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Disney’s first Hawaii resort aims for 2011 opening

Posted October 30, 2008 , trackback

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts offered a sneak peek of plans for its first-ever Hawaii resort today. Groundbreaking on the resort—for now, dubbed Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii—is slated for Nov. 13 in west Oahu’s Ko Olina Resort & Marina, with an opening slated for 2011.

The resort will include 350 hotel rooms and 480 vacation villas, the latter dedicated to Disney Vacation Club timeshare members. Plus an 18,000 square-foot spa, 8,000 square feet of convention and banquet space, two restaurants, a kids club and a wedding lawn. Water features include an inland saltwater lagoon, quiet pool and a water park with slides, rapids and waterfalls. The resort also claims one of the crescent lagoons along the Ko Olina shoreline.
Disney plans to market toward luxury family travel. The company declined to reveal the project’s cost and room pricing. Renderings of timeshare units and hotel rooms were not available.
“There are always economic ups and downs. We have confidence in Hawaii as a continued family tourist destination for the long-term,” said Walt Disney Parks & Resorts chairman Jay Rasulo.
Disney first announced the project in October 2007, after purchasing the 21-acre Ko Olina property the resort will occupy. The Hawaii resort will be the largest of three Disney Vacation Club properties, and the first to combine hotel and timeshare offerings. The family-travel-oriented Disney Vacation Club claims more than 350,000 members worldwide.
“We ask our Disney Vacation club family 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 Djuan Rivers, vice president of Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii.

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