VGF Studios have quickly changed from being one of the most difficult to book to one of the easier.
No. They've said "new Disney Vacation Club villas at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort."
I did the sales pitch at Poly before Covid and they didn't really pitch the bungalows or the off-site. It was more car salesman-y math and theme park magic. I don't even think they mentioned the bungalows. I think they mentioned the offsite stuff along with RCI at that time along the lines of you can go anywhere with these points.
I haven't done a formal sales presentation in a long time but I feel like the books on display in the theme parks are always opened to either Aulani or that close-up shot of the giraffe on the DAKL savanna.
I think they would need to add it to the current association to do it.
I think that the sales of a contract to medium to large families for an annual visit to a resort that is for most people 2-3 plane rides and 7-15 hours away is a failure.
The new Poly tower might have smaller studios, or few studios, or studios that cost more points, etc. If the new poly tower is the same association it would make sense to have 1, 2, 3-bedrooms, and a differentiated studio.
No one knows for sure if this will be a separate association or not, my guess is it will be separate. I can't imagine that Disney wouldn't go all out on the new tower. I don't see the point chart being that much higher than Poly, Riv or VGF. I do see the purchase price will be higher though. Just my opinion, but I wouldn't consider buying there if it were the same association because I wouldn't wat to compete with all of the current Polynesian owners who look like a lot of them are trading out at 7 months. VGF and CCV never usually had studios regularly available at 7 months like Polynesian does.
Yep. For example, in April we are doing Aulani for my daughter’s HS graduation present/trip. We live in Upstste NY and a Hawaiian trip would probably be out of the question without DVC. But since we have the points, Hawaii it is! And the reality is that we probably won’t do Aulani again for a LONG time, if ever. It’s just a really long way to go. Unless we absolutely love Aulani…then we might do it every 10 years or so.
Why would it expire in 2074? DVC could easily make it the same expiration at Riviera, 2070. That’s almost 50 years from now. I don’t see them making PVB2 a longer expiration than Riviera.
They’ve done 50 years for every resort since SSR.
Ahhh, I forgot that. Thanks for the reminder.
2 entities makes it impossible to reallocate points when demand changes. I may be wrong, but the 2 associations just ties the hands of DVC in managing the property.
This is a debatable point. If the Poly 2 is the same association, I have read both sides of the arguement if DVC can or cannot reallocate points. Until a reallocation takes place and someone actually challenges we do not really know how the courts will rule.
A reallocation of points between studios and bungalows is one thing. But I think OP is talking about actually ripping the bungalows out of PVB1 and assigning them to a separate PVB2 association, which seems pretty cut-and-dried disallowed.
