Island Tower at Polynesian Villas & Bungalows

[BamaGuy44]

For the love of all that's holy, can we get some INFO already? It's a little ridiculous. I know way more about the hotels opening at UO at least a year from now than I do about Poly. Not that I'm inpatient or anything

 

[maui22]

To be fair, when we are talking categories on a point chart, they don’t specify between 2br lockoff and dedicated. There may be no standard view penthouses or lake view. Very well could just be theme park view. The hotel side of original poly has theme park view as a category so I’d be shocked if the tower does not. We also don’t know if every room type will have all viewing categories.

You are correct about point charts.
At some resorts (not sure about all of them), they do have booking differences. For example, we booked DW niece in a BLT dedicated for June.

Back in September 2023, @Jwaire posted a link to the first floor blueprint that was filed. @aka Charles and @ehh analyzed those plans. There were some dedicated and some lock offs. We're not sure the number. It is possible they won't have separate booking categories, but seems odd because some people prefer or need dedicated.

Anyone know how BCV handles it? I believe they have a few dedicated 2BR and the rest are lockoffs?

Hopefully we find out soon.

I've seen people talk about 2 Bedroom penthouse. Was this just speculation based on the Disney Blog or has DVC said what the room types are?

DVD/DVC have not given details. However, I think everyone trusts the Disney blog indicating there are 2BR penthouse. I think of it this way...if they don't have them, Disney looks incompetent for writing articles saying they have 2BR penthouse units less than a month ago.

 

[maui22]

At least they are including the tower in the Disney World hotel booking details for Polynesian. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/polynesian-resort/

Good to see it shows "Stays being December 2024"

 

[MyDogTink]

Was anything sent to current members for cash bookings on June 4th? I know some public info included that date; however I can’t remember if I received anything, such as an email, directly from DVC.

 

[maui22]

Was anything sent to current members for cash bookings on June 4th? I know some public info included that date; however I can’t remember if I received anything, such as an email, directly from DVC.

Not sure about anyone else. We didn't receive anything.

There used to be details about booking June 4 on the disneyvacationclub web site (once logged in). I just checked and it's not showing up for me anymore. It indicated had to call member services to book on that date.

 

[CastAStone]

If the tower studios are smaller -- only sleep four, only have one bathroom, etc. -- I could see the Longhouse studios being in higher demand once the 'new building smell' wears off. Every time there's a major refurb, there will be a spurt of interest for a year or so, but that will leapfrog between the two.

I agree. I think long term the longhouses will be more popular for studios.

 

[CastAStone]

Which rooms/categories will be the hardest to book 4-7 consecutive nights?

2BR lockoffs.

 

[snystedt]

I called looking for room information in order to book next week and was told information will be posted Monday.

 

[maui22]

I called looking for room information in order to book next week and was told information will be posted Monday.

 

[CarolynFH]

I've seen people talk about 2 Bedroom penthouse. Was this just speculation based on the Disney Blog or has DVC said what the room types are?

I consider the Disney Parks Blog to be an official Disney site, so I believe the penthouses are real. Yes, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Anyone know how BCV handles it? I believe they have a few dedicated 2BR and the rest are lockoffs?

At BCV and other DVC resorts that have both dedicated and lockoff 2BR, those are booking categories. The dedicated are listed as 2BR villas and the lockoffs are listed as 2BR lockoff villas.

 

[maui22]

One more tidbit of information for PVB, they have resumed resumed selling PVB.

Orange County Comptroller website had a few PVB deeds sold by Disney. I didn't go to early May, but I did see signing dates of May 20th and as recently as May 29th (both Disney and comptroller must be really slow for a contract signed yesterday to show up today).

EDIT: I did not look closely at the information. These were all either Warranty Deeds (9) or Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure (1).
Thank you @mkatsy for pointing out the Warranty Deed information.

 

[MerlinandtheMouse]

One more tidbit of information for PVB, they have resumed resumed selling PVB.

Orange County Comptroller website had a few PVB deeds sold by Disney. I didn't go to early May, but I did see signing dates of May 20th and as recently as May 29th (both Disney and comptroller must be really slow for a contract signed yesterday to show up today).

These will show up in @wdrl dvcnews.com May direct sales report next month.

Could it be a delayed payment so it hasn’t recorded until recently? The price per point was $250?

 

[CastAStone]

Could it be a delayed payment so it hasn’t recorded until recently?

Nah. Looking at them now. As Maui said, they’re dated late May. Meaning that’s when they were drawn up.

They appear to be from all over the US as well, so it’s not just an on site thing.

I’m too lazy to look up the price per point for these contracts, sorry; they’re the kind where Disney just publishes a % of a unit instead of listing how many points on the deed.

 

[maui22]

Could it be a delayed payment so it hasn’t recorded until recently? The price per point was $250?

Many years ago when I looked closer at deeds and tracked a couple resorts, what I recall seeing was a signature with a date of 1-2 months earlier. Those were good indications of a delayed payment.

I admit, I have been out of the loop and things have changed in the many years since then. It's possible Disney changed things and now the signature isn't completed until all delayed payments are made?

1-2 of the ones I saw were signed on site and had a signing date of late May.
1-2 others were signed and had a notary from another state.

 

[Sandisw]

One more tidbit of information for PVB, they have resumed resumed selling PVB.

Orange County Comptroller website had a few PVB deeds sold by Disney. I didn't go to early May, but I did see signing dates of May 20th and as recently as May 29th (both Disney and comptroller must be really slow for a contract signed yesterday to show up today).

These will show up in @wdrl dvcnews.com May direct sales report next month.

If these are new, then my guess is that we will see it start at $250

 

[mkatsy]

Nah. Looking at them now. As Maui said, they’re dated late May. Meaning that’s when they were drawn up.

They appear to be from all over the US as well, so it’s not just an on site thing.

I’m too lazy to look up the price per point for these contracts, sorry; they’re the kind where Disney just publishes a % of a unit instead of listing how many points on the deed.

I’m still at work, I can’t look. If there are no points, look and see if Disney is the recipient. Those might be surrendered contracts.

 

[CastAStone]

It feels like tomorrow is not going to be the optimal day to release news that you want to draw attention to.

I am thinking Monday afternoon for news.

 

[FrannyFrogs]

The 4 vs. 5 occupancy thing only matters when you are a group of 5. So, it may not have as huge an impact on owners specifically - though I imagine at the 7 month window it might have more an impact, depending on a few other factors.

I think there will be a huge number of room categories, and my gut tells me there will not be a magnanimous number of standard views (VGF has I believe 30 standard and 17 lake views in the original building). I suspect proportionally SV will not be too many, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

The 5 person studio is also beloved by those of us with a 4 person family where two kids need separate beds! The one bed/one murphy configuration studio doesn't work for us. Hoping the tower studios will have the pulldown twin!

 

[MagicDVC]

The 5 person studio is also beloved by those of us with a 4 person family where two kids need separate beds! The one bed/one murphy configuration studio doesn't work for us. Hoping the tower studios will have the pulldown twin!

I’m thinking (hoping) the studio set up will be for 5. DVC resorts since VGF all sleep 5 in the studios except CA properties, possibly a CA/Anaheim occupancy code.

 

[ShaneDJ]

At BCV and other DVC resorts that have both dedicated and lockoff 2BR, those are booking categories.

The dedicated are listed as 2BR villas and the lockoffs are listed as 2BR lockoff villas.

- 2BR villas: Dedicated
- 2BR "lock-off" villas: Lock-off

Are the "dedicated" 2BR villas more desirable than the "lock-off" 2BR's?