We arrived this afternoon, and here is the current status on a few items recently discussed in this thread:
1) The walkway going over to Poly is open, we just walked it this evening to go over and watch fireworks. If there was a refurbishment that happened to the SOG path or the Poly path I couldn't tell, each path looked the same as it did when I walked it last year - and I was purposefully looking for changes.
2) There is now an entry gate on the walkway going back into SOG (see pic of signs below), and we rode over to TTC in the afternoon and coming back not only did we have to show our green SOG slip and ID getting onto the bus at TTC, a guard also comes onto the bus when pulling into SOG and checks everyone's IDs again. On the way off the bus I asked the driver it that happened every trip and she said yes it's every trip and started about 6 months ago.
3) I don't know about changes to the laundry room, I walked over to the one on 2nd floor on Magnolia Wing and it's the same token machine, detergent vending machine, and signs as were there last year. Maybe Palm Wing's laundry room has changed, but Magnolia was the same as before.
4) There is a part of Magnolia Wing on 3rd floor that is currently closed down for renovations (see pics below) - we are staying on Magnolia Wing 2nd floor and I've walked all of that and everything is open there, so it appears to only affect the 3rd floor for now, and appears to only blocks out a small number of rooms as compared to the entire facility... I assume they only take down 5% or so at a time to keep the capacity level up.
Any other questions let me know, I'm here for a week.
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