News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

[VJ]

What happens when we end up with more DVC resorts than regular resorts?
It really is getting a bit scary.

when regular visitors give as much money to disney as DVC guests do, maybe they'll reverse course on all of the DVC resorts

until then, you get what you pay for

 

[UNCgolf]

Compared to some of the original Poly concept art?

While it certainly has more theming than Reflections, a drug rehab resort had... it definitely changes the style of the Poly.

I think the latter two pictures are of the never built Thailand resort.

 

[monothingie]

Someone mentioned earlier, but the Contemporary Garden Wing opposite BLT will be the next project based on the criteria for this building.......on monorail and existing infrastructure

Perhaps the reason why it didn’t get the Incredible treatment.

 

[spresso81]

My biggest issue is how close this new tower will be to the GF complex. It used to be nice how all the hotels around Bay Lake were isolated.

Also, the Poly lobby is so crowded as it is - this will make that even more of an issue even with an additional dining option being built.

Lastly, I shutter to think of the sightline issues from the MK.

Another example of current WDC management not caring about aesthetics but only about short term gain.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

There is a former poster here who has a site now. This Disney Tourist has a write up that pretty much expresses what many of us are feeling on this.

 

[Skywise]

They're going for the cheap low hanging fruit here. It seems to me they could've done a "pacific" style resort over by Fort Wilderness or even the Asian themed one (yay China) with far more capacity and DVC rooms. But that would've required real risk in capital outlay (and probably why the neighboring resort next to Fort Wilderness is still halted)

 

[sedati]

If I had deep pockets I'd want to stay in a resort themed to the nines (or tens) that was transportive to the highest degree possible. But apparently those who can actually afford more desire less and find such things cheesy.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Perhaps the reason why it didn’t get the Incredible treatment.

I thought it did?

Late, but I thought they eventually got there.

 

[Po'Rich]

I presume something like
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I would rather see the Spirit of Aloha Dinner show return. While it's not Hoop De Doo, it was a decent alternative. Also, the one time I went to it, it was pretty full. Of course, hotel rooms will bring in far more $$, but the show was a nice experience.

 

[pdude81]

Idk.. it also very closely resembles the layout of a grand villa like those at BLT, Kidani, and Saratoga.

True but if you're going to have "more dining options", I'd hope for a QS at ground floor and a top level TS. My quick, amateur assessment looking at the artwork is that there will be 2 Grand Villas on each side for the Lagoon/TP View and the top will be for a restaurant. Just a hunch

 

[Rich Brownn]

I don't think this concept art is really that similar to the original concept.

Not that I'm suggesting they should be building the original concept either.

One Imagineer once told me the original was rejected in the end as not being "exotic enough". Ironically, when it opened in 1971, the current Poly was referred to more than once as the "vaguely Californian Polynesian" by critics. (They also called the inside decor of the Contemporary "Italian easy-pay provincial" which always cracked me up).

 

[Rteetz]

Idk.. it also very closely resembles the layout of a grand villa like those at BLT, Kidani, and Saratoga.

Yeah I don’t think it appears there is a restaurant at the top. Those look like grand villas and then dining at the bottom with lagoon views.

 

[pdude81]

They're going for the cheap low hanging fruit here. It seems to me they could've done a "pacific" style resort over by Fort Wilderness or even the Asian themed one (yay China) with far more capacity and DVC rooms. But that would've required real risk in capital outlay (and probably why the neighboring resort next to Fort Wilderness is still halted)

Reflections didn't have an ability to monorail OR walk, and years later with the required increase in (per point) cost, it's less interesting to people at large. Honestly I think that project was a bit of an overreaction to the intense interest for CCV. Now I am wondering if this will need a new bus depot since that is a bit of a walk. I assume they won't do it as the buses are not far from GCH, but that's starting to push the envelope.

 

[Brian]

I heard that Moana and Maui stayed here that one time.

 

[Skibum1970]

Remember - Chapek said he's not sure if Disney can fund the E-ticket in California or the (mostly) cheap Mary Poppins attraction in Epcot. But a bland tower that will surely not help capacity issues...green light.

Yes but the bland tower will result in incoming revenue where the other items cost money with difficult to assess ROI. I'm not saying that I agree with this but it does explain it.

 

[Brian]

Time to start putting up the yard signs around WDW!

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(maybe this is just an Australian thing when new apartment buildings go up in the suburbs!)

We need those outside of WDW property more than within.

 

[Touchdown]

Someone mentioned earlier, but the Contemporary Garden Wing opposite BLT will be the next project based on the criteria for this building.......on monorail and existing infrastructure

Not for awhile, they are finishing up refurbishing those rooms

 

[ToTBellHop]

Reflections didn't have an ability to monorail OR walk, and years later with the required increase in (per point) cost, it's less interesting to people at large. Honestly I think that project was a bit of an overreaction to the intense interest for CCV. Now I am wondering if this will need a new bus depot since that is a bit of a walk. I assume they won't do it as the buses are not far from GCH, but that's starting to push the envelope.

I expect its own porte-cochère but not bus stop. Like BLT.

 

[monothingie]

I thought it did?

Late, but I thought they eventually got there.

No it was only the main tower.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Not for awhile, they are finishing up refurbishing those rooms

I know of at least 4 different DVC projects being examined. I agree with you that an organized company wouldn’t be refurbishing the South Garden Wing if it is next in line.