Overhaulin’ - The Dolphin and Swan Hotel Edition
Lotusphere Posted by Yancy Lent May 4th, 2008A coworker just came back from a family vacation at Disney. She stayed at the Dolphin, after years and years of hearing us talk about it at Lotusphere. Aparently the quality of the rooms never came up because when she got there she couldn’t get over how out of date, bland and humid they were. This led to a polite conversation with the hotel management where they (leaked?) a makeover was in the works. The Swan will be done this Summer and the Dolphin this Fall.
So we could all be staying in new rooms come next January. I of course won’t believe it until i… sleep in it. You have to take with a grain of salt things that are said to appease customers. But I’m hoping this one is true.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I don’t buy it — they just finished a room makeover between around 2005-2007. And the common areas of the Dolphin were likewise done 2006-7 (remember that the fish in the fountain were still turquoise in the 2nd Life version of Lotusphere 2007, but were white in real life, having just been painted). No way do they “do over” again so soon.
What they really need to do is move to the second generation of CF light bulbs - the 5 watt jobbers they have now never given the rooms enough light to feel homey. Flatscreen TVs, perhaps, instead of the older ones. There are a few other changes they could make, but I think the LS09 environment will look like LS08.