Comments on: My Travels: Walt Disney World http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world Reports from your intrepid tiki explorer, Humuhumu Mon, 13 May 2013 02:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JMGIII http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-64638 JMGIII Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:25:16 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-64638 Just some updated, er, updateness.

The “Team Possible” thing at EPCOT is up and going and pretty cool. It really Disney-fies the whole World Showcase area in a new and very novel way. Saw lots of kids doing it, and they all looked thrilled to bits. (My two lads were lunch-whiny, so that had to be skipped.)

The Tiki Room “Under New Management” thing is…meh. They COULD have done it better than they did, and I’m a big fan of Gilbert Gottfried, but most of the references which were fresh at the time of the re-do are stale already. Like I said…meh. Don’t hate it, don’t love it. If forced to decided, I fall on the “slightly like it” side.

I like being able to compare the WDW version with the DL version.

We also had drinks at Tambu Lounge at the Poly (a Lapu-Lapu in an easy-to-slosh pineapple shell, and a Mai-Tai for the sake of comparison with the domestic standard) and dinner at Ohana, which surprised me by how good it was. Disney not being run by dummies, they fill you up with bread and salad, so by the time the shrimp roll around, you’re about to fall off your chair, groaning.

We’re big fans of the Poly, and living in Miami, whenever we get a cheap “FL residents rate” we stay a couple of nights. Agreed that the $$$ rack rate is pretty steep, but if one’s dates are flexible, it CAN be had for +/-$200/night. If anyone else out there is stricken, like me, with a strange fondness for the Tiki side of Disney and the Disney side of Tiki, then the Poly is a must. Even if only for drinks and a bit of wandering around.

We were lucky enough to say there on our flight back from our honeymoon (to the Napa Valley…because we’re all over the map) and it couldn’t have been more fun. This was always one of the fun WDW stops when I was a (very young) kid, having been built at the tail end of the postwar Tiki craze. I still remember all the crazy glassware that came my parents’ drink orders. (And now I am cursed to stalk eBay in search of them!)

Lastly, I’m amazed that no Tiki event (i.e. in the style of Hukilau, Tiki-Kon, etc.) has even been set at the Poly.

There. I’m done.

]]> By: WeLoveDisney http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-61572 WeLoveDisney Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:26:33 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-61572 Must say I loved the show at “Enchanted Tiki Room” but then I had not seen it before it was “under new management”. Love your description of the Polynesian resort, it sounds fabulous & I think I’ld like to stay there next time I visit. You should be on commission for Disney World!

]]> By: KINGCRAB http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-59787 KINGCRAB Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:40:05 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-59787 Well, I like the “Under New Management” show. And I think it deserves more respect and shouldn’t be taken so seriously.

No offense, but folks like you refuse to comprehend that the WDW Tiki Room was in danger and had to be changed in order to avoid the wrecking ball.

I also take criticisms of that new show as a personal slam on not only those of us who do like that version of the show, but also as a slam on the multi-talented Imagineers who worked on it, including Jeff Burke and Kevin Rafferty, who hardly ever seem to get the respect that they deserve!

]]> By: Humuhumu http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-18003 Humuhumu Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:22:37 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-18003 Thanks so much! I’ve only heard great things about staying at the Polynesian Resort, hope your trip is fantastic.

]]> By: Jessica Lynn http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-17980 Jessica Lynn Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:49:37 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-17980 I love your website. The graphics, and photos are amazing. I am going to Disney World for my 5th anniversary with my husband next year, and we are staying at the Poly. Have a great day!!

]]> By: Spectre Collie » Blog Archive » Tropical Depression http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-15285 Spectre Collie » Blog Archive » Tropical Depression Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:38:37 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-15285 [...] Last week, a former coworker from LucasArts came down with his girlfriend to visit the other programmer on this project, and they all invited me to tag along to stuff after work. It was a lot of fun; it makes all the difference going to the parks with people who just seem to get why Disney is cool. You can read about their trip and see a lot of great pictures of the Polynesian Resort on her blog. [...]

]]> By: Humuhumu http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-15179 Humuhumu Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:55:08 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-15179 Adventurer’s Club was fabulous! I got re-named Arm Candy, Hanford was dubbed Shaggy Boho. Kungaloosh!

]]> By: Humuhumu http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-15178 Humuhumu Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:47:11 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-15178 Aha! Again, I would posit that Disneyland deserves your fresh attention. It’s likely that you were there during or shortly after the Paul Pressler & Cynthia Harriss regime. What they let happen to Disneyland was criminal. They both left to work for The Gap (which is what they seemed to want to turn Disneyland into, so it’s a good fit), and the folks who took over quickly set about spiffing the place up and trying to undo the damage (they were also largely motivated by the then-impending 50th Anniversary). It took a ton of time, effort and money to fix what years of poor maintenance can do. Things are looking much, much better now, and with John Lasseter now involved with Imagineering, there’s a much brighter outlook for the future of Disneyland.

]]> By: Tikimama http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-15176 Tikimama Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:41:08 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-15176 I once spent a week at WDW in service to Lucasfilm and spent EVERY NIGHT at the Adventurer’s Club (there isn’t really much else to do on a Weds @ WDW). I could have been in the show by the end.

]]> By: MrBaliHai http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1#comment-15173 MrBaliHai Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:58:09 +0000 http://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/08/26/my-travels-walt-disney-world#comment-15173 I actually enjoyed Epcot quite a bit. I really like that World’s Fair vibe it’s got going. With both my kids in their teens now, and far too cool to hang out at either park, I doubt that we’ll be going there again until they both move away and leave us as empty-nesters.

Our last trip to Disneyland was just a couple of years ago, and we were kind of shocked at how run-down the park looks these days. There was actually litter on the ground! Walt would never have stood for that.

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