Photo Tour of a Larger Refurbished Room at Disney’s Polynesian Resort

By Dave Shute

There’s two room types in Disney’s Polynesian Resort

• “Smaller”–but still quite large–rooms, with a floor plan and photo tour that begins here, and
• Larger rooms, in the Polynesian’s Tahiti, Rapa Nui, and Tokelau longhouses, which are covered on this page.

Tokelau is the only one of these currently fully refurbished as part of the Polynesian’s 2012-2013 updates, and the images are from a refurbed Tokelau room.

(Tahiti, and perhaps Rapa Nui, may not get refurbs–they seem to be headed towards being converted to DVC rooms instead.)

FLOOR PLAN OF THE LARGER ROOMS AT DISNEY’S POLYNESIAN RESORT

The main difference between the large and smaller rooms is that the bedroom component of the large rooms is about three and a half feet longer.

This adds ~50 square feet to the room size–making it on the order of 465 square feet compared to the smaller room’s ~415 square feet.

At least in the room I stayed in, there’s no extra furniture that comes with this extra space–just a little more breathing space in the room, especially on the TV side, where the furnishings don’t seem so crowded together as they are in the smaller room.

There’s also slight differences in the layout of the bath–not making any material difference–and two panels to the balcony window rather than three.

(It’s also possible that this room is an inch or two narrower than the smaller rooms.  Steve and I need to measure one of these together to agree on final dimensions!)

Because the differences are minor, the photo tour of this room is very similar to the photo tour of the smaller rooms.

But I did get a new camera between my two 2013 visits to the Polynesian…so the new photos of similar furnishings are much clearer!

PHOTO TOUR OF A RENOVATED LARGER ROOM AT DISNEY’S POLYNESIAN RESORT

The hall and bath area is almost identical to that of the smaller rooms, other than minor layout differences in the bath.

As you enter, there’s two closets separated by a mini-fridge and coffee maker on one side, and the bath on the other.

Here’s the closet nearest the door…

…the mini-fridge/coffee maker and closet further from the door…

…detail of the further closet…

…and detail of the mini-fridge–I don’t know why I forgot to take this shot with my usual scaling objects.

On the other side of the hall is the bath, with double sinks and a toilet on one side.

Here’s detail of the sinks.

On the other side is the tub/shower combo.

Deeper in the room, on one side you’ll find a couple of queen beds, a bed table between them, and an easy chair and ottoman.

Here’s a closer view of one of the queens…

…and a closer view of the chair and ottoman.

You can see to the right of the chair the window wall that separates the room from a large balcony–above is the view from mine.

The other side of the room has a desk with a moveable table underneath, a TV on top of a dresser, and a couch which flips down to create a daybed.

These fit much better in the larger rooms than the identically-furnished smaller rooms.

Here’s a closer view of the couch (I forgot to tuck the bottom in after I tried sleeping on it–it isn’t as messy as this photo makes it look)…

…and the dresser, TV and desk.

(You can find more detailed shots and measurements–e.g. of the couch bed–in the photo tour of the smaller rooms.)

The three buildings with larger rooms at the Polynesian–Tahiti, Rapa Nui, and Tokelau–are also the only buildings there where every standard room has either a balcony or a patio, and are the rooms from which one can most easily access either the Epcot or the Magic Kingdom monorails.

Because of all these points, they’ve always been the buildings this site recommends.

Now, however, since Tokelau is the only one renovated, it is the recommended longhouse.  Stay there, and you’ll have a room quite like the one shown in the photos above!

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