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

[stopher1]

Hi, We are buying into AKV. This is a great site and very helpful. Our first trip will be in April.

We are new owners in AKV and will be taking our first trip in 11/09 to AKV but will be using Developer poiints before then. I am going to go and read some of the thread

Hey! I think I can officially become a member of the AKV lovers club. We just did a 100 pt add-on. When AKV was originally announce I was very excited and perused every rumor. Well, didn't end up adding on then but things changed (DH came around) and we went with the 100pt with all the incentives!

So... I'm back in the lovers threads!

Jambo!!

Congrats to you all!! That's awesome!

While still far away - we're now down to just 68 days... can't wait, can't wait, can't wait til we get on that plane!

 

[P&B's Mom]

I can officially become a member of the AKL/AKV Lover's Club--we bought 210 points today at the Doorway to Dreams at Woodfield Mall near Chicago! I thought that I was going to have to use SSR developer points for our 2009 trip, but we can actually use developer points at AKV if we go in the summer next year! Needless to say, we were jumping out of skins when we heard this news. We actually chose AKV over a 4-night cruise!!!!

BTW--the rooms were gorgeous. We stayed at the BCV in June and liked it A LOT, but the AKV rooms are so much better. The size, the colors, the layout of the kitchen & bathrooms, etc. I could go on and on and on....

 

[stopher1]

I can officially become a member of the AKL/AKV Lover's Club--we bought 210 points today at the Doorway to Dreams at Woodfield Mall near Chicago! I thought that I was going to have to use SSR developer points for our 2009 trip, but we can actually use developer points at AKV if we go in the summer next year! Needless to say, we were jumping out of skins when we heard this news. We actually chose AKV over a 4-night cruise!!!!

BTW--the rooms were gorgeous. We stayed at the BCV in June and liked it A LOT, but the AKV rooms are so much better. The size, the colors, the layout of the kitchen & bathrooms, etc. I could go on and on and on....

WOO HOO - congrats and Welcome Home neighbor!!

 

[Brave teacher]

Anyone out there make Kidani reservations?

I called as MS opened last Sunday as well. We will be in a 1BR Savanna at Kidani May 30-June 5. Needless to say, we are pumped.

 

[Nursejilly]

Hey Brave Teacher! We will be at SSR for mardi gras week too!! Maybe we'll run into each other!

 

[Donald is #1]

I can officially become a member of the AKL/AKV Lover's Club--we bought 210 points today at the Doorway to Dreams at Woodfield Mall near Chicago! I thought that I was going to have to use SSR developer points for our 2009 trip, but we can actually use developer points at AKV if we go in the summer next year! Needless to say, we were jumping out of skins when we heard this news. We actually chose AKV over a 4-night cruise!!!!

BTW--the rooms were gorgeous. We stayed at the BCV in June and liked it A LOT, but the AKV rooms are so much better. The size, the colors, the layout of the kitchen & bathrooms, etc. I could go on and on and on....

Congratulations!!!

 

[timandlesley]

Congratulations on your purchase but I'm confused. Are you saying you can use your developer points at AKV??? I thought they were just good at SSR? Anyone know for sure?
Lesley

 

[popstar7867]

Hi Everyone!! We added on points at Animal Kingdom back in the early spring and have been hearing a lot about the current incentives. Can anyone pinpoint exactly what they currently are? I heard some people mention a disney gift card, discount on points, and develepor points for as low as a 100 pt add-on. Would these perks also work with smaller add-ons? We've only owned DVC for a little over a year now and I'm already feeling the addonitis!!!

 

[Brave teacher]

Hey Brave Teacher! We will be at SSR for mardi gras week too!! Maybe we'll run into each other!

A close family friend of ours will be there as well - Coach81. Maybe we can meet up while we are there.

 

[Nursejilly]

Are you taking kids out of school or are you lucky enough to have that whole week off? I must confess, DD age 12 will be missing 3 days of school. We want to use our developer points before it gets too hot so feb was our best bet!

 

[Monorail Purple&Gold]

A close family friend of ours will be there as well - Coach81. Maybe we can meet up while we are there.

We'll be there, too...at BCV though. Maybe we'll have an "oldschool" HLB reunion of sorts !

 

[Monorail Purple&Gold]

Paging LisaS, paging LisaS, your party from Saturn has arrived, please give them a ring.

LisaS, got a room ? for you...

Looking at one of my ressies today...says I have (and I quote the website) a "Dedicated Standard Studio Jambo" reserved in May.

Looking over your diagram of the Jambo room distribution, I am not seeing where the "Dedicated Standard Studios" are...any clarification on what I'm missing?

 

[mickeymyfavorite]

Hi All, we became DVC member on our last trip this past July, I purchased AKV 160 points. I recieved 160 developer points. We will be using them at SSR this Feb.

I'm excited that I'm a DVC memeber!!!

 

[P&B's Mom]

Congratulations on your purchase but I'm confused. Are you saying you can use your developer points at AKV??? I thought they were just good at SSR? Anyone know for sure?
Lesley

Everyone, thanks for the nice "Welcome Home"! As for the developer points, I don't know if there is a special incentive only available at the Doorway to Dreams location near Chicago--this is where we purchased. I was very surprised that if we travel next summer, we could actually stay at AKV. If we wanted to go before it opens in May, obviously the points could be used only at SSR.

