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Disney World’s 25-year-old Fort Wilderness cabins make room for new ones
Walt Disney World is replacing and upgrading all 365 cabins at Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, a process that’s part assembly line and part intricate dance.
The existing cabins, in place since 1999, are manufactured homes on wheels. They’ll be replaced with permanent structures the same size as their predecessors — 504 square feet. The first of the outgoing trailers rolled away this week.
The replacement cabins will be Disney Vacation Club properties, although they will be available to people who are not timeshare owners, too. The average price for the existing cabins has been about $500 per night.
DVC members will be in the first set of new units on July 1. The total project is scheduled to be completed next March.
Disney is tackling the project with innovation and efficiency and minimal disruptions to Fort Wilderness visitors and operations.
The 750-acre resort, which debuted with Disney World in 1971, also hosts RVs, tents and has other recreational activities.
“We’re very close to all of the other occupied areas. It’s not like a new resort where we’re demo-ing the whole site,” said Todd Watzel, manager of programs with Disney’s facility-asset management team, which wrangles WDW renovations. Fort Wilderness has many trees and other natural features that they didn’t want to disturb, he said.