NEWS! Close-Up Look at the NEW Hotel Announced for Disney World!

At this point, I’m sure you’ve heard the huge Disney World hotel news, right?!

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Disney recently announced a brand-new hotel is coming to Disney World! Disney Lakeshore Lodge will be opening in 2027 right in the same spot that was going to be Reflections — A Disney Lakeside Lodge Resort. Now, there’s not much we know about this resort, but Disney did share some concept art, and since they have a habit of trying to be sneaky with their concept art, we thought we’d have ourselves a little look and see what nuggets of info about for the new hotel we can glean!

As we said, this new hotel will be called Disney Lakeshore Lodge and will be built in the same location that the previously announced Reflections — A Disney Lakeside Lodge Resort was supposed to go. Disney has said that this brand-new hotel will be “inspired by the majesty of nature and its enduring influence on Disney artists.”

Reflections ©Disney

As you can see, Disney has only officially released this single (solitary) image of the new resort, which at first glance, doesn’t show much of anything. But, as we love doing, we thought we’d take a deeper look at the concept art and see if we can tease out any special info from it. For starters, this concept art of the entrance, is very similar to the entrance for Reflections — A Disney Lakeside Lodge Resort. Have a look.

Reflections ©Disney

Being that they’re so similar, it might be safe to assume that the majority of what we previously saw, might be coming to this new resort. Before diving into that, let’s go back to the new concept art and zoom in a bit. For starters, we can see that they are going to be leaning heavily into the wilderness theming and use of Disney IP (intellectual property) as we can see to either side of the entrance with Bambi, Thumper, and Flower.

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At the moment, we’re not sure if those characters have been included just for the concept art, or if they will be physically present like statues flanking the entrance. Above the entrance doors appears to be wording that reads, “The Wonders of Nature are Endless.”

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Directly underneath that wording, it looks like there will be a statue of a certain Disney Princess. Now, Disney hasn’t released updated concept art for this lobby, but here’s a look at what they previously had for Reflections — A Disney Lakeside Lodge Resort:

Reflections concept art featuring Pocahontas.

You can see in this concept art Pocahontas standing as she did in the film and wisps around and above her perhaps physically representing the wind. Here’s another angle of the lobby from the previous concept art:

More Reflections concept art.

Of course, it’s way too early to tell if this is how the interior is going to look. But seeing that they kept much of the original artwork the same for the new exterior concept art they recently released, it does make us think that these images may be pretty good indications of how the resort will look. If that’s the case, we’re wondering if we’ll be seeing rooms like these:

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Well, that’s all we’ve got for you at the moment. Disney Lakeshore Lodge is expected to be open in 2027, so in the meantime make sure to stay tuned to DFB for all the latest updates on this hotel and more Disney World news!

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