Overview
- The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin held a ribbon-cutting this week for an expansion that adds more than 100,000 square feet of meeting and event space and lifts the resort’s total event footprint to over 600,000 square feet.
- The addition is built as three purpose‑made components: a 38,000 sq ft Upper Peninsula Ballroom, a 40,000 sq ft Lower Peninsula multi‑function space, and 38,000 sq ft of pre‑function area for registration, sponsor booths and networking.
- The resort says the enlarged footprint makes it the largest convention hotel on the U.S. East Coast, a claim the property is using to target bigger corporate and industry gatherings.
- The convention center is the centerpiece of a $275 million renovation intended to win high‑margin, year‑round convention business that books years in advance and fills room blocks during slow leisure periods.
- Guests should expect busier weekdays, constrained restaurant and pool capacity during large events, and some continuing construction work on the complex as the broader transformation proceeds.