heidijanesmith
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Just got back from a three day stay at the PBH 7-20-10 to 7-23-10.
1-LOCATION- East wing rooms, 2nd floor garden view. Rooms were large and lovely. Bathroom was HUGE! I was working some during this vaca and thought the desk was too small. The wireless internet was very nice and worked well. Our room was about the farthest from the boat dock, beach pool and the lobby. All was closer to the West wing, which I requested and did not get. We just stayed at the Poly and are really spoiled by the Poly's amenities. Our location at the Poly was steps from just about anything we needed, PBH, was quite a hike for everything.
2-TRANSPORTATION- We were really disapointed with the transportation to the parks. The boat was very small and did not hold very many people. One late afternoon, we were three boats deep and as the boats come every 20min, we would have waited 1hr just for the boat! We were told that a bus comes twice an hour, so that was not convience either. We ended up taking and paying for rickshaw's. I loved the rickshaw drivers and service. It is NOT part of the hotels' transportaion, but a seperate serivce. The rickshaw ride took the walking path, 5 min tops. It was great!
3-FOOD. The food court pool side closed at 5PM
Why close so early, the pool was open until 10PM. The pool side eatery, was one of the two non-sit down places to eat. The other sit down restraunts were very expensive and not what we wanted to eat. We ended up eating mostly at City Walk
4-POOLS- the kids loved the beach pool. Great slide, good hot tub and just fun to swim at. The lifeguards would organize pool games. We checked out the quite pools, but did not swim in them. The poolside bar automatically added gratuity to our two beer and two smoothly order. I thought that was strange
I am glad that I stayed on-site for the perks you get at the parks, but would not stay at PBH again. Maybe try HRH next time???
1-LOCATION- East wing rooms, 2nd floor garden view. Rooms were large and lovely. Bathroom was HUGE! I was working some during this vaca and thought the desk was too small. The wireless internet was very nice and worked well. Our room was about the farthest from the boat dock, beach pool and the lobby. All was closer to the West wing, which I requested and did not get. We just stayed at the Poly and are really spoiled by the Poly's amenities. Our location at the Poly was steps from just about anything we needed, PBH, was quite a hike for everything.
2-TRANSPORTATION- We were really disapointed with the transportation to the parks. The boat was very small and did not hold very many people. One late afternoon, we were three boats deep and as the boats come every 20min, we would have waited 1hr just for the boat! We were told that a bus comes twice an hour, so that was not convience either. We ended up taking and paying for rickshaw's. I loved the rickshaw drivers and service. It is NOT part of the hotels' transportaion, but a seperate serivce. The rickshaw ride took the walking path, 5 min tops. It was great!
3-FOOD. The food court pool side closed at 5PM
Why close so early, the pool was open until 10PM. The pool side eatery, was one of the two non-sit down places to eat. The other sit down restraunts were very expensive and not what we wanted to eat. We ended up eating mostly at City Walk4-POOLS- the kids loved the beach pool. Great slide, good hot tub and just fun to swim at. The lifeguards would organize pool games. We checked out the quite pools, but did not swim in them. The poolside bar automatically added gratuity to our two beer and two smoothly order. I thought that was strange
I am glad that I stayed on-site for the perks you get at the parks, but would not stay at PBH again. Maybe try HRH next time???
We will be there in a little over 2 weeks and have wondered if I should be concerned about the supposed "ant" problem??
