Jambo

[Sandisw]

I emailed on Saturday and am waiting on a response.

Keep us posted! It did take me about 10 days to get my last email response but it came!

 

[Dixie1337]

I've got 4 nights in a jambo savanna view studio booked through rented points for the beginning of december. I really don't want to stay in kidani, and especially not if jambo is closed. We specifically picked it for the christmas tree in the lobby and it was for a resort only stay. Hopefully either they're open and all is fine, or they move us to wilderness lodge or the grand floridian LOL (wishful thinking). This trip just keeps getting worse. If I could cancel I 100% would.

 

[Sandisw]

I've got 4 nights in a jambo savanna view studio booked through rented points for the beginning of december. I really don't want to stay in kidani, and especially not if jambo is closed. We specifically picked it for the christmas tree in the lobby and it was for a resort only stay. Hopefully either they're open and all is fine, or they move us to wilderness lodge or the grand floridian LOL (wishful thinking). This trip just keeps getting worse. If I could cancel I 100% would.

I really think that it will be open in December and that all will be well.

The hope is by end of week we will hear about Disney opening their resorts, which would include Jambo.

 

[keishashadow]

This is so annoying, had to jump thru hoops to snag AKVJ value studio for both:

Sept/Oct & day after Thanksgiving trip thru 1st Saturday in December.

will not be happy if booted for NBA nor offered “equivalent” resort if at one of the DVC offerings that we wouldn’t normally book in the first place.

 

[Doingitagain]

This is so annoying, had to jump thru hoops to snag AKVJ value studio for both:

Sept/Oct & day after Thanksgiving trip thru 1st Saturday in December.

will not be happy if booted for NBA nor offered “equivalent” resort if at one of the DVC offerings that we wouldn’t normally book in the first place.

I don’t think you should get stressed out. The activity now is before park opening and only DVC resorts are open. Disney will get a handle on remaining reservations vs park capacity and open more resorts as needed, probably deluxe so they can keep the higher $ and so that others moved to them will consider it an upgrade.

The best thing they did was pause new reservations so they could take care of current guests. Right now they are just figuring out who still wants to come.

I am booked at Jambo end of July and I think and hope it will be open. I do not want to stay at KIdani with none of the Jambo restaurants and QS available.

 

[keishashadow]

am booked at Jambo end of July and I think and hope it will be open. I do not want to stay at KIdani with none of the Jambo restaurants and QS available.

We did enjoy our couple of stays at Kidani but prefer the value studio when just 2 of us to save points & prefer their pool.

Knew MLS is probably going to be located there, but got uneasy when read some of the bloggers rumbling re NBA players lobbying to stay at AKV over CS.

 

[zavandor]

Right now, I think they have kept it closed because WDW has not opened their hotels.

IMO, as long the entire building is closed for guest stays, it is okay. It is similar to when they took value rooms out of service last year,,,someone else mentioned this,

There was no renovations going on in the DVC rooms, but no one could book them because hotel construction caused the floor to be closed,

I do not believe that Disney can give Jambo to any sports team and kick DVC out. As soon as rooms open, then DVC rooms need to open because who the guests are would not be a legal reason to kick out DVC owners.

If they do, if I was an AKV owner. I’d be on with them and ask them to provide legal justifications for it.

But, right now, Jambo rooms being inaccessible because building is closed, is probably a valid reason to displace.

But can they keep DVC Jambo closed if Kidani is fully booked? During the first few weeks, probably Kidani won't sell out, but once parks will start reopening demand may increase. I don't think they can easily justify keeping Jambo closed if people cannot book the resort because everything is booked. Currently only 1BR standard is open all nights for the summer at Kidani, it won't take long to have a few nights when everything is booked.

 

[kmorlock]

I’m still thinking the sports team housing is not the reason Jambo is remaining closed. I do not think they would house the NBA at Jambo. It doesn’t fit the criteria of “bubble”. Coronado seems a much better fit with the tower, varied levels of room types and ample grounds to spread out. Honestly, if I were the NBA, I would go with Gaylord Palms. It’s a mini city with a water park inside! Housing an entire pro sports league in walking distance from @ publicly occupied resort doesn’t make much sense to me. I really think rooms might be being held in anticipation of the restoration of expired points or just plain consolidating for economic reasons.

 

[Doingitagain]

I’m still thinking the sports team housing is not the reason Jambo is remaining closed. I do not think they would house the NBA at Jambo. It doesn’t fit the criteria of “bubble”. Coronado seems a much better fit with the tower, varied levels of room types and ample grounds to spread out. Honestly, if I were the NBA, I would go with Gaylord Palms. It’s a mini city with a water park inside! Housing an entire pro sports league in walking distance from @ publicly occupied resort doesn’t make much sense to me. I really think rooms might be being held in anticipation of the restoration of expired points or just plain consolidating for economic reasons.

I agree. I think they are keeping Jambo closed because they have lots of room at KIdani. I think they will open it with other deluxes after parks open and for rooms for reservations bumped by NBA and MLS.

 

[Sandisw]

I’m still thinking the sports team housing is not the reason Jambo is remaining closed. I do not think they would house the NBA at Jambo. It doesn’t fit the criteria of “bubble”. Coronado seems a much better fit with the tower, varied levels of room types and ample grounds to spread out. Honestly, if I were the NBA, I would go with Gaylord Palms. It’s a mini city with a water park inside! Housing an entire pro sports league in walking distance from @ publicly occupied resort doesn’t make much sense to me. I really think rooms might be being held in anticipation of the restoration of expired points or just plain consolidating for economic reasons.

