MinnesotaMouseketeers
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Got back on the 26th from the Wonder.
We added an extra night onto the Poly portion of the trip and got in on Wednesday the 18th.
I have nothing but great words to say about the Poly. The grounds are beautiful. The Disney staff did a Herculean job of cleaning up after Charley. There were several stumps left in the ground yet,,one tiki torch was still on the ground by the bus pickup station, but it was really hard to tell that Charley went through. If you are booked for the Poly in the near future, don't worry the resort and parks are in great shape. Most of the damage you may notice is along side the roads within Disney property. The groves of trees there still have some snapped and uprooted trees visable.
Pray for the families that were affected. Flying in you could see there were thousands of roofs in the Olando area covered with blue tarp. I can't imagine what it must look like on the Gulf Coast.
We did the "Spirit of Aloha" our first night. We all loved it. It was a great show and the food was wonderful. I would highly recommend it.
We ate at "Ohana's" and we also loved the food here and I would even say the show. They cook over a large open pit BBQ using split oak to keep the fires going. The food is on large squers (sp?), the waiters come up to your table and push off as much of your choice of meat as you like, beef, chicken, pork and shrimp. Along with some great side dishes. Somewhere we have the menus of both places and if someone wants more info we can give it to you.
We loved the pool theming. and had a blast on the volcano slide. My DS (12) went on it dozens of times. Watched the fire works from the beach while eating Michey bars. My DS and I did the water mice and had a blast. You can't beat the view from the beach and trasportation was excelent.
The room was clean, and large; it was the first thing my wife mentioned when we walked in. We had a parking lot/monorail view for the add on night and asked if we could just stay there for the remaining land portion of our package. We did not stay in there very much and it did not matter to us about the view.
The only thing I would do different is; not go in the summer again. This fell over my DW 40th birthday and this is what she wanted to do to celebrate this milestone birthday. It was in the low to mid 90s with a heat index in the low hundreds. I can honestly say, if given a choice, I would take a colder than normal Minnesota winter than go through that kind of heat and humidity again. We knew going into it that it would be uncomfortable and we had a great time. We never were in a hurry to get from point A to B and drank lots of water. But never again.
And parents bringing young kids this time of year, give them a break. We saw a lot of hot, tired and cranky kids in the theme parks. Some with parents that were not very understanding of the situation.
If you have any questions we will be glad to answer any and all we can.
We added an extra night onto the Poly portion of the trip and got in on Wednesday the 18th.
I have nothing but great words to say about the Poly. The grounds are beautiful. The Disney staff did a Herculean job of cleaning up after Charley. There were several stumps left in the ground yet,,one tiki torch was still on the ground by the bus pickup station, but it was really hard to tell that Charley went through. If you are booked for the Poly in the near future, don't worry the resort and parks are in great shape. Most of the damage you may notice is along side the roads within Disney property. The groves of trees there still have some snapped and uprooted trees visable.
Pray for the families that were affected. Flying in you could see there were thousands of roofs in the Olando area covered with blue tarp. I can't imagine what it must look like on the Gulf Coast.
We did the "Spirit of Aloha" our first night. We all loved it. It was a great show and the food was wonderful. I would highly recommend it.
We ate at "Ohana's" and we also loved the food here and I would even say the show. They cook over a large open pit BBQ using split oak to keep the fires going. The food is on large squers (sp?), the waiters come up to your table and push off as much of your choice of meat as you like, beef, chicken, pork and shrimp. Along with some great side dishes. Somewhere we have the menus of both places and if someone wants more info we can give it to you.
We loved the pool theming. and had a blast on the volcano slide. My DS (12) went on it dozens of times. Watched the fire works from the beach while eating Michey bars. My DS and I did the water mice and had a blast. You can't beat the view from the beach and trasportation was excelent.
The room was clean, and large; it was the first thing my wife mentioned when we walked in. We had a parking lot/monorail view for the add on night and asked if we could just stay there for the remaining land portion of our package. We did not stay in there very much and it did not matter to us about the view.
The only thing I would do different is; not go in the summer again. This fell over my DW 40th birthday and this is what she wanted to do to celebrate this milestone birthday. It was in the low to mid 90s with a heat index in the low hundreds. I can honestly say, if given a choice, I would take a colder than normal Minnesota winter than go through that kind of heat and humidity again. We knew going into it that it would be uncomfortable and we had a great time. We never were in a hurry to get from point A to B and drank lots of water. But never again.
And parents bringing young kids this time of year, give them a break. We saw a lot of hot, tired and cranky kids in the theme parks. Some with parents that were not very understanding of the situation.
If you have any questions we will be glad to answer any and all we can.
I agree about the heat and humidity. We went the end of May/beginning of June a few years ago and I could barely stand it. We went the 1st of March this past year and it was a dream!! Glad you were able to pace yourself and still have a great time. 
