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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011

Of Mice and Master Plans: Disney Goes Hawaiian

By DIMITRA DEFOTIS AND JACK WILLOUGHBY | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR
The company's hotel and timeshare resort is its first that isn't connected to a theme park.


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Aloha: The new Disney resort and timeshare on Oahu is the company's first that isn't connected to a theme park.

This week, Walt Disney (DIS) unveils its first hotel and timeshare project that isn't connected to a theme park, in a master-planned resort community on the west side of Hawaii's Oahu. It's similar to Disney's multigenerational cruise offerings, only at the beach and sans life rafts. "This isn't Disneyland. This has never been done, within Disney or not," says Jeffrey Stone, founder of The Resort Group, the Honolulu-based developer of Ko Olina, where the resort is located.

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