Caribbean Beach Resort building works and Old Port Royal closure

[Cha cha]

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A brief summary of what's happening at CBR:

***It has now been confirmed that Disney are building a new DVC resort, called Riviera resort on the land where Barbados and part of Martinique once stood.
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 - date given by WDW was August 18th, but subject to change.(Edited to say: it now looks like OPR food areas etc won't be open until late 2018)

• Barbados village and half of Martinique have been demolished to make way for new Riviera Resort and the new gondola transportation system, that will operate between CBR, AoA, Pop Century, Epcot and HS.

Building work of Riviera Resort expected until 2019.

• Temporary food court by main pool - buffet breakfast and dinner one QS credit.

• 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 pay cash/cc.

• Concierge Now in Trinidad North room 3109.

• Preferred rooms are now all in Trinidad North until further notice.

• Trinidad South should have a new quick service food area by early/mid 2018.

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

1st stop: Martinique
2nd: Old Port Royale
3rd: Trinidad North
4th. Trinidad South
5th. Jamaica
6th. Aruba

During busy times in the morning, the "A" side (Martinique, OPR, TN & TS) and "B" side (Jamaica and Aruba) will still be split into 2 separate runs


First notification from Disney re new Riviera Resort - 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.'


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[Bestbubba]

Oh Cha Cha, I can't believe we've started another one! Who'd a thunk it? 😉

[papamouse]

yep

we're back...

whens the birthday party?

[minnie moomoo]

Whooo. New thread. 💪.

[minnie moomoo]

So. I fired off an email yesterday to both
disneytraveluk@disneyonline.com and
disneytraveluk@disneyonline.com

Really just asking why so much construction is going on that is undisclosed to future guests. Asking for honesty and clarity about the works and what kind of state I should find the resort in come September.
I commented that I wanted my email to be treat as a complaint as I am sick to death of basic emails saying everything is magical and CMs that know less than my 9 year old. I was polite though.😊
Let's see if I get anything more that a generic email and who replies first.

[macadoo]

Just caught up on the last few pages Of the old thread! Here we go again 🙁 . We haven’t got any flights booked yet anyway, but have cbr booked again for 21st August which was apparently just after the food court was due to open. Thought second time lucky!

I knew there would still be construction going on but the foodcourt is important to us (and why we moved last year). So I wonder if they’ll be offering compensation again lol.

I’m sure when we booked they had already announced the mid August opening... anyone know when that was?

I know lots of people said it didn’t affect their holiday last year and they still had a great time but then they also had £50 off per night or $75 to soften the blow (or $75 + $75 or $75 + £50 lol).

Can’t believe nearly a year on we’re back here again.

We’ve unfortunately booked with Orlando attractions this year so can’t call Disney this time, will have to just see how it all pans out 🙁 .

[macadoo]

Originally Posted by papamouse

yep

we're back...

whens the birthday party?

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So pm what you got on for the next couple of months? 😂

[loopyloufew]

Is it just people who have booked through Virgin Holidays that are receiving this information? We've booked though Thomas Cook and haven't heard a thing about a delay with the food court.

[macadoo]

Originally Posted by loopyloufew

Is it just people who have booked through Virgin Holidays that are receiving this information? We've booked though Thomas Cook and haven't heard a thing about a delay with the food court.

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We’ve booked with Orlando attractions and haven’t received anything.

[Disdaydream]

Does anyone know the situation with the new mini food thing that was planned for the pirate area ... or was that just a rumour?
Just wondering if the pirate rooms might be a better idea at the moment, none of the vlogs I've watched seem to bother walking up there