Caribbean Beach Resort building works and Old Port Royal closure

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12 Aug 17, 02:00 AM

Cha cha

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Join Date: Jan 16

Caribbean Beach Resort building works and Old Port Royal closure

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A brief summary of what's happening at CBR:

***It has now been confirmed that the new building will be a DVC resort, called Riviera resort. See below for announcement details***

� Old Port Royal food court/games room/shutters & shop now closed. The new food areas are due to re-open summer 2018.

� Barbados village and half of Martinique being demolished to make way for 'rumoured' new resort and gondola transportation system. Building work expected until 2019.

� Temp food court by main pool - buffet breakfast and dinner one QS cr.

� Island markets(rooms converted to grab & go shops) available at:
Martinique 2509, Jamaica 4308 aAruba 5524.

� Coke freestyle machines are in the ground floor vending areas of: Martinique building 25, trin north 31, trin south 34 and 38, Jamaica 43 and 46 and Aruba 52 and 54.

� Food truck(limited menu) by food tent serving breakfast from 7 am -11:30 and lunch/ dinner from 11:30- 9pm.

� In-room pizza delivery - 2 TS credits or cc.

� Concierge Now in Trinidad North room 3109.

� Preferred rooms are now all in Trinidad North.

� Trinidad South should have a new grab and go counter by mid to late summer 2017.

� Change of bus route from 25/6/17 to:

1. Martinique
2. Old Port Royale
3. Trinidad North
4. Trinidad South
5. Jamaica
6. Aruba

During busy times in the morning, the "A" side (MOTT), and "B" side (JA) will still be split into 2 separate runs

Taken from WDW Magic 16/7/17:

Disney has today announced plans to build a brand new Disney Vacation Club Resort near to Epcot called Disney Riviera Resort.

The new resort will open in the fall of 2019, featuring 300 accommodation units, and linked via the new Disney Skyliner gondola system.

Disney Skyliner will connect the new Disney Vacation Club property, Disney�s Art of Animation, Pop Century and Caribbean Beach resorts with Disney�s Hollywood Studios and the International Gateway at Epcot.

Some further info:
dvcnews/index.php/resorts...edium=facebook

The original thread was located HERE.

The first post was...

This thread has been automatically created, because the original thread had over 500 posts.

The original thread was located HERE.

The first post was...

A brief summary of what's happening at CBR:

� Old Port Royal food court/games room/shutters & shop now closed. The new food areas are due to re-open summer 2018.

� Barbados village and half of Martinique being demolished to make way for 'rumoured' new resort and gondola transportation system. Building work expected until 2019.

� Temp food court by main pool - buffet breakfast and dinner one QS cr.

� Island markets(rooms converted to grab & go shops) available at:
Martinique 2509, Jamaica 4308 aAruba 5524.

� Coke freestyle machines are in the ground floor vending areas of: Martinique building 25, trin north 31, trin south 34 and 38, Jamaica 43 and 46 and Aruba 52 and 54.

� Food truck(limited menu) by food tent serving breakfast from 7 am -11:30 and lunch/ dinner from 11:30- 9pm.

� In-room pizza delivery - 2 TS credits or cc.

� Concierge Now in Trinidad North room 3109.

� Preferred rooms are now all in Trinidad North.

� Trinidad South should have a new grab and go counter by mid to late summer 2017.

� Change of bus route from 25/6/17 to:

1. Martinique
2. Old Port Royale
3. Trinidad North
4. Trinidad South
5. Jamaica
6. Aruba

During busy times in the morning, the "A" side (MOTT), and "B" side (JA) will still be split into 2 separate runs

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The original thread was located HERE.

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CBR - refurbishment/building work

**Plans have been submitted to demolish multiple buildings and build a multi storey building on land where Barbados and part of Martinique villages currently sit, and to work on roads and waterways **

Here's what we know about it so far:

Old port Royal to close for a total refurb from 1st May 2017.

