We returned from a fabulous week at the Poly on Tuesday night. After so many negative posts about the Poly before we left I just wanted to send up a note and say -- you will not be disappointed staying at the Poly. Our first stay was in GV at Hawaii and I was concerned we might be disappointed with just a standard GV room. We were not. Concierge is nice but the resort is so fantastic we didn't miss it. Our only requests were a non-smoking room with a balcony. Our room was 2nd floor with a balcony, Tokelau non--pool side. I admit I was disappointed at first --but the location worked out great. The building and our room were spotless, quiet and convenient and I would gladly stay there again.
Hurricane Damage--everything was cleaned up by our arrival but there was quite a bit of bruised and damaged shrubbery around the resort. Many of the large or taller trees were sporting numerous fresh cuts. The resort is so lush and beautiful I would expect by next spring there will be no remnants of the storm.
The "poly smell" I hate to even address this but, my two cents----twice (only twice) when we entered the building in late afternoon at the hotest point of the day there was that stale stagnant smell of a building that's air conditioning wasn't keeping up. I would guess there had been a lot of traffic in and out of the building or a door had been stuck open. That's it. Absolutely no problem in the room. And we did have a couple of extremely hot days. I would tell anyone regardless of their asthma, allergies or what not -- no need to worry. (I had absolutely no trouble with my allergies until about 15 minutes after we left the airport in WI. Reason #79 on my list about why we should move south.)
Just a last note --- anyone with young kids, I just cannot imagine staying anywhere else. Transportation here is such a dream and so convenient. There is so much to do and see for the kids without ever leaving the resort. The Poly is a total escape. I don't know if this makes sense or not. I was sitting at the volcano pool on our last night and looked off towards the GF to see the monorail traveling along towards MK and I just panned around the monorail loop. The colors, buildings and landscape are so perfect you feel as if you are sitting in a fantasy come to life. A forever Poly fan I am!
Hurricane Damage--everything was cleaned up by our arrival but there was quite a bit of bruised and damaged shrubbery around the resort. Many of the large or taller trees were sporting numerous fresh cuts. The resort is so lush and beautiful I would expect by next spring there will be no remnants of the storm.
The "poly smell" I hate to even address this but, my two cents----twice (only twice) when we entered the building in late afternoon at the hotest point of the day there was that stale stagnant smell of a building that's air conditioning wasn't keeping up. I would guess there had been a lot of traffic in and out of the building or a door had been stuck open. That's it. Absolutely no problem in the room. And we did have a couple of extremely hot days. I would tell anyone regardless of their asthma, allergies or what not -- no need to worry. (I had absolutely no trouble with my allergies until about 15 minutes after we left the airport in WI. Reason #79 on my list about why we should move south.)
Just a last note --- anyone with young kids, I just cannot imagine staying anywhere else. Transportation here is such a dream and so convenient. There is so much to do and see for the kids without ever leaving the resort. The Poly is a total escape. I don't know if this makes sense or not. I was sitting at the volcano pool on our last night and looked off towards the GF to see the monorail traveling along towards MK and I just panned around the monorail loop. The colors, buildings and landscape are so perfect you feel as if you are sitting in a fantasy come to life. A forever Poly fan I am!
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