The documents we have are over 200 pages. When @
edwardtc sees this, I'm sure he'll be able to comment a bit more.
You rang.....
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with anything DVC. Zip. Zero. Nada. This is a straight-up mass refurb of the existing Poly rooms.
The blueprints for this project are gigantic. The architectural set alone is 136 sheets. Every single room is being refurbished, with some leftover asbestos being abated from hallways and areas that weren't taken care of the last time. The only rooms being left alone are in Tonga, because its suites were refurbed a while back...but its Club Lounge is finally getting an overhaul - as is the main one in Hawaii.
The rooms are essentially being stripped bare with new carpet, wallcoverings, some new furniture and fixtures, with some just being cleaned and repaired. Best of all, they're completely rearranging the restrooms by making most of them bigger (not into the bedroom, but by making some pipe chases on the hallway side smaller) so that the toilet will be back in a little alcove (in many....some won't be) and they'll have 2 sinks at the vanity, which will now be on the wall adjacent to the bedroom in most rooms, with the tub on the hallway side. There are a few bathroom configurations, but that's due to the inability to get rid of some of those chases and closets in the hallway. Plus, some are still ADA.
Speaking of ADA, they're adding a handful of accessible rooms in various buildings, including Hawaii.
As noted in the permit, the GCH is not a part of this project. It's a completely separate deal that Tikiman can tell you all about. Again, this is just a giant, resort-wide room refurb, similar to what they just did at Riverside. It will be phased (there's an extremely detailed schedule) so that only a chunk of rooms are out of commission at a time.
They'll actually be working 3 overlapping shifts to get the work done at lightning speed. Poly is obviously the most popular resort (by most arguments), so having rooms out of commission is a bad thing. But this refurb will be a really good thing!
Tikiman is never wrong
Just realized that there was a permit files back in February for Room Rehabs for buildings 8 and 11 for this same contractor. Anyone know if this work was ever done?
Building 8, 11 - Room Rehab
Those could have been the test rooms that have been in place for a bit now.
Indeed - those were the mock-ups.
On Tikiman's site, he posted all guest rooms will go through a complete overhaul including bathroom and hallways. He posted it two days ago so I guess that's what the permits are for.
I thought he talked about it a while back. Evidence has been floating around for a few months, but he was probably waiting until it was rock solid that they were going to move forward with it.
