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  1. Polydweller

    Can we get into these Table service restaurants?

    Your best bet might be to call 406-WDW-DINING and ask for group sales. This office will work with you to plan a dining itinerary and book with the restaurants for such a large group. They have pretty good success.
  2. Polydweller

    Swan and Dolphin

    Yep, from a branding point of view, not ownership. The way it works is that most hotels are not owned by the branding group. Tishman owns the Swan and Dolphin but has paid for a branding agreements with Starwood for Westin and Sheraton brands. Now the branding group is Marriott. Marriott is...
  3. Polydweller

    New music coming to Canada - Bodh’aktan

    Too bad they weren't Canadian, none of the members were, and the music wasn't all that east coast. So, I guess Disney couldn't assemble their own Canadian band. They aren't trying to. They want the entertainment to change roughly every 6 months so that there's always something new on the...
  4. Polydweller

    Lilly Belle Update and monorail update

    Last November it was being towed by a tug (think it was part of testing of automation system) when it somehow broke loose and collided with the tug. The glass was knocked and there was damage to the fibre glass.
  5. Polydweller

    Scoop Sanderson Leaving Magic Kingdom

    Street characters are Equity while face characters are Teamsters. Equity actors can't replace Teamsters and vice versa. The two unions would have to fight out which performers are which. So no exchange but Disney could reduce costs by eliminating or reducing the hours of any given position and...
  6. Polydweller

    Disney Springs to get new signs

    But are you ok with the 1950/60 era green expressway signs? They should remain one of that era. The purple is consistent on the property and should stay so. A change would be jarring to drivers.
  7. Polydweller

    Disney got my money for the last time

    This discussion needs to be backed up a bit because there are all kinds of suppositions going on. 1. We only have one side of the story, there is likely a lot more going on. Sorry, but having investigated many such situations it's almost never as simple as one side tells you. People have...
  8. Polydweller

    Is WDW Security Serious?

    I have a background in security management at a maximum security facility. All security systems are exactly that, systems. You are meant to see some layers and definitely not meant to see others. Disney's is very much multilayer and the gate stuff is what you are supposed to see and it is a bit...
  9. Polydweller

    Getting to Early Epcot Reservation from Contemporary

    Well you call it ridiculous as much as you want but recently it's been 9:00 am Monday's and Tuesday's and 8:00am otherwise. But, as Tuvalu says, check the hours for the days you are going. The hours do change. And it's not "problems" it's the installation of automation and the third party...
  10. Polydweller

    How strict is Aulani on how many people you have in a room

    You do raise another point, though less important to me in some ways than safety. But, if the extra person is an adult and they try to sneak them in then they are trying to evade the extra adult fee. That quite simply put is fraud and just ups the probability of bring evicted and perhaps being...
  11. Polydweller

    How strict is Aulani on how many people you have in a room

    All hotels are very strict. It's fire codes and they will not take kindly to you trying to get around the limits. If discovered you may have the option of buying another room or you may be evicted. That latter is a distinct possibility by the way. This is about safety, you have far less time to...
  12. Polydweller

    Crane at Cinderella Castle

    Really? It's in the neighbourhood of 200,000 lights to make the ice palace effect. You don't think 200,000 holes in the castle wouldn't be noticed and wouldn't cause deterioration due weather. Not to mention running all the cable behind the scene even if it was possible to get at done areas...
  13. Polydweller

    SUPER Early arrival for Hotel - Can I request it?

    From a hotelier's point of view, we sell nights not days and the night runs until rollover in the morning. So, if you are trying to checkin before the rollover in essence you would be asking for a free night. If you are very close to the rollover time goodwill might mean that you'd could get...
  14. Polydweller

    Disney dining for family of 25 (plus newborn)

    Call the Disney dining number and ask for Group Sales. They have coordinators to work with groups of your size. They'll take your info, restaurants etc and do the work for you and then set it up for you.
  15. Polydweller

    Magical Express Routes to Hotels

    Ok to ask the question but remember, there are no set routes. It's an on demand service. It goes to the hotels where the passengers on board the bus are going. There is no guarantee which resorts or which order of drop off. What one person experiences another may well not. It really comes down...
  16. Polydweller

    Walkway to nowhere from Magic Kingdom Towards Grand Floridian - Why?

    There are numerous threads on this. Search and you'll find your answers. But to summarize, that water is the channel where the Electrical Water Pageant enters the lagoon nightly. It is also used to bring the steamer out when it needs to go for repairs, and it is used to bring supplies and work...
  17. Polydweller

    Best way from Poly breakfast to Epcot

    Other than the fact the monorail won't be running at that hour, your time for the monorail is way too long. I've measure it many times. It's 5-7 minutes walk to the TTC, longest wait for monorail 6 minutes, ride to Epcot almost exactly 6 minutes. So 17-19 minutes and worst case 25 minutes if...
  18. Polydweller

    Peter Pan ride

    The ride building itself is quite small and the track can hold only a few cars (boats) at a time. There are blueprints available online which makes it clear how limited the capacity will ever be. It's really only small part of the building in the west end with Philharmagic. There is no real...
  19. Polydweller

    Fence coming to the Dig Site at CSR

    Whenever a pool is rebuilt or modified it loses its grandfather clause that allowed Disney to not have fences. Soball new or refurbec automatically get them because legally they must. But you're right, that event gave impetus to putting them around all pools and it's mostly about safety but...
  20. Polydweller

    The Future of Spaceship Earth

    Not so sure about that. There's very little room coming down. The first down stage goes between over the upward spiralling track twice, effectively going over an behind parts of the ascent dioramas. It then makes a hard circle turn going under itself and the ascent track twice. You the descend...
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