We got back Monday night from our 3 day trip at Poly!
Our trip actually started Friday night (3/5). We decided to add on an extra "night" and head up after we got off of work on Friday. We stayed at the Homewood Suites (Hilton) near Lake Buena Vista. It wasn't bad at all. They had breakfast included in the price for $127 a night (that's total after taxes and fees). The hotel was newer and the breakfast had some staff set up at different areas to help you get pancakes, eggs, proteins, and grits or oatmeal. It was all you care to eat too so that was nice. I have only 2 small complaints. We used expedia to buy the hotel night and when we checked in - we went up to the room and it was a 2 Queen bed instead of the King we reserved. This was an easy fix - we called down to the desk and they had us come back down and rekeyed to a new room that was what we wanted. The other complaint was the bathroom was very "90s" and for a newer hotel I was surprised by this. The shower was older and looked like dingy fiberglass. Overall, small issues and it was just a "burner" room so we didn't have to get up so early and drive. We are only a couple hours away after all.
Saturday was check-in day at Poly. We used our points to reserve a Lake view room. I made sure to add 3rd floor requests when I originally made the reservations 6 months ago and put that it's our anniversary. We've only gone to Disney kid-free once before so we were really excited to enjoy a slower-paced and relaxing trip. Unfortunately, the weather was against us for our plans to lay around the pool all day (the high was 63 and post of the weekend stayed around that!! colder at night even. Great weather for the parks though!) so we changed plans and decided to go to the parks instead. We drove up to Poly, dropped our bags off at Bell Services and they told us our room would be ready in a while - just to wait for the update on
MDE. We decided to go to EPCOT for lunch at Via Napoli first. We had just missed the EPCOT bus though - as it pulled away when we walked up. Luckily the DHS bus was behind that - so we jumped on in. From DHS, we took the Skyliner to EPCOT and in through IG. Crowds were VERY heavy at EPCOT on Sunday. We were only able to ride Spaceship Earth and Figment. Soarin was a 80 min wait and Frozen was 90. We did notice this trip, compared to recent others, that wait times posted are definitely WAY more accurate now.