Villas at Disneyland Hotel opening date guesses

[ehh]

Curious when people think VDH will open.

I think we're well on track for sales to begin March/April based on historical timing relative to various paperwork milestones. But opening date is a little hazier to me after what they did at Riviera. As far as I know, only "2023" has been announced for VDH, not even a season.

As a reminder, Riviera opened 12/16/19 after going on sale late March 2019. Riviera's opening date was announced end of January 2019. Riviera building construction appeared to be completed much earlier than December but restaurants and grounds work for the pool/etc. were still in progress, something we probably won't see at VDH since there's no new pool/restaurants/etc.

I am in no way a construction expert but recent construction update photos of VDH seem comparable to Riviera's progress in Fall 2018 in terms of what's visible through the scaffolding and coverings, in my very-uneducated-in-this-matter opinion. I think that puts the building construction completion date in Summer(ish) 2023.

Aside from pools and restaurants, which VDH won't have, I think one potential factor of Riviera opening in December was it allowed them to treat all Use Years equally in terms of points allotted, though I have no idea how important that is to them. But I wonder if they knew it had no chance of opening before 8/1/19 if they decided to open post-12/1 to make it fairer for all UY, and if we might see something like that again.

Short version of my guess: June/July seem most likely but if they feel they won't hit those dates then I wouldn't be surprised if they back off the pace of construction and push it to December.

 

[Sandisw]

If I am not mistaken, they Feb UY did not get 2019 UY points.

 

[Paul Stupin]

Curious when people think VDH will open.

I think we're well on track for sales to begin March/April based on historical timing relative to various paperwork milestones. But opening date is a little hazier to me after what they did at Riviera. As far as I know, only "2023" has been announced for VDH, not even a season.

As a reminder, Riviera opened 12/16/19 after going on sale late March 2019. Riviera's opening date was announced end of January 2019. Riviera building construction appeared to be completed much earlier than December but restaurants and grounds work for the pool/etc. were still in progress, something we probably won't see at VDH since there's no new pool/restaurants/etc.

I am in no way a construction expert but recent construction update photos of VDH seem comparable to Riviera's progress in Fall 2018 in terms of what's visible through the scaffolding and coverings, in my very-uneducated-in-this-matter opinion. I think that puts the building construction completion date in Summer(ish) 2023.

Aside from pools and restaurants, which VDH won't have, I think one potential factor of Riviera opening in December was it allowed them to treat all Use Years equally in terms of points allotted, though I have no idea how important that is to them. But I wonder if they knew it had no chance of opening before 8/1/19 if they decided to open post-12/1 to make it fairer for all UY, and if we might see something like that again.

Short version of my guess: June/July seem most likely but if they feel they won't hit those dates then I wouldn't be surprised if they back off the pace of construction and push it to December.

VDH will have its own dedicated pool, located in back of the building.

 

[Roughians_satchel]

VDH will have its own dedicated pool, located in back of the building.

I wish they had given us some kind of update at D23. A complete wasted opportunity- have they started any construction on the pool area?

 

[ehh]

VDH will have its own dedicated pool, located in back of the building.

Ah, thought I read otherwise, thanks!

More argument for a later opening date.

 

[ehh]

Nice job to those who said September! Curious when points bookings open and if it's September or later.