Walt Disney World fans love to hate new hotels and resort reimaginings, complaining that designs are boring, bland, generic, bare, sterile, hospital-like, prison-like, dystopian. Unfavorable comparisons abound to Hiltons, Marriotts, and other ‘real world’ chains. Comb through the comments of pretty much any of our articles about resort room reimaginings, and you’ll find no shortages of these criticisms. You won’t find a single Walt Disney World resort refurbishment where the fan…

Somehow, Bob Chapek returned. In the midst of the former Disney CEO’s book tour, the ex-executive has found the time to serve as one of the four nominees activist investor Oasis Management proposed for the Vail Ski Resorts board. Here’s the latest on the Umbrella Man’s new gig, along with our commentary about how he might do for skiing what he did for Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The most amusing…