Construction updates As we have withnessed during this major effort to redesign the Polynesian and add in Disney Vacation Club, things have changed throughout the process. If you look at my timeline in the DVC (Disney Vacation Club) section of my web pages, you have seen dates … [Read more...] about October Update
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Tiki Paradise
Oceanic Arts Back in August we were down visiting Disneyland and I finally got to visit a place that has been on my list of places to visit for many years. When I first started to research and document the history of the Polynesian Resort I heard about a place called … [Read more...] about Tiki Paradise
September Update
Construction progress I think we are over the worst of the construction. Once the pool area closed and was fenced off, that was the worst we should see during this long renovation of the resort. The beach area is very limited on space since the construction fences extend down to … [Read more...] about September Update
Captain Cook’s and DVC news
Captain Cook's reopens While some things at the resort are still in the destruction phase others are coming back to life. The beginning of the week I reported that Captain Cook’s was possibly going to open the following weekend. I knew that the inspections were going to happen on … [Read more...] about Captain Cook’s and DVC news
Pool Closure
Pool Update As of July 28, the Nanea (Volcano) pool closed to be renovated. It is a good sign that the pool closed on time but it will still be closed for a long period of time. The expected completion is in March but many expect it will be more like sometime in April 2015 that … [Read more...] about Pool Closure
News and Observations
Construction News We have been watching progress at the resort since it all started September 2013. Hopefully if you have been keeping up with my updates there have not been many surprises. I still find many shocked people on my Facebook when we show something new closed or … [Read more...] about News and Observations
July Update
Resort and DVC news On June 17 the license to sell Polynesian Villas was submitted. (thanks to SED Crockett for finding it) https://www.myfloridalicense.com/LicenseDetail.asp?SID=&id=2969D0AA1BAF1F1B7B8331BEE10CFBB0 I am not going to attempt to decipher it for many reasons … [Read more...] about July Update
Construction update
How are things going at the resort? As we head into the summer we are also getting to the point where the construction going on at the resort will be the heaviest. Once we finish out July I think the highest percentage of the resort will be closed. Let’s go over what is closed … [Read more...] about Construction update
June Report
Bringing you up to speed We are about 9 months into the 21 month long renovation of the Polynesian Village Resort (if you don’t count the 8 months before that of renovating the rooms to the new design. On the Disney Vacation Club side of things we have seen a lot of progress. … [Read more...] about June Report
May News and Updates
UPDATED May 18 If you have been following the progress of the changes to the Polynesian since I first posted about it in 2011 you know there have been a lot of changes to the plan and dates. That is typical in large projects like this. We saw how the addition of Disney Vacation … [Read more...] about May News and Updates
Polynesian Village Announcement
(May 2, 2014) Today Disney finally announced some of the changes that we have been talking about since 2011 that are coming to the Polynesian. Hopefully people will now see that the information was not a rumor. George Kalogridis shared some details during his “Around the … [Read more...] about Polynesian Village Announcement
More changes and rumors
The latest construction news and rumors It seems like every week some new information is coming out. Trying to verify it all and separate out the false rumors from the facts has been difficult. Even information that has been accurate has changed making it difficult to keep up … [Read more...] about More changes and rumors
