Hello there we have 4 children, 16 months, just turned 3, 6 and 8 and have just come back from the most memorable holiday of my life, and I have travelled many many places.
We stayed 21 days at the Polynesian, Oct/Nov period. While planning, me and my husband were thinking that we must have been mad planning such a long stay at Disneyworld, but after having stayed at
Disneyland 7 days in the past and feeling that it was too rushed we decided to give it a go. Well I'm so glad we did, in fact I would have probably stayed 3 extra days, the 3 days that we used to go to universal and Kennedy space centre.
The reason why I loved it so much were, because we were staying for so long we had multiple fastpasses for every ride on site, so we were able to literally go in do our fast passes rides and go back to relax at the resort. No waiting No stress we would go back in the evening with the additional fast passes that you are able to have and do stuff over and over again. In addition to that I had planned to do rides with the little kiddies and parent swap the rides with the older ones so they got to ride multiple times with max 15 mins wait.
We were able to find time to go mini golfing to go to the water parks go to disney springs but most importantly relax by the pool at the Polynesian as that was an important part of our trip!
Now in the regards to the Polynesian it took me a loooong time to decide which resort to choose mainly because I wasn't too keen on the Polynesian interior decor. But now that I have been I'm oh so pleased I chose that one. For the age of my children the splash pool was just the perfect place to be. It was easy to sit around the pool and supervise them, as all the areas were very visible so I felt I could relax by the pool with a drink. The spash area didn't have a large bucket of water that would pour down and scare the little kids, like the gran floridian, for example, but two perfect slides for different levels. The big volcano pool was great, even for me! The kids activities and games were also very good and my kids loved to partecipate, the lili and stich playhouse was also very good.
I'm glad I didn't choose the beach club because after seeing the pool I realised it would have been to dispersive for me and I wouldn't have relaxed trying to follow my kids around.
Finally we thought that being on the monorail and being able to go the Magic Kingdom bus hub to other resorts was great. We were able to just catch a bus to the boardwalk, Fort wilderness, animal kingdom lodge etc very efficiently and try multiple restaurants.
Of the poly I loved how we were the first bus stop to be picked up and the first to be dropped off, as we had a double stroller and we needed the space to park the stroller. The busses were many and never full.
