Disney’s Art of Animation Resort Earlier Opening Dates

[Stu]

The wings dedicated to the popular films featured at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will now be opening than sooner than expected after the resort hotel’s grand opening May 31.

“We are excited that the Cars, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid wings at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will all open earlier than we originally planned, bringing more permanent resort jobs to Central Florida sooner,” said Kevin Myers, vice president of resort operations for Walt Disney World Resort. “Demand for family suites exists in the marketplace today and the new opening dates reflect how optimistic we are about tourism in Central Florida.”

[Stu]

The Finding Nemo wings of the resort will open May 31; Cars will now open June 18 instead of July 31; The Lion King will open August 10 instead of September 30. The value rooms at The Little Mermaid wings on September 15 instead of at the end of this year.
In size and scope the construction of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort is a major project at Walt Disney World Resort. The project has created 800 construction jobs and once open later this year, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will create 750 permanent resort hotel jobs.

The Lion King, Cars and Finding Nemo buildings will be entirely family suites, with 1,120 suites between them. The Little Mermaid buildings will feature 864 rooms in the “value” room category.

The construction of family suites at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort is an innovative approach to a changing marketplace. Today more and more multi-generational families are traveling together for various celebrations, including family reunions. These families not only want to play together, they want to stay together, which has created tremendous demand for family suites.

• Disney also unveiled the look of new Cast Member costumes at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.
• Each front desk Cast Member will wear a unique splattered-ink vest representing an animator’s unique creative process as part of their costume.

Also, as Guests move from the check-in area to Merchandise and Food & Beverage locations, Cast Members in those locations will be wearing colorful costumes that represent the color being added to animation.

[Michele]

Looking forward to it and seeing some pictures.

[Kenny_B]

Can't wait to have a nose around this resort

[indie2312]

Originally Posted by Michele

Looking forward to it and seeing some pictures.

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Same here

[Friday'sChild]

Our friends are staying here at the same time as we are out there and have already invited us over for breakfast can't wait to have a nose around


Fran x x

[fd1972uk]

On the verge of booking this, looks great and the bonus is whilst the Nemo, Lions and Cars Suites are pretty expensive, the Little Mermaid is the standard and they look great and well themed still and we have a little girl.


FD

[Guest]

We have just stayed at the POP Century resort & had a look over the hour glass lake bridge. Its coming along they are working on the middle area "Nemo" where the main reigstration & main pool will be & they looked to be well on with the "Cars" section all the others seemed to be further behind not sure its such a good idea to open small areas before the rest of the resort is finished. some of the areas are still big building sites. They put up the main entrance sign though looks cool.:pop:

[Guest]

Originally Posted by fd1972uk

On the verge of booking this, looks great and the bonus is whilst the Nemo, Lions and Cars Suites are pretty expensive, the Little Mermaid is the standard and they look great and well themed still and we have a little girl.


FD

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The little mermaid buildings are similar to the"Value" resorts POP,Music & Sports & are away from the main building.

[Guest]

Can't wait to have a wee noisey this summer!