Helios Grand Hotel

[Crypt Keeper]

 

[GAcoaster]

Looking good:

 

[Ahmanet]

Looks like bus stop shelters installed, wow getting real

When driving into Helios for check in, wonder how that drive way will work ? got to be somewhat dramatic / luxurious

 

[Brian G.]

From certain spots on I-Drive, you can see the dome. It's surreal.

 

[GAcoaster]

From certain spots on I-Drive, you can see the dome. It's surreal.

They really created a focal point and it's cool that when you can make the turn onto Kirkman from Universal Blvd it will be framed by Terra and Stella.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Went to Icon Park on Valentines and got a pretty nice view of the hotel and park from the parking garage there. I've loved driving past it on Universal Blvd the past few years, but seeing Helios, Mt. Beanpole, the Monsters Portal, etc built up and into the skyline of Orlando, visible from many different places across the city. It's just...so cool.

SO and I had the thought while looking at Helios from the garage, this is one of the few times in our lives that we'll ever see that building 100% dark. This place is going to be big, and it'll situate itself into the Central Florida skyline in the same way Contemporary or Swan/Dolphin have. Popular, brightly lit, and always occupied for decades and decades to come. (Barring any longterm 2020-esque occurances, that is.)

What an absolutely incredible and exciting time to be a Universal fan, thank all of yall for being here and coming together to talk about this stuff. It's honestly incredibly rare in this medium to get such a big expansion all at once. It's been so much fun to follow this stuff as passionately as the group here likes to.

 

[Ahmanet]

Am wondering now if you can see Epic from the original campus ... such as from Aventura or the Volcano water slides (you can see EPCOT from the stairs)

 

[Brian G.]

Am wondering now if you can see Epic from the original campus ... such as from Aventura or the Volcano water slides (you can see EPCOT from the stairs)

You can def see it on the Universal Blvd/I4 Overpass.

 

[saint.piss]

Great photo of all 3 hotels in sight.

 

[Eckert]

From certain spots on I-Drive, you can see the dome. It's surreal.

I remember seeing Volcano Bay's Krakatau towering over I-Drive for the first time. Felt like seeing the Death Star...

 

[Ahmanet]

The pool setup at Helios is ... interesting.

Looks like half a lazy river with no deck , can't wait for the concept art release

 

[Alicia]

The pool setup at Helios is ... interesting.

Looks like half a lazy river with no deck , can't wait for the concept art release

It’s like a squiggly pool wrapping around the pool bar.

 

[Suchomimus]

Are those cabanas to the right of the pool?

 

[Crypt Keeper]

Driving on I-4 today, I was able to see Helios, especially its dome.

Wow. Just, wow.

 

[saint.piss]

 

[Skold]

I have mild a OCD about symmetry, but I *love* the slightly-off wing there, with the three story windows and box on top. Do we know what those are?

 

[saint.piss]

 

[Ahmanet]

Some large windows on top floor left side , what will be in there ?

 

[GAcoaster]

Some large windows on top floor left side , what will be in there ?

That's the Ballroom

 

[Ahmanet]

That's the Ballroom

hopefully that is a code name for Bowser's Piano Bar ... joking but would be epic