Help Needed: Portofino Bay/Poly/WL

[richard3330]

Hello,

We were booking a vacation for this Xmas a while back and wanted to stay in Wilderness Lodge or Polynesian and Portofino Bay for 7 nights/each. Our Travel Agent said that Portofino Bay was F/Booked, so we chose to stay at WL for 1 week and Polynesian for 1 week. We have now found out that a 'DELUXE POOL VIEW - 2 QUEEN BEDS OVERSIZED ROOMS WITH SOUND SYSTEM FAX AND VCP' has become available at Portofino Bay.

Should we reconsider?? and if so should we not stay at WL or Polynesian??

We have stayed at Portofino Bay before and loved it, and now the opportunity has arisen we want to stay there again, but which hotel in your opinion should we choose to 'do' with it?

Thanks for any help or advice you can give

Richard.

 

[MsDisney]

We were booking a vacation for this Xmas a while back and wanted to stay in Wilderness Lodge or Polynesian and Portofino Bay for 7 nights/each. Our Travel Agent said that Portofino Bay was F/Booked, so we chose to stay at WL for 1 week and Polynesian for 1 week. We have now found out that a 'DELUXE POOL VIEW - 2 QUEEN BEDS OVERSIZED ROOMS WITH SOUND SYSTEM FAX AND VCP' has become available at Portofino Bay.

I guess alot of it depends on where you're going to be spending your park time...Do you plan to spend time at the WDW parks?
It seems like a long time to be at PBH, especially if you're going to split your time between WDW and Universal.

I think, given the choice, that I would spend a week at WDW and a week at PBH...rather than spend it all at Disney hotels...that's a busy time of year, and staying at the PBH will give you Express access to the Universal/IOA attractions which is a wonderful perk! I would go for the busiest week that you plan to be there at PBH and then the slower week at WDW (I don't know what your exact dates are).

That way, you can have the best of both "worlds"!

Karen