We just returned. Had the first 5 nights of our AKL vacation stolen from us by Disney for no reason, we arrived at AKL on day 6, saw lots of animals from our savanna view room. At one point I took a pic of 11 animals visible from our balcony on Zebra trail room 2551. The pool was hardly empty, we were there Thursday afternoon and Friday evening. Buses to and from the resort were never full, that was nice. We did see the black curtains a PP mentioned, but other than that we saw and heard NO SIGNS OF CONSTRUCTION!!!