In the documentaries that I have read and seen about this castle, they used materials in building it where it could withstand hurricane conditions due to the geographic location of the park. Thank you for showing this. It made my day.
The suite was actually built for the park's opening as an apartment for the Disney family, much like the one above the fire station in Disneyland. The family never used it, so I'm glad it found a second life as the dream suite. Wish they could make it possible for more people to stay there, not just the occasional celebrity.
I wish the castle was something that you could actually walk through and get a tour of. Kinda like spaceship earth. I feel like it’s kinda a waste to have a tiny suite that’s unused 95% of the time. It would be really cool if you could actually walk through Cinderella’s castle
You can in Disneyland Paris, they have a beautiful exhibit telling the story of Cinderella in there, with hand-woven tapestry and stained glass windows. At the end of the tour you can step out on the balcony overlooking the courtyard. There used to be a Black Cauldron walkthrough at Tokyo Disney, located in the spot where the Restaurant is in WDW and there is a Princess’s walkthrough at Shanghai Disneyland. The space of the Cinderella Suite was originally intended for Walt Disney‘s apartment but was never finished. Apparently, for a while it was used as the switchboard for the resort. Also, the CM playing Tinker Bell climbs the tower for Tink‘s flight during the fireworks.
When I went there the first year the park opened, my Grandfather asked a cast member what the space above the restaurant was used for. The cast member told my family it was used "for storage". I thought that was a waste of space. But realize now that the upper level is much smaller than it appears.
I feel like if they brought Disney to Australia, making it more into a proper castle would be so cool. It’s a dream for so many to actually go overseas and experience castles, that having it fulfil that sort of experience would be cool imo.
I'm surprised that the outdoor condenser units are visible outside the restaurant windows. I would have thought they'd have done something more creative to hide them from the guests.
I was 12 or 13 when WDW opened, and just 90 minutes away. We always knew there were spaces in the upper floors, the restaurant opened pretty early on, but I ALWAYS wanted a basement tour/dark ride thing... It would have had to be built down in the utilidors...
Nice video. But the restaurant is clearly on the 2nd floor and not on the ground floor as stated. Interestingly, the ground floor in American buildings is called the 1st floor, and the floor above is called the 2nd floor, and so on. Keep up the good work.
I miss being able to actually walk through the castle and seeing all that amazing tile work, they now use as a staging area for shows that are kind of a disruption in the day. Some of them are kind of boring..
By you commenting on videos on RU-vid about Disney, you are more or less helping the algorithm drawing more attention to Disney. Which gives Disney more money… Using your internet data to do it, so that money you’re using to pay your phone/internet bill is indirectly paying Disney 😅
I'm sure they will go bankrupt because you refuse to go there (in reality, you probably can't afford it anyways). The rest of us would prefer that people like you don't visit there anyways! Hatred is not welcome there.
