Disney's Polynesian Village Resort
| Disney's Polynesian Village Resort | |
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| city | Lake Buena Vista |
| address | 1600 Seven Seas Drive Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 United States |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 1st October 1971 |
| owner | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts |
| Awards | AAA Four Diamond |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 872 |
| Restaurants | 6th |
| Bars | 3 |
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Coordinates: 28 ° 24 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 81 ° 35 ′ 3.5 ″ W Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort (from 1985 to 2014 Disney’s Polynesian Resort ) is a resort of the Walt Disney Company on the grounds of the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida , which was awarded the AAA Four Diamond Award. It focuses on the South Seas and was opened on October 1, 1971, with 492 rooms at the time, as one of the first two hotels in the leisure complex. It was designed by Welton Becket and built by US Steel . Owned by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts .
The resort has been expanded three times since opening, the first time in 1978 with a long house , the Tangaroa Terrace Restaurant and a second swimming pool . In 1985 two more longhouses were added. On April 1, 2015, the Disney Vacation Club expansions opened .
location
Disney's Polynesian Village Resort is located on the south coast of the artificial lagoon Seven Seas Lagoon , south of the Magic Kingdom and west of the Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa hotel . The resort is served by the Walt Disney World Monorail , the monorail connects it to the Magic Kingdom and by changing trains to the Epcot theme park . The Magic Kingdom can also be reached by boat across the lagoon, other destinations by bus.
design
The main building of the hotel is the Great Ceremonial House , designed in the style of a royal assembly building in Tahiti . This is where the lobby and most of the resort's restaurants and shops are located. From the opening until 2014, there was a tropical rainforest in the atrium with over 75 species of living plants and a waterfall. As part of renovation work, however, the rainforest was removed for health and safety reasons, and the lobby was also intended to become more of a social meeting place. The building has no hotel rooms, instead there are a number of longhouses and bungalows on stilts in the water, which are spread across the site. Two of the longhouses, Hawaii and Tonga, have a concierge lounge with refreshments and a viewing platform. Only guests of the respective house have access.
history
A then novel construction process by United States Steel was used for the original longhouses . For this purpose, steel frames were erected on site and then prefabricated modular rooms were lifted into these frames with a crane. A similar process was used in the construction of Disney's Contemporary Resort . However, at these two hotels this created the problem that guests complained of moldy smell in the rooms. Mold and dirt had built up between the walls , whereupon these spaces were filled. This solved the problem, longhouses built later were therefore built using conventional construction techniques. The hotel rooms were built outside the hotel, the rooms were stacked on site and then steel frames and concrete were built around them.
In 2008 the resort was certified as a Green Lodging Property by the Florida Department of Environment .
room
When the resort opened, there were eight longhouses named Bali Hai, Bora Bora, Fiji, Hawaii, Maui, Samoa, Tahiti, and Tonga. In 1978 the longhouse Oahu was added, in 1985 Moorea and Pago Pago. On October 28, 1999, most of the longhouses were renamed. Today they are named after Polynesian islands, with neighboring longhouses having names from neighboring islands. Ten of the eleven longhouses were given a new name: Bali Hai is now called Tonga, Bora Bora became Niue, Hawaii became Samoa, Maui became Rarotonga, Moorea became Tahiti, Oahu became Tokelau, Pago Pago became Papa Nui, Samoa became Tuvalu, Tahiti became Aotearoa and Tonga to Hawaii; only Fiji kept its name.
Between 2013 and 2015, 20 bungalows were built on stilts in the water. These belong to a new area called Bora Bora. In 2020 the hotel will have eleven long houses with two to three floors and more than 846 guest rooms.
Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows
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On September 17, 2013, the Disney Vacation Club announced an expansion to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort. The first phase of this expansion opened on April 1, 2015, in which 20 bungalows on stilts were built in the Seven Seas Lagoon as a new area called Bora Bora and the two longhouses Moorea and Pago Pago were converted into deluxe studios. The deluxe studios in the Tokelau long house were completed in mid-2015, so there are now a total of 360 such studios in the hotel. Between these three longhouses there is a barbecue area with two gas grills that can be used by the guests of the resort. Five additional rooms are also planned in this area.
Restaurants and bars
The resort offers six restaurants including ʻOhana , Kona Café , Trader Sam's Grog Grotto Lounge, and Disney’s Spirit of Aloha Show dinner show . There are also two fast food restaurants . There are also three bars , including the Tambu Lounge and the Barefoot Pool Bar , as well as the Pineapple Lanai ice cream parlor .
Shopping
There are several shopping options in the hotel, in particular for Disney Park and resort-specific merchandise products and consumables. These are located in the Great Ceremonial House, including BouTiki across from the main lobby and Moana Mercantile upstairs across from the Kona Café.
Role in breaking up the Beatles
John Lennon signed the documents officially breaking up the Beatles at the Polynesian Village Resort on December 29, 1974 . May Pang wrote :
“On December 29, 1974, the voluminous documents were brought down to John in Florida by one of Apple's lawyers. He finally picked up his pen and, in the unlikely backdrop of the Polynesian Village Hotel at Disney World, ended the greatest rock 'n' roll band in history by simply scrawling John Lennon at the bottom of the page. ”
“On December 29, 1974, the voluminous documents were brought down to John in Florida by one of Apple's attorneys. He finally picked up his pen and, in the incongruous setting of the Polynesian Village Hotel at Disney World, ended the greatest rock 'n' roll band in history by simply scribbling John Lennon on the bottom of the page. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Walt Disney World, The First Decade . Walt Disney Productions , 1982, p. 92.
- ^ AAA Four Diamond Hotels . AAA. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
- ^ The Polynesian Village Resort . Widen Your World. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ↑ a b Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows Makes its Grand Opening Debut at Walt Disney World Resort . Disney Parks Blog. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Walt Disney World Trip Planning Guide, Polynesian Resort . MousePlanet. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ↑ Transportation FAQ . Walt Disney World Resort. Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ^ Tikiman's Unofficial Polynesian Resort Webpage - Aloha . Steve Seifert. Archived from the original on September 14, 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ↑ Disney's Polynesian Resort . the Diba. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ↑ Walt Disney World unveils new Polynesian Village Resort lobby look with more seating, smaller waterfall . In: Inside the Magic .
- ^ A b History of the World, Part VI . MousePlanet. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ^ Green Lodging Program Designated Properties . Florida Departmental of Environmental Protection. Retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ↑ Sunny Chanel: Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Hotel Review. In businessinsider.com, March 11, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020.
- ^ Disney adding Vacation Club time shares to Polynesian . In: Orlando Sentinel .
- ↑ Tim Krasniewski: Sales permit granted for Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows . In: dvcnews.com .
- ↑ May Pang: Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon . Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 9781429993975 , p. 118 (Retrieved April 7, 2015).