CR booked for marathon, upgrade to Poly?

[kirsangel]

Help! I had finally sold DH on the need to spend extra money to stay at CR during our trip in January. I will be running the half marathon and I wanted a resort that was on the route and also easy to travel to the start/finish and also to Mk as we have two small kids. So we adjusted our budget for it. I called yesterday and it is booked. I made a ressie at the Poly, which of course is more expensive so we may need to cut back in other areas(like meals). I know the Poly is supposed to be great, but is the pool even usable in January? I also read NO HOT TUB so that isn't great for me.

Should I stay at the Poly and just not eat a fancy 1/2 marathon celebration dinner(I am a beginning runner and this trip had motivated me to get in shape)? How feasible is it that the CR will open up a room in the next 7 months? Help, I'm conflicted!

 

[chasgoose]

The wing rooms at the Contemporary are hard to get. I would keep the Poly reservations, but I bet that with enough persistence you will be able to book the CR. I was trying to book my room at the CR for my Jan trip that ends the Saturday of the marathon and initially the night of Friday Jan 11th was booked for the room type I wanted, so I held the nights I could and when I called to book the next day I asked about that night again and it suddenly became available. I think that a lot of people are holding reservations right now that might not actually use them. When the 2008 packages become available, if you call quickly you will probably be able to snatch something up.