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Looking to see how long the average wait is in the Fastpass line for Flight of Passage. I know it varies through the day, but what has your experience been?

Parks - Final Thoughts *Crowds were down slightly from our visit last July. Also major lack of tour groups. *FastPass worked well. It would be nice if resort guests could book a 4th Fastpass in advance. *Take advantage of Extra Magic Hours. I know some of the touring plan sites and crowd...

Day 6 & Final Thoughts Left super early to get to the Orlando Airport for our flight home. Make sure you leave plenty of time to get to your plane. If you take the Beachline Expressway, the toll is $2.25 each way. Stay all the way over to the right for cash payment. If you go through the EZ...

So over to Epcot and Soarin. As soon as we got in line (after 5 min), it went down. They let us past the theater split after another 20 min or so, then we just sat there. No information or updates, nothing. We saw a custodian go by with a large trash can and mop, so I wonder if someone...

Lunch at Cosmic Rays and shopping, then back to the Poly for a short rest, then over to Epcot for one last ride on Soarin with our FP. These were taken from the Main St. Railroad Station. What a great spot for pictures! The first one is a panorama shot on an Iphone 6 Plus. Some...

Day 5 Our last day began at the Magic Kingdom. Because it was a Tuesday morning, the resort monorail did not start until 8:30am. MK opened at 8am for everyone, and we had no trouble getting a bus out front, arriving in plenty of time. We went with the "old standby" plan again...

Back to the Poly, then over to the Grand Floridian and Contemporary to look in the stores. Saw a bridal party being photographed in the lobby of the GF. The older gentleman who has been a greeter at the GF for years was there with them, I can't remember his name. The Contemporary observation...

Day 4 So Day 4 was 8am EMH at Hollywood Studios. This was the only morning we really had an issue with transportation. We arrived at the bus stop at 7:10am. The next bus was scheduled to arrive at 7:25am. This kept slowly creeping up every minute by another two or three minutes until it was...

Pictures from around the Poly

Ate dinner at the Contempo Cafe at the Contemporary. Food was good, one of the better quick services this trip. The characters from Chef Mickey's went to the upper floors and waved from the balconies. Cute for the kids. Headed over to Epcot with no FP, just hoping to walk around...

Day 3 We were able to hit all the EMH mornings on this trip, so Day 3 was Animal Kingdom. Got a bus immediately at the stop, and it was...wait for it...another disgustingly hot day! We really enjoyed our day at Animal Kingdom last year, but it was so oppressive this time we only stayed a few...

Honestly, the Poly is super nice, if we didn't have that issue with the room and the weather hadn't been so hot and we would have been able to walk around more, I think we really would have enjoyed it. I've also seen many people with issues, but just as many or more so who adore it. I wonder...

We had planned on going back to catch the 3pm parade but it was just too hot. Visited a few souvenir stores out on Rt.535, (**note- parking at the Poly is tight on the weekend. we had to park WAY down at the end when we got back). ate dinner at the Gasperilla Grill at the Grand Floridian...

So Day 2 started out much better. And you really can't complain about this view being "standard" Took the monorail over to the Magic Kingdom for EMH (they were sending EVERYONE through the metal detector that morning). Crowded but not overwhelmingly so. Here's some pictures: Headed...

Another year, another trip report! This year we stayed at the Polynesian Village Resort, June 23rd-28th. Day 1 We were up super early for our Spirit flight out of Atlantic City. Like last year, we had no problems with Spirit out of A.C. On time, very organized. The wait at security was...