Pool/Marina View Rooms Now Bookable at Poly!

[Long Beach Mike]

Hi All,

I just wrote a similar post under the Poly link, but wanted to make sure anyone interested got to know ASAP that Disney has officially made Pool/Marina views a separate bookable room category at Poly. Rooms with these desirable views (i.e. Samoa) are no longer Standard Rooms.

Yesterday I saw the pool/marina room category listed on MDE, but no matter what dates I chose there were no rooms available.

I just checked this morning and bookable rooms for the pool/marina rooms are now available. I just upgraded my standard room for 4/2-4/10/18 to pool/marina. The cost of the upgrade was about a 10% increase in price.

FYI, there were are no standard rooms available for those dates, but there are pool/marina, so it appears Disney may have been holding inventory back in contemplation of this change.

I'm very excited to have a better chance at my 3rd floor Samoa. I feel an approximately 10% surcharge to move up to a more desired room view is worth it, especially compared to the huge jump in price there is to upgrade to a Lagoon or Theme Park view.

Everyone here has been so helpful and understanding, so glad I can contribute a bit

 

[Farro]

Thanks!

They really made this confusing! Just to add - yesterday I was told I can't upgrade, no upgrades through end of 2017 (which I wasn't sure I believed) - so I just looked again and marina/pool view is still showing as unavailable for 2017 dates (through December). Looks like only 2018 dates.

***edited - anyone with 2017 dates should definitely try for themselves and report back to all of us - I could have easily been given the wrong information, it's happened before.

Honestly, that's probably a good thing as I don't know if I would be able to stop myself from upgrading...

 

[Long Beach Mike]

UPDATE: I checked online again today and the Pool or Marina view room category is now unavailable for my dates of travel (4/2-4/10/18), and I can't find ANY dates in 2018 for which rooms in this category are available. So happy I grabbed it yesterday!

I have a feeling this is going to be a very very difficult room category to book.