I notice youve also stayed at AKL and YC. How would you rate the 3 resorts?
Each has it's pros and cons, here is what we thought of the three hotels we have stayed at.
Poly pros:
1-Location, location, location. Easy monorail (when working) to MK or boat. Walking to TTC to catch an EPCOT monorail, super fast and easy. Buses are plentiful and only share with usually one other resort.
2-Rooms sizes are huge and guaranteed day bed.
3-Theme is amazing, you really feel like your in the tropics or Hawaii
4-Wishes from the beach, GCH or pool. Amazing! The music is piped in and you don't have to deal with the crowds
Poly Cons:
1-No hot tub. I know alot of people don't like them but for cool Fall nights a hot tub would have felt wonderful
2-Crowded pool in the summer. We had issues with space and crowding in the summer, not so much in Oct
3-Always a fridge issue, our fridges never really work. We have tried new fridges, keeping the cabinet door open.......never really keeps our stuff cold
YC pros:
1-EPCOT and DHS with in walking distance. No crowd issues after Illuminations. Just walk home
2-SAB pool is awesome, best pool on property
3-Our room patio had an Illuminations view. So much fun to watch
4-Activities across the lake at the Boardwalk, we love to walk around the BW
5-Lots of sit down eateries close by, Cape May has the best seafood dinner buffet
YC cons:
1-Our room was very far from the lobby and pool area. Made a long walk every day for food and the pool
2-Theme is pretty sterile or adult like. Our teens did not like it, thought it was like staying at the Shining Hotel
3-No easy quick service food options. We ate at the pool a couple of times. They do have a good selection though.
4-Buses......horrible, horrible, horrible. Buses to DTD, AK, TL, BB and MK all share with ALL the EPCOT resorts. It can take 30-40min just to make the EPCOT resort hotel rounds before you are off to your park. We took a taxi to TL, BB and DTD while staying there. Buses also seemed to come less often, we would wait for a long time for a bus to come
5-Day bed not guaranteed. We did get one thank goodness, but they are not in every room
AKL pros:
1- Theme, gorgeous hotel. Perfect for our first WDW stay. We had a pool view room and really enjoyed the pool view at night. My parents had a Savannah view as they were in their room quite a bit more and loved watching the animals
2-Great pool, huge and two hot tubs
3-Great buses, even thought Jambo and Kiandi share, that's it and you are on your way
4-Bunk beds, a must if for us as our kids do not like to share a bed
AKL cons:
1-Distance from parks except BB and AK. The resort is quite remote with limitted activities- no lake or other resorts with in easy to get to distance
2-Food options, we do not care for the African themed cuisine. The quick service eatery had limited options
3-Smallest rooms in the deluxe category, not too small for us, but I like the Poly room size the best
We got a great discount on the Poly this year so we went back to the Poly and tried Cl level. We loved watching Wishes from the lounge. Eating breakfast was nice and cold beers from very nice CM's.