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[Momsminutes]

So....this June we are booking either Poly Lagoon view (Hawaii so we can see the fireworks at MK) OR concierge with garden view....what does everyone think? This is our first time at the Poly. Last time we stayed at AKL and WL. I LOVED my AKL, will I be disapointed?

[jakenjess]

All the rooms in the Hawaii building are concierge. If you go with garden view concierge, you can watch the fireworks from either the lounge or the beach. I can't imagine you'd be disappointed with the Poly. It's fantastic!!

[disneylandfan28]

A vote for either one.....you will not be disappointed!!!

[hktmom]

We stayed Lagoon view concierge on the lower floor and we're assigned a room about half way down the hall. Our patio was pretty much a straight walk down to the end of the beach...so we took advantage of that several times. And we were very happy with that choice. Most often we were in the lounge for the fireworks and electric parade or outside in the pool, on the beach, or out on the dock sitting on the bench(my personal favorite even though you can't hear the music. It's so romantic...)

My feelings on the "garden view" from the Hawaii building? Not much of a garden view!! I can't remember the name of it, but there is a longhouse right there! I remember thinking, great who wants to look at the side of a building?At least for the half of the building closest to the pool, I can't remember about the back half going towards the quiet pool...

However, as I mentioned, you can easily and more enjoyably experiences wishes and such from the concierge lounge(they dim the lights and pipe in the music) or be out on the grounds.

The only thing I would miss would be letting my kids fall asleep with the curtains open gazing at the castle as it changed colors. It's a small thing to give up though-

If you can go the extra and spend the money for the lagoon view, well, you've got it all. But if you can make peace with being out of your room to see the fireworks, et al- and still have LOTS of benefits of conceirge, go for it.

Just don't anticipate truly having a garden view....it's at least a 50/50 shot.

Hope that helps!
Heather

[disneymom9092]

Lori is right-all rooms in Hawaii building are concierge. I would definately take Lagoon view. The garden view faces the quiet pool. Keep in mind that (unless things changed since the refurbishment) that the 2nd floor rooms do not have balconies. Anyone have an update on that? I would ask for 3rd floor (great for fireworks) or we also love the first floor to walk right out to the beach.

[CRCrazy]

Another verification - Hawaii is 100 percent concierge.

If you can swing the price - then definitely go for Lagoon view concierge. But if the price is the same for garden view concierge as for lagoon view standard (you'd probably be in Tahiti - they have some gorgeous lagoon view) - I'd go for the concierge over the view anyday!!!

You can watch Wishes on the beach or in the lounge, and they pipe in the music to both places, so it's even better than watching it in your room.

We stayed garden view concierge in Nov. 2003, just after Hawaii had been refurbed (and no, Dianne, they still don't have balconies on the 2nd floor, sadly!) and we had a lovely view of the quiet pool, and the foliage that surrounded it. Honestly - however - we really didn't spend any time looking at the view. We spent our time there at the theme pool or in the lounge or on the beach. The food was yummy - and there was plenty of it!

[GoofyMom]

We had a garden view concierge room at the Poly in December '04. Our room was main floor, halfway down the hallway and we didn't mind our view at all. It was mostly the lawn and shrubbery and the quiet pool was straight from our lanai. I seem to remember that Lagoon View was $100 more per night than what we paid and I knew there was no way that was going to happen!

We headed up to the Concierge Lounge for wine and goodies while Wishes and the Electric Water Parade were on. One night that we tried to watch Wishes from the lounge though, kids had the tv turned up too loud to actually hear the music being piped in , so I headed downstairs and watched the show with the Concierge CMs from a nice comfy office chair! And as I chatted a little with her, she told me that Disney owns their own fireworks company. Boy, that sure makes sense!

Another night we watched Wishes from the beach. They have speakers on small poles along the pathway and the music was playing on them, but you had to stand right beside one to hear it.