I Stayed In The Penthouse At Disney's Polynesian Village Resort - Best View Of Walt Disney World
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. As
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the recording of this, it is Tuesday,
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October 7th, 2025,
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and I'm about to head over to Walt
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Disney World property to Disney's
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Polynesian Resort and Hotel where the
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new Disney Vacation Club Tower, which is
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open within the last year or less. I
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have yet to stay there. That's going to
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change tonight. A little bit of a
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station, if you will. Not just myself,
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but a buddy of mine flew in last night
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from the greater LA area, SoCal. He's
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going to be here for a few days. So, I
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said, "Hey, you want to come stay in the
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room?" Not just one room. It is a
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twobedroom penthouse villa, which for
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some reason popped up on the website
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when I was searching for rooms. Oh, I
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invited my mom, my dad,
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and maybe some others will show up
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because I'm not only there tonight,
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I'm also there tomorrow night. See how
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it goes. Join me.
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I'm pretty excited about what this view
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from this room is going to look like.
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Should be good. Let's head over there.
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Join me, shall you? A few years ago, I
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made the decision to buy into DVC, which
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is Disney Vacation Club. It's almost
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like Disney's version of a time share,
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but once you own the points, you can use
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them each and every year for different
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places. And you can use your home resort
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points for places that are not home year
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resorts.
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And that's how I book this one. So, the
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specifications of what I'm going to be
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showing a little later is in the new
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tower, the new DVC Disney Vacation Club
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Tower. It is a two-bedroom penthouse
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theme park view. So, the fireworks
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tonight
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should be pretty dang good. Should be
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pretty dang good. So, for those curious
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what the actual title of the room I'm
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going to be staying is and how I end up
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getting the the rooms I stay, it's
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because I bought into Disney Vacation
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Club a few years ago. And I'm able to
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use those points every year. A storm
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just rolled through. Was in my house
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while it was raining and then exited out
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of my house. And the humidity after the
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storm like almost just like hit you in
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the face. The humidity after a storm
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here. All right, so this is kind of
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cool. There is now an island tower at
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Disney's Polynesian Village Resort
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entrance. Now, there is no guard here.
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You just have to push a push a button,
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tell them your room number, or at least
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tell them your last name and that you
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has a reservation,
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and they'll let you park close to Island
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Tower.
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All right, I got to admit, I thought I
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was going to have to park at the regular
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Polynesian area. This is adjacent and
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they have their own parking lot. So,
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that is nice.
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Now, there's a couple different sides.
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Well, actually, yeah, there's two sides.
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You got facing the golf course and then
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you got facing Seven Seas Lagoon. And I
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believe
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the room accommodations that I booked
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are facing Seven Seas Lagoon. theme park
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view room which would be Magic Kingdom
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would be over that way on the other side
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of 7C's.
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Yeah, I love that there's a parking lot
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here. That's This is nice. Minivan
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dropping off some guests.
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Golf cart
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about their business.
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I think it's neat is for a couple years
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while this was under construction, the
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only view you could get cuz it was all
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walled off was going by here on the
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Montreal. Now, I guess one good thing is
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if you were on this side, you wouldn't
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get the you wouldn't get the seven seas
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bay bay lake magic kingdom view, but you
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would get a really sweet view of the
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Montreal going by. Oh. Oh, we're going
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to have the crossing of the streams.
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That's a beautiful thing right there.
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>> We had Disney.
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>> This is a Hawaii at a
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>> This is a little bit bigger than the one
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we had in Hawaii.
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>> So, you got a Murphy bed here in the
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living room that pulls down into a
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queen. So, there's a Murphy bed. There's
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a TV here.
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Big dining room.
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Kitchen.
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Show the view in a minute. There are
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two.
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There's a TV on both sides of the stand
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here.
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>> How about that?
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>> So, you could watch TV from the dining
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room or from the living room and the
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Murphy bed.
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Full kitchen, microwave,
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big toaster oven, stove,
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fridge.
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This is one of the two bedrooms. Big
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shower. So, this room has two queen
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beds. Full-size queen. Full-size queen
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there. Another television in this room.
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Big desk
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with plugins and everything. You got the
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sea shell and the
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little frame there. Moana frame.
