ALOHA! The Polynesian Resort Information Thread: September 2012

[DznyCrzy11]

I tried to take pictures of all the new merchandise and prices! The price is after the picture of its matching merchandise

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Thanks for the pics!!! It seems like they have better merchandise, can't wait to see it in person!!

LOVE the merch pics!!! I just squealed when I saw the tumbler!!! I was hoping they'd have one!!! Now I just have to wait until September to buy it!!!

Same here!!! I have a mental list of what I want to buy, I just hope it's the same items when we get there in September!!

August 20th can't get here fast enough! Gahhhhh!!!!!

I know, I'm anxious for Sept 1st....although that will also mean summer is ending, ugh, I feel like I'm wishing the summer away!!!

 

[disneydreamin247]

The BB was for 35% off. We booked 13 nights just to hold availability until I book airfare.

 

[DznyCrzy11]

The BB was for 35% off. We booked 13 nights just to hold availability until I book airfare.

Oh, that's a great offer!!!! Hopefully when we go in September they will still be offering the 35% off or better yet, the 40% off they use to offer!!

 

[Ferrentinos]

The BB was for 35% off. We booked 13 nights just to hold availability until I book airfare.

That's amazing! Wonder what ours will be in July!

 

[Wanna be Ariel]

Oh, that's a great offer!!!! Hopefully when we go in September they will still be offering the 35% off or better yet, the 40% off they use to offer!!

35% is what we got for our upcoming September trip. That is how we can afford to stay CL. I hope that is the BB they will have so we can come back next year. I hope it won't be FD that won't help any. But I would LOVE 40% too!

 

[Mommy to Kayla]

Is there a way to search in a particular thread for a key word? I'm on my iPad so I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I wanted some advice on the cabanas and was hoping to find info in the thread somewhere. So forgive me if this has been talked about to death.

We are headed to our very first WDW trip in 21 days! Woohoo! We are staying 6 nights at the Beach Club and 4 nights at the POLY CL. I went ahead and decided to rent a cabana for one of our days at the poly. I couldn't decide if we should do 4 hours (10-2) or 9 hours (10-7). I went ahead and reserved 9 hours and then decided we could always cancel the extra hours if we don't think we will want to stay there the whole day.

Has anyone here tried the cabanas? Was it worth it? I reserved it for July 2nd which I know is a busy time of year so I was thinking the poly might be extra crowded and it might make sense to have the space and comfort. Plus we are coming all the way from Seattle and not sure if we will be coming all the way to WDW again anytime soon ( we will probably try to go to DL in a year or two though).

I also reserved the two lounge chairs/umbrella/table at both BB and TL (on the 4th of July).

Sooooo excited!!

 

[TaraPA]

Oh, that's a great offer!!!! Hopefully when we go in September they will still be offering the 35% off or better yet, the 40% off they use to offer!!

aaahhhh....40%....where have you been?!?!?!

The last time I saw a 40% discount was the winter 2011/12 AP discount. We stayed at Poly in March of 2012 at 40% off. I haven't seen it since

 

[Ferrentinos]

Is there a way to search in a particular thread for a key word? I'm on my iPad so I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I wanted some advice on the cabanas and was hoping to find info in the thread somewhere. So forgive me if this has been talked about to death.

We are headed to our very first WDW trip in 21 days! Woohoo! We are staying 6 nights at the Beach Club and 4 nights at the POLY CL. I went ahead and decided to rent a cabana for one of our days at the poly. I couldn't decide if we should do 4 hours (10-2) or 9 hours (10-7). I went ahead and reserved 9 hours and then decided we could always cancel the extra hours if we don't think we will want to stay there the whole day.

Has anyone here tried the cabanas? Was it worth it? I reserved it for July 2nd which I know is a busy time of year so I was thinking the poly might be extra crowded and it might make sense to have the space and comfort. Plus we are coming all the way from Seattle and not sure if we will be coming all the way to WDW again anytime soon ( we will probably try to go to DL in a year or two though).

