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First Look: Photo Tour of New DVC Fort Wilderness Cabin

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As you may recall, 350 new cabins are coming this summer to Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort as a new part of Disney Vacation Club, and like all DVC properties, they will be available to Members using points, or anyone through central reservations for cash. The new cabins have the same footprint as those at Fort Wilderness that they are replacing, with 527 square feet of living space plus an outdoor deck. The cabins are categorized as one bedroom units that sleep up to six guests with a queen sized bed and a bunk bed in the bedroom, and a pull-down queen sized bed in the living area. Each unit also has a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and a separate vanity. Unlike many DVC one bedroom villas, these cabins do not have soaking or whirlpool tubs and they do not have laundry facilities in the cabin (there are laundry facilities around the Fort Wilderness Resort).

Cabins in each loop will be one of several colors. The cabins are being pre-fabricated off-site in Orlando, and the first ones are expected to be ready for occupancy at Fort Wilderness in July. Concept Art courtesy Disney.

Reservations for the new cabins opened back in March, and Disney Parks Blog provided behind-the-scenes details of the pre-fabrication process and sustainability initiatives. For DVC members, the points per night for the cabins are more toward the range of studio accommodations than other one bedrooms, as the square footage is substantially smaller than most other one bedroom accommodations, but substantially larger than most other studios (as studios do not include full kitchens).

Disney invited MousePlanet and other media sites to the Central Florida warehouse where the cabins are being pre-fabricated and gave us a tour of one of them earlier today. The captions of the photos will take you through the details we saw.

The cabin’s bedroom sleeps four with a queen-sized bed and a bunk bed.
Chip & Dale decorate the bedroom wall, and other places around the cabin.
The hanging storage area is decorated with art suggesting Chip & Dale left some items behind.
Decorative postcards and other souvenirs on the wall pay homage to the history of Fort Wilderness.
The upper bunk is a twin-sized bed with ample headroom under the sloped ceiling.
The lower bunk is also a twin-sized bedroom, and it had a surprising amount of headroom for sitting up as well.
Artwork next to the bunk bed suggests Donald Duck sleeping in a neighboring tent.
The homage to November 19 is the anniversary date of the opening of the Fort Wilderness Campground back in 1971.
As in many of the newer Disney Vacation Club properties (and refurbished ones), the living area’s sofa can be converted into a queen size bed that pulls down from the wall above it.
The trailer in the artwork on the wall pays homage to an early Mickey Mouse short where it debuted.
When the bed is pulled down from the wall, an additional piece of artwork is revealed.
Like other DVC one bedroom units, and the prior Fort Wilderness cabins, the new cabins include a full kitchen, including a table that can seat up to six (though six did look kind of tight).
Chip & Dale and other Fort Wilderness motifs appear on the drapery in the living area.
Down the hall from the kitchen opposite the bedroom, is an alcove with a vanity and mirror.
Continuing to the end of the cabin, there is a full bathroom with a toilet, sink, mirror, and shower.
The shower is rather large, and, like most DVC accommodations, includes the large fixed containers of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.
The cabinet in the bathroom includes an ironing board. Unlike many DVC one-bedroom units, however, there is no tub or laundry facility in the cabin

All photos by Alan S. Dalinka.

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