News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

[Scuttle]

Such a monstrosity. I still can’t believe they got rid of the banyan tree and luau.

 

[Haymarket2008]

I’m no fan of this. My only major concern though is if this will be visible from within the resort. Will this tower over everything or is it relatively hidden until you go out of your way closer to the beach to look for it?

 

[castlecake2.0]

???

This actually makes the resort much more symmetrical. There are currently 6 longhouses and a pool East of the GCH with 3 longhouses and no pool West of the GCH. If your instinct is that the resort should be balanced with the GCH at the center and equal "wings" on both sides, this helps.

I meant in design rather than actual amount of buildings, it just feels weird to me that all the building so far are max 3 stores tall and then at the far end you build one that’s 10 stories tall

 

[aladdin2007]

absolute travesty

 

[GimpYancIent]

Interesting how the building is being put together.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

Worlds largest LEGO set.

 

[correcaminos]

Such a monstrosity. I still can’t believe they got rid of the banyan tree and luau.

The tree still exits - just moved it. It's doing well.

 

[James Alucobond]

Has it reached its peak height? How much taller then the GF DVC is it? I really wish they had build this in the current parking lot and connected it to the GCH. This just feels so lopsided on the resort.

Assuming the concept art is accurate, it has reached maximum height aside from whatever is added by the angled awning. The entire section currently built to the left of the elevator shaft will ultimately match the height of the elevator shaft before being capped off, and the other parts farther left and right will stair-step down by a couple of floors with each section.

 

[Disstevefan1]

 

[correcaminos]

I don't care about others, Poliday in or not, but I am looking forward to staying here. Just talked with my rep today LOL

 

[networkpro]

I’m no fan of this. My only major concern though is if this will be visible from within the resort. Will this tower over everything or is it relatively hidden until you go out of your way closer to the beach to look for it?

Currently, it sticks out like a sore thumb from every direction. Its currently pretty jarring when you are pulling up to the corner of Floridian and Seven Seas drive where you can only see the looming grey structure and a tiny bit of Poly roof.

 

[John park hopper]

What is Disney's ultimate goal --to have nothing but DVC and to hell with guest resort hotels The last guest resort build was-----"Since 2004 there has only been one new hotel, which is Disney’s Art of Animation.
The list of DVC sure has gown and those built sure do over shadow the guest resorts. leads me to believe there is more money in DVC

 

[networkpro]

What is Disney's ultimate goal --to have nothing but DVC and to hell with guest resort hotels The last guest resort build was-----"Since 2004 there has only been one new hotel, which is Disney’s Art of Animation.
The list of DVC sure has gown and those built sure do over shadow the guest resorts. leads me to believe there is more money in DVC

 

[networkpro]

There certainly is less overhead with DVC members paying for the majority of the maintenance. I guess the two sites on the East side of 7 Seas lagoon will be the next dvc locations to be built... it'll look just like Epcot world showcase.

 

[correcaminos]

Another reason why “Disneyland” and “Tokyo Disney” feel less touristy and are more affordable.

Disneyland in Anaheim? Not sure I follow you on that.

Japan has a strong hold for Disney, so no way we can compare and DVC has zero to do with it there.

 

[Brian]

Sheesh! If only they had a DVC wing of TRON, it'd be undergoing its first major refurbishment by now!

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Timeshares do not have a dominating presence in California or Tokyo. Anaheim and Tokyo being local’s parks was my point, and therefore they are not catering to the same crowd (while obviously they are expanding Disneyland’s presence of DVCs, it is still an insignificant portion of hotel rooms).

The hotels they have are actually affordable, and either a monorail or walk away from the parks. While the vast majority are not themed like Disney used to do, they aren’t priced like it like DVC is.

Unfortunately, WDW’s strong suit, their incredible resorts like Animal Kingdom Lodge, Wilderness Lodge, and Polynesian Village, are being built no more, and have been traded in for cheaply themed DVC towers that are trying to woo people that are willing to pay for deluxe prices, and it has most obviously gotten worse over the last decade from Riviera to whatever this “thing” is.

