hello everybody Princess and the Bear here and today we're here for a hotel tour. Yes. We're doing a little
different format today but we went to see the new Disney Riviera resort that's next to
the Caribbean. it's been a while since we've been able to wander and explore
new hotel area so it was really fun to see the the Riviera from the time that
it started being built. we got to watch the trees be cleared and the dirt and
the progression of the construction, which we do have some video of. And the skrim go up
we'll put a link in the description box down below for that
construction stuff. It is... uh... very Frenchy. Frenchy or Italian? or confused.
apparently the theme of the hotel I mean if you've looked at it is that one side
is supposed to be more Frenchy and the other side is Italian but it's fresh an
Italian Riviera either way it is a very Riviera style vibe you're all yeah down
on the water there's lots of like cafe and lounge tables water features
everywhere the view from the water is so beautiful you have a lovely um overlook
of the Caribbean they did a really nice job connecting the Riviera and the
Caribbean so it's very easy to walk if you want to just take a stroll in the
morning let's say well if you're staying at either hotel you can and take in some
of the atmosphere of its sister hotel cool very sharp and the gondola station
is beautiful the gondolas probably fit in better with the Revere than any other
hotel because it feels like a very French vibe to have the gun bills like
floating in over the water every morning and they're like I mean depending where
you are in the hotel especially if you're facing the Caribbean it's like
floating right into the hotel even though it's like outside in the back but
it's a very very nice fit there's a beautiful hallway leading up to the to
the sky liner that has like a single mural than a Peter Pan mirror
and there are some fountains it's very beautiful to just kind of sit there
there should be some more decorations coming soon it does did look like it was
still sort of under construction as far as putting on its finishing touches are
you just like the grandest II know it when it opened it didn't it wasn't ready
per se but the mural choices did seem odd to me though because it's like Peter
Pan entangled yeah this is you have something else you pick from oh I have a
problem here it's because Peter Pan is oh yes England and tangled Oh later
I thought the tangled was French maybe it looks French but I mean the story of
Rapunzel actually no I think Rapunzel is um German pretty sure it's critical in
the comments because we're idiots but I mean they have other really smart phones
they have other properties that they could have used not that I'm hated
because the murals are beautiful believe me Ron the absolutely stunning I wish
that more hotels had that biggest splash of Disney it's just that I felt there
were other properties it probably would have fit the theming a little better
help Nokia for you but either way they're beautiful murals so Peter Pan is
obviously English and Rapunzel is German so don't either
yeah neither one of those have anything to do with France or Italy they could
have picked ratatouille and Pinocchio perfect fit
yeah well there was no red suit there was really cool I thought was really
cool they had movie posters all over the hotel from France so you got to see like
your traditional Disney movie you like but then like a French poster yeah
hallways on the bottom floors Oh No yeah first to first to floor so
your ground floor that actually leads into the court court but something
bottom floor by the airline checkout and then that leads down into the Primo game
opieop oh yes and then there's like area outside at the turf on the lobby floor
going like to the rooms and the left side when you walk in the lobby yeah
because the right is there not spots there's a lot of dvc showings going on
there so it kind of creates a little bit more congestion in those smaller
hallways the lobby is very small I'm not executive yeah I mean like the outdoor
stuff is so spacious their seating everywhere but the lobby is just so tiny
and you have a huge DVC hub there the parking lots a little bit computer the
parking lot yeah because every day whatever you pulled the parking
different spot it's like that's good stuff so here's like you drive in and
there's like three stops east and west parking lot so you have to go wherever
security tells you easier West so the East is a small one the West one has
like three Lots three separate Lots one of them leaves like all the way back
around in the Caribbean so it's like you could be walking basically being up to
your room if a hotel is psyche foolish and you don't ballet right yeah I
thought that the West parking was nicer it was a better way to get into the
lobby but then like the East parking was easier to go to tow Bellino's yeah so if
you're gonna go for dinner you definitely want to go over to the east
because then you have like a quick side door into the elevator that takes you
right up to the 10th floor for Topolino's it definitely opens like it's like
