So is your "banned from trip planning" policy helping you get your projects done? Seems to me like it would be a pretty good motivation!
Well, no. I am the one suffering from not planning trips, but Fran is our rate determining factor in packing up. I don't seem to know how to do it on my own so she needs to supervise. Although we have made some good progress in the last week, but with going up to my parents later this week, nothing is going to get done in the next two days.
The Poly bungalows are 2-bedroom units, and run anywhere from a low season mid-week rate of 115 points per night to 227 a night at peak weekend season. Using my previous $8.42 per point calculation – that would cost us $968 to $1,911 per NIGHT. For Non-DVC, they start at around $2000 a night and go up from there.
Our server at the Grand Floridian seemed to think that they go for around $3500 per night, but that could be when they are 227 points per night. We paid merely 135 per night.
It was very cool to see – but truthfully I am not at all envious of the idea of staying here. To me, Disney trips are about being out and about. If I ever stayed here, I don’t think I’d want to ever leave my room.
I was a little like that. We spent our first night cooking in the room and the second night we had dinner at O'hana and came back to the room for the fireworks. It was definitely a few days that we enjoyed our time in the room. Fran got cabin fever and insisted we leave while we stayed there.
DD wanted to get an order of Pot Stickers, so we let her.
She sure likes her potstickers, doesn't she!
(Don’t tell her I said all this!)
Next in Tomorrowland was Carousel of Progress. DD loves this attraction for some reason. While I think it’s a classic, it’s to me one of those “every other trip” type attractions. But hey – It’s a great big beautiful tomorrow!
I really like it too, it's such a classic attraction and since it's only at MK, I like to see it when I can.
Sorry for the long wait between posts - I've been very busy with the holidays,
Ugh, I'm lucky to be squeezing in this reply! I had one all quoted and everything a couple days ago and the DIS deleted it.
If you just let the check-out go automatically – then the Disney computer system won’t set you up in the new room until the automatic check-out goes through, which might not be until mid-afternoon. By checking out at the desk, you are now eligible to “check-in” to your next room – so it will likely happen faster this way.
Interesting. Six years ago we were transferring from the THV to Kidani and I went over first thing in the morning to check in. I suppose if I had known that I should check out of the THV, maybe our room would have been ready sooner.
I don’t remember the old movie being so distorted when you were off to the side.
Thanks for the pictures. I've only seen it from the middle row and only heard about the distortion, I can totally see it in your pictures.
We found a photopass photographer walking by, and decided we better get a record of the meetup while we could.
That was a great idea! We ended up doing the same for several more of our meets!
Thanks Alison! (And Fran for not selling it on ebay!)
You're welcome and I also felt a special sort of thanks to you for letting me know about it in advance with enough time that we could plan on going out to get them. The mugs went on sale at noon and were gone by 8 or 9PM. We were in Trader Sams and our server brought us the mugs before we were even done eating because she didn't want them to sell out.
DD wanted pot stickers in China…but I didn’t get a photo.
She really does like her potstickers!
There was a lot of space wasted here, and so the living area felt like it was almost smaller than the value rooms. So, while I wouldn’t call this room “worse” per se since the décor will be changing shortly, I would put the room quality as equal between this standard room and the value room, and the value room actually won on view. We have definitely decided that we are “all in” on the idea of using the value rooms, especially when it’s just the two of us. (I’ll talk a little more on comparing Kidani and Jambo later in the TR.)
We rarely stay in studios, in fact we have only done so at the VGC and the one night at the Poly, and I have not stayed in a value room, but I thought that the one and two bedrooms at Kidani were incredibly roomy. The Master bath was a huge probably waste of space, but I didn't mind, especially since our Master Bath at home is similar in size. You folks are much more mobile and spend a lot more time in the parks than we do. I like my relax in the room time since at home I'm rarely relaxing, even though I have such a great house for such things. We really need to slow down!