I also reserved the two lounge chairs/umbrella/table at both BB and TL (on the 4th of July).

Sooooo excited!!

We have also rented a cabana in July but we did morning only as DD will probably take a nap and then we will head to the parks afterwards. I'm so excited to try it out! We did it for the same reasons - we figured the pool might be extra crowded due to the time of year and this will guarantee we get some space to ourselves!

 

[DznyCrzy11]

aaahhhh....40%....where have you been?!?!?!

The last time I saw a 40% discount was the winter 2011/12 AP discount. We stayed at Poly in March of 2012 at 40% off. I haven't seen it since

I know, really!!! The last time I saw 40% off was the bb offer when we stayed at Poly in Sept 2011.....too bad I had decided to wait and not take advantage of that 40% off!!!!

 

[cricket00]

dumb question: the poly has an in-room fridge, right? like the dorm sized ones?

 

[johnsonet]

dumb question: the poly has an in-room fridge, right? like the dorm sized ones?

yes It's been a few years since I've stayed at the Poly but here's a pic:

 

[cricket00]

yes It's been a few years since I've stayed at the Poly but here's a pic:

great...thanks!

 

[johnsonet]

great...thanks!

You're welcome

 

[BringingUpDisney]

When does this start?

It's the month of December 5:30 - 8:30. We decided to do it right at 5:30 (If we get requested time) followed by the 6:15 HDDR.

 

[guitarob]

Hey everyone! I'm still alive, I haven't been posting much, but I'm still paying attention. I notice we're running out of room in this thread, so I plan to have a new thread done by the end of the weekend.

If anyone has any pictures of the new rooms, CL areas, or anything else that we may need to add, please PM me, because I would like to update the front page. Please limit it to photos that you have taken yourself. I don't want to start any trouble by stealing someone else's photos from the web.

Thanks!!

 

[rcraw45425]

Here now, Tokelau room 2905. Room decor is nice, room is spacious, bathroom is not with the addition of two sinks. No privacy at all for the potty area, half wall does not even extend to cover the actual commode. No towel rack close to tub/shower either as Tikiman reported in Hawaii. Had some issues with non working power receptacles but they were handled by maintenance yesterday. Can see Wishes from balcony if you lean out. No bounceback brochure at check in and nothing in the room so far. No biggie for us as I believe that this may be our last WDW stay for a while. Crowd and CM issues are making US/IOA much more attractive to us at this stage in our family's life (Grown teens).

 

[Lita]

Here now, Tokelau room 2905. Room decor is nice, room is spacious, bathroom is not with the addition of two sinks. No privacy at all for the potty area, half wall does not even extend to cover the actual commode. No towel rack close to tub/shower either as Tikiman reported in Hawaii. Had some issues with non working power receptacles but they were handled by maintenance yesterday. Can see Wishes from balcony if you lean out. No bounceback brochure at check in and nothing in the room so far. No biggie for us as I believe that this may be our last WDW stay for a while. Crowd and CM issues are making US/IOA much more attractive to us at this stage in our family's life (Grown teens).

The bounce back brochure is in the brown folder in your room. It is on the back of the Be Our Guest brochure inside.

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[my2princessgirls]

The bounce back brochure is in the brown folder in your room. It is on the back of the Be Our Guest brochure inside.

Sent from my iPad using DISBoards

Unless of course the previous guests took that part out of the folder. I happened to notice that there were 2 missing parts in our folder at the Contemporary over the weekend - one of them being the bounce back brochure. I'm not sure how often those folders are checked to see that they are still complete.

 

[rcraw45425]

Unless of course the previous guests took that part out of the folder. I happened to notice that there were 2 missing parts in our folder at the Contemporary over the weekend - one of them being the bounce back brochure. I'm not sure how often those folders are checked to see that they are still complete.

Ours is also gone. THe brown folder simply has a little bit of resort info in it. If we weren't regulars we would never know that it was missing....

 

[mcjingles]

Can you take a boat from Poly to CR?

We have dinner AdR at the wave our arrival night. Thought that might be nice vs monorail.