Showing posts with label Polynesian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polynesian. Show all posts

Monday, 16 January 2023

Perfect Disney Day

Here is Mal's Findpenguins link for today.

His blurb reads...

Having hit the must dos it was now time to slow the pace... "just after this next genie plus hit, I promise!" Today we went to my favourite park, Animal Kingdom, and after the big three ticket items we did indeed turn it into a lovely, leisurely day. We had lunch at my favourite Disney eatery, Satu'li Canteen, then headed back to the Poly for a long siesta. I stacked a few Epcot Genie items from the hot tub then, at sunset, we jumped back on the monorail for our last park evening with the Berlees. Dinner was a snack "around the International Showcase" affair before we settled in for Harmonious and a bit of shopping. Lastly, we scored one last Cosmic Rewind spot for good measure so we went out with a bang.

The wilderness must be explored! Caw caw roar!!

Theming of Pandora is always so nice to experience

Waiting for the yeti. We waited for a while...

Our best T-rex pose. Some better than others

Satuli Canteen always reliable

So so sweet...

Eating our way around Epcot

It was relaxing until he lost his key to the world card somewhere at the bottom of the pool

Giant weighted Stitch. Sure

Dole whip experience for the family

United colours of Macpac!


Sunday, 15 January 2023

Epcot & Magic Kingdom

Fancy photo at Epcot

Mal's link for today. The text for the lazy man reads...

This was our big day! All the big ticket items across the two parks with the exception of 7DMT (for the non Disney initiated - Seven Dwarfs Mine Train). First stop: Test track - "sorry folks it's down"! Quick to Frozen Ever After! Heather's step counter kept prompting her to admit that she was taking part in some sort of event: no, just Disney.


Coffee: gross but check. Partypeople: check. 

Our other home in the background. Villas at Grand Floridian

Photo of the pros. We moved like lightning!

Rope drop plan B. Admit it Berlee boys you loved it. We heard you singing...

Another first for us. Again better than expected!

I'm not sure we ever worked out if there was a point to this

La Crêperie de Paris, another new dining venue for us. Fixed lunch was more than adequate volume wise and tasty

Kids split off so the parents could shop!

and pretend to be Gaston

Very sweet and rich cinnamon roll and lefou's brew

Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind. AMAZEBALLS!

Friday, 13 January 2023

Go West!

Guess where we are!

Ahh...what a welcome sight

Another short post as we hopped across the pond to a new continent...goodbye Europe hello America!

Prior to our trip, we were informed being "downgraded" from a Lufthansa metal to Eurowings, Lufthansa's budget cousin, for our flight between Frankfurt and Orlando. Not happy Jan. But there was not much we could do about it. They didn't tell us though that our lounge access was also downgraded!! The only positive was that the plane itself was on a lease basis and run by Finnair. So it was a new plane with Finnair flight crew. All in all a pleasant flight.

We arrived into Orlando's new Terminal C, where immigration and customs took forever. Not only was it frustrating but it was also chewing into precious Disney park time! With the demise of the free Disney Magical Express, we had to organise our own way of getting onto Disney property. We decided to go with Sphinx Transportation. Hany was pleasant, quick to respond and very nice about having to wait so long for us at the airport. The car was clean and comfortable. They were also well priced. 

We were super excited to stay at the Polynesian Resort. Although it is one of our home resorts at DVC members, we had never stayed here before! Disney came through with our room request. We checked in, dumped our bags, struggled with FOMO about exploring the resort, before finally getting ourselves to the Magic Kingdom to just breathe in the Disney atmosphere. Our junk food journey began with a hodgepodge of selections for dinner including a funnel cake and it was time to head back for some much needed sleep. We had 6 hectic days scheduled ahead of us...

Nothing like a 0430 transfer to Marco Polo to start the day! Today we would be flying from Venice to Frankfurt and then Frankfurt to Orlando.

The children chilled pre-flight, the adults studied Genie+ and stacking techniques

Very precious carry-ons. Has all our star wars costumes in it...

FINALLY out of Orlando Airport. Our private transfer to WDW with Sphinx 

So tired...but so happy to finally be here!

Our first time staying at the Polynesian Resort

Our "longhouse" Tokelau

Studios are the one of the largest within WDW

I love this artwork. Couch turns to bed

The split bathroom is handy if you have 5...

The other separate shower with toilet

Just in case you forget you're at the Polynesian Resort

Too excited to get a non blurry selfie

Walking down Main Street 

Because one has to have funnel cake sooner rather than later. Let the junk food journey begin!