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Old 07-03-2008   #22 (permalink)
ARIEL
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Re: Poly or Grand

well my vote is to stay at the Poly. We had similar decision to make back in 200 when we booked to stay at the GF for our honeymoon. Well, 2 weeks before our trip, we get a letter from the tour operator to sat they were re-furbing the GF and there would be minor machinery work ongoing and screens in place. We were offered to change if we wanted to to another resort or just deal with it. Well, any other time we probably would have just gone along wih it but for our Honeymoon we wanted everything perfect. Thank the lord we changed!
When we arrived at the Poly we had such a fabulous welcome and instantly were in awe of the building. It is so beautiful. At that time of it's existence, they also had two gorgeous parrots in the lobby too...they were adorable.
Anyway, I digress.......so we checked in, very happy and decided to have a stroll to the GF to check it out. Fingers crossed we had not made a bad decision..... Well, we got there and realised we had done right. There were boards up evrywhere! Workmen everywhere! Power tools everywhere! Noise everywhere! You get my drift? It was horrible. There was a poor girl trying to sunbathe too and we could blatently see a couple of workmen ogling her over the balcony.
We went into the main lobby and although, yes it is oppulent, it does not have the same welcoming look as the Poly does it also comes over very pompus to me . I also beleive the CM's at the Poly are friendlier ( my own opinion of course ) as our welcomes and dealings with both resorts has shown me.

I love the Poly and would stay there in a milli second should I have the money.
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