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Disney files permit to expand Caribbean Beach Resort

New plans have been filed that reveal a large expansion coming to Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort. From my reading of the permit filed it looks like Disney will replace many existing buildings in the Barbados village area of the resort with a single multistory building.

There were height test balloons spotted in late 2016 to test any line-of-sight visual intrusions into Hollywood Studios or EPCOT. This is where the high-rise rumor comes from.

It’s also rumored to be a new DVC property. Once the new villas at Wilderness Lodge are open there are no other DVC projects currently announced, so we’ve been waiting for the announcement of what’s next.

I suspect this new tower will be the first of a complete redevelopment of CBR replacing all the low level bungalows with high rises with a mix of DVC and regular resort rooms.

Disney is desperate for more hotel capacity in the moderate level. Rooms at these rates are pretty much sold out all year long (90% occupancy is effectively sold out since a percentage of rooms are in refurbishment at any time).

Work is expected to begin later this year with an opening date sometime in 2019. Have you stayed at CBR before? What do you think of this big change?

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6 thoughts on “Disney files permit to expand Caribbean Beach Resort”

  1. Bob Drummond

    If want to stay in a high rise I will stay off property. You lose some of that magic feeling at Caribbean when you take away what is already there.

  2. Debbie Fletcher

    Nooooo!!!! Please leave the CBR alone, we have stayed there for many, many years. The atmosphere will be completely lost.

  4. Jessi

    NO! DVC should be separate. Quit taking away properties from those of us who can’t afford the luxury. And no to high-rises, it’s not Disney, then it’s just a hotel. Love the feel of the two-three story open air resorts like CBR and POR. Quiet, quaint and friendly.

    1. Chris Neuert

      I have stayed there maybe 35 times and it would be a disaster to change the charm of the place. Why don’t start asking the devoted clients who come back and back again. I thought Disney had acres and acres of land build that high rise and DVC somewhere else.

  6. saycin

    Stayed at CRB and it feels more like a value resort not moderate. No worries about us DVC members wanting to be at CBR! I hope they do NOT turn CBR into a DVC, yuck!

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