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I know it's all speculation, but does anybody have a "best guess" for construction at the end of July 2014?
Debating between GF and Poly.
Debating between GF and Poly.
I know it's all speculation, but does anybody have a "best guess" for construction at the end of July 2014?
Debating between GF and Poly.
We wanted Poly for August 2014. DVC construction would have been tolerable. But the GCH and pool being out of commission is a deal-breaker.
Word is that people who are booked for Poly from April - August are getting notices that the pool will be out of commission, so they will be "shuttled" to GF.
Deal breaker. For July 2014, you might want to stick with GF. Just my $.02.
Trying to decide if this is a deal breaker for us too! This will be my nieces' first trip and my mom and sister's first trip in many years. We will have five kids ages 12,10,8,7, and 4, so swimming will be important- but ease of transportation is also important, which is why I don't want to give up the Poly so fast. My kids do NOT want to stay at the GF- they say it feels too stuffy and elegant- so I'm trying to look at the bright side and think of getting to try their pool as a positive!We wanted Poly for August 2014. DVC construction would have been tolerable. But the GCH and pool being out of commission is a deal-breaker. Word is that people who are booked for Poly from April - August are getting notices that the pool will be out of commission, so they will be "shuttled" to GF. Deal breaker. For July 2014, you might want to stick with GF. Just my $.02.
Trying to decide if this is a deal breaker for us too! This will be my nieces' first trip and my mom and sister's first trip in many years. We will have five kids ages 12,10,8,7, and 4, so swimming will be important- but ease of transportation is also important, which is why I don't want to give up the Poly so fast. My kids do NOT want to stay at the GF- they say it feels too stuffy and elegant- so I'm trying to look at the bright side and think of getting to try their pool as a positive!
Am I correct that this would just be a 5-10 minute shuttle boat ride over to the GF pool? I was also interested in renting a cabana for our trip one day and was wondering if I could rent one at the GF?? We need to book soon- our trip is late May/early June of next year- so we are trying to make this hard decision.
I haven't uploaded the pictures to my website yet, but to get them up ASAP for you to look at, I made them public on my Google+ account. Try this. If it doesn't work, I could email them to you.
I called and faxed, explaining that it was our five-year wedding anniversary, and we spent our honeymoon in Tokelau and wanted to again. I also asked if we could have a view of the construction. We had a standard view booked, and we got 3914! We felt like we won the lottery.
We have thought about the CR, we're just not in love with the theming. My family stayed at BC this summer and LOVED it, but with the little ones I figure we will be at MK the majority of the time so not sure if we want to be restricted to mostly bus rides to MK. I like the idea of the newly refurbed rooms at the poly and having the access of the TTC also- just trying to decide if that is more important than not having the feature pool. Thanks for the advice!For transportation ease have you thought of CR or one of the EPCOT resorts? Waiting for the boat (even though it's only a 5 minute or so ride), and then having to pack everything up (not like the ease of running back to the room if we forgot something) and then packing up, waiting for the boat all over again to go back to the room sounds likes too much trouble for me - and you have a large group. I would seriously think about switching - but that's me.
There are guests that have reservations in April and even out to August of next year that are being told the pool will be closed and they will have to shuttle over to the Grand Floridian pool.
sorry if this has already been asked, didn't see a previous post on it....
we are planning to meet up at the Poly during our Thanksgiving trip with a large group of friends and then watch Wishes from the beach...will this still be possible?
TIA
I would LOVE to see Tikiman post pictures of views from certain roooms that Poly guests send him during the next several months, along with the room location. Is there any way to do this, Steve? It would be so beneficial for those of us going to the Poly in the upcoming months, knowing how good / bad the views really are. Thanks in advance!
I really want to stay close to MK. Contemporary standard rooms are sold out. GF is not an option (looks stuffy and I have a rowdy 3 year-old boy) and WL doesn't appeal to me. Guess I will suck it up!