James Alucobond
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No. The walkway will return when the new Polynesian DVC building is complete.
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News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024
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correcaminos
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It will come back. They have to change the walkway. Hopefully it won't be closed the whole time of constructiontoo. .
kevlightyear
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The Luau Cove building and associated pathways have been removed from the maps.
Here's the previous version for posterity:
Here's the previous version for posterity:
ToTBellHop
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They’ve added some paths, too. Looks like the walkway to the Grand closes soon.
So, no gym access at a deluxe resort? It was bad enough that they didn’t have their own gym.
I wouldn’t stay here until this is done.
correcaminos
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Added a couple tiny ones only. GF would be way worse without a path to TTC than no path to GF from Polynesian IMO
Checking this out now
ETA that's a crappy path. Would rather take the monorail. GF is definitely off my list until this is done.
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JoeCamel
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Just swim between the docks
ToTBellHop
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Oof.
correcaminos
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That's an understatement.
Glad we did GF while the path was open. We found out the hard way that the monorail to TTC is unreliable at best. Made Epcot trips looong when we used it. But walking to and from the TTC especially if on the villa or rooms close to there made it faster. I beat groups by 10-15 minutes coming back from Epcot without trying.
At least our March trip will be in Moorea and we can take the monorail to GF if we want to go there. Next summer trip will be at WL. Just have to plan next spring and summer well or hope the path has reopened by early-mid 2024
James Alucobond
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Hopefully they’ll make some effort to rework the pathway and re-open it sooner than the tower itself, though I suppose the location of the new pool may complicate that.
UNCgolf
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Are they still going to have a pathway along the water? The concept art of the DVC makes it look like the whole waterfront area is going to be part of the DVC with activities etc. -- they may not want random guests walking through.
James Alucobond
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I assumed this was this intended path around:
It didn't look to me like they intended to block it off, especially considering the pathway connects to Tuvalu, Fiji, Tonga, and Aotearoa, not just the path toward the Great Ceremonial House.
UNCgolf
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Oh okay; didn't know they'd already released plans with it there.
I was wondering if they were going to route people around the front of the building to keep that area free of non-resort guests.
mysto
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I estimate that at 8.3 miles.
From Tikiman. This is the view you get from the theme park view rooms that they are still selling to guests at full price. Simply despicable.
But if you can see even a tiny piece of MK, it's not a misleading description. Construction equipment? The consumers should be lucky they aren't charged an additional amount for the privilege of seeing that.
GimpYancIent
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Hmmmmmm. If that is the view now, wellllll simply it won't be an issue once the multi-story building is built. Then guests will be privileged to look at tada! a building (themed of course).
Disstevefan1
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Club Cooloholic
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It's a bit depressing to see what the Poly has been transformed into over the years. It was pretty awful when they put in the over the water bungalows (water you can't swim in and that may contain an alligator or brain eating amoeba on any given day). Those bungalows took away the views and ambience for the rest of the resort guests, rendering most of the waterfront ugly and unusable. Now they are plopping a big tower where one of the few interesting if not always best dinner options was, and tearing up another serene area of the resort. All this has been done with maximizing profits at the expense of the customer experience.
How does the song go? "they paved paradise and put up a DVC tower"
How does the song go? "they paved paradise and put up a DVC tower"
wishiwere@wdw
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Walked back last night knowing full well it would suck but was hoping it would be less sucky than the insane ferry line. Nope. It was honestly shocking they even bother keeping it open. The signage was unclear and crossing Floridian Way was downright dangerous as cars whizzed by at what seemed like 50 in the 25 zone. Anyway, just letting folks know the alternate route as posted above was open but I’m not sure I’d recommend it; especially at night!
