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WithoutTheFezOn posted:What’s a good way to find out what dates a room is available at a WDW resort? Going one day at a time until you see something other than “no rooms available” can’t be it. No that's pretty much it. You can call the hotline and chitter chatter with an amazing cast member while they do it if you don't want to.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:35
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Tim Whatley posted:CB is my favorite resort of all time and adding the skyliners was an added bonus. It's all so easy. I know it's supposed to convey excitement but the kids looking at each other instead of the dinosaur is funny.
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Mar 16, 2021 22:18
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Question about dining reservations. I know right now it's 60 days out for them. When I went last year and stayed on property, I could make reservations for the whole trip right on the 60 day mark because it's 60 days from the first day of your stay plus 10(?) days after that date. On my next trip I'm not staying on property. I already have tickets and park passes for all the days. When I hit the 60 day mark, can I do dining reservations for all the days, or just that first day? I hope that makes sense.
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Mar 16, 2021 22:31
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Nanigans posted:Thanks for letting me know they’re not worth it, everyone. Braks already said it but I honestly prefer an AoA suite to a room at the Poly. More room, two bathrooms, can hold six and a bedroom door that can be closed to get some peace from the kids. Plus, the whole place has Disney cartoons everywhere and is what I thought a Disney hotel should look like. The first time I went to Disney we went to Coronado and I was disappointed because it looked run down (even though that was how it was supposed to look) and the room was relatively small. The Skyliner itself is great. Never rode it from AoA but from Caribbean Beach and they should make them go to every park.
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Mar 16, 2021 22:37
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We stayed at Caribbean Beach for one of our family vacations and my wife loved it. The addition of the skylines should make an option for a repeat visit.
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Mar 16, 2021 22:54
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Silly Burrito posted:Braks already said it but I honestly prefer an AoA suite to a room at the Poly. More room, two bathrooms, can hold six and a bedroom door that can be closed to get some peace from the kids. Plus, the whole place has Disney cartoons everywhere and is what I thought a Disney hotel should look like. Exact same for me in 2019. AoA was a great priced option to take our 2 kids and the Skyliner was rad. A++
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Mar 16, 2021 23:02
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Jose Oquendo posted:Question about dining reservations. I believe you have to do each day separately but it’s been so long since I did dining (and especially offsite dining) that now I can’t remember. I do remember you used to have to do dining one day at a time for offsite.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:03
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The AoA suites are awesome. We stayed in one on our very first WDW trip in 2015. We had a few issues with them though The building is constructed very well, so well we couldn't get an AT&T cell phone signal in our room. I always report signal issues via the ATT Mark the Spot app, and supposedly they built a new tower in the area a few months after our trip, but those buildings are solid. We couldn't even text our family members down the hall. The price of those rooms went through the roof sometime after our Feb 2015 trip. I think we paid an average of around 350 or 360 a night at the time. I know when we looked at going back in March 2016 it was either less expensive, or the same price for us to rent DVC points at BLT in a 1 bedroom (this was before we bought into DVC). Those rooms are going for north of 500 a night last I checked now. The AoA bus stop is always the farthest drat bus stop at the parks. After a long night at MK I despised the walk to the AoA bustop. I think Fantasyland to AoA bus stop is .75 miles if I remember right.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:04
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Silly Burrito posted:Braks already said it but I honestly prefer an AoA suite to a room at the Poly. More room, two bathrooms, can hold six and a bedroom door that can be closed to get some peace from the kids. Plus, the whole place has Disney cartoons everywhere and is what I thought a Disney hotel should look like. Sure the room is better but the Poly has a lot of amenities that beat AoA. Easy walk to monorail, trader sam's, the pools are really good, some extra activities for kids in the activities center, luau, ohana, kona cafe, rent boats for the lagoon, dole whip window, you can walk to MK now too if you really want to. And if you have a stroller being at a monorail hotel is incredible as compared to the bus to AoA. Wheel those kids on without even waking them up as opposed to scoop them out of their seats and suffer a crowded bus ride while balancing a kid and a stroller. The AoA suite is really good though.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:11
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Braksgirl posted:I believe you have to do each day separately but it’s been so long since I did dining (and especially offsite dining) that now I can’t remember. I do remember you used to have to do dining one day at a time for offsite. It’s what I feared. I’ll have to poke around the website and see if I can find more info. I was hoping things might be different right now due to covid.
