Saludos Amigos, I am Torsten from dein-dlrp.de and today I would like to take you on a tour of Disney's Hotel Santa Fe.
Disney's Hotel Santa Fe is a 1000-room hotel located on the banks of the Rio Grande, an allusion to the city of Santa Fe, where the Rio Grande flows past.
Along the small river you will also find the foodpath that leads from the hotel to the parks and Disney Village.
On the opposite bank of the Rio Grande you will find Hotel Cheyenne. We will post a link to our video-tour of this hotel right now in the top-right.
Hotel Santa Fe is located in the Southwest of the USA on Route 66.
Radiator Springs may be just around the corner, and Lightning McQueen and Sally from "Cars" greet you right on the entrance of the Hotel.
The hotel opened on April 12, 1992, when Disneyland Paris opened, back then called Euro Disney of course.
At that time, Hotel Santa Fe looked quite different, but more on that later.
Disney's Hotel Santa Fe is divided into numerous buildings. The hotel rooms are spread over these up to five storeys high buildings.
You can park your car conveniently in front of the building where your room is located - or at least close by.
In the main building right next to the entrance you will find all central facilities such as the reception, the restaurant, a shop and a Starbucks.
When Disney decided to build a European resort, famous architects were chosen to take part in an architectural competition for the central hotel grounds.
Antoine Predock was eventually chosen as architect for the space where you now find Hotel Santa Fe.
Antoine Predock studied architecture at the University of New Mexico and had his first architect's office in Albuquerque.
His background was a great asset to the design of this hotel as it was intended to pay homage to the parts of Route 66, that go through the west of the United States.
It reminded of the golden age of this highway that runs through New Mexico, very close to Santa Fe.
At the same time Predockpaid hommage to the culture of the Puebloans, who had tribal areas in New Mexico, too.
Another sources of inspiration for Predock were the typical 1950s drive-in cinemas and motels.
In recent years, the appearance of the Santa Fe Hotel has gradually changed, until it finally reached its current look in 2013.
The renovation was accompanied by significant changes of the theming.
For the first time visitor, these may not be noticeable at first glance, but on a closer look it becomes obvious that the original idea of the design no longer exists.
On opening day Hotel Santa Fe was arguably the Disney hotels with the most symbolic and subtle architectural approach.
While some of the artifacts, such as the crashed UFO, are still in place, they do not really feel to fit into the context of the hotel's new Cars-Look anymore.
Originally, the color scheme was different, too. Colors started with a reddish earth brown on the ground, getting brighter, with a pale sky-blue on the top floor.
The lower levels were representing the earth while to top level represented the sky.
A few years later, a different scheme, with warmer loam and ocher tones, was applied and has been preserved in very similar form until today.
Since some of you are for sure less familiar with the original design of the I will briefly discuss it here. And maybe there is something interesting for the veterans, too.
Originally the hotel area was divided into five trails. These trails were each dedicated to a theme.
The center one was the Trail of Infinite Space. This trail is intended to represent the vastness of the West.
The Trail of Infinite Space was marked by a yellow line that started in the parking lot in front of the hotel and lead straight through the center of the hotel like the yellow centerline on an American highway.
This line also lead right below the huge screen, which for many years displayed Clint Eastwood. Today there is a motif from the movie Cars on the screen.
Originally Predock wanted to install a blank canvas on which guests could project their own fantasies, but Disney did not like the concept and so they agreed on Clint Eastwood.
The Trail of Infinite Space ended in front of the crashed UFO, which is partly stuck in the ground.
The buildings to the left and right of the path are reminiscent of the functional buildings that stretch along highways in the desert or Route 66.
The Trail of Water should remind guests of the importance of this element in the desert.
House 33, the tallest building of the hotel complex, was certainly the hightlight of this trail. From its roof, the water plunged down a channel, and into to complex channel-system.
The water channel on the building is still there, but the water effect has been removed and the channel has been planted with small bushes.
The Trail of Artificats was themed to the things left behind in the desert. Not only covering ruins or historical testimonies of ancient cultures, but also more modern things, such as rusted cars half sunk in the sand.