I was slightly mad only for one reason about not staying at SSR--I had been doing lots of reading up on SSR because I had no idea about the workings of that resort. Now I can forget all of the information because I already know a lot about Kidani Village from my DVC research!

 

[timandlesley]

Everyone, thanks for the nice "Welcome Home"! As for the developer points, I don't know if there is a special incentive only available at the Doorway to Dreams location near Chicago--this is where we purchased. I was very surprised that if we travel next summer, we could actually stay at AKV. If we wanted to go before it opens in May, obviously the points could be used only at SSR.

I was slightly mad only for one reason about not staying at SSR--I had been doing lots of reading up on SSR because I had no idea about the workings of that resort. Now I can forget all of the information because I already know a lot about Kidani Village from my DVC research!

Very interesting, because my guide was from Chicago. I called today and reservations told me I couldn't use the developer points at AKL. Anyone else been able to book developer points there?
Lesley

 

[LisaS]

Paging LisaS, paging LisaS, your party from Saturn has arrived, please give them a ring.

LisaS, got a room ? for you...

Looking at one of my ressies today...says I have (and I quote the website) a "Dedicated Standard Studio Jambo" reserved in May.

Looking over your diagram of the Jambo room distribution, I am not seeing where the "Dedicated Standard Studios" are...any clarification on what I'm missing?

There are three of them and they are hard to spot on my Jambo House Units map. The room numbers are 5408, 5410 and 5436. The first two are in Unit 42 and will have a roof view because they are the first two rooms off the lobby. The last one is in Unit 41A, the last room before the first spur off the Zebra Trail.

ETA: I just noticed that the Standard View Dedicated Studio in Unit 41A is not color-coded correctly on my map. Unit 41A contains 3 dedicated studios. Two of them are Savanna View, one is Standard View but I didn't color in the part of 41A that is Standard View. It's the only Unit in Jambo House that has two different booking categories within the same Unit and I just overlooked it when I colored in the Standard View units. That's probably why you didn't see it on the map!

 

[gkrykewy]

Checked into two studios yesterday morning! Room 5006 is a value studio that was classified as standard view, but probably shows as pool view on most of the DISboard maps. The actual view is of some vegetation, the roof of Boma, and small patch or two of the pool and savanna each.

Our other room is a dedicated savanna view on Arusha savanna, and it's AMAZING. We've never had Arusha before, and it's just great. Love the little peak at Everest and the Tree of Life over the treeline.

Check-in was okay, although I felt like we we complicated it by lobbying for our requests. In one case, an Arusha view, and in the other, a pool or sunset savanna view (for the value room).

As someone said previously, we did have to explain to them that value studios were not always standard view, that some were savanna view, and that these did not use more points.

Looking forward to a great trip, although looks like Fay will steal a day from us!

 

[ADP]

According to word circulating around both AKL and AKV guests will be allowed to use the Kidani Village pool. I know the source of the information is credible, but I'm still finding it hard to believe they would let AKL cash guests use the Kidani Village pool. I figured since DVC members are paying dues to maintain the Kidani pool Jambo House cash guests would not be allowed to use that pool. I guess the same argument could be made for the Boardwalk and Beach Club pools as far as cash and DVC guests using the same pool facilities.

I guess I'm thinking out loud and was just curious what everyone else thought of this?

 

[timandlesley]

According to word circulating around both AKL and AKV guests will be allowed to use the Kidani Village pool. I know the source of the information is credible, but I'm still finding it hard to believe they would let AKL cash guests use the Kidani Village pool. I figured since DVC members are paying dues to maintain the Kidani pool Jambo House cash guests would not be allowed to use that pool. I guess the same argument could be made for the Boardwalk and Beach Club pools as far as cash and DVC guests using the same pool facilities.

I guess I'm thinking out loud and was just curious what everyone else thought of this?

Shouldn't it just be the DVC members who are staying at Jambo village who can pool hop over to Kadini? Not just EVERYONE staying at AKL, correct?
Lesley

 

[AKV707]

Checked into two studios yesterday morning! Room 5006 is a value studio that was classified as standard view, but probably shows as pool view on most of the DISboard maps. The actual view is of some vegetation, the roof of Boma, and small patch or two of the pool and savanna each.

Our other room is a dedicated savanna view on Arusha savanna, and it's AMAZING. We've never had Arusha before, and it's just great. Love the little peak at Everest and the Tree of Life over the tree line.

Check-in was okay, although I felt like we we complicated it by lobbying for our requests. In one case, an Arusha view, and in the other, a pool or sunset savanna view (for the value room).

As someone said previously, we did have to explain to them that value studios were not always standard view, that some were savanna view, and that these did not use more points.

Looking forward to a great trip, although looks like Fay will steal a day from us!

We were in 5004 in July. (say hi to our old room) You are correct, we had a view of the roof of Boma. And a big tree was blocking our view of the pool. But we loved it!

You are also correct that the front desk Cms don't understand the value category. I wonder if that is because the lodge rooms on the giraffe and ostrich trails are called standard?

P.S. Love your sig!