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Dren posted:Sure the room is better but the Poly has a lot of amenities that beat AoA. Easy walk to monorail, trader sam's, the pools are really good, some extra activities for kids in the activities center, luau, ohana, kona cafe, rent boats for the lagoon, dole whip window, you can walk to MK now too if you really want to. And if you have a stroller being at a monorail hotel is incredible as compared to the bus to AoA. Wheel those kids on without even waking them up as opposed to scoop them out of their seats and suffer a crowded bus ride while balancing a kid and a stroller. Oh no doubt the Poly is awesome for all the reasons you say. Monorail was the number one reason, the beach and pools are great, and the electrical parade is always fun to watch. But on a strictly room basis, I prefer the AoA Disney theming (and I love the beach) and just the room itself. Cars, Lion King, Nemo, doesn't matter, all are great.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:34
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I'm doing Poly for my trip in October and I am *so excited* With the 50th AND Ratatouille opening, I assume the parks will be packed, so I plan to spend a decent amount of time just chilling at the resort. Also, god yes, the Skyliner is amazing.
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Mar 17, 2021 04:15
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Not enough love here for Port Orleans - Riverside. To me, the most beautiful resort grounds by far. And for those naysaying Coronado Springs, I'm hoping those opinions were formed before Destino Tower was built, because that thing is amazing.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:23
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POR and POFQ need renovations. I've stayed in the Royal Rooms at POR and they're cute and fine, but that resort is huge. My friend was all the way in the back and that's a real hike, you know? The Coronado stay that SB was talking about was in 2012 so yeah, long before Gran Destino. I haven't yet had a chance to stay in the tower but it's on my list.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:29
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Coronado has had a ton of renovations to their rooms the last two years, even excluding the new tower. Worth checking out, IMO.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:56
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Omne posted:Not enough love here for Port Orleans - Riverside. To me, the most beautiful resort grounds by far. I actually don't like the tower; I like the old rooms. It's pretty but it's huge and it makes the sightlines feel weird to me. Braksgirl posted:POR and POFQ need renovations. I've stayed in the Royal Rooms at POR and they're cute and fine, but that resort is huge. My friend was all the way in the back and that's a real hike, you know? What blew me away was how far the walk to the bus stop was from Patisserie Place; or whatever that one Royal Room section is. You're either running across that bridge all the way to the front lobby bus stop or you're walking up a dimly lit road like three buildings back (four?). I expected Royal Rooms to be situated like, right there at bus stops right with the preferred rooms. I don't see me staying at POR or POFQ in the future, but I do like Alligator Bayou's buildings and I'd probably catch a night there if I needed a spot filler room. E: My Oct 1st has me at Coronado right now, but depending on who ends up going with me (the husband got a surprise deployment to loving Afghanistan, because my life won't stop being on fire) that might change. If it's me and the service dog, I'll probably go somewhere new just for the hell of it. Somewhere that doesn't have the scaryliner so I can't be encouraged to go on it 
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Mar 17, 2021 15:00
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The Port Orleans resorts are both great. FQ is wonderful for how small it is. And Riverside is... well the Alligator Bayou part is great. But the plantation house rooms are... yeah... no..... If all of Riverside were Bayou themed, I'd be very into POR And as mentioned, yeah it's so big.
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Disneyland has re-opening plans. https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/disneyland-to-reopen-on-april-30-ceo-bob-chapek-announces-1234932699/#! "Variety" posted:Mickey Mouse is back.
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Mar 17, 2021 17:55
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Oh come on, decorating an apartment block style hotel building to look like a big mansion at POR is fun. I put up with some really poor location in order to stay in one. The room itself was such that I would choose FQ instead in the future, but bayous don't do much for me (and as it is I'm trying to get over my swamp creature phobias when I'm in WDW so making the grounds look like an alligator habitat isn't great.) Admittedly that's like when some of the most gimmicky hotels in Vegas need a refurb and some poor distant schmuck comes off the plane with the expectation to have a hotel room in a pyramid or a Disneyfied Chrysler Building. "You don't really want those" is ineffective.
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Craptacular! posted:Oh come on, decorating an apartment block style hotel building to look like a big mansion at POR is fun. I put up with some really poor location in order to stay in one. The room itself was such that I would choose FQ instead in the future, but bayous don't do much for me (and as it is I'm trying to get over my swamp creature phobias when I'm in WDW so making the grounds look like an alligator habitat isn't great.) I think she was saying the plantation house themed rooms are not, in fact, fun.
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Disney should sell monorail themed masks Actually the real insanity is a lack of Spaceship Earth masks Also yes, plantation house themed buildings are not fun.
