First Look: New Guest Rooms at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort

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Posted: Wednesday October 30, 2024 11:50am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort is undergoing a massive $275 million expansion and renovation, including refreshed and modernized guest rooms, along with a significant boost to the property’s event and convention capabilities. As part of this extensive project, every guest room in the Walt Disney World Swan will receive a complete remodel by 2024.

The newly renovated guest rooms are designed to blend luxury with the resort’s signature water-themed aesthetic. Featuring sleek tile flooring, updated furnishings, and enhanced technology, the refreshed rooms aim to offer guests a modern, comfortable retreat. These upgrades are a follow-up to the introduction of the 349 luxury guest rooms at the Swan Reserve in 2021, which introduced an upscale boutique feel to the resort complex.

Expansion Highlights

In addition to the guest room renovations, the Swan and Dolphin Resort is expanding its meeting and convention spaces. This includes:

This expansion makes the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin one of the largest convention properties on the East Coast, with a total of 469,000 square feet of event space across its three buildings.

With construction starting this November, the project is slated for completion by late summer 2026.

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Chef idea Mickey`=6 days ago

"Great", I need a manual and tutorial to figure it out, after that I'll lose interest in sleep and it's costing me minutes that I should be asleep 🙄🙈🤣

Fido Chuckwagon7 days ago

You can set them to bypass mode so they don’t do this (there are YouTube videos), but yeah, it’s annoying as hell otherwise.

Ayla7 days ago

Correct. It shuts off in the middle of the night - which is why they are garbage.

Chef idea Mickey`=8 days ago

But when you're in the bed you're not moving unless you turn, turn, turn etc 🤣 so no air for you when you lay?

Chef idea Mickey`=8 days ago

When I think of Luxe I think Blacks and Grey's, Violet.. nothing LuX feeling about it, looks the same other than wood implemented. I get for the floors, but why for the furniture. Home2suites has that lol. I stayed there like five years ago and the rooms didn't feel dated. It was the hallways and the elevators. Some elevators got some change while I was there. It's the surroundings of the public places that seem needs upgrades! The interiors don't match the Grandness of the exterior outlook!

Chef idea Mickey`=8 days ago

Why is the artwork on one side and not in the middle. The Giant Hilton at Disney Spring's has exactly that but in the middle within the two beds!

HauntedPirate8 days ago

tanc9 days ago

I guess this will also mean a massive upcharge soon

bwr8279 days ago

Anyone think room prices will be discounted during construction?

LSLS12 days ago

I don't disagree. Though Polynesian we may need to specify, cause if I remember, the redos look really good, the DVC looks horrible (don't remember GF to be honest). But at any rate, I'd agree this may be worse. But again, I'll point out I'm labeled as a Disney hater along with a bunch others here who are equally pointing out how bad they think these are.

LSLS12 days ago

Yes, and it's not based on if Disney did them or Mariott.

SplashJacket12 days ago

This is genuinely worse lol The new Poly and GF rooms look fantastic. Contemporary looks like trash. This looks awful

Andrew C12 days ago

Higher expectations for WDW resorts? Expect a certain level of theming with their hotels, based on supposed standards, price point and previous precedent that they set.

discos12 days ago

I'm not sure but they did not do the room justice. It had these three pictures over top of the bed, and then there was a blue accent wall where the couch was with another picture. I have photos of my partner and I in the room but none of the room by itself. It was one of the rooms with a little balcony on the main building so maybe those rooms were done a little nicer?