Universal Orlando has confirmed that they will temporarily suspend operations of both Sapphire Falls Resort and Aventura Hotel beginning Monday, August 21.
Here is Universal’s official statement:
We continue to evaluate our offerings and have decided to consolidate our hotel operations as we manage through current conditions. We will be operating the Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Cabana Bay Beach Resort and Universal’s Endless Summer Resort – Surfside Inn and Suites and temporarily suspending operations at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort and Universal’s Aventura Hotel as of August 21. Guests with reservations at Sapphire Falls or Aventura will be accommodated at our other hotels.
This does not surprise me. Universal needs more guests! Endless Summer seemed practically empty while we’re there. I can see their need to reduce number of rooms available overall so they can fill the hotels better (optimizing staff).
That is due to it being used for the NBA, I think. Only people associated with the NBA are staying there and they’re supposed to stay away from resort guests, I think.
Oh. I see. It is a clarification. Portofino nor Dockside were never meant to be open, and so they didn’t list them as closing. But when you looked at the list of resorts that are to be open, that hasn’t changed, since neither of those were ever included.
I assume this means Bice Restaurant in Portofino won’t be open as well? We have a Christmas 2020 trip planned (we are staying at the Hard Rock), but I wanted to try Bice for dinner as it received good reviews.
