I there anyway to avoid this view, I guess I thought those were considered value rooms at AKL, although maybe I misunderstood that or had old information. We are staying 7 nights and I couldn't upgrade to Savannah view for budget reasons. This is a big trip for us and I am not expecting a fabulous view, but I was expecting a full light view and balcony that did not have an entire wall in front of it. Maybe with the pool renovation there will be some flexibilty with the rooms as the hotel may not be full. Currently, there is still standard rooms and Savannah rooms available for our dates. We usually request (I know not guarantee) a higher up floor, would that help?
The highest floor for cash rooms is 4th floor, the 5th and 6th floors are DVC villas (except for a couple of suites, I believe.)
AKL/AKV room categories are confusing & there’s a lot of old info. about former room categories that no longer applies.
First you have two buildings - Jambo which has regular cash rooms and DVC villas and nearby Kidani which is all DVC villas.
Then within Jambo you have differences depending on whether you are staying in a cash room or a villa.
Cash rooms in Jambo currently include standard view (which includes front of the building views from Giraffe and Ostrich trails,) savanna view, pool view, club, and a couple of suites.
DVC villas in Jambo are value (on Ostrich and Giraffe trail in front of the building,) standard (which includes pool view,) savanna, and club.
Although DVC villas view categories are fixed as in this villa is standard, this one savanna view, etc., my suspicion is that cash rooms are somewhat more flexible. Thus, if they don’t sell out the more expensive savanna view cash category they may sell standard views knowing some of those will be upgraded to savanna view.