Aloha and welcome to the spring 2015 edition of the Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort Information Thread!
In 1971, along with the Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort opened as one of Walt Disney World’s first on-site hotels.
Located on the monorail loop directly across the Seven Sea’s Lagoon from the Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort has gone through two major expansions since its opening. The first was in 1978 with another in 1985. At that time the name changed to Disney’s Polynesian Resort.
Beginning in 2014 and continuing into 2015 Disney’s Polynesian Resort began undergoing many new changes with several major refurbishments, including the lobby of the Great Ceremonial House and the Nanea volcano pool as well as the addition of Disney’s Vacation Club to the property. The Polynesian also reverted back to its original name.
The goal of this thread is to answer any questions that you may have about Disney's Polynesian Village Resort. Detailed information is provided in the first several posts, along with photos of the resort. As they become available the thread photos will continue to be updated to reflect the ongoing changes to the Polynesian as they are completed.
If you have any questions that are not answered in the information section please feel free to ask and hopefully one of our Poly faithful will be able to help!
I would like to acknowledge the contributions and hard work of the former keepers of the Poly thread, Seaspray, BreezysMom and Guitarob, along with any that carried the tiki torch before them. Mahalo!
(photo credits to Guitarob and Maiapapaya unless otherwise noted)
@maiapapaya, you're Canadian? You and me both! I'm looking forward to our first Poly stay like a child waiting for Santa Claus, so this thread us terribly satiating!
So cool Breezysmom, that you met and vacationed together!
I'd love to meet some of the people I've "come to know" on the Disboards!
Nice to see you keeping the spirit alive Maiapapaya
If you are paying rack rate I would do dvc because of the 2nd bathing space and kitchenette. However if you can get a discount than the regular poly rooms would be 20-35% lower, depending on which you use.
As far as I know the old Tokelau building is going to be the 1 br villas and renamed. I was on a dvc resale site today and they were not yet showing. (the studio and bungalow rooms were listed)
I am considering renting points for a studio at the polynesian, I wish the one bedrooms would be available when we go…I had no idea there was even any talk of 1 bedrooms there….that would make my decision easier!!! we rented points for our AKV stay this past March and loved the extra space and loved AKV but want to go back to the poly or CR next trip.If you are paying rack rate I would do dvc because of the 2nd bathing space and kitchenette. However if you can get a discount than the regular poly rooms would be 20-35% lower, depending on which you use.
As far as I know the old Tokelau building is going to be the 1 br villas and renamed. I was on a dvc resale site today and they were not yet showing. (the studio and bungalow rooms were listed)
I loved that building as well and since a 1br fills my families needs at times I hope to get to try it someday. It has a nice central location
The 1 br villas at VGF are beautiful. I saw lots of availability for Nov and Dec still showing. Maybe check out those? Out of blt and vgf we loved the colors and brightness of vgf but with a teen boy and now 20yr old girl having the extra bath at blt made it so each kid had their own. Yours are younger so not really a big deal , YET.
@@maiapapaya and @Mousemom I am a fellow Canadian as well
Me too
Great idea to play Wishes music to fireworks! We can see BC Day fireworks from our deck, so going to do that this year!!! Especially exciting because we leave 11 days after BC Day!!
Photobucket, as I'm sure you've painfully noticed, is full of glitches. The "replace original photo" feature doesn't actually replace the original photo with the edited version. You need to instead choose the blue SAVE button. I used Photobucket to upload and create three resort threads and it was so aggravating and time consuming and now I essentially never have to use it again. With the board conversion to Xenforo, you can just drag photos from your desktop or photo library right into your posts. I use iPhoto to edit them and posting photos has never been easierThank you! I am having some issues with the super big pictures!
I've tried resizing them in photobucket, but it keeps reverting to the original (even though I'm clicking "replace original") May have to resize my picture files on my computer and upload them again. Thanks for your patience!!
We were there several times during the first week of April and at least during the day and along the path from/to TTC and around the GCH, the torches were lit. However, we didn't go over to the marina/luau (north) side of the resort.
This is from the CR's Contempo Cafe, but I imagine prices are the same, though selection may vary:
Fantastic pictures. Thank you so much WDWKOOK! I have added several to the first page.
. I'll be sure to take many in August.Thanks for sharing these pics, they're great!!
You're welcome. Now that the GCH, feature pool, CC's and TSGG are open again, DPV is feeling more like a resort again. There is still construction going on, mostly on the south end of the resort, near the TTC. This does encroach upon the Hawaii building and Hawaii GV room views will be impacted by the Oasis Pool construction.
Photobucket, as I'm sure you've painfully noticed, is full of glitches. The "replace original photo" feature doesn't actually replace the original photo with the edited version. You need to instead choose the blue SAVE button. I used Photobucket to upload and create three resort threads and it was so aggravating and time consuming and now I essentially never have to use it again. With the board conversion to Xenforo, you can just drag photos from your desktop or photo library right into your posts. I use iPhoto to edit them and posting photos has never been easier