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After being a second late on the 7am window yesterday, I was able to grab a boarding group at the 1pm window much to my enjoyment. It fell right when our Oga's reservation popped, but at the suggestion of a CM, we did Oga's and held onto the receipt just in case. Made it back to RotR just in time, got in line.... And it broke down having us wait 2 hours before they dumped the queue one hour before park close and only offered a fast pass that I had to go to guest services to get them to at least move to our park today. Told me it wouldn't be possible for them to reassign it to a RotR pass for our next HS visit on Wednesday. So I get to play the anxiety fast button pushing game again Wednesday morning I guess. This ride is 100% cursed for me.
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Dren posted:I think she was saying the plantation house themed rooms are not, in fact, fun. So to me, they look like Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, cleaned up and adjusted to scale. I suppose those who grew up with the MK would not hear the foyer music in their head when walking around Magnolia Terrace.
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Mar 21, 2021 20:34
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Craptacular! posted:So to me, they look like Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, cleaned up and adjusted to scale. I suppose those who grew up with the MK would not hear the foyer music in their head when walking around Magnolia Terrace. Well. There is the theory that the Disneyland Haunted mansion is definitely a plantation house and all the ghosts are trapped inside because of, yknow, their contributions to slavery.
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BlueBayou posted:Well. There is the theory that the Disneyland Haunted mansion is definitely a plantation house and all the ghosts are trapped inside because of, yknow, their contributions to slavery. Even if that isn't true, it's the canon I subscribe to.
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Uhhhh Disney just announced a massive theme park, retail and dining expansion for Disneyland? Here's high res blue sky art. https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1375200725681197056?s=19
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I'm assuming those tropical mountain peaks are gonna be adventureland 2? Honestly, I can't even begin to guess what most of that is.
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Looks like building more spans across West Street and making a fully integrated complex by enclosing the hotels with more parks. I guess what Disney gets out of this is more Grand Californian style entrances for Paradise Pier and the Disneyland Hotel, but realistically, if you're going to do this, I don't know why keep both of the old hotels. What Disney really wants is money, and what Anaheim wants is Disney to make some kind of flagship hotel that's adjacent to the convention center and GardenWalk. Maybe they just don't want people looking for new jobs just yet, but the Paradise Pier "Right Next To Pixar Pier" Hotel seems kind of expendable if they're going to take that block.
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Additional concept art apparently screams Wakanda and Pandora https://twitter.com/HelmsmanFreddy/status/1375267268448321538 https://twitter.com/HelmsmanFreddy/status/1375274796133408768 I'm not holding my breath, but Im generally excited
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Yeah I'd give them either Wakanda or some weird take on the Cave of Wonders. I dunno about the other two; especially not the Raya stuff. I'm not paying $30 for it when I'd have paid $5 at a movie theater two years ago. E: I would probably be stupid enough to risk my life and health to go to Wakanda. Fluffy Bunnies fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 05:36
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Yeah I'd give them either Wakanda or some weird take on the Cave of Wonders. I dunno about the other two; especially not the Raya stuff. I'm not paying $30 for it when I'd have paid $5 at a movie theater two years ago. Raya was pretty mediocre imo. Nothing really creative from the story or characters. Not a bad movie by any means, but very worthy of any complaints of it being too formulaic without adding enough of its own originality.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:04
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Remember when disney used to make original lands and theming and not just copy movie sets that will age horribly in the next 10 years
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Mar 26, 2021 11:46
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You are looking for Troll World Tour land
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Mar 26, 2021 12:11
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I mean I know it's the thing now in theme park design, but when Six Flags has more original creativity in area design than Disney and Universal then I don't know what that say.
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Mar 26, 2021 12:17
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Make an Alien world Disney
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Mar 26, 2021 12:20
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And yet post anyway. Who doesn't think they have a pretty free hand with Wakanda?
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Empress Brosephine posted:Remember when disney used to make original lands and theming and not just copy movie sets that will age horribly in the next 10 years I hate to break it to you but Disney has been copying movie sets that will age horribly in 10 years since 1955.
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Even if Avatar the movie doesn't age well and isnt remembered as the giant blockbuster it once was.... the land is goddamn beautiful and the wonder it evokes wont go away just because the IP isnt relevant anymore Of course Joe is now gone so who knows what the future holds. Im trying to think of who are the lead ride imagineers now... Trowbridge and Carter? They both have solid track records, so I'm optimistic. I assume the expansion will be like 50% just copy/paste of the new expansion at DisneySea
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