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3 Jan 22, 05:41 PM |
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Great report. Totally agree with you regarding genie+. We hardly went to the parks towards the end of our stay last month as it was just so busy. My husband tested positive on return pcr in U.K. like you. Think we were lucky to get home. He also thinks he picked it up at Disney springs buying my Christmas present!
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4 Jan 22, 10:28 PM |
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Great write up thanks Michelle - loved following on Instagram and can't wait for the full report. Sorry you got covid - thank goodness it wasn't when you were out there like you say! xx
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4 Jan 22, 11:27 PM |
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Helping Minnie
Join Date: May 21
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5 Jan 22, 07:18 PM |
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Wow, you braved it!
We wimped out and cancelled our Christmas holiday. Great to read your highs and lows and your enthusiasm for the Poly. I’ve gone the other way around to you funnily enough 😂… used to stay at the Poly, but recently discovered the Yacht Club! I do love the sounds and smells of the Poly though, the crickets, the lizards in the bushes and the torch lit evenings. Haven’t experienced the Hagrid ride yet, will make a note. Great reading- thank you. Some great feedback from you in things I’ve not tried. Hope all is well now and you are getting to be more like your ‘old self’ again 🙂 |
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9 Jan 22, 03:41 PM |
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Have you even been to Disney if you haven’t been to blaze? 😂 ha, accurate.
Really interesting to read your highs and lows. AK on Christmas Day sounds like so much more of a chilled experience and sounds lovely. Cannot wait to ride Hagrids! Hopefully next year if we do Universal. You’ve made me a bit unsure again saying it wasn’t as family friendly when your girls were younger. All my memories are from Being a teenager really too! But hoping to do Grinchmass and find enough to do for the kids to fulfil my need for Harry Potter. Did you see the castle show? Poly sounds like a dream. One day when the kids are a bit older I think as we currently find sharing a room with them too hard work and are option for 1 bedroom options in May. Walking to MK sounds like a dream! Plus the pool and Ohana… amazing. Can’t wait to get stuck in and read all about it xx
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9 Jan 22, 04:27 PM |
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Love a warts and all trip report. Sounds like a fab trip, hope covid doesn't linger too long.
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10 Jan 22, 12:52 PM |
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Thank you for reading, feeling much better now .
Thanks Joan, luckily it only took a few days to feel better. Thanks as always for the lovely comment . Oh that’s so funny that your husband had such a similar experience to mine, and yes definitely lucky to get home . It really was so busy in the parks! Thanks for reading and commenting . Thanks so much Kate, glad you enjoyed the Instagram spam and yes, so grateful we got home as planned xx
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10 Jan 22, 01:18 PM |
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They were 5 and 4, and quite a scaredy 5 year old at that! So they weren’t tall enough for a lot of things and we couldn’t even convince the eldest to ride SpiderMan.
For a 9 and 11 year old I think you absolutely made an excellent choice…ours were loving it by 7 and 6 . When we first went there was no Diagon Alley or even Simpsons Land (although the ride was there) and obviously no Gringotts, Hagrid’s, Transformers, Jimmy Fallon, Bourne or Velocicoaster. Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade are just magical for HP fans, I cried the first two times we went to Diagon Alley 😳. The theming, dining, shops and the interactive wand experiences are great, and the Harry Potter rides are excellent. I would absolutely have also chosen Universal over Disney in your position, it’s just more relaxing and I’m sure you’ll all have an amazing time 😊. Totally understandable that you cancelled your Christmas trip…I came home with covid after all 😂. Oh yes, the sounds and smells of the Poly are just lovely and I’m really pleased because I managed to catch some availability for our August trip last week so we’re now booked to return. So we’ll do half Poly and half Yacht Club as they are both beautiful hotels with lots of benefits (as you know!) Definitely recommend Hagrid’s, it really is a great ride! And I’m glad you’ve been able to pick up some tips from what I’ve said. I’m feeling much better now thank you . Yes a trip to Blaze is a must-do for Disney Springs . We loved Animal Kingdom on Christmas Day and if we were to go back over Christmas I would definitely do it that way again. I think Universal would still be worth it for you despite there being not as many family friendly rides as Magic Kingdom but I may be a bit biased because of how much I love Universal! There’s probably slightly more for younger children to do than there was 10 years ago, especially if it was Christmas with Grinchmas. The castle show was really lovely, and there’s the interactive wand experiences in both Harry Potter areas that might appeal to the little ones too. At the end of the day Hagrid’s is worth going for at least for one day! And as I’ve said many times, just the relaxed feel at Universal is just a nice break from all the planning and staring at your phone at Disney. Absolutely…put the Poly on the bucket list for a few years time, it honestly did feel like a dream staying there and leaving the resort was the saddest part of coming home day for me. I didn’t make it to O’hana in the end as you’ll see in the report but Mat and Seren did, and when we go back in August I will definitely be putting that right! Thanks for the lovely comments as always xx. Thank you . Mat and I are feeling much better now thanks and the girls seem to have dodged covid 🤞🏻.
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