Facilities that will be shut:

�Food court
�Shutters table service restaurant,
�Calypso trading shop
�Concierge and recreation areas of Old Port Royale
�Banana Cabana bar(situated just outside of OPR)
�Barbados and Martinique villages to be 'unavailable' from May 2017

Building work noise may be heard between either 9am until dusk(from recent e-mail) or 9am until 4pm(from original e-mail)

And while they work their 'magic' over the coming months:

�Centertown(a large marquee style tent) will serve a Caribbean\American buffet breakfast and a la carte dinner

�a selection of grab-and-go meals will be available in the island markets of Aruba, Jamaica and Martinique.

�Guests can refill their resort mugs with beverages from Coca-Cola freestyle machines which will be available throughout the resort.

Room pizza delivery will still be available

�Guests will receive $75 per room per night gift card on checking in at hotel

�At the moment guests are able to transfer to POR without charge while keeping their existing offers that they received at time of booking(dining plans, gifts cards)

No opening/closing times of food facilities or menus available, it's also not known what times drinks will be able to refilled using freestyle mugs or whether tea, coffee, tea, hot chocolate will be available and where refill locations might be.

Please feel free to carry on...

All booked for 2022 - yay!

12 Aug 17, 03:41 AM	#2
	12 Aug 17, 03:41 AM Guest Guest
Guest Guest	Wow another one

12 Aug 17, 04:36 AM

flutterfly

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Join Date: Dec 09

Another fab day here. Our room is in building 43 just behind the pool. Popped over to do some laundry tonight. Super convenient.

Have noticed that there are massive roadworks everywhere, even beyond CBR. Would find it hard not to be near something at the moment. Buses are taking some very odd routes.

No one heading here soon needs to worry though. It is all good and we are being well looked after.

Veggie wrap at the market is yummy! xx

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12 Aug 17, 04:59 AM

Fraggle35

Very Serious Dibber

Join Date: Jul 12

Location: Sunny North West

Totally agree with flutter fly, there are masses of roadworks and building works everywhere at the moment not just CBR.The roads are busy anyway but have loads of machinery parked up and lane closures with huge lighting rigs for nightime work. Anyway after 5 nights of eating out, we decided to have a chilled evening and stay on resort. The tent was okay and most of the food was of a decent standard for QS but the food trucks were shut due to the threat of lightning so some of our party chose not to eat.When they did re open we found the menu to be poor, no chicken tenders and the smallest burger I've seen at Disney, served with really weird tortilla type crisps. No fries with any of the box meals and the same price as the buffet...nephew learnt a very valuable lesson,eat with the rest of the family! Off to bed now but won't be tempted by the onsite catering again, too many nice places to eat in Disney.

DLP here we go again xx

12 Aug 17, 05:39 AM

Bestbubba

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Join Date: Feb 16

Magickate, was it Eunice? X

More fun with the grandkids in LA!

12 Aug 17, 07:10 AM	#6
	12 Aug 17, 07:10 AM Guest Guest
Guest Guest	Im guessing if you are really not happy they will try and move you? We go next week and I'm now worrying we have done the right thing staying at CBR. I need to watch the tim tracker video!

12 Aug 17, 07:34 AM

Pavilion1983

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Join Date: Mar 16

Magickate, was it Anya?

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12 Aug 17, 09:02 AM

scottsman

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Join Date: Aug 14

Great time to reach a new thread in my opinion, onwards and upwards as they say!
I hope all of those who are out there are having a great time

whoops I booked Holiday Inn LBV again

12 Aug 17, 09:17 AM

Pavilion1983

Imagineer

Join Date: Mar 16

Originally Posted by scottsman

Great time to reach a new thread in my opinion, onwards and upwards as they say!
I hope all of those who are out there are having a great time

Second that

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12 Aug 17, 09:36 AM

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Queen_Elsa

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Join Date: Oct 14

Originally Posted by scottsman

Great time to reach a new thread in my opinion, onwards and upwards as they say!
I hope all of those who are out there are having a great time

Here here.

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