Will the Bon Air section be the new hot spot to stay next year?

So since we all know the Bon Air section of Hotel Breakers will be getting a renovation (finally!), I was wondering if it will be the new hot spot to stay in the Hotel?

First of all, let's hope they add an elevator and give the rooms new wallpaper, carpets, etc. Just gut the rooms.

The problem with the rooms will be though that they are small and don't have much of a view.

What do you all think? Will it be better than the Tower Section and East since it's the newest?

Are they getting renovated for the 2010 season? I thought the quote regarding this was ambiguous with regard to timing.

I thought they delayed renovation for a year do to budget or something but I really hope they do. The rooms are so ugly. I really think a lot of the rooms at the Breakers & Breakers express need renovation.

I have not heard anything about the rooms getting renovated eather.

But they really do need it.

Kinzel stated they were getting renovated in a press release.

It wasn't a press release, it was an interview in the Sandusky Register.

He said he also plans to go forward with upgrading a section of Hotel Breakers. Work on that section, built in 1926, was supposed to be done last year but was postponed.

I know it would be super expensive, but I wouldn't mind if Cedar Point completely made a new hotel/resort. I never hear good reviews of Breakers, etc... Most guest leave feeling ripped off. You have a beach and you have the lake. It could be a beautiful place to stay and a major destination, but its crap. Even when Sandcastle got renovated people still weren't impressed.

You have the perfect place to make a great resort why not take advantage.

How would building a new place make it better? Most of the existing properties aren't that old to begin with. Sandcastle was just renovated.

I wonder if it's the case that Kinzel just has never stayed at a nice resort to recognize what one entails.....

Thats what I'm thinking. Take notes from Disney. Jeff, in my post I said Sandcastle was just renovated.

Ensign Smith said:I wonder if it's the case that Kinzel just has never stayed at a nice resort to recognize what one entails.....

I doubt that. He has had to of stayed at a Disney property at least once with the family while down there. The man was at IAAPA this year in Vegas and I doubt he stayed at the Travelodge. It probably is more like he just does not believe those kinds of resorts could apply to Cedar Point. "People come here for thrills, not for nice hotel beds" is something I could see him saying.

99er said:

"People come here for thrills, not for nice hotel beds" is something I could see him saying.

You've completely imaginary mis-quoted him.

"People have got to sleep." is what he would say.

^I stand corrected:)

In a word... "seasonal". The Breakers has been "crap" since the beginning of time - I think they've done the best job they should do for a seasonal hotel that operates less than half the year. I'll agree the price is high for what you get, but people seem willing to pay it for the experience. Or the convenience. Or because they don't know any better.

Any "renovation" of the Bon Aire will only allow them to bring those lower rates up to standard.

Has anyone stayed in the long hallway upstairs over the entrance? Now, that's an experience!

A bit off topic, but at no coaster, Robin said the Breakers would be getting a Perkins this year.

That is sort of random. They have decent food, I always enjoy eating there. I am guessing it will be moving into the space where the coffee shop is? (or whatever its called now).

I'd imagine it would be The Coffee Shop space, which has been considerably altered in the past couple years anyway. Other than the Poolside Deli (as far as we know for now), all of the Breakers food locations would then be "outside" restaurants.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Interesting.

I know that the perkins just outside the park(in the sandusky inn?) is closed now.

If the Bon air section is the wing nearest to magnum, then i have an interesting story. It is soemthing I overheard when I was actually staying there in 2004 Halloween. Me and my family were staying in the tower section, 9th floor. I was coming up from the pool to my room and saw two maintenance workers by the window talking. I heard them say the park should tear the wing down for good, then they critizised it in some form or whatever, saying it was nasty, crumbling, etc. Then they left and I went to my room, laughing. Just thought I'd tell.....

I'm really surprised that they are bringing in Perkins. I thought the Perkins chain was struggling and they have been closing a lot of their locations. The restaraunt should do well in the Breakers during breakfast time/before the park opens.