Revere of why there's like nice overhangs for rain basically everywhere
here and there like even out front where normally you wouldn't see it on many of
the Disney hotels it's there's like half a stops you all throughout the
front entrance and then like side entrances have the
same thing there's chairs and tables they want you to kind of like sit back
and relax and the whole hotel kind of has that vibe because there's the
there's a store right when you come in but there's plenty of couches city lobby
but then you have a a coffee shop cafe like right when you come in right after
you pass that there's a like gorgeous like wow library lounge study that has
like board games for you to play Wow long tables a butcher oh my god this
hotel the wall stuff it was so awesome where to see the tributes to wall
everywhere it's a classic frame black and white
wall memorabilia everywhere this like his hat this camera and glass cases this
hotel really celebrates Walt in a big way which is I kind of wish they would
have done that okay before I finished that sentence they did do it to an
extent but I kind of wish they would have done it a little bit more Akron
destino fantasy now has some beautiful wall art also but it did it's not as
good as the Riviera even though the that one painting of wall at the Barcelona
lounge is like so gorgeous thankfully the grandeur santaros a sort of
different purpose like the Riviera Resort is a DBC resort and DC is like
front center yes sure and while the grandest email technically is a DBC
tower is it I believe it is we're not DVC we don't know if you're
new easily and you know tell us in the comments the fact no matter is that
everything at Coronado serves the Convention Center
maybe that Convention Center you're always doing Sun on Disney off site
things don't allow the doing justice to that it's not odd but Coronado's is
always busy yeah got a great location for a conference that's right on the
edge of properties you don't have to like get deep in the property and get
backed up my lines in Magic Kingdom Epcot everything else so it's it's away
from everything it has a fairly decent view but I just feel like grandest you
know is Disney but less obvious Disney
because it serves so many corporate outside fun okay I can see that whereas
the Revere is all in Disney right your face which I thought was interesting
because I feel like Caribbean the bat hotel is probably one of the hotels on
Disney property that has kind of the least like Mickey fied stuff outside of
like Coronado yeah this is piratin but there's not we haven't stayed in the
pirate room so I don't know how Mickey it is in there I don't know if it's like
as decked out as a tiana mostly provider should I would love to do the pirate
room we should we should totally do room and read better maybe but I mean tell
him to do a river view there in the comments salad we need to do more room
where views I love Disney hotels but they're so expensive
yeah I I that's the other thing too about the Riviera we've been to every
food location we've done breakfast lunch and all of them or breakfast or dinner
we've tried their specialty drinks the food is really good and we'll put links
to all of those places that we've eaten that already in the description box down
below but I feel like just like galaxy's edge some of the things are a little
overpriced whereas I could go walk over to the
Caribbean and get maybe not as high quality food but for much cheaper no
they're offering totally knows character running is about standard price but then
yeah dinner is a little bit more on the expensive side it's you like a jackal
Ridge dogs Jackie oh nice I would say it's equal to Toledo I feel
like it's it's a Toledo vibe but like someone's your cousins and everything
else I think yeah it's the food a little overpriced so drinks like the specialty
drinks we got were somewhere between like 14 and 16 dollars and 14 to 18
dollars specialty drinks we got are like 10 to
12 so a little bit more pricier side I posted some initial reactions on Twitter
and if you're not following us on Twitter I mean
understanding towards kind of a trash pile but I do sometimes post or we post
sort of like initial reactions or behind-the-scenes things on Twitter or
social means if you guys want to follow those but one of my big worries is that
like Riviera has like a nice courtyard looking over the water which is
beautiful but I mean for any of you the video frame length of time with you know
locals like us it rains in the state a lot we got to witness the rain at that
hotel also and I thought it they handled it rather nicely you can't I mean they
didn't cover up the some of the outdoor furniture that is law so that's well
it's waterproof it is so I just feel like that is gonna wear in the heat
after like one summer they're gonna after like to arrange peppers water
doesn't really know what it means when it rains the water glides off the
furniture so it doesn't change yeah but it'll still glide off but again being
cloth it's when I soaked up that moisture that was one of my worries over