Along the trail one could find a Ford Phantom from 1937, a 1956 Chevy Pick-Up and a 1957 Ford Fairlane - all discovered by Predock in an Albuquerque junkyard.
The last remnant of the old Trail of Artifact that you can still see today is the giant cactus.
The Trail of Monuments was reminiscent of the impressive rock formations in the southwestern United States.
In designing this area Antoine Predock was also inspired by cartoons such as "Road Runner" and "Krazy Kat". For example, he took up the cartoons' concept of impossibly balancing rocks.
The Trail of Legends was reminiscent of the myths and clichés of the Wild West.
There was a volcano along this trail and four buildings, which stood out from the rest of the hotel with their colors and were symbolizing typical Wild West buildings.
The golden building symbolized the gold rush, the silver building stood for coins or the bank and the simple concrete building was symbolized a prison.
And then there red building which indeed symbolized a brothel - quite bold for Disney.
There were also a black and a white building, which symbolized the good and the bad and their clichés in the Wild West.
In the meantime, the buildings have unfortunately been painted over, with the same colors as the rest of the hotel, but the volcano is still there.
There was also the Anaszasi playground which was reminiscent of the Anasazi culture, a culture that has spawned the earliest known settlements in the Santa Fe area.
The people of the Anasazi culture build, from 700 AD on, the first pueblos and many of the modern-age pueblo peoples such as the Hopi and Zuni, whose symbolic can also be found in the hotel, emerged from the Anasazi culture.
To this day, some of the most impressing historic buildings in the US, such as the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, are reminiscent of the Anasazi culture.
Whether the fanciful playground, which is an a miserable state for many years now, will ever reopen remains unclear.
I hope you enjoyed this journey into the history and to the original idea of Hotel Santa Fe.
And maybe they've inspired you to walk around the hotel with your eyes open, looking for the remnants of his story and Predocks ideas to represent the Southwest of the USA in all its fascinating facets.
So keep your eyes open and we are looking forward for you to commenting this video with your discoveries.
Nach diesem Blick in die Geschichte des Hotels, wollen wir uns dem heutigen Hotel zuwenden.
Right above the entrance of the hotel, you will notice the huge screen, which was supposed to represent a drive-in cinema screen.
By the way: the parking lot in front ot the hotel has a layout out like a drive-in cinema would have had.
On the screen you can now see Lightning McQueen and Sally instead of Clint Eastwood - two modern heroes of the West.
As soon as you leave the main building of the hotel behind, you will see small signs that lead you to the different areas of the hotel, each featuring a character from Cars: Lightning McQueen, Sally, Luigi and Hook.
Depending on which area you are in, you can also discover other subtle Cars elements. For example, all buildings have a kind of bordure that shows the corresponding figure as well as some other elements, such as cacti orroad signs.
n addition, the paths through the hotel are designed like a road that could pass through Radiator Springs.
After inspecint the exterior of the hotel, we would like to take a look at the hotel's central facilities.
At the reception you can check in 24/7 and collect your tickets etc. Your room is usually available from 3 pm.
At the concierge desk you can book restaurants, buy tickets for the Buffalo Bill's Show, arrange trips to Paris and much more.
The Trading Post, the hotel's shop offers a variety of souvenirs, but you will also find sweets, chips and drinks here.
There are also postcards and stamps on sale, if you like to send greetings to your loved ones at home in the old-fashioned way.
La Cantina is the restaurant of the hotel. It's open for dinner and is offering a Tex-Mex-style buffet. Here you can redeem your half board vouchers or just go out to dinner.
By the way, not only dinner is served here, but also the breakfast buffet from 7 am to 11 am.
Rio Grande bar is the bar of Hotel Santa Fe. Here you can enjoy a beer or a cocktail. It's open daily from 4:30 pm to 1 am and on some days live music is performed here, too.
Looking for a small breakfast, a sweet snack in the afternoon or a dose of caffeine? Then you are in the right place at Starbucks.
Starbucks is open daily from 7 am to 11 pm.
That closes our little tour of Hotel Santa Fe - we hope you enjoyed it and that we could provide some interesting informations.
We are looking forward to your comments, to fond memories for example about trips to Hotel Santa Fe you like so share with us.
And please let us know if you preferred the old theming or the new.
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