It’s been a hot second since we checked in on the construction progress of Disney Lakeshore Lodge. New aerial pictures from @bioreconstruct show updates throughout the resort, including work on the A-frame accommodations, continued developments in the pool area, and more.
Let’s first start with an overview of the nature-themed resort. In case you forgot, it’s massive, with approximately 900 rooms.
At roughly 10 stories tall, Disney Lakeshore Lodge is tough to miss. It towers over the nearby Fort Wilderness resort. This resort will have significantly more rooms than Disney World’s other recent DVC additions, such as the Island Tower at the Polynesian Village Resort (about 260 rooms) and the Riviera Resort (about 300 rooms).
Disney Lakeshore Lodge is pretty close in size to its other neighbor, Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Copper Creek Villas, which has around 1,000 total rooms.
Speaking of Wilderness Lodge, Disney Lakeshore Lodge will have some A-frame accommodations that are similar to the popular Copper Creek waterside cabins.
The A-frames are guaranteed to be the most premium accommodations at the resort. If they’re anything like the cabins at Wilderness Lodge, they’ll be tough to book.
A big resort requires a big pool area, and it looks like Disney Lakeshore Lodge will deliver. The feature pool will have a large slide and a lazy river.
But that’s not the only pool area at the resort. The other pool area (what we assume will be a quiet pool) is located closer to Bay Lake, and is by a different wing of the hotel.
We’re kind of surprised Disney hasn’t released more information about Disney Lakeshore Lodge yet. The resort is scheduled to open in 2027, so we’d expect DVC sales to open at some point in 2026 (barring any construction delays). Disney will need to start revealing the final design of the rooms, restaurants, and more soon.
Is Disney sticking with some of the leaked designs we saw in 2019 when the project was originally called Reflections – A Disney Lakeside Lodge? That leaked art – assuming it was real – showed a large lobby with a Pocahontas sculpture, and guests rooms with art from Bambi. The nature theming included some of the more rare Disney characters, which we’d welcome now that Disney allegedly requires characters to be included in all new projects.
What do you think of Disney World’s newest resort?
