Disney Village Expansion/Improvements

Kristof · March 10, 2006, 05:30:21 PM

They had at Disney World banners to promote the new rides everywhere at every lamppost. Imagine walking in Main Street with a banner for the X-Treme Stunt Show... Really over the top over there. :lol:

Anthony · March 10, 2006, 05:45:51 PM

Quote from: "raptor1982"They had at Disney World banners to promote the new rides everywhere at every lamppost. Imagine walking in Main Street with a banner for the X-Treme Stunt Show... Really over the top over there. :lol:

Yeah, I've noticed they do that at other parks. Even in DisneySea they have loads of banners up advertising shows and events... Kinda spoils the area if you ask me.

For Disney Village, though, these are great. The only problem they have there is how different the two areas of the Village are. I think they need to make more attempts to "join them up", just giving each street a name so that the fact that they're so different makes sense would do! "Cheapo Street" and "Posh Street" are the only things I can think of so far... :lol: They do need to "zone" DV though, don't you think?

Skellington · March 19, 2006, 10:14:51 PM

QuoteEven in DisneySea they have loads of banners up advertising shows and events... Kinda spoils the area if you ask me.

When I was there, they had banners in American Waterfront and it did fit there. It's not like in Paris with the big signs over the station when you enter the park which is most of the time just ugly.

Kristof · March 19, 2006, 11:51:59 PM

Those are only up during certain season.......

Kristof · April 25, 2006, 08:12:21 PM

The balloons were phase 1 of the total rehab.
Over the next 3 years the rehab will continue in different zones (Planet Hollywood/Gaumont, the Street, Rainforest/McDonalds, ...) Rehabs, repainting, greenery, ... are supposed to make DV look more appealing to guests and children. Next phase will begin in September.

Source: Grandmath on DCP.

Anthony · April 25, 2006, 10:26:47 PM

It's good to hear the balloons were only Phase 1 of the refurb (phew!), but...

September?! I know they're short of cash, but COME ON - it needs help NOW!

Kristof · June 06, 2006, 06:41:39 PM

The study bureau that was written out the future of Val d'Europe has send in its creation for a urbanisation contest.... and won! And the good news about this is, that the plan has been put online!

"benjhappy" at DCP has put some information on that map. Interesting to see the new hotels, convention center and the Village expansion.

experiment627 · June 07, 2006, 06:49:37 PM

Wonderful plan. I'm really looking forward to that. Sad though that they still haven't figured out the financing behind the convention centre and the adjoining hotel... Originally, they were scheduled to open within the current Val d'Europe development phase (that means: 'till 2007 / 2008)...

Anyway... then plans look promising. Can't wait for the new hotels and the way the Village is expanding... (btw, did anyone else notice that these plans don't include any outdoor parking for the hotels?)

Kristof · June 07, 2006, 07:49:03 PM

Yeah, I wanted to open that discussion too today. According to me, that won't be hotels. I guess they will just be entertainment facilities, maybe something like Boarwalk at WDW.

experiment627 · June 07, 2006, 07:59:22 PM

Quote from: "raptor1982"I guess they will just be entertainment facilities, maybe something like Boarwalk at WDW.

But they most definitely will be hotels. Disney has indeed agreed on building two new hotels:

"Phase III : les programmes privés

La signature de la phase III, le 9 juillet 2003, devrait conduire le projet EuroDisneyland en France aux deux tiers de son développement trentenaire. Ces programmes privés sont définis, d'ici 2008, autour de 3 objectifs

1/ Renforcer le développement de la station touristique
- création d'un parc d'exposition, d'un centre de conférence et d'un hôtel quatre étoiles de 700 chambres
- réalisation de 2 000 chambres d'hôtels supplémentaires
- renforcement du Disney Village"

(Source: //http://www.valeurope-san.fr/info/FR/Des_projets_pour_demain/0202)

Kristof · June 07, 2006, 08:10:05 PM

oh ok, I should have read that :lol:

Do you think it will be a Disney hotel, or rather a "partner hotel"? Or maybe something like they did at WDW with Swan and Dolphin?

experiment627 · June 07, 2006, 08:16:03 PM

Everything indicates that these two will be Disney Hotels... They'd be stupid if they weren't Disney branded. (Especially the more business oriented one - DLP's Business Solution seems to be quite succesful...)

Financing these two will be hard... (Maybe that's another reason why they push the extra stay at the Disney Hotels this summer - to get a nicer looking occupany rate at the end of the year to convince investors?)

What really mystifies me: this info about the convetion centre and the two hotels has been out for years... yet there's no discussion about it...

Dlrpfan · June 08, 2006, 09:15:30 AM

i would like to see a boardwalk style hotel at dlrp

penfold12 · July 04, 2006, 07:03:46 PM

This thread has gone quiet! Anymore news on the hotels etc?

Anthony · July 05, 2006, 07:49:02 PM

Quote from: "penfold12"This thread has gone quiet! Anymore news on the hotels etc?

Nope, nothing! It's going to take years for them to even get started on those plans, especially now they're focusing everything on the new attractions in the parks.

Here's a general Disney Village update: new sales carts/huts, as pointed out by Patrick in his trip report. I thought it was worth posting them here, they look really good!