time we'll see how that turns out it's not like Disney as opposed to like
tweaking and changing things yeah I'm sure that was gonna be gone soon Wow
does a lot of the tables like luckily you're on the water have umbrellas which
is fine but some of those couches that sit up there right now and they're a
little astroturf thing they have looks like a little huge chess set and swings
I expect some of that to change over time you should move those under the
awnings that they have instead so that you sit under that and then they don't
get Sun weathered and they're kind of protected against the rain we shall see
it's still early because they're putting the final tweaks on the hotel maybe
that's not permanent you never know that's the best part about decision
hotels is they change and they have all not as quickly as the parks do but it
does happen it is nice to kind of just go and see that because it is a whole
different experience Disney experience instead of the hustle and bustle of the
parks every resort has something unique to them that they do so it's a great
thing to put into your vacation just doing a
resort day and I personally find it more fun to go hang out at the resorts then
to go do like a Disney springs day because what are you gonna do at Disney
springs besides shop and eat and you can draw you can eat at the hotels you can
shop maybe not as much at the hotels but there really is a really resort that's
sort of like I feel in its language makes you want to go eat outside because
you come downstairs the approval crowd on the bottom floor is an awesome quick
service see our view for that but it's very small inside but then I see the
outside so it's one of those things like where you want to sit outside and even
like I love the uniqueness of their pool bar because it's like next door to primo
priyada but it's not outside like it's sort of
like the Caribbean so it's like under its own on a banana cabana yes and then
it has its like built-in heaters and fans seating it's super comfortable we
actually it was so crowded in the quick service and we just took our food to go
and walk right over and sat in there better drinks anyway yeah a lot bigger
menu and go see Becca if you ever go over there
best bartender she's awesome but I mean as far as work I love it we didn't
really get to go we're on the pool the pool for resort Disney Resort it's tiny
super time but the the redeeming part is that you can go to the really cool
Coronado pool of course sorry um Caribbean pool and go like swim in that
pirate sport mmm it does no its own gelato stand up yeah that's kind of cool
that was kind of written part of the whole Italian thing you know again
Italian French and he doesn't make of it to mind it's kind of give and it had to
like it seemed like they they really focused on creating more of an adult
experience area because the main pool was beautifully designed it was all like
cool and funky there was a really awesome marble kid
splash area and then and that was all on its own
little gate with the gelato so great for kids and families but then across from
that was a separate small pool not a lot of people there mostly adults really
quiet he's surrounded by hedges yes your honor by hedges you have a
little more privacy so you do it felt very a lot more mature so I feel like
that is some part of the resort experience that Disney has lacked in at
other hotels they did really well at the Riviera mera Luna so they're like higher
priced partner hotels the Four Seasons the Four Seasons did a really good job
they have like six pools or something and we walked around there they have
some each pool wide its own like age range and targeted demographic which was
nice so yeah I mean the hotel looks pretty it's gonna be a nice hotel I hope
the prices come down just a little bit to what you said yeah I do so what I
want to see one of those studio rooms see exactly how small it is for
ourselves let's take a tour the tours are free you got you can sign up for
them any time if you ever see one of those like kiosks so the cast member
wants to give you stickers and there's like one of those books
that's a DVC stand they'll talk to you about the DVC you can pick what resort
you want to go to but if you want to do a timeshare you're interested you just
kind of want to see what it looks like just I mean they might break down that's
for three yeah maybe a Mickey the Triwizard or
something they do ice cream yeah their last one offers ice cream yeah they
offers the vegan that doesn't talk about hey whatever you know the effort but
it's definitely resort I think fits a while so into the Disney this hasn't
really very excited for reflections because this is pretty the next couple
Disney otels are going to be absolutely amazing Oh reflections is with the the
Fort Wilderness Hotel the one that's in between Wilderness Lodge and Fort
Wilderness is a song I'm really very humbled Pocahontas theme yeah there's
gonna be a grandmother willow they're how cool is that that's gonna be
very awesome and of course you know us we'll be their restaurant me well hotel
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