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And there are three balconies. There is
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the full-size living room balcony. And
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then each of the bedrooms, each of the
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two bedrooms has their own private
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balcony
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as shown here. Let me just kind of walk
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out on the first of the two balconies.
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Kind of looking down, you got the Grand
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Grand Fidian, almost say Grand
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California, the Grand Fian down here,
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Contemporary off in the distance. And
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you can see the castle over there in the
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distance. And then there is the the
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original building for the Polynesian.
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And this this is the community. Well,
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it's the for the whole room balcony. I
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mean, there's a full-size table out
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here. There's lounge chairs over there.
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All this is for this particular room
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right here with a nice little view of
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the pool right down below. That is the
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pool for the DVC tower right there. I
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can even see Spaceship Earth from here.
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Way off in the horizon over there, you
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can see Spaceship Earth.
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And then there's another floor up top.
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This is not one of the twostory ones.
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They do have some twostory ones out in
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Anaheim. It's a Disneyland hotel that
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are like the the primo one there, but
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this one just one floor. But man, this
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is pretty pretty wild. Pretty nice.
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We're going to have plenty of room.
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>> So the bathroom has the commode here in
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one separate stall. Then you got the
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walk-in shower here with the kind of
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waterfall style or you can do the nozzle
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style, whichever your heart desire heart
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desires.
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Right there. So this table probably get
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10 people at that table if you so
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choose. Yeah. And you head in
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to this room. You got a big king bed.
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And then you got all the theming as
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well. Another bathroom. There's a total
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of three bathrooms.
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This one has a really large tub.
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And over there would be the commode.
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You got a sink here.
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Not just one sink, but then you kind of
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pan over back into the room itself.
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And then there's another sink right
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here. And then you pan up from that and
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that's where you have another walk-in
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shower
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right there.
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I was kind of surprised that this room
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was available. I saw it was and I
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thought, you know, just should probably
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just do it. Invite my mom and dad. I had
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a friend. Is this uh open? There it
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goes. Oh,
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there we go.
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Then you come out here. You can see some
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of the construction down at the poly
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right down there on the roof of that
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one. I've yet to stay in those. I've
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heard good things about those, but I
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kind of feel like this might be a little
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bit better with the the height of it.
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And you can see the boat going up like a
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a ferry boat going across over to TTC
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right there. Kind of panning across
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Contemporary.
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And then it's going to be a really good
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view for the fireworks a little bit
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later. The Halloween part is happening
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in Magic Kingdom tonight. So, the
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fireworks are 10:00 tonight. And then at
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8:45, the electric light pageant, which
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started back in 1971 when the park
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opened, we'll come right by here. So,
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we'll get a good view from our little
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All of us will be out here on the
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balcony watching it. We could even eat
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dinner out here. Mom bought bought a
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bunch of food to make and make
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sandwiches and snacks and stuff. Got all
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kind of snacks and stuff. Little cure
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rig over here and a coffee maker.
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Washer or a dishwasher here. This
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probably is going to be the Nope. I
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thought maybe it was going to be the
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washer and dryer.
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Oh, here's the other Oh, wait. There's
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the third bathroom
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>> here.
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>> Right here.
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>> Oh,
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and not just a It's not even like a half
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bath. It's like a another full bath with
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a third shower.
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>> This like the whole time.
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>> I know. Here's the washer and dryer
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>> Yep.
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little apartment.
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>> Yeah.
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>> All right. Step out onto the main
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balcony now, which is really, I think,
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probably the big selling point of this
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would be the size of the balcony out
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here with the table over here. You got 1
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2 3 4 5 six chairs there. Then you got
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the area over here, a little lounge area
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outside. Again, this balcony is
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connected to the same unit. And then
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also this balcony is connected to the
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same unit. All this on the same floor
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right there with just ample views of
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Seven Seas Lagoon in all its glory. This
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might be one of the best views at Disney
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World. Honestly, this is just this is
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good. Even got a little planter right
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here. Now, there are on on levels below
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this, there are two little kind of like
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hangout areas. Two uh I don't know what
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you call them, like verandas on this
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side that I can go down to and then also
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two on the other side. So, I do want to
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go check those out as well. And you can
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if you're staying here and you watch
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want to watch the fireworks from there,
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you can. But I'm pretty sure this is
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going to be the fireworks spot right
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here on on both nights. I mean, it
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doesn't get much doesn't get much better
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than this view right here. It's amazing.
