News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

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Latest Construction Progress at Disney's Polynesian Villas Island Tower​

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[Jambo Dad]

It’s a shift in Philosophy for sure

It hasn’t caused problems…yet…but this is more slow burn that will reap “rewards” down the road…like their collapsing park strategy stateside.

Sure…people bought “copper creek”…which was an emergency bland repurposing…and they’re sorta buying…sorta…riviera…
But there’s a cumulative effect.

It’s gonna be: “why did I buy the Hilton?”


…but it’s just my theory…I’m never right about the longterm stuff.

Agree with your point- although I really liked Copper Creek - it’s not dull just because it uses earth tones - it is richly detailed. Biggest issue to me with Cooper Creek is that it’s a relative handful of rooms within the Wilderness Lodge.

Does anyone know how far short they are on Riviera goal? That resort is truly terrible - even with skyliner access and some nice details.

 

[Jambo Dad]

OK, Disney, enough of the unthemed towers and classic ride makeovers. Time to build another park with all new content.

I would settle for solid expansion plans that are worthy of the title “imagineer” in the four parks they have.

 

[Jambo Dad]

Agree, a vacation in the past at WDW was all about theme and escaping reality now there is no theme, Disney has made the parks a nightmare I don't want to get up at before 7am to plan my day (did that when I was working ). Stayed at the Poly years ago and it was like being in Polynesia ---the lobby was awesome, the luau was great enterainmentr Disney you have lost your soul IMO

And even when thy went all in with a new theme - like the Comtemporary refresh - it was comically bad.

 

[Weather_Lady]

Latest Construction Progress at Disney's Polynesian Villas Island Tower​

More photos at https://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/th...-and-bungalows-construction---june-5-2024.htm

 

[Jambo Dad]

Because that was an overgrown…quite nasty swamp in 1965…they had to terraform everything built…so they needed to use the space as cost efficiently as possible?

Also - a the time the complex that opened in 1971 was really the limit of space that was planned by Walt to be a “theme park”, and why it’s up north by itself. The theme park was just a way to pay for EPCOT.

 

[Jambo Dad]

Yes, but that would require them to fix the wave machine.

And the wave machine immediately eroded the beach sand when it was turned on.

As I think about it - they could create a beach out of something that won’t erode that would resemble sand in concrete- nobody is allowed on it anyway.

 

[Disstevefan1]

What It Costs to Stay at Disney's Polynesian Island Tower in Walt Disney World

What It Costs to Stay at Disney's Polynesian Island Tower in Walt Disney World

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Those prices are clearly out of touch with reality.

I think these prices are high to create "an artificial value" to a DVC membership?

 

[lentesta]

Island Tower booking details are now available on the Walt Disney World website.

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Opening night starts at $900+ for the two-person studio.

That’s so disconnected from reality it might require medication.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Opening night starts at $900+ for the two-person studio.

That’s so disconnected from reality it might require medication.

You can see the top of the castle with a telescope, so…

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

You can see the top of the castle with a telescope, so…

If you lean out over the balcony…but not “too far”

 

[HauntedPirate]

The marketing fluff on the booking site says "Comfortable accommodations"???!!??

 

[DCLcruiser]

Latest Construction Progress at Disney's Polynesian Villas Island Tower​

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More photos at https://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/th...-and-bungalows-construction---june-5-2024.htm

Looks like a hotel off the highway with a Benihana restaurant next door.

(I very much enjoy hibachi/teppanyaki restaurants).

 

[ToTBellHop]

The marketing fluff on the booking site says "Comfortable accommodations"???!!??

That makes sense. The social media marketing team uses the following to describe the mattresses at the All-Stars:

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I’ve been giving this project the benefit of the doubt that the final details would pull it all together… after seeing the beige on beige on beige rooms I’ve lost all hope.

The rooms in our Hilton in Honolulu felt more “Polynesian” than this, and that’s a generic Hilton high rise built 50+ years ago.

 

[DCLcruiser]

I’ve been giving this project the benefit of the doubt that the final details would pull it all together… after seeing the beige on beige on beige rooms I’ve lost all hope.

The rooms in our Hilton in Honolulu felt more “Polynesian” than this, and that’s a generic Hilton high rise built 50+ years ago.

Yea, but that's the Empire State Building of Honolulu. Is the indoor mall w/ Penguins still there?

 

[BrianLo]

Does anyone know how far short they are on Riviera goal? That resort is truly terrible - even with skyliner access and some nice details.

They don't seem to be short at all. Sales are fine if you ignore the pandemic and multi-resort launch competition ever since. They are great if you do factor that in.

It's a very large DVC resort and fairly on track to sell out in a couple more years. It's 2/3rds sold out and 80% declared.

 

[James Alucobond]

I’ve been giving this project the benefit of the doubt that the final details would pull it all together… after seeing the beige on beige on beige rooms I’ve lost all hope.

The rooms in our Hilton in Honolulu felt more “Polynesian” than this, and that’s a generic Hilton high rise built 50+ years ago.

The rooms never felt authentically Polynesian nor terribly tiki. If you look at the rooms from when the resort opened, they basically just have a themed bedspread, quarter-canopy, and lamps, none of which looked especially custom. It was a clean, contemporary room for the most part. The redesigns since have variably brought in more or fewer elements of the surrounding resort, but the rooms are generally more themed today than they were originally regardless and were always at least somewhat reflective of design trends at the time of their refurbishment. IMO, concerns should be directed much more toward the exterior and common areas.

 

[BrianLo]

The rooms quite nicely evoke Polynesia, for me.

They quite poorly evoke "Disney's Polynesia or Tiki Culture".

They don't really evoke Marriott, unless it was a Marriott Polynesian resort. Which I mean I think is kind of fair. The hotels are allowed to evoke hotels from the region they are mimicking, are they not? They probably should have called it the Waikiki tower though (or Wailea Tower or Lahaina Tower), instead of island tower.

 

[nickys]

I SWEAR I heard that happened with the Riviera when it opened as well.

It did.