Two Walt Disney World restaurants will soon be concluding two of their meal services.
Narcoossee’s at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa will no longer offer brunch after January 27th, 2018. The brunch service began in November 2015 and was offered only on Sundays.
Las Ventanas at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort will no longer offer a dinner service following December 30th, 2017. They will continue to offer breakfast and lunch.
Over the next 24 months, the convention centers at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort and Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts will be transformed to make them even more appealing to meeting, conference, convention planners, and their attendees. Disney recently shared some new details on these two expansions.
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Already underway, the expansion at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort will encompass several new features, including a two-story, grand lobby welcoming Guests; a 15-story tower overlooking Lago Dorado, the resort’s centerpiece lake; 500 new Guest rooms and concierge-level suites and services; and a new rooftop restaurant and lounge boasting panoramic views.
Additionally, the expansion brings a new boardroom, event lawn, and two multi-purpose meeting rooms—adding to the resort’s current 220,000 square feet of dedicated meeting, event and exhibition space. See concept art and more for these new features in the video below:
Each of the resort’s existing Guest rooms are also being fully re-imagined with new features and amenities that appeal to savvy business travelers, such as a new desk space, beverage station and more. When complete, Guests will be able to conveniently connect to other areas of the resort via a series of bridges and walkways that pass through an island oasis.
Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts
As part of Disney’s commitment to creating exceptional meetings and events, they are providing meeting planners and event organizers with even more resources to deliver on their goals by expanding the convention center and renovating the Guest rooms at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts.
A 28,000-square-foot expansion of the convention center at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resort will bring the total amount of flexible meeting and event space at this popular resort location to 100,000 square feet.
The new convention area will boast a 16,000 square-foot ballroom that can be divided into eight dynamic breakout spaces. The expansion will also include three pre-function areas and two distinct gathering rotundas providing unique networking spaces for attendees to relax and reconnect.
Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts also offers 1,190 newly-renovated Guest rooms, all located conveniently within walking distance of Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s BoardWalk entertainment district.
There are also many changes coming to Disney’s Yacht Club Resort’s dining options, including The Market at Ale & Compass, a re-imagined lobby lounge, and a new concept for the former Captain’s Grille. The new market offers a small merchandise area and 28 seats for casual dining. The Captain’s Grille will also become Ale & Compass Restaurant, featuring a transformed lobby lounge and a new interior that expands to 58 seats.
Since the announcement of the project, we have had only one piece of concept art to go by for the massive expansion of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. New art recently released show another look at the 15-story hotel tower being added, but also the new walkways and over-water restaurant being added.
The new art sits on a large board in the resort’s lobby.
New art shows the tower in a 3D rendering, gold and white in color, subdued compared to the original artwork. It is unclear which art piece is more accurate to the final product.
Unannounced previously, there is a fairly large dining establishment being erected over the water. This comes in addition to a rooftop restaurant that will be located in the tower.
The concept art clearly shows a bar, but there is also a plethora of seating to the right side, possibly for a lounge or table service experience.
The piece above shows the layout of the new additions, with the over-water structure connected via a new three-pronged walkway. The new 15-story tower, reconfigured parking lot, and another new bridge can be seen to the right side.
The expansion of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort will be completed in Summer 2019.
Just a few months ago, Disney finally announced their massive expansion plans for Disneyâs Coronado Springs Resort, including a 15-story tower. We decided to head back to Coronado again a few days ago to see the latest progress on the work. Here is our third video update on the project showing the progress on the 15-story tower and other resort enhancements:
Entering the resort is still a bit of a war zone, even across the street from the resort where work is taking place.
The old bus stop is now closed, as is the sidewalk in this area.
Concept art adorns the construction walls around the old bus stop.
Meanwhile, they are painting the arrival area (now also the bus stop while construction is going on).
There a lot of different colors happening right now on the columns underneath, it’s unclear just what direction they are heading in with the color scheme.
The old bus stop behind fences.
A closer look at the concept art here, which gives a better idea of exactly where the tower is in relation to everything else.
Work in the marina has begin on what may be the new walkways over the water to better connect all of the resort.
A look over the fences at the former bus stop area.
Now we look at the future home of the 15-story-tower for Coronado Springs.
Disney has wasted no time in clearing buildings and land for the massive expansion of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. As announced last week, the project includes the addition of 15-story tower, additional parking, the remodeling of all existing rooms, and (most exciting to me, at least) a new rooftop restaurant on the tower.
As soon as you enter the resort, you are greeted by construction fences.
It’s not the prettiest day outside, but when you are covering demolition, does it matter?
The Cabanas 9B building is being demolished to make room for the 15-story tall tower, which will be filled with upscale rooms and feature a rooftop restaurant with fireworks views.
It’s a good thing we got there when we did as more fences are being installed to obstruct the view of guests.
Disney hasn’t leveled many hotel rooms in the last 45 years. Only the old north wing of the Contemporary comes to mind, and it too was replaced with a 15-story tower…
You guys might want to remove 9B from here…
I would almost say it doesn’t ruin the picturesque views, but the water barriers see to that.
The tower should connect to the lobby about here, but it is unclear if check-in will remain where it is now.
These windows should eventually be replaced with a hallway connecting to the new tower.
This will all be very different soon… stay tuned for more updates on the expansion of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort.
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Reedy Creek has filed permits that could be related to an expansion of the convention center at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort.
The convention center at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort is likely to expand
The application says there will be a new stormwater management pond and expansion of another pond to accommodate future additions within Coronado Springs. Disney is not giving further details at this time.
While some have speculated that this addition would instead be a Disney Vacation Club wing, we are still hearing that the Moderate Resort DVC wing coming soon is for Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort. The reasoning behind expanding the already massive convention space at Coronado Springs would be to take the pressure off of the Disney’s Contemporary Resort facility which Disney is planning to eventually shutter. The ongoing Convention Center expansion at Disney’s Yacht and Beach club Resorts is also a part of this effort.
The Walt Disney World website notes that Coronado will be undergoing “a refurbishment” beginning Fall 2016.
