Disney to Create Hawaii Resort October 23, 2008
Posted by Bryan Connelly in : ARDA, Disney, General, New Features, News & Events, RCI, Timeshare Rental, Timeshare Resale, Timeshare Resource, Travel, Uncategorized , trackbackWalt Disney Parks and Resorts have recently announced their first Hawaii-based resort. Groundbreaking for the Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii is to begin in November of 2008. The luxury resort will be located on the coast in West Oahu’s Ko Olina Resort and Marina, with the grand opening scheduled for 2011.
The new resort will include 350 hotel rooms and 480 villas dedicated to Disney Vacation Club timeshare members. Disney plans to market toward luxury family travel, with an 18,000 square foot spa, two restaurants, a kid’s club and more. The property will be adorned with water park extras, Disney characters, a saltwater lagoon, waterslides, rapids and waterfalls. One of the crescent lagoons along the Ko Olina shoreline is available to guests as well.
“There are always economic ups and downs. We have confidence in HI as a continued family tourist destination for the long term†said Walt Disney Parks and Resort chairman Jay Rasulo. “We asked Disney Vacation Club members all the time ‘where do you think you would like your next home?’ And every time, Hawaii always stacks up in the Top 5,†said Vice President of Disney Vacation Club Resorts Hawaii, Djuan Rivers.
Disney recently purchased the 21-acre Ko Olina property and will be the largest of 3 Disney Vacation Club properties and the first top combine hotel and timeshare offerings.
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