We are having a great trip so far. We stopped into Epcot to get the Illuminations spirit jersey and we picked up a chef Figment Funko Pop while there, the food booths opened at 10 am yesterday which surprised me, especially because the park was pretty dead at that time (except merchandise lines). We walked out back through I gateway and the Skyliner was running, but not accepting passengers from the Epcot station, so we took the bus from the beach club to DS. We did Wine Bar George for brunch (delicious, highly recommend), while there, we received our room ready text ~11:30 am.
Once at the Poly, we went to our room in Tonga and met the nice concierge at the desk who reviewed all the perks and such with us. Spent the afternoon at the pool and going to the Hawaii building for pog-mosas (that part may have just been me). We had a nice rum filled dinner at the Trader Sams Tiki Terrace and watched the water pageant and fireworks from the beach. The only 'issue' with that was it was really hard to hear the Happily Ever After music from where we were seated on the sand in front of the 'fence'. Otherwise, it was absolutely perfect. I have been meaning to get to the Poly to do this since we started coming to WDW, but never got around to it, personally, I much prefer the view from here than from the Contemporary.
My husband, unfortunately, had a side effect from the treatment that he has been receiving for a herniated disk in his back so he had to video chat a teledoc (yay for live health online!) to have a prescription called into Turner Drugs, but they were also awesome and delivered his prescription to the front desk in about an hour from receiving it, so all was well in the end.
We had a tonga toast delivered for breakfast, such an awesome perk! Now we are hanging out in the room before California Grill Brunch (I know I know, so much food, but we had to cancel our brunch from our April trip so I am committed to this).
Once back, we will change into our Halloween costumes and head to the party! The weather has been fantastic, I usually hate coming this time of year as I find it way too hot, but yesterday was great as long as you were out of the sun, and I almost wanted a sweatshirt while watching the fireworks.
I know there has been some discussion of the Poly not having a GM email address like the other resorts, and only having the QR code available during your stay. We receive both the QR code paper and also a card with the Resort Duty Manager's phone number and the GM email address, but I am not sure if it is OK to post that email since it seems they don't usually give it out.
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