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I was able to talk to some staff at Poly around 6:30 that were on the Ride it Out staff.
I have missed the last 10 pages or so - so if this is a repeat I apologize!
There are 45 members of Ride it Out here at the Poly. They are asking Guests to be in their rooms at 9pm tonight but they would make sure to serve food to everyone in line until whenever. The non-RIO CMs need to leave by 8pm and then they would have a much smaller team but they would help out.
They said that once the winds die down to below 40mph tomorrow they will reopen the ceremenial house. They will have food in all locations when that happens - they are hoping that is a mid-day opening. It's likely that the menu will be more simplified in all locations and could go buffet.
We got a voice message at 7:30 that there was arts, crafts, and characters in the ceremonial house from 7-9pm, but we didn't make it over to it.
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A few notes from today:
- CMs were great everywhere. We thanked them for many things and wished them a safe storm but none of them seemed stressed out about being at work.
- when the closing announcement happened around noon, we were at Tuskey House. I'm not sure if these announcements were park wide or just at the restaurant but there was clearly confusion as the first message just said the The Park is Now Closing....(not a mention of 5pm). We asked a few servers calmly about it while other guests flipped out and wanted to refuse to pay full price for their lunch and the CMs told us it was 5pm, not 'now'. A few minutes after that there was a second announcement referencing Plan B with the 5pm closing and order was a bit restored. The CMs told us the last entrance to Tusker was now 4pm.
- Guests booked for Spirit of Aloha were booked at other Poly Restaurants it seems - we talked to a few that had been given Ohana at 8:50. When they talked to the RIO CM he recommended they try to go early as the food would have to change when the regular CMs go home.
- we had a short blip with television service around 7:30 but it came back
- we saw many stores at MK and AK being boarded up well before 5pm.
- our ride back to the Poly on the resort launch was awesome! Best boat captain ever!
- why oh why are the Poly torches still on outside??
I have missed the last 10 pages or so - so if this is a repeat I apologize!
There are 45 members of Ride it Out here at the Poly. They are asking Guests to be in their rooms at 9pm tonight but they would make sure to serve food to everyone in line until whenever. The non-RIO CMs need to leave by 8pm and then they would have a much smaller team but they would help out.
They said that once the winds die down to below 40mph tomorrow they will reopen the ceremenial house. They will have food in all locations when that happens - they are hoping that is a mid-day opening. It's likely that the menu will be more simplified in all locations and could go buffet.
We got a voice message at 7:30 that there was arts, crafts, and characters in the ceremonial house from 7-9pm, but we didn't make it over to it.
*****
A few notes from today:
- CMs were great everywhere. We thanked them for many things and wished them a safe storm but none of them seemed stressed out about being at work.
- when the closing announcement happened around noon, we were at Tuskey House. I'm not sure if these announcements were park wide or just at the restaurant but there was clearly confusion as the first message just said the The Park is Now Closing....(not a mention of 5pm). We asked a few servers calmly about it while other guests flipped out and wanted to refuse to pay full price for their lunch and the CMs told us it was 5pm, not 'now'. A few minutes after that there was a second announcement referencing Plan B with the 5pm closing and order was a bit restored. The CMs told us the last entrance to Tusker was now 4pm.
- Guests booked for Spirit of Aloha were booked at other Poly Restaurants it seems - we talked to a few that had been given Ohana at 8:50. When they talked to the RIO CM he recommended they try to go early as the food would have to change when the regular CMs go home.
- we had a short blip with television service around 7:30 but it came back
- we saw many stores at MK and AK being boarded up well before 5pm.
- our ride back to the Poly on the resort launch was awesome! Best boat captain ever!
- why oh why are the Poly torches still on outside??