News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

Bocabear

Bocabear

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I think it was established there was no way around that, so they turned the machine off...an unintended consequence.... But now the lakes are no longer swimmable, so there is no need...sadly....
 
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JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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HauntedPirate said:
The reason the wave machine was shut off wasn't because it was broken, it was eroding the beach.
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dreamfinding said:
Surely there would be a way to rebuild the wave machine to where the waves wouldn’t cause the beach to erode? Or is there no way around that?
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Bocabear said:
I think it was established there was no way around that, so they turned the machine off...an unintended consequence.... But now the lakes are no longer swimmable, so there is no need...sady....
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There is no longer a beach so bring on the waves!
 
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Fido Chuckwagon

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How was the lake ever swimmable? Gators and snakes were a thing that existed 50 years ago, was it just that people were willing to accept the risk of getting eaten?
 
John park hopper

John park hopper

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We honeymooned at the Contemporary in 1977 you could swim, rent boats, water ski. I have a copy of Walt Disney Word News it was a newspaper put out by WDW advertising all the things that could be done. I posted a copy some years ago.
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ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Bocabear said:
in fact, they didn't really exist on Seven Seas Lagoon....which was a brand new lake built for the park. The water was cleaner... they kept an eye on the wildlife...At some point it seems like they just decided to stop grooming, and let things go natural...
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It definitely had alligators, though. Attacks are just exceedingly rare and people weren’t feeding them from bungalows…
 
John park hopper

John park hopper

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It was closed to swimming do to water quality decline and proliferation of the gator population in 1967 hunting gators in Florida was banned. The population bounced back and in 1996 hunting was allowed but strictly controlled.
 
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Ayla

Ayla

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Doberge said:
The pictures and videos didn't show everything. There are second bathrooms in one bedrooms and third bathrooms in two bedrooms. They're behind the principal bedroom and accessible from near the main entrance door. Similar to Kidani but a little more off to the side.

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But why they didn't share when trying to tell people to book, it's beyond me.
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The second bathroom in the 1 bed was shown and talked about in the video.
 
mf1972

mf1972

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i was not a fan of the pull down beds. slept in it once at ASM, & my back was screaming the next morning & still sore the next day. i’ll assume the quality might be better at a deluxe/dvc resort, but i wouldn’t sleep on 1 of those ever again.
 
davis_unoxx

davis_unoxx

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mf1972 said:
i was not a fan of the pull down beds. slept in it once at ASM, & my back was screaming the next morning & still sore the next day. i’ll assume the quality might be better at a deluxe/dvc resort, but i wouldn’t sleep on 1 of those ever again.
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At Disneyland hotel where I was a CM, we had major issues with the new pulldown beds in the VDH tower…

Not comfortable at all, and they weren’t installed right had issues of them fall off the wall wasn’t mounted with long enough screws.
 

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