It was simply the attention to detail, even in mimicking the National Parks lodges, for which I was comparing the more kid-friendly Cheese compares to the Country Bear Jamboree or scenes in Splash Mountain) than Disney's Wilderness Lodge, which, while in the family-friendly resort of WDW, was designed with a great deal of period and local detail, including planting of specific trees not native to Florida, and with a grand lobby and fine restaurants designed for and serving specialties of the Pacific Northwest (along with the more family-friendly ones, including Whispering Canyon, itself serving food appropriate for the lodge atmosphere). What I was saying above was simply that the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg looks like it took its design cues from Disney (as an oversized family wilderness lodge) except that some of the characteristics of it were a little more "cheesy" (by which I meant something perhaps more kid-friendly or cheaply made - sort of like how Chuck E. I usually lament their more modern cost-cutting. I am usually one wanting them to go back to the detail that they used to put into everything to mix an authentic feel and look with modern needs, which I do feel that they did well at WL. If you know my posts, including the last sentence jab in the one you quote at Disney's ridiculous prices for its deluxe hotels, you will note that my view of Disney is not always rose-colored. So, although I do not think that they mentioned a specific lodge, it would seem appropriate that one in Yosemite at Old Faithful might serve as a design reference point. When it opened, Disney's Wilderness Lodge was said to be fashioned after the great wilderness lodges of the National Parks, and particularly reminiscent of the Northwest and Yosemite.
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