A significant amount of changes and renovations are going on, or have been completed, at the hotels making up the Downtown Disney Resort area. These are hotels inside the Walt Disney World Resort area, but not owned by Disney.
The Grosvenor and the Royal Plaza appears to have the most significant changes and improvements made. However, conspicuously absent from this report is the status of what used to be the Holiday Inn right across from the Grosvenor. It was the Marriott Courtyard before it became the Holiday Inn for a couple of years before the devastating impact of Hurricane Charlie (that also caused major damage to the Royal Plaza). I think the Holiday Inn opened only for a few months after that hurricane before it closed down. It appears from the outside that there might be work down on the hotel even though it looked boarded up (at least it looked that way last Sept). Still, nothing about the fate of the building is mentioned in this report.
Before we bought into the DVC, this was our most favorite area to stay at. We had stayed at the Grosvenor, the Hilton, the Marriott Courtyard, and then its later incarnation as the Holiday Inn. So we know the area pretty well. We like to stay in the area because of the close proximity to Downtown Disney, which is within walking distance. Now, with the DVC, we still stay close to this area since our home resort is Saratoga Springs. We alternate between that and Old Key West, which is also close enough to the Downtown Disney area.
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