They don’t have to try anymore with timeshares as it’s guaranteed to force people to visit WDW which is a shame because it locks someone into the American parks (but mostly WDW), and semi-prevents them from seeing other resorts.

So building cheap DVC towers (thus, expanding the “deluxe” expensive to build hotel capacity by moving guests away from them) makes a LOT of sense from a business perspective, but it’s getting to the point that it’s actually downgrading the beauty of the resort.

It would be one thing if the parks could compete with the two resorts I mentioned, but they can’t individually, so WDW’s saving grace is sort of, dwindling I’d say?

I agree about the lack of DVC, though there are a few at DL and they are adding more. I think it's the guaranteed money for DVC. They open one up, they sell all its points. A few years down the road, some of the people who bought those points don't want them anymore, sell them, Disney gobbles up the cheap ones and then resells them for even more points than the original offers and there are less years to use them! It's actually very weird and I don't think there is anything else that works like it, and I say that as a DVC(resale) owner.
For me it seemed that Disney was getting out of the hotel building game and it might be 20 years from now DVC is your best chance to stay on site. That said I consider selling now and again.

 

[correcaminos]

Timeshares do not have a dominating presence in California or Tokyo. Anaheim and Tokyo being local’s parks was my point, and therefore they are not catering to the same crowd (while obviously they are expanding Disneyland’s presence of DVCs, it is still an insignificant portion of hotel rooms).

The hotels they have are actually affordable, and either a monorail or walk away from the parks. While the vast majority are not themed like Disney used to do, they aren’t priced like it like DVC is.

Unfortunately, WDW’s strong suit, their incredible resorts like Animal Kingdom Lodge, Wilderness Lodge, and Polynesian Village, are being built no more, and have been traded in for cheaply themed DVC towers that are trying to woo people that are willing to pay for deluxe prices, and it has most obviously gotten worse over the last decade from Riviera to whatever this “thing” is.

They don’t have to try anymore with timeshares as it’s guaranteed to force people to visit WDW which is a shame because it locks someone into the American parks (but mostly WDW), and semi-prevents them from seeing other resorts.

So building cheap DVC towers (thus, expanding the “deluxe” expensive to build hotel capacity by moving guests away from them) makes a LOT of sense from a business perspective, but it’s getting to the point that it’s actually downgrading the beauty of the resort.

It would be one thing if the parks could compete with the two resorts I mentioned, but they can’t individually, so WDW’s saving grace is sort of, dwindling I’d say?

I am aware of timeshares not being big in either location. Correlation does not equal causation.

Also I do feel that DLR is just as touristy as WDW so I don't follow your line of thinking there.

As a DVC member I am also not sure I agree that some are cheaply being made always. In fact I don't think RR was cheaply made after visiting. Nor do I think BLT and AKL definitely has DVC and lovely.

Again I agree about timeshares not being big in either DLR or Tokyo, but I don't think that has anything to do with it. JMO.

 

[mysto]

I wasn’t talking about the rooms, but the lack of themed design throughout the resort, as they’ve clearly realized the cost-benefit is just not
there for DVC to theme.

I would argue that all recent construction is weakly themed not just DVC. Almost all recent construction is DVC, they just aren't building anything else, but if they did I expect the theming would also be weak.

So DVC isn't the cause of the weak theming in my mind, it just represents all recent examples.

Great post with a lot of stuff btw. I'd like to know what some of the images are images of, needs captions.

 

[nickys]

This is what the French Riviera actually looks like.

Disney didn’t say anything about which Riviera the resort was based on. The English Riviera was at one point recently said to be the 5th most expensive property area in the world!

However all the photos of Walt that adorn the walls of the resort are of him in Italy, not France. And every Riviera has it’s towers, it’s not all pretty postcards.

I would have liked a bit more aesthetic though, I agree.