I posted in the other thread, but the current closure is due to the lack of actual reservations there and Kidani and it didn’t make sense to open up Jambo, especially since Disney wasn’t opening...which seem to imply DVC owners would then have to pay the full cost of running Jambo until WDW opened their hotel.

This info came from Terri to an owner who emailed. It was shared somewhere else.

It may be why SAB stayed closed, The cost is high and DVC would have had to pay it all while YC and BC are closed.

 

[karen4546]

I HAD a reservation at AKV JAMBO Sept 26-29 value studio. I dropped it to pick up 3 nights at Copper Creek. I kept my Sept. 29-Oct 2 Club Level Studio.

I just dropped my CL studio Sept 29-Oct. 2 for 3 nights at Copper Creek. I had a waitlist for it but the system did not pick it up.

My CL studio is not back in the inventory because it does not show up at all.

 

[Sandisw]

I HAD a reservation at AKV JAMBO Sept 26-29 value studio. I dropped it to pick up 3 nights at Copper Creek. I kept my Sept. 29-Oct 2 Club Level Studio.

I just dropped my CL studio Sept 29-Oct. 2 for 3 nights at Copper Creek. I had a waitlist for it but the system did not pick it up.

My CL studio is not back in the inventory because it does not show up at all.

I have read of cash guests who have had their CL reservations changed for as late as December already. Leads me to believe it’s not going to be offered for a while,

 

[kmorlock]

I posted in the other thread, but the current closure is due to the lack of actual reservations there and Kidani and it didn’t make sense to open up Jambo, especially since Disney wasn’t opening...which seem to imply DVC owners would then have to pay the full cost of running Jambo until WDW opened their hotel.

This info came from Terri to an owner who emailed. It was shared somewhere else.

It may be why SAB stayed closed, The cost is high and DVC would have had to pay it all while YC and BC are closed.

This makes way more sense than holding Jambo for the NBA. Thanks for sharing.

 

[RangerPooh]

We have Jambo booked for October and have not heard anything. If there's the possibility of it being closed I hope they notify us soon because airfare was booked months ago. If they need to move us then it might be ok, but I don't want it to be just anywhere, sorry I'm not a big fan of SSR or OKW (even though we own at OKW...). We're also booked for this July at Kidani and don't expect to hear anything about that one.

 

[Sandisw]

We have Jambo booked for October and have not heard anything. If there's the possibility of it being closed I hope they notify us soon because airfare was booked months ago. If they need to move us then it might be ok, but I don't want it to be just anywhere, sorry I'm not a big fan of SSR or OKW (even though we own at OKW...). We're also booked for this July at Kidani and don't expect to hear anything about that one.

It sounds like when AKL is opened by WDW to cash guests, DVC will use those rooms.

I do not see WDW not opening AKL by October. By end of this week, there is a good chance we will hear more about WDW plans for reopening other resorts...

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

But can they keep DVC Jambo closed if Kidani is fully booked? During the first few weeks, probably Kidani won't sell out, but once parks will start reopening demand may increase. I don't think they can easily justify keeping Jambo closed if people cannot book the resort because everything is booked. Currently only 1BR standard is open all nights for the summer at Kidani, it won't take long to have a few nights when everything is booked.

And another question is if they've removed it from booking how would they even know the demand was there? I don't particularly believe they would open it up if Kidani reached full capacity. In part that may be based on their lack of communication about this but also is based on what is obviously a very strong wish to not open up Jambo until the hotel fully opens. Pull the booking availability and they can claim they didn't know that they had the demand. I don't know that driving people to book other resorts is actually an allowable option. IMO they're walking a very fine line with this choice.

I think there's truth to Kidani not being fully booked now but come Sept/Oct? We'll see but there hasn't been much studio availability at either building during those months for many weeks.

 

[FFMickey]

We just switched a Sept reservation at Jambo to Kidani. The Jambo room went straight to being unavailable. We didn’t want to deal with the unknown, but we still got a savannah studio and those views are better at Kidani (from what I hear)

 

[Mzpalmtree]

We just switched a Sept reservation at Jambo to Kidani. The Jambo room went straight to being unavailable. We didn’t want to deal with the unknown, but we still got a savannah studio and those views are better at Kidani (from what I hear)

We switched today too and had the same experience. Unfortunately the new booking cost more points and we had to reduce a night from our stay. We are quite disappointed to not be staying at AKV now since we are new DVCers and it is our home resort, but I didn’t want to have to deal with the unknown and have no say as to where we would be moved to. I emailed MS about it days ago and am not surprised that I’ve received no response. If it’s all because of the NBA I am going to be irate .

 

[momtwoboys]

We just switched a Sept reservation at Jambo to Kidani. The Jambo room went straight to being unavailable. We didn’t want to deal with the unknown, but we still got a savannah studio and those views are better at Kidani (from what I hear)

what are your dates? I have been stalking and for our dates 24-30th there has not been anything

 

[Ariel620]

I am booked June 27 for Jambo value studio. I have not received a call to switch yet, but it looks like at least a few people have got a call, has anyone as late as June 27 been asked to switch yet? I like Jambo better than Kidani and want to stay in Jambo, if I have to switch I would rather a different resort. I will update if I get asked to switch.