Hello friends, I am home. Missing the Poly so much that I've been looking at my calendar to see if there is any way to sneak a trip in this fall or winter. In any event, we just had a split-stay starting off at BWI CL for 3 nights and moving to Poly CL for 4 nights including July 3 and 4. I posted a review of BWI CL in the BWI thread, and I also posted a comparison of these 2 CL's in the CL thread. Now, last but not least, I'll post a few words about the Poly portion of our stay.
Since we were moving from BWI, we left that resort on check-out morning and walked through Epcot (stopping to FP Soarin and TT) and hopped on the monorail over to Poly. Received the "room not ready" text while on the monorail. We decided to stop at Hawaii anyway to cool off in the lounge and grab a cold drink (it was exceptionally hot this trip without much rain). So we got off the monorail at Poly and went right to Hawaii. The desk CM buzzed us in and I explained we were checking in but our room wasn't ready. She was shocked that we weren't escorted back to Hawaii, but I explained we didn't even stop in the main building. So...she double-checked all of our info and we went to the lounge for a bit. Let me just say it was like heaven walking into the lounge. We just LOVE it. It's instant relaxation and excitement just to sit in that lounge with that view. While sitting there, my girls suggested we go to AK so we decided to check for FP's. Dinosaur was available, so we booked it and took off for that park. Must've been our lucky trip because the bus was just arriving at the stop and we got right on (this happened to us several times, shockingly!). We went to AK and had a great unplanned day there. I received our "room ready" text so we decided to head back to Poly. I was so excited to see we got our 1st floor request and we didn't get our usual 1503 room but were close by with 1505! I posted our view while we were there, but here's another pic just to keep everything organized.
Room 1505 CL Lagoon View, straight ahead:
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To slight left
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We had a welcome note and chocolates and also nightly turndown service.
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CMs were like normal, some were friendly and some were not. Irv is back to working his normal hours after being laid off earlier in the year. The food was also like normal...not great like RPC, BWI and BC. The first night had meatballs and those potato triangles, plus the normal raw veggies, cheese, pineapple, grapes, pb&j...
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The next night had crab Rangoon and conch, not our favorites so we ordered the Ohana twilight feast (which was great). The next night was July 4 which brought in people out of the woodwork -- wow every CL room must have been occupied and every single person in each room must've been in the lounge! The decorations were festive and the food was good. Thank goodness there was chili this year to help me like boiled hotdogs, plus a big bowl of redhot. Mac & cheese, chicken wings, and I always love the salad but this year they put crumbled blue cheese all over all 3 salads and I don't like blue cheese, So...no salad for me this time. It seemed very popular, though, because they kept refilling 3 large bowls.
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Our last night was sushi, which we don't like so we went to MK and ate at Liberty Tree.
) they said they would put in a request for that. but From what I gather Hawaii house is only Doubles and Tonga (sp) has the king beds... All I know is, I am 129 days out but who's counting.
We stayed in Tokelau twice, most recently May and LOVED it!
Would definitely request it again on a future trip. ENJOY your trip! PS. Let either housekeeping or front desk know about the tray of food. If I see that in any of the resorts for a long time, I pick up the phone and call housekeeping or front desk. It is unsanitary for trays to be kept in the halls, not to mention the smell of food and the fact it looks LOUSY!
