Our Magical Family Staycation at Disney's Polynesian Resort in the NEW Moana Themed Rooms!

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In today’s video we check into Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort for a fun family staycation on Christmas night. I give you a tour of the brand new Moana themed rooms which is the room we are staying in for the next few nights and I also show you a Disney Vacation Club studio room that’s themed to Lilo & Stitch. With that come with me as I show what all you can expect from staying at this deluxe resort on the Magic Kingdom monorail line with a walking tour of most of the hotel grounds which includes both pools, all of the restaurants, transportation options and the amenities. We dine at Ohana and Captain Cook’s for dinner plus brunch over at Disney’s Contemporary Resort at Steakhouse 71. Overall, I invite you to join the family and I on this beautiful staycation and share this wonderful experience at Walt Disney World. I want to say a massive thank you to Jen Papazian from Cupcake Castles Travel Company for sponsoring this video. Thank you so much for watching, if you enjoyed this video please give it a big thumbs up!

0:00 Intro & Check in
2:51 Studio DVC Room Tour
6:38 Moana Standard Room Tour
15:19 Christmas Dinner
25:10 The Next Day
27:47 Steakhouse 71 Brunch
32:10 Resort Tour
37:18 Dinner at Ohana
42:02 Check Out Day
42:43 Final Thoughts

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50 thoughts on “Our Magical Family Staycation at Disney's Polynesian Resort in the NEW Moana Themed Rooms!”

  1. Dev, it was such a pleasure to book this staycation for y’all! So happy you had a wonderful and magical stay! Thank you again for all of the wonderful content you produce! Happy New Year!
    -Jen Papazian
    Cupcake Castles Travel Company

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  8. WOW….FABULOUS video Dev & Bianca 👏👏👏👍😊🥰 everything was PERFECT! I have stayed st the Polynesian many times. The hew renovation is AMAZING! LOVE the Moana room …It's the best! So happy you enjoyed your 2 day Vacation! HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR to you and your family!👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍🥳🎉🥂🍾💕

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  12. Dev , Bianca…. I love how you give us quality videos and still take private time to just be in the moment with your Family. It's about balance and you all do it well. 🌺🧡🌴
    Happy New Year GOD BLESS

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  13. What a great stay! I love how bright the Moana themed rooms are! We stayed in a DVC room, which was great, just a bit darker themed like the exterior. I prefer the bright colors in the renovated rooms. I do t care much for the character teeming, but I do love the renovation and keeping theme with the Poly

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  21. I think I’m going to book a Christmas 2023 trip and I’m going to really do my homework and rent DVC points so I can stay at this resort , it’s so beautiful , nice review !
    ❤ from Tx 🇨🇱

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  25. Thanks for bringing us along on your family staycation at The Poly. I am envious as my wife changed our booking from Poly to Villas at The Grand Floridian . I can no walk back but construction makes it a little more difficult .

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  26. We love Poly!!! It is always bittersweet when leaving. Good to know about O'hana for dinner. We were there in Nov 2021 for breakfast and it was not good. Coming back in Nov 2023, maybe we'll try the dinner menu.

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  31. I would not turn down either room. As a family, we stayed in a concierge room in the Hawaii Longhouse back in the mid 2000s and it was wonderful. We had a first floor room with a patio and had a brief in room visit by a Disney duck. On my last trip to the World in 2017 (as a solo, widowed, empty nest, retiree) I stayed in the Sheriff Woody building at the All-Star Movies resort and it was just fine for my current circumstances; no complaints. That said, if finances allowed (which they don't; wah-waahh) I would also go for the Moana themed room. And yaayyy! Hei Hei, the Poly rooster!

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  34. We’ve stayed at Poly after the last refurb with the single small Murphy bed. What the new refurbs at Grand FL for Thanksgiving & Saratoga for Christmas, at both I miss the little eating table and chairs-yes 2 not enough for 3 but we would bring in the one from outside when we sat all together around the table.
    I TRULY DISLIKE THE RAISING COFFEE TABLE FOR EATING (uncomfortable for 3 adults squished together eating, luckily no lefties & immediate family) OR EXTENDED COMPUTER TIME, both the bed and the couch are uncomfortable after 15 mins and set off my sciatica that hasn’t hurt me in a while!

    Also, love the floors, however you hear everything that’s going on in all the rooms surrounding you. Especially at night, it seemed that several people were going to the bathroom numerous times a night, more than me who is on extensive water pills!!

    GF I missed that the paper towels, kitchen towels to wash our cups water bottles etc. plus several of the DVC normal amenities were lacking like the bar of soap for the shower!

    The beverage fridges aren’t cold enough for those of us who can’t eat at the parks and have to mostly eat in the room!! The sodium is so high that someone like me 500-700mg A DAY can eat at the park.
    I get to watch my family great sandwiches etc. If I’m lucky that aren’t even at the location they’re eating! 😑I can eat one or two items in the park!

    Magic Kingdom orange Dole whip & Green beans.
    Animal Kingdom the Tofu bowl with the sauces on the side
    EPCOT or HS no such luck! And their dining service assistance stinks, they can’t provide proper nutrition information nor do they staff have a clue. One gentleman did try to help me at one restaurant and wasn’t able too. Thought maybe french fries without salt but unfortunately processed with salt and baking soda aka salt.
    I have had an awesome dinner at Boma! The other sit down higher end restaurants don’t seem to care and make up food with few vegetables, flavor-other spices-lemon or even lime juice. Sadly, it seems they only know salt & pepper.

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  38. I have always order the Lapu-Lapu without the pineapple, it’s about five dollars cheaper and I cannot hold a pineapple, they’re too big and prickly!!! 😆🤷🏼‍♀️🍍 but what a perfect way to spend your Christmas and day after, love it! I love the Poly – I spend a lot of time there, but have to yet to stay 😩😄

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  46. Thank you for sharing this great video! The location and room are perfect :)) and that’s a nice offer for booking with them, I think we need to look into this. Happy New Year’s!

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  49. We stayed at the Poly for the first time in December and it was incredible. It’s really a special place. We are DVC members so stayed in DVC studio. We toured the bungalow which was fun.

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  50. Stayed at Tokelau pre-refurb and stayed at a bungalow last February. I love the Poly so much, I even have several Maui tattoos (Moana Maui and Poly Maui)

    I prefer the vintage decor over the refurb. But I feel the refurb is way better than some of the other newly IP themed rooms (cough..contemporary..cough)

    Loved the video! Happy new year!

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