I just looked it up. I believe the Poly now has 72 1 bedrooms. Grand Floridian has 30.
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One other factor worth considering for when you move to 1-beds.
Those at Bay Lake and Kidani have the extra full bathroom. So 1-beds have 2 bathrooms, 2-beds have 3 bathrooms.
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The Kidani 1-bedroom was larger than my first apartment. I think that the master bathroom alone is larger than the bedroom that my family of 4 spends most of the summer in.
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And the Poly 1-beds have a second bath!
The 2-bed we had at Bay Lake felt like it had more living space than our 3-bed house (excluding attic and outdoor storage).
The size of the master suite is probably as big as our top floor with 3 beds & bathroom.
Then the living room & kitchen is similar to our house area wise, and the second bedroom and bathroom takes care of the other 2 downstairs rooms.
I should really dig out the info sheet on our own house which shows the floor space area, and compare.
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Get the DVC Field Guide and read it.
It is an excellent resource for learning everything you need to know about DVC. I bought it a couple of years ago to figure out if DVC made sense and ended up buying a loaded resale Boardwalk contract followed by a direct poly a few months later.
If you love Poly, I would just buy direct because the difference in price right now between direct with incentives ($1K anniversary, $1K Disney Visa, $500 D23 + Magical Beginnings ($20/point rebate)) and resale just isn’t enough given the inability to book new resorts with resale points. One piece of advice about Magical Beginnings- buy a month or two before the start of your desired use year and you’ll get current use year points which you can then sell back to Disney for the rebate.
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This is great advice thank you!
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Interesting. I was under the impression that there were only 30ish 1 bedrooms at the Poly Tower, while there are a total of 410+ studios between the Poly Tower and original Poly, which might make the 1 beds hard to get due to the ratio of studios to other room types. 72 1 bedrooms changes the math.
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Poly 1-bed room breakdown:
Standard view 25
Preferred view 12
Theme park view 35
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Thanks!