***The Official AKV Owners And Lovers Thread***. Come And Chat

[Wosmama6]

I have a stay booked in a 1br at kidani late Feb/early March and was fairly confident I would get a refurbed room but now I’m second guessing! Anyone have any intel?

 

[muppets3d]

I have a stay booked in a 1br at kidani late Feb/early March and was fairly confident I would get a refurbed room but now I’m second guessing! Anyone have any intel?

I would guess that soon they will close off the north wing of Kidani and open the South wing with all the refurbished rooms open for guests. I would assume that would happen by the time you check in, but nobody really knows for sure. At least, the people who do know won't say so on a public forum.

 

[Mirabell Rose]

At AKV Jambo now and moving to Kidani Sunday. Hotel desk says they have now closed the wing with the non refurbished rooms and so all rooms going forward will be refurbished. Yippee!

 

[DigitalOlli]

anybody knows if they start early with the jambo refurb? we are debating if we book kidani in August or Jambo. We like Jambo more but want a refurbished room

 

[muppets3d]

anybody knows if they start early with the jambo refurb? we are debating if we book kidani in August or Jambo. We like Jambo more but want a refurbished room

If you want a refurbished room you should book Kidani. If you book Jambo, chances are you will not get a refurbished room. You may luck out and get one at Jambo, but you just have to decide how important it is to be at Jambo vs. have a refurbished room.

 

[drusba]

anybody knows if they start early with the jambo refurb? we are debating if we book kidani in August or Jambo. We like Jambo more but want a refurbished room

The original schedule was to do Kidani from October 2025 to May 2026 (8 months) and Jambo May 2026 to January 2027 (9 months). They are doing Kidani 1/2/ the building at a time, all floors. Kidani, with five floors of rooms and a huge number of rooms, is supposed to be done qucker than Jambo, which has a lot fewer rooms, all on the fifth floor, except for the small number of club level rooms on the sixth floor.

What those proposeed schedules for the two buildings tells me is that DVC has a large number of people working on the Kidani rooms to try and get them done in 8 months, but the obvious plan for Jambo is to do only a small number of rooms at a time, which means by August not much will be finished and chances of getting a refurbed room are likely quite low.

 

[Bucketfoot]

We've got a while to wait, but I'm looking forward to see the rooms in person in December. I was definitely fearful given some of the recent refurbs. But it certainly looks like they did this one right!

 

[studentdisney]

How accurate are the quoted refurb timelines? If I book Jambo for 1/2027 what is the likelihood of getting a refurbished room?

 

[muppets3d]

How accurate are the quoted refurb timelines? If I book Jambo for 1/2027 what is the likelihood of getting a refurbished room?

If they do Jambo the same way they're doing Kidani probably pretty good.