A Few Quick Questions

[SilentWindODoom]

We are currently planning an August 12-21 stay at the Wilderness Lodge, the resort I've dreamed of going to since I first saw pictures of it in guidebooks before our 98 stay! Huzzah!

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So, we have come up with a few questions in the midst of our planning, and now that the site seem to have come back from it's downtime, I have the opprotunity to ask them so we can book everything (we already have the room). Later after booking I can ask more advice, but first these sticking points. Hopefully everyone here can help.

1) My dad wants to watch Illuminations from the new Hacienda de San Angel. I'd rather eat at Le Cellier (been there last time), Les Chefs de France (always wanted to try there), or Biergarten, and just stake out a place to sit. Is it possible to get advance reservations to La Hacienda and just order snacks and/or dessert, while watching the show? Should there be any problem with that at all? And what are your opinions on those restaurants if you'd like to throw those in?

2) My friend who's coming with me fell in love with the Polynesian as soon as he saw it. Unfortunately, this is the first time we've afforded Wilderness Lodge, and that was with the discount, so you can imagine we can't nearly afford the Polynesian. However, as it is possible to just walk into a resort and go to a restaurant and stuff like that, is there anything stopping a resort guest or even a non-guest from going to the pools of other resorts? Could we crash the Polynesian pool and spend an afternoon enjoying the tropical paradise?

3) I've seen that the Whispering Canyon Cafe offers a breakfast with country gravy. I'd thought that it was fairly tough to screw country gravy up, until I tried it at Cheddar Barrel, where it was terrible. To let you know my tastes, I think the Waffle House and Arby's stuff is good, and Denny's is servicable. Is the country gravy good or at least like those, or is it weird/terrible like I hear Disney's attempt at pizza is?

4) Where on property can we find grits? Just a simple breakfast with grits would be nice. If not, where in the World can we get grits?

 

[Conrad]

2) My friend who's coming with me fell in love with the Polynesian as soon as he saw it. Unfortunately, this is the first time we've afforded Wilderness Lodge, and that was with the discount, so you can imagine we can't nearly afford the Polynesian. However, as it is possible to just walk into a resort and go to a restaurant and stuff like that, is there anything stopping a resort guest or even a non-guest from going to the pools of other resorts? Could we crash the Polynesian pool and spend an afternoon enjoying the tropical paradise?
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We always try out the other pools and have never been told not to, kicked out or refused entry. Thought it was ok and still plan on doing it TBH.

 

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Not wanting to hijack the OP's thread, but I see no point in creating a new thread for this one question that can be answered so easily, so since it pertains to WL, I'll just ask it here. Besides, it may be of interest to the OP, too.

This is not only our first time at WL coming up, but also our first time outside the moderates. I know what kind of refrigerator the moderates have, but I wondered if the Deluxes might have a bigger, better fridge? The ones at POR and CSR did not have any freezer section in the fridge. Problem is, we load up a cooler with drinks and stuff to take with us on the road trip there and back. We have some big blue ice packs that we throw in to keep the stuff cold on the way there, but obviously, by the time we check out and go home, the ice packs are thawed and not cold anymore, so we have to make do with warm drinks from the cooler. It would be nice if there was a freezer compartment in the refrigerator so we could refreeze the ice packs for the trip home.

I really don't understand why they don't (at least the moderates that we have stayed at). Prior to staying on property, we used to stay at a Super 8 motel in Kissimmee for around 40 bucks a night. And THEY had a freezer compartment in their fridge. Yet, for 200 bucks a night (for the moderates), I can't even have that one small ammenity??? WTH???

Never stayed at WL but maybe if you are in the Villas the frig will be bigger and have a freezer section? Ours had a small freezer compartment last years at Sports and we did put our blue freezer thing in there but our blue freezer thing goes inside a water bottle that we keep in the parks with us. We always use ice from the resort or we buy ice when we stop for gas.