It's official, the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World will open Sunday. The ribbon cutting ceremony was held two days before the grand opening on August 3.
Even Mickey Mouse attended the ribbon cutting on Friday.
Crews broke ground on the Four Seasons project on December 6, 2011. Completion took less than two years and eight months.
More than 4,000 people were interviewed for positions in the resort 443-room resort.
Architectural firm WTG Deisgn and HKS, along with interior design firm Anderson Miller Ltd, say they kept true to designs from Florida's "golden age" and that the resort's design is inspired by lakeside Spanish revival architecture.
Prices range from $450 for a room, to almost $1,500 night. Both of those prices are before taxes; and not including the royal suite and presidential suite that don't list a price and simply advise visitors to call for reservations.
New Four Seasons Resort Orlando, by the numbers, courtesy of Four Seasons:
- 1 Four Seasons custom motor coach offering complimentary transportation to the Disney parks
- 2 waterside Spa bungalows perfect for couples’ treatments (6 total couples suites at The Spa)
- 5 on-property restaurants
- 17 stories tall
- 18 treatment rooms in The Spa and 18 holes of Tom Fazio golf
- 26 acres
- 443 rooms (including 68 suites)
- 502 employees hired to date (including transfers from 75 Four Seasons properties worldwide)
- 1,140 total trees on property (including 49 transplanted Live Oak trees)
- 10,000 pieces of kitchen supplies
- 11,008 square-foot Lazy River, complete with a bubbling rapids section and waterfalls
- 14,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom
- 25,000 pieces of linen
- 30,912 crystal components in the lobby chandelier
- 37,750 square feet of meeting and event space in total
- 56,000 pieces of silverware
- 67,000 pieces of china
- 80,000 pieces of glassware
- 531,362 gallons of water throughout the pools/lazy river/Splash Zone areas