It's a super pedantic point (sorry) but regarding the CS's 'Wild mushroom and Dolce latté risotto' - the cheese is 'dolcelatte', so if read literally the restaurant serves 'Wild mushroom and sweet milky coffee risotto' (not that latte has an e acute) which is likely to be less delicious.
One of the things I found most depressing about this when following the development of this is just how identical all of the lame cabins are. There has been zero effort at all to make the standard lodges look at all different to each other - it's a case of buy one model in bulk because it's cheaper and easier to do it that way. For example, not even the roofs have been even rotated at all, let alone varied in style, so it just becomes super obvious that each lodge is exactly the same prefab structure. Standing in the middle of one of the circles, they'll all look completely alike. As well as playing with the roofs, they could have altered the claddings instead of all having them the same plain yellow, or the doors or windows etc etc etc - how about a more log cabin feel to some of them? Some in pale pastel reds or greens? Plant some genuine vines to grow up the sides? Too much effort?
Following on from that, why not at least try and bring some variation to each group of six or so lodges? For example, what about giving each 'street' it's own identity, such as having Mushroom mews (giant mushrooms etc), Waterfall walk (a water feature/bubbling stream running over rocks in the centre area), Vegetable view (huge novelty vegetables integrated into the climbing frames) or any idea come up with in two minutes as I just did that is at least more interesting than just repeating the same thing over and over and over again.
Because of their prefab-built nature, they look so flimsy to me and I keep thinking that any noise from the adjacent room would be so loud. If you have a group of friends next to a family then I'd imagine there could be frustration, especially when people have paid so much to be there.
This is all in addition to the points everyone else has made - how depressingly middle of the road and mediocre. It could have been so much more and it wouldn't have even taken much thought to do. The comparisons with some of the other parks and accommodations (both in Europa and the UK) say it all. Even the fencing here was selected off-the-shelf with so little thought it's only when installed that they've realised how awful it looks. I really don't know why you'd pay more for this, and people will regret it all the more when it rains and they get soaked on their way to a too-small boring restaurant to eat mushroom risotto with milky coffee.
One of the things I found most depressing about this when following the development of this is just how identical all of the lame cabins are. There has been zero effort at all to make the standard lodges look at all different to each other - it's a case of buy one model in bulk because it's cheaper and easier to do it that way. For example, not even the roofs have been even rotated at all, let alone varied in style, so it just becomes super obvious that each lodge is exactly the same prefab structure. Standing in the middle of one of the circles, they'll all look completely alike. As well as playing with the roofs, they could have altered the claddings instead of all having them the same plain yellow, or the doors or windows etc etc etc - how about a more log cabin feel to some of them? Some in pale pastel reds or greens? Plant some genuine vines to grow up the sides? Too much effort?
Following on from that, why not at least try and bring some variation to each group of six or so lodges? For example, what about giving each 'street' it's own identity, such as having Mushroom mews (giant mushrooms etc), Waterfall walk (a water feature/bubbling stream running over rocks in the centre area), Vegetable view (huge novelty vegetables integrated into the climbing frames) or any idea come up with in two minutes as I just did that is at least more interesting than just repeating the same thing over and over and over again.
Because of their prefab-built nature, they look so flimsy to me and I keep thinking that any noise from the adjacent room would be so loud. If you have a group of friends next to a family then I'd imagine there could be frustration, especially when people have paid so much to be there.
This is all in addition to the points everyone else has made - how depressingly middle of the road and mediocre. It could have been so much more and it wouldn't have even taken much thought to do. The comparisons with some of the other parks and accommodations (both in Europa and the UK) say it all. Even the fencing here was selected off-the-shelf with so little thought it's only when installed that they've realised how awful it looks. I really don't know why you'd pay more for this, and people will regret it all the more when it rains and they get soaked on their way to a too-small boring restaurant to eat mushroom risotto with milky coffee.
