were what got me. If you're gonna theme it after pirates, then you should know that any pirate worth his salt wouldn't have torn sails!! That's why they know sewing, they have to patch the sails so the wind doesn't just slip through the cuts in the sails!

-Ara

[HMF]

Originally Posted by tomserwin

Ughh... this is disgusting.

I'm beginning to hate POTC with a violent passion. I thought changing the ride was bad enough but his is just too far.

Let's see... rip up the curtains and put in crates for furniture. It sounds like a ghetto dorm room from hell. Maybe the windows could be shattered, the bathrooms can be ripped out, and the dry wall can have holes punched in it. Perhaps a soiled floor and a pool of vomit in the corner to top it off. Oh yeah, and charge more for this lovely set up.

I really do not get what the problem is.

[Executioner]

OK... I hope they really don't have big or even small holes in their curtains to make it seem like tattered sails because that would be so annoying to wake up to a beam of sunlight shooting through and hitting you in the face. I would be quite unhappy.

[Jezebel]

Originally Posted by HMF

I really do not get what the problem is.

the problem they have is that they are soiling the resorts originality with their gaudy product placment. the same thing that angered you when it came to the nemo pavillion. imagine if you had a favorite resort. one you go to all the time and love for it's originality and so on... my favorite resort for example is beach club so I'll use that as an example. imagine if the resort got a relift on the rooms to make it purely Finding Nemo. I mean gaudy gaudy additions to the room. if you commonly visit only one resort each trip, you'd understand that you can grow attached to a resort like it's home. unlike the parks, they don't change that much aside from different sheets and comforters. the pirate room looks cheap. I mean boxes for furtniture. thats the thing I would tend to avoid doing. tattred curtains. seriously. I love room theming. I think it is a great Idea. (disney is still beating a dead horse with POTC though. sometimes you wish they'd shut up about the movies they got lucky with). .. but all in all, the room needs work. those are the type of rooms I'd try to avoid. they should go more subtle on the theming if they plan to refurb.