Hello friends, are you ready to start this long 4th of July weekend? Thankfully I had the previous two days off so I actually get a 5-day-weekend. Which is nice when you have to work 12-hour days. For every Friday in the month of July I’d like to highlight something special from the Disneyland hotel. The hotel is actually three separate towers. Adventure, Frontier and Fantasy are the names of these towers. Inside the Adventure Tower Disney has just completed a massive renovation to the top floors. The resort hosted an event to show off a collection of “Dream Suites.” Today we shall look at the Big Thunder Suite.
Each room has a theme with appropriate signage and effects. For example, each of the rooms that I will be highlighting over the following weeks has a doorbell that plays a different sound. Guests that press the doorbell at Big Thunder will hear a coyote howling in the distance. Right from the get-go the company wants visitors to expect that the suites have the same attention to detail and spirit as the attractions that inspired them.
All of the furniture and architecture in the suites and rooms are appropriate for the theme. Since the Big Thunder suite is based on the mythical western setting from Frontierland then there was plenty of hard wood, petrified wood, suede, leather and stone set into the furniture and counter tops. Each Dream Suite had a main entertainment room, a dining area, kitchenette, bar and master and guest bedroom. Each bedroom had its own bathroom.
Several of the decorations were authentic western and mining materials and the classic phone in the hallway was still functional even!
I think what made each of the suites spectacular were the accompanying bathrooms. The theme for each room carried all the way through. Fixtures, sinks, plumbing and even the bathtub were hammered copper. The sinks were basins, washtubs with hot and cold running water. The shower looked rustic and antiquated but that was a cover for the modern shower heads and extending shower wand.
As I stated previously, each suite had a master and guest bedroom. For the most part the guest bedroom was modestly themed while the master bedroom went all-out for guests. Classic Disney photographs, posters, blueprints and concept sketches were framed and placed throughout each suite.
It was truly an honor to get a chance to visit each room and document the work that went into each Dream Suite. In case you are wondering each room in the Dream Suite series runs about $3700 a night! I anticipate these rooms are more likely to be rented by companies for parties or when they want to impress clients. I don’t know how many mega-rich people are die-hard fan enough of the park to fork over that kind of money on a consistent basis. Hopefully the hotel is looking for volunteers to try out the room for a night. I know I wouldn’t mind spending more time in any of the suites. As always if you would like to sponsor me please visit my Patreon page and consider donating each month, even as little as $1 would help make better blogs and even podcasts!
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