If you do on line check before arrival they will text you your room number. You can go straight to your room and unlock your door with your phone via my Disney experience or your magic band.
Should be a good week to go, I would expect the crowd levels to be low with spring break week and opening of Star Wars spaceship hotel. There would probably be no need to make advanced park, resort or dining reservations.
Paid a visit to Dollywood yesterday for their Smokey Mountain Christmas and their trams are running full capacity. Masks were optional. It did not seem they had any problem hiring tram drivers.
Good luck on your dining reservations, just keep trying you may get lucky. We will be there the same week, our first day is December 5th and last day December 10th. Our dining reservations are:
Dec 5th Via Napoli for lunch
Dec 6th Liberty Tree Tavern for Lunch
Dec 7th Brown Derby for dinner...
We are staying on site for five nights in December, we have annual passes and are staying using DVC points. Can we purchase genie+ for all five days in advance of have to purchase each day individually?
I would suggest you call the Polynesian directly, but I don’t believe King size beds are available in a standard room. I may be wrong so it would not hurt to ask.