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↩ replying to wdwmagicI am shocked to see wide open availability (Lake View and Theme Park View) for such nicely done rooms for most of August. There are even smatterings of Standard View available.
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↩ replying to wdwmagicGosh doesn’t this open on Monday?
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↩ replying to Chi84I'd agree, since the feeling of entitlement is in direct proportion to the significant buy-in cost of DVC Membership.
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↩ replying to raymusiccityThat's not what I experienced. Some of the worst jerks we encountered at WDW were the years we stayed in the value resorts - smoking wherever they pleased, making noise all night long. Just like everywhere else, there will be some good and some bad - I don't agree with the direct proportion thing, although I suppose it was meant to be clever.
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↩ replying to wdwmagicWelcome to Disney's newest vacation club expansion, The resort studios at Disney's Grand Floridian resort and spa. Thank you for checking in today, here is your hard hat.....
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↩ replying to CastAStoneYes
I swear it looks further along in person somehow. When we left on the 10th you could tell it was nearly done on the outside.
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↩ replying to monothingieI think they just declared the other half of the building, so they dumped another 100 rooms into inventory to book.
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↩ replying to BrianLoYep, declared on June 10th. All 202 rooms are in the system.
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↩ replying to helenabearYou left before the roof replacement. We just spent two days in the lodge adjacent to Big Pine Key. Constant beeping and horn blaring from cherry pickers and trucks, shingles being removed, nail guns installing new shingles, etc.
The courtyard pool area was not a place to relax.
There is siding missing from the right side of the building and paint/trim to be done. I saw pallets of bedding waiting to be installed.
When I read the above post that said the building is supposed to be opening on Monday my first thought was “no way.”
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They also had a large part of the villas parking lot blocked off for construction equipment the last couple of weeks, I assume it’s still there. I didn’t hear any construction noise while inside the villas building. I wonder how loud the Poly construction is going to be in the original villas building once that gets going full swing.
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↩ replying to TuvaluNo you are incorrect. The 10th was a week ago, and the roof replacement was very visible to me. Exposed portions of the roof got smaller by the time we left. The scaffolding on the ends with the stairs were there and I see in the pictures it was removed and they have added a lot of siding.
ETA the trash chutes they had on the stairwells are gone as well. Definitely a massive improvement from a week ago.
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↩ replying to helenabearAll I am saying is this morning they were still working on the roof. 🤷🏻♀️
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↩ replying to TuvaluI think that was obvious since the pics and article showed as much ;) I was just letting you know that they were working on the roof even a week ago. The roof was worse 2 weeks ago and improved during our 8 days at VGF. Same with the stairs and such. Will it be done by Monday? Eh but I see massive improvements and watched it get better daily while staying there.
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All joking aside this point there are no serious rumors or talks of a delay in the opening. It's going to open on Monday.