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I mean, you look at the reflection and
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you see you see Space Mountain. You see
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the Contemporary in the reflection right
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here. And if you look closely, you can
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see a little Well, you can Can you see
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the castle in the reflection? Maybe not.
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But you can see you see the castle over
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there in the distance. So you can
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probably see it in the reflection behind
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me as I kind of spin around. I'll check
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one more time. So if I flip flip this
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around in the reflection of the window,
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you can see all the landmarks here
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across 7's lagoon. This is up here. This
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is this is a this is up here quite a
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bit. Bird's eye perspective, if you
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will. I mean, this is this is the level
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of the birds flying across seven seas.
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Some point should probably go down and
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hit the pool and hot tub. Yeah, the boat
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going to Magic Kingdom. If you look
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right there, that is the Orlando Eye.
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That's the big ferris wheel on
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International Drive right over there.
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hear everything from up from way up
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>> You've never stayed here either. We've
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stayed at a bunch of these though.
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>> I know. I haven't stayed at this one. We
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stayed at that one over there.
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>> Yep. The Grand Fian.
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>> And then we stayed at Bay Lake Tower
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over there.
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>> Oh, yeah. We're at that restaurant up
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top of the
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>> That's when I stayed there years ago and
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then me and you stayed in Bay Tower
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>> So, this will be You've done all three
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of the Seven Seas Lagoons now hotels.
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So, have I
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come over here to this
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resort just to look at it? And I think
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we ate over here one time
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>> at the Polynesian.
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>> Oh, we did. Kona Cafe
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>> when we brought Rosie and Bob. We showed
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them around all these hotels. Yeah.
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Christmas time. I think it was.
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>> Now you got the bird's eye.
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Yeah, balcony is definitely
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definitely the best part of this.
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It's like a living room, an outdoor
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living room.
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>> All right, we're going to get the
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crossing of the two ferry boats going
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across here. They're going back and
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forth.
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One going from TTC to Magic Kingdom, the
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other one going from Magic Kingdom to
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Transportation Ticket Center. Back and
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Who's that?
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>> The minnow.
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>> Oh, the minnow.
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That's Oh, that's the minnow.
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That's the Gilligan.
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They're off on a three-hour tour.
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>> Going up.
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>> Okay, we went down to the sixth floor.
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We're looking for
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a little atrium level.
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Let's see. Oh, here we go. It's called
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the Lagoon Reef Terrace
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and evidently is around this way.
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Oh,
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>> wow. Look how fancy this is.
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>> This is cool.
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>> You got to have the thing to get in.
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>> Got to have the key. Yeah. So, I'm kind
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of curious if all four of the terraces
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have a different theme. That was called
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the Lagoon Reef Terrace and kind of had
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the kind of look like you were under the
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ocean with the coral and everything.
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Definitely be a good spot to see the
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sunset. Right now, the sun's kind of
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permeating from that side of the
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building. But that was the Lagoon Reef
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Terrace. We go check out the other
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three.
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Right now, we're at the Wave Break
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Terrace, which is on the fifth floor.
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All the rooms are 800 and up. This is
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the fifth floor, which would be the Wave
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Break Terrace,
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which I think is going to be on the
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other side of the building.
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Okay. So, we are above, let's say, we on
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what floor are we on? We're on the fifth
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floor.
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>> We started on the sixth at the one
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terrace. Now, we're on the fifth floor,
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but we're looking down at the fourth
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floor. Yeah, because that's that's also
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a sunset terrace. So, that's the other
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one. This one's a lot larger than the
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other one we were just in. So, there's
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two on one side, two on the other. So,
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evident, if we keep going,
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that's going to be a different terrace.
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That one looks really cool down there.
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That is like huge. That's where we need
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to be for the sunset.
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Right down in there. That's the
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primo sunset terrace down there.
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>> Yeah, we can only see we don't know how
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deep it goes under.
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>> Yeah. All right, we'll go down there
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after we see the
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the terrace. That's Wave Break Terrace
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is over here.
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All right, let's head out into there.
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This is on the same side as our room.
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So, but if you were on staying on the
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other side and you wanted to watch the
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fireworks or see 7's lagoon, this would
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be your option just to pop in the wave
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break terrace. