VGF Villas & Views - REVISED 07/22/2017

[wdrl]

Disney Vacation Development has declared more villas at VGF for the DVC inventory. There will be more details soon on DVCNews.com about this latest development.

Based on the floor plans included in the declaration, I've made a slight revision to the layout of the 5th floor. The floor plans show that 1524 is the studio portion of the lock-off two-bedroom, and 1526 is the one-bedroom portion. I had them reversed on my original layout.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Disney Vacation Development has declared more villas at VGF for the DVC inventory. There will be more details soon on DVCNews.com about this latest development. Based on the floor plans included in the declaration, I've made a slight revision to the layout of the 5th floor. The floor plans show that 1524 is the studio portion of the lock-off two-bedroom, and 1526 is the one-bedroom portion. I had them reversed on my original layout.

DVC newbie here
Does this mean more rooms? Or just more points disney can now sell?

Also back in June VGF were 51% sold.. any update in that?

 

[wdrl]

DVC newbie here
Does this mean more rooms? Or just more points disney can now sell?

Also back in June VGF were 51% sold.. any update in that?

A new declaration adds more inventory that DVC Members can book using points. This latest declaration adds 12 more two-bedroom vacation homes to the DVC inventory, bringing to 84 the number of two-bedroom vacation homes that can be booked by Members.

The declaration also adds 281,040 more points that Disney Vacation Development can sell to the general public. DVD must declare the inventory for the DVC before it can sell the underlying points to the public.

There will be an article about this latest declaration tomorrow on DVCNews.com.

As of July 31,2014, DVD had sold 60.77% of VGF's total points. Each month, there is an article on DVCNews.com tracking the latest sales figures. Here is a link to the sales article for July 2014.

ETA: Here is a link to the article on the latest VGF declaration.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Thank you the link.. I must have missed the article.
With the VGF being 60% sold, do you think they will be "sold out" by the end of the year?

 

[OlafLuvsWarmHugs]

Finally staying here in Oct for the first time! I can't wait!

 

[wdrl]

Thank you the link.. I must have missed the article.
With the VGF being 60% sold, do you think they will be "sold out" by the end of the year?

Its unlikely that VGF will be sold out by the end of 2014. As used by DVD, the term "sold out" means that DVD is no longer actively marketing a resort, not that it no longer has any points available to sell. In January 2014, when DVD announced that Animal Kingdom Villas was "sold out", it still had about 250,000 AKV points it could to sell.

DVD has slightly more than 900,000 VGF points to sell to the public. If, like with AKV, VGF is considered to be "sold out" when DVD has about 250,000 VGF points remaining, then it has 650,000 points left in play.

Since the initial rush when VGF sales began, monthly sales for VGF have averaged 101,614 points with a high of 137,774 and a low of 68,540. However, I suspect VGF sales will trend downward over the next few months as DVD throttles back on sales awaiting the debut of sales for the Polynesian Villas and Bungalows.

My guess is that DVD will announce VGF is "sold out" about 3-6 months after sales begin for the Poly. However, I've been way off on my guesses before, so I'm probably way off base on this estimate, too.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Thank you for the helpful info..

We already own our VGF points, but my sister is waiting until finances settle for her a bit..
Also wanted to see what the poly was going to have.. She just nervous the VGF will sell out for poly opens.

Her top choice right now are
VGC, Poly, VGF


I told her she should consider VGC (even with the long wait list) cause the live on the west coast.
And it would be harder to get at 7 mo.
On our recent trip to disneyland we walked through VGC, it was amazing!..

Thanks again..

 

[medievaldave]

Go to the first page of this post. has pics of different view of rooms

 

[js]

I have printed out all my information of where I hope to be for my dedicated 2 bedroom standard view. I would L O V E a true monorail view. When I look at my notes and see where I want to be, should I request this on my online check in?

Last year, I arrived at BLT at about 9:30 am, had done online check in and our room was ready. This was the first ever, in a hundred years, that this ever happened to me but thinking I'll press my luck and try to do this again for VGF.

Thanks.

 

[Cmbar]

I have printed out all my information of where I hope to be for my dedicated 2 bedroom standard view. I would L O V E a true monorail view. When I look at my notes and see where I want to be, should I request this on my online check in?

Last year, I arrived at BLT at about 9:30 am, had done online check in and our room was ready. This was the first ever, in a hundred years, that this ever happened to me but thinking I'll press my luck and try to do this again for VGF.

Thanks.

I honestly don't know which is a better idea. We just got back from VGF. I didn't do online check in because I had Standard points and I didn't want to be disappointed if my "request" didn't come through. We got there and the check in guy says " did you book a Standard two bedroom". I said yes and he smiles and say "well looks like we have upgraded you".

I have NEVER had that happen. In fact we had just come from VB and I had teased my sister that she shouldn't have booked with us because we always get the crappy room and at VB we got the absolute farthest two bedroom from the resort! So we were teasing about how bad it would be at VGF.

We got a beautiful third floor lake view of the Poly (and the crane working on the poly)

The room was not ready but we were happy to wait for the upgrade. I honestly don't think that kind of pixie dust would have happened had we had a request. But of course there is no guarantee that it would happen ever and I believe it is indeed rare for a DVC member to be upgrade with no additional point costs. (which reminds me I need to verify my points are still good).

Good luck in whatever you decide. I always hated hearing about the people who got upgrades and low and behold it actually happened to us! So you never know.

I will say this. The resort is amazing and close to the main building so we were very happy with our stay. I even took a bath in the bubble jet tub in the Master bath while watching TV! We will definitely be staying here again!

 

[js]

I honestly don't know which is a better idea. We just got back from VGF. I didn't do online check in because I had Standard points and I didn't want to be disappointed if my "request" didn't come through. We got there and the check in guy says " did you book a Standard two bedroom". I said yes and he smiles and say "well looks like we have upgraded you".

I have NEVER had that happen. In fact we had just come from VB and I had teased my sister that she shouldn't have booked with us because we always get the crappy room and at VB we got the absolute farthest two bedroom from the resort! So we were teasing about how bad it would be at VGF.

We got a beautiful third floor lake view of the Poly (and the crane working on the poly)

The room was not ready but we were happy to wait for the upgrade. I honestly don't think that kind of pixie dust would have happened had we had a request. But of course there is no guarantee that it would happen ever and I believe it is indeed rare for a DVC member to be upgrade with no additional point costs. (which reminds me I need to verify my points are still good).

Good luck in whatever you decide. I always hated hearing about the people who got upgrades and low and behold it actually happened to us! So you never know.

I will say this. The resort is amazing and close to the main building so we were very happy with our stay. I even took a bath in the bubble jet tub in the Master bath while watching TV! We will definitely be staying here again!

Sounds like you had a wonderful time and view!

Quite honestly, I would rather a monorail view than the lake and construction of the Poly but I guess the views toward the MK are wonderful if in a Lake View.

Also, I guess it wasn't much more work just checking in was it? I do like when we arrive that the "greeter" has a little paper with our names on it but is this because we are arriving that day or because we did early check in?

Maybe I will just wait and press our luck since I wonder if it really even matters? GGGGRRRR, as my dd would say, first world problems LOL

 

[Cmbar]

Sounds like you had a wonderful time and view!

Quite honestly, I would rather a monorail view than the lake and construction of the Poly but I guess the views toward the MK are wonderful if in a Lake View.

Also, I guess it wasn't much more work just checking in was it? I do like when we arrive that the "greeter" has a little paper with our names on it but is this because we are arriving that day or because we did early check in?

Maybe I will just wait and press our luck since I wonder if it really even matters? GGGGRRRR, as my dd would say, first world problems LOL

Oh they had our names as soon as we hit the gate. By the time we drove up under the entrance to the VGF they had a greeter greeting us by name and helping unload the luggage as well as another greeter with an ipad device welcoming us by name and bringing us to our "desk" to check in. They don't have a counter just three people with big desks and we were ready to check in.

We had a slower process of checking in because
A) he said they were transferring the points and making sure our points weren't charged for the upgrade
B) I had forgotten about customizing our bands until right before we left for Vero so the customized bands were sent to VGF and he had to activate all 7 of them.
C) there were two families in the room so we wanted to split our charges by adding two different credit cards and selecting PINS for the bans, Etc.

Hope this helps. I am sure that checking online helps when you are at one of these very large resorts (say SSR where they have so many lines to check in) but at VGF we may have just been lucky to have had a "desk" available for us. It took longer than I would have liked but not sure if we would have gotten that upgrade.

And I agree I would have loved a monorail view but after being at the resort I can see plenty of "walkway views " I would definitely recommend a "high floor if possible" request. I don't think you really can see any part of Magic Kingdom from the DVC building can you? There is the other resort building in the way.

Good Luck!

 

[DenLo]

I honestly don't know which is a better idea. We just got back from VGF. I didn't do online check in because I had Standard points and I didn't want to be disappointed if my "request" didn't come through. We got there and the check in guy says " did you book a Standard two bedroom". I said yes and he smiles and say "well looks like we have upgraded you".

I have NEVER had that happen. In fact we had just come from VB and I had teased my sister that she shouldn't have booked with us because we always get the crappy room and at VB we got the absolute farthest two bedroom from the resort! So we were teasing about how bad it would be at VGF.

We got a beautiful third floor lake view of the Poly (and the crane working on the poly) . . . .We will definitely be staying here again!

Congratulations, that is the first time I have heard anyone at VGF get upgraded! I expect it will only be a rare occurance since there are almost twice as many standard view 2 BRs versus lake view.

Any chance you could post your room number and a photo of your view so wdrl can add it to the chart on page one?

 

[Cmbar]

Congratulations, that is the first time I have heard anyone at VGF get upgraded! I expect it will only be a rare occurrence since there are almost twice as many standard view 2 BRs versus lake view.

Any chance you could post your room number and a photo of your view so wdrl can add it to the chart on page one?

I don't have a picture on my phone but I will check with my sister and kids to see if they took a picture. We were in room 1306. We had a nice view of the POLY at night and the wedding chapel of course.

Yes I agree it is so rare to be upgraded at any DVC resort. But it does look like the resort was very empty. I know it is hard to get a reservations but we didn't see a lot of people in the lobby or on elevators (which are SUPER fast). Possibly because they are releasing more inventory they are opening up more rooms. It was tempting to add on points but I am going to have to stick with Bay lake.

Only disappointment with VGF was the WiFi. It kept breaking off and dropping us back to our cellular. You could log in and use it for a bit but then it would just stop working.

I just did a survey from VGF and stated they need to work on the WiFi. Not sure why a brand new building wouldn't have the best WiFi on property

 

[disneynutz]

I don't have a picture on my phone but I will check with my sister and kids to see if they took a picture. We were in room 1306. We had a nice view of the POLY at night and the wedding chapel of course.

Yes I agree it is so rare to be upgraded at any DVC resort. But it does look like the resort was very empty. I know it is hard to get a reservations but we didn't see a lot of people in the lobby or on elevators (which are SUPER fast). Possibly because they are releasing more inventory they are opening up more rooms. It was tempting to add on points but I am going to have to stick with Bay lake.

Only disappointment with VGF was the WiFi. It kept breaking off and dropping us back to our cellular. You could log in and use it for a bit but then it would just stop working.

I just did a survey from VGF and stated they need to work on the WiFi. Not sure why a brand new building wouldn't have the best WiFi on property

Resort/room WiFi is under a vendor contract that has several years left. My guess is that when it runs out they will give AT&T the contract since they are now the official WiFi and mobile vendor for all other areas.

Bill

 

[hannahinwales]

If I have a standard view studio booked and request first floor, would I get a view of the monorail? Thank you I am travelling with a nearly 5 year old on my own and was just thinking about the balcony and turning my back for a second etc .. and thought first floor might be a good idea!

 

[Candy Orlando]

If I have a standard view studio booked and request first floor, would I get a view of the monorail? Thank you I am travelling with a nearly 5 year old on my own and was just thinking about the balcony and turning my back for a second etc .. and thought first floor might be a good idea!

All standard view rooms can see the monorail at different angles.

 

[disneynutz]

If I have a standard view studio booked and request first floor, would I get a view of the monorail? Thank you I am travelling with a nearly 5 year old on my own and was just thinking about the balcony and turning my back for a second etc .. and thought first floor might be a good idea!

The balcony doors have double locks. The view above the ground floor will be better.

The rooms facing Senses spa and the parking lot have the best view of the monorail as it goes by.

The other standard views are on the side of the building so you would have to look left and see it as it moves between VGF and the GF.

Bill

 

[robinbutterfly]

We moved today to a standard view studio, room 1329, all the way to the end of the hallway. The view from here is as equally amazing as it was in the lake view villa that we were in last night--if not even better! We will have a better view of the fireworks, have a partial view of the lagoon, and have a great view of the monorail. We're thrilled.

To the left:


Straight ahead:




And to the right:

Are the rooms with a view of the monorail nosey because of the monorail?

 

[wdrl]

Are the rooms with a view of the monorail nosey because of the monorail?

I think you mean "noisy", right? So far, no one has really complained about the noise from the monorails. rjvose17 stayed in villa #1328, which as close as you can get to the monorail track, and said the noise from the monorail wasn't an issue (see Post #204 of this thread).