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As a result of the extensive construction that will take place around the Nanea pool, Niue and Samoa longhouses will either close the west side rooms or close all rooms. No dates as to when they will stop booking guests into these rooms but I would guess it would be before work started in...

I don’t think Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto will be any more or less family friendly than the one in DL. I don’t know that the concept art was supposed to represent a kid. Tambu will be the support bar for ‘Ohana and Kona as it really should be. When you hear what they are going to do with Trader...

Since you will be able to get to it from the Great Ceremonial House it will be accessible to anyone who is there. The only thing that will not be accessible to non-resort guests will be the pool area. When all is said and done the Polynesian will have 4 bars.

It is going in where the arcade was. It is hard to tell how large that area actually is but Jeff Lange posted a video of the lobby back in 1991 and you can see how large that area is when the video walks through the stores that were there before the arcade. I’m sure some of that area will be...

The whole resort was built in 6 months. Sometimes I am more surprised how long it takes for them to do things but I know it has a lot to do with coordinating all the different contractors. The last plan I heard was they wanted to open in February 2015. The Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto will be...

There will be more things getting changed. You have not seen anything yet. When done this will be a resort wide renovation. Some of the things I think will be improvements though.

I believe they killed the Hawaiian theme idea and are making it more generic Disney.

I would pick Fiji and Aotearoa. Tuvalu is now the best lagoon and Themepark view but I would have to say Tuvalu's standard view rooms are some of the least desirable. They look right at the stairway at the end of the Fiji longhouse.

If you want to relax at the pool and not travel to BB then relax at the East pool or walk over to the GF and use the pool there while the Nanea pool is closed. They will be placing a temporary bar at the East pool while the other one is closed.

Guest who are staying at the Polynesian during the closure of the Nanea pool are going to be offered a visit to Blizzard Beach for free. Letters going out to guests about the construction they will see during their visit will have this statement in it. “We anticipate the Nanea Volcano Pool and...

Every one of those areas shown in the photos will look totally different by next year.

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They want to reduce the size. They have other plans for around the pool area and they want the space to re-theme it. It does not go with the vision they have for the new pool area and I thought I remember them mentioning something about making the lagoon more visible from the patio of the GCH...

I have never had any of my sources mention any large water feature outside either. I'm sure there are some things being planed I have not heard about but if anything they want to reduce the size of the volcano to some other rock formation. I can't imagine they want to make that smaller and then...

The rooms had the asbestos removed in 2002 when they did work to get rid of the moisture problem between the rooms. The hallways of the longhouses still had some materials that needed to be removed and that was done in this last room redesign. The GCH has to have much of the "fire proofing"...

I was told the pool and slide are not changing but the volcano will be reduced in size and re-themed into more of a rock formation. The major work will be to expand the pool deck area and add new features like a kids wet play area (similar to the one at Aulani) and an infinity hot tub (where the...

I created that from what they had as a concept at Imagineering back in 2011 but most of those 2 phase plans were changed in 2013. They are discussing maybe still adding another pool but much of the speculation I have seen going around about a waterfall like in the lobby out at some new pool I am...

I don’t have enough information on the details of the problem to evaluate what it would take to fix it but they have been saying that it needs to be removed for years. We all know the whole thing can be knocked down and recreated with a more modern pump and filter system but over a year ago the...

The first I heard discussions about problems with the waterfall was around 2009 or 2010 so I'm sure they have been discussing it internally much longer. I won't get into why it is coming out because I have beaten that dead horse and everyone has their more negative spin on why anyway. I'm sad to...

The waterfall removal was reported in 2013. http://www.tikimanpages.com/poly/news/item/185-future-plans