Sirwalterraleigh
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Anyone that falls for that “pressure” deserves automatic bankruptcy
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News Refurbishment coming soon to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort - Moana details to be included
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rowrbazzle
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When I was a kid I just wanted to stay at All-Star Sports. My parents said no and we stayed at Motel 6.
JoeCamel
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Sirwalterraleigh
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I woulda chipped in to make that happen for youWhen I was a kid I just wanted to stay at All-Star Sports. My parents said no and we stayed at Motel 6.
rowrbazzle
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Haha thanks. As an adult now I mostly feel for my parents. I was still happy at the Motel 6 (it had a pool!). But now I know how much more convenient it is for a parent with three kids to stay at a Disney hotel. I say it's for my kids, but I really stay on property for myself.I woulda chipped in to make that happen for you
ToTBellHop
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I hope the new GCH is SHINY!
Smiley/OCD
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We were supposed to stay at Poly for our second Disneymoon the first week of December...but with the closure, and the new resort discounts announced today, we are now staying at the Grand Floridan the same week and saved 1500 dollars with the AP discount. It's not our first choice, (a little too "frou frou" for us), but hey, you only live once and if the Tanners could stay there on "Full House", why not us?
Brer Panther
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I've got a lovely bunch of them, there they are a-standing in a row. Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...
They're retheming Splash Mountain to a movie from ELEVEN years ago. Somehow, I doubt they care about how old the movie is. Plus, it apparently made a lot of money at the box office, so...
Side note, whatever happened to that rumor about the Tiki Room receiving a Moana overlay?
aladdin2007
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don't know but it thankfully went quiet.
Flynnwriter
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Do not ruin the Poly with Moana! The public areas are perfect! Yes - the hotel lodges are dates and sad - but don’t touch Kona cafe, ohana, or the lobby!
Gojira ゴジラ
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I'm a little confused. Is the entire resort close or only the non-dvc one?
Animaniac93-98
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Moana and Tiana, like Snow White [Seven Dwarfs Mine Train] are all official Disney Princesses*. Putting more representation of these movies in the parks and resorts not only fits the IP mandate, but the franchise one too.
No, it doesn't make sense to add IP to a hotel's rooms that have been successfully sold for 50 years without them, but this is Disney. If people keep paying the rates after this change, they'll consider it a great idea...even if they would have likely sold without the Moana branding.
*For those wondering the current line up is: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Moana...and look what movie Disney has been hyping non-stop for weeks! Frozen is it's own separate license for Disney to sell
Yert3
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Because Disney is more than just their movies (or at least it used to be). Without that creative freedom, we wouldn’t have classics Like Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Enchanted Tiki Room, Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain. Now they’re making movies (or already have) about a lot of these attractions. Probably with the intention of retroactively ruining them with a retheme to promote their movie.
They did this with pirates way back when to test the waters, and unfortunately, the public bought it. To Disney, This was the public giving them permission to ruin all of the other classics as well. They failed miserably with Haunted Mansion, but it looks like they’re making yet another movie, so now they have their chance to possibly ruin that as well.
Epcot when it opened in 1982 was (and possibly still is) the best thing Disney has ever created, and it was all original content. Not a single attraction based on an IP.
YorkshireT
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To be honest I don’t blame them. They don’t exploit the IP in the hotels nearly enough. They’d be able to convert IP into cash - for example the kids may want to stay in ‘Moana’ and as a result it attracts a premium price over Polynesian themed hotel and also gives it something no other hotel can attempt to copy.
Look how popular the Toy Story hotel is in China.
Look how popular the Toy Story hotel is in China.
Tuvalu
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Currently the three DVC buildings and the bungalows are open for guests. The non DVC longhouses are closed. Both pools are open as is the GCH (including gift stores, Kona, Cooks and Tambu Lounge).
When the monorail station will close....and the order/timing of the refurb of the GCH (and if it will close completely or only certain areas at a time)....is unclear.
John park hopper
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How about a retrorefub ----put the original fountain back in the Polynesian Resort
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Club Cooloholic
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I have to ask, is a Disney moon a honeymoon? You can have two ?
Just think the walkway from the GF to MK is just about done, maybe going to shut down the monorail too.I can’t dispute any of this...no siree
But the one “questionable” element is are they really going to do anything or is it a straight low occ/PR game?
That is why I mentioned 2002
Midlife Mouse
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The darkness everyone has mentioned in the guest rooms is an extension of the midcentury tiki aesthetic; it's always twilight in a tiki bar or restaurant. I just hope this re-theme results in some good eBay auctions of old decor!