The Bay Lake DVC resort 'Reflections - A Disney Lakeside Lodge' may be the first major COVID-19 cancellation at Walt Disney World

Posted: Monday June 15, 2020 10:14am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Evidence is mounting that the Bay Lake Disney Vacation Club resort 'Reflections - A Disney Lakeside Lodge' may be the first major Walt Disney World cancellation due to COVID-19.

According to various sources from the construction side of the project, delivery of material has been permanently cancelled, and the work that was done to begin the concrete pours has been removed and the land will likely be returned to its pre-construction state.

Reflections - A Disney Lakeside Lodge site in March 2020

Project 89 as it was known, was somewhat controversial since it began, with the resort offering a design style that was not to everyone's liking on a prime piece of land around the former River Country.

Nature-Inspired Resort concept art

The economic climate is obviously not conducive to build new resort hotels at this time, with both the company and guests looking to reduce spending over the coming years.

Despite the likely cancellation of Reflections, the land is a prized location, and it would be no surprise to see the project revived at a later time, or a new project moving in to take its place.

It should be noted that Disney is yet to make any official announcement of a cancellation.

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jmuboy4 days ago

Check out the modern looking updates announced today for the DLP Sequoia Lodge. Seems like a room decor style that could be similar to what Lakeshore Lodge is getting. The Sequoia Lodge at Disneyland Paris has always had a very modern tank on the national parks / Frank Lloyd Wright style.

Disstevefan17 days ago

That would be great!

JoeCamel7 days ago

Cement probably came in bulk from central or south america

nickys7 days ago

Presumably they’ll already have the steel. Not so sure about the timber. Even so, I expect any project already actually underway should continue unaffected.

Disgruntled Walt7 days ago

No doubt this project is being made with entirely American-made materials.

HauntedPirate7 days ago

There is the main pool area, which will have the lazy river, interactive water play area, and pool with a plunge slide. There's also the usual DVC quiet pool in a different area of the resort.

Ayla7 days ago

Is there more than one pool area? I have not looked at the plans.

Disstevefan17 days ago

They need to step it up. This is critical to expand capacity at WDW.

peter114357 days ago

We don’t yet know for sure that the Lakeside Lodge pool will be available to fort cabin guests. But between the Fort and Lakeside Lodge there will be 4 pools.

HauntedPirate7 days ago

Again, we don't know if Fort Wilderness or DVC cabin guests will be allowed into this pool area.

HauntedPirate7 days ago

One floor per week for concrete. You aren't going to see much other visual progress for a bit.

Disstevefan17 days ago

We need pics of the very rapid progress of this new DVC tower please.

Naplesgolfer7 days ago

But the values like Pop have 3 pools. This mix of rooms are larger with more guests per room. Every cabin at the fort is a 2 bedroom. Then the Lodge mix of cabins and 1 , 2 bedroom dvc rooms. The lazy river will be a large draw. It will be easily as mobbed as stormalong bay or worse.

peter114358 days ago

It’s 1300 and by Disney standards that’s not that unusual. That’s a couple hundred less than have access to Stormalong Bay. And nowhere near as many as have access to pools at many of the moderates and values.