Requesting Polynesian DVC rooms with a non-DVC reservation?

[Faith Teer]

We have a reservation for a standard room at the Poly in March and I am wondering if it is possible to request a room in one of the DVC long houses even tough we didn't reserve a room for those? We have a Touring Plans membership and have filled out the fax sheet to request a room in a specific building, but I would prefer the DVC rooms for the two bathrooms. Do they routinely place guests who reserved a standard resort room in the DVC long houses?

 

[loves to dive]

You would have to pay for a DVC room, which is more than a standard room. Your best bet is to just keep checking and if one shows up, go to your MDE account and change the room, but expect to pay the higher price. I've never known them to upgrade a resort room to a DVC room, they have been known to upgrade views on resort rooms and even upgrade to concierge but it's rare.

 

[Faith Teer]

The DVC rooms were only $5 more per night for our dates, but we could not reserve them because we booked with the military salute that came out a few days ago. When you book a room with the military rate for travel dates that close, you get very few options for rooms and resorts. In fact, we are having to split our stay between the Poly and the Beach Club because the Poly only had three nights with the military rate. There was plenty of availability for those dates in the DVC rooms, and only a few bucks more per night, but no military discount. I read Trip Advisor reviews frequently where people point out that they were in a DVC room and are not DVC members, but they don't explicitly state whether they reserved a DVC room or were placed in one at check-in. Thanks for the input!

 

[_auroraborealis_]

No, you cannot request a DVC room. They are an entirely separate inventory. Non-DVC members can reserve the 30% of Studios not yet declared into the DVC condo association as cash bookings through Disney.

Or, if you request a DVC room, expect not to get it, much as booking a Standard Room but then requesting Hawaii as your longhouse is generally doomed to fail.

 

[Lynne M]

The Polynesian is really two resorts operating on one site: a hotel, and a timeshare. The two resorts share facilities like pools and restaurants, but the rooms are not interchangeable. The only way you could get a DVC room would be to cancel your existing reservation and make a new one for a DVC studio.

The non-members whose reviews you read were either staying on a cash reservation at a DVC resort, or rented their reservation from a DVC member.