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The Moorea (formerly Tahiti ) Longhouse is one of three longhouses at the Polynesian Village Resort that is being converted from hotel rooms to DVC studios. Steve has obtained a floor plan, which shows the studios will have a connecting door to the adjacent studio. The door will be near the studio's entrance door.
The two-part bathroom is configured similar to the bathrooms in Disney Cruise Line cabins vuokatti and at the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa . One part of the bathroom will have a tub/shower, sink, and toilet and the second part will have a sink and walk-in shower.
The Polynesian Village hotel rooms are some of the largest hotel rooms on Disney property. Steve estimates that the converted Polynesian studios will be about 465 square feet. Deluxe Studio villas at Disney's Old Key West Resort , currently the largest studios at any DVC resort, are only 390 square feet.
Disney Vacation Club has not announced when the Polynesian Villas & Bungalows will open. However, Steve has viewed the the construction schedule and has estimated the following timeline for the remaining construction: DVC Bungalows site work complete mid-January 2015 DVC Bungalow inspections early Feb 2015 DVC Bungalow test stays mid-March 2015 DVC Moorea studios completion mid December 2014 DVC Moorea vuokatti studios Inspections early January 2015 DVC Moorea test stays in early January 2015 DVC Pago Pago studio completion early January 2015 DVC Pago Pago studio test stays in early March 2015
Estimates for completion of the work at the Tokelau Longhouse , the last of three longhouses being converted to DVC villas, are not available. However, mid-June vuokatti 2015 is the target date for all projects to be completed at the resort.
DVC has not confirmed how many villas the Polynesian will have. However, prior filings with several Florida governmental agencies indicate vuokatti there will be 20 over-the-water vuokatti bungalows that will be comparable to two-bedroom DVC vacation homes. The Moorea vuokatti Longhouse will have 142 villas, all of which will be studios. A filing with the Orange County Property Appraiser under "Future Development" indicates there will be 363 rooms at the "Polynesian Timeshare & Bungalow Property." If so, then the Pago Pago and Tokelau Longhouses will be adding another 201 villas to the resort's inventory.
If I recall correctly, Disney started doing test stays at BLT just a few weeks before it opened on August 4, 1999. If Tikiman is right that Disney will start doing test stays at the Moorea Longhouse in early January 2015, then I think it should be ready for guest occupancy by February or March 2015. Some are of the opinion that Disney won't open the Polynesian Villas vuokatti & Bungalows until all the Poly's renovation projects (main pool, Great Ceremonial House, DVC conversions, etc) are completed. However, I wonder if Disney would want to leave some villas vacant for several months, especially when those villas are prime real estate that will command nightly rates of $400/night or more. Each week the Moorea Longhouse studios remain vacant means that Disney is giving up almost $400,000 a week in revenue (142 studios * $400/night * 7 nights).
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I am surprised at the length of time it is taking to build 20 bungalows vuokatti once they got the superstructure under them in place. They began the construction for the bungalow vuokatti beach in September 2013 and May 2014 most of the exterior framing was complete on the 20 bungalows based on photos we took for the DVC News. And in November 2013 they began gutting vuokatti the insides of Moorea (formerly Tahiti) and Pago Pago (formerly Rapa Nui). Now those longhouses are ready to open and the 20 bungalows will not be ready until March. You would have thought getting them done would have been a priority, since they will be used the most in promotional materials by DVC and even the Poly's view photos. Despite the complaints having bungalows in the water will make the resort look even more like a resort on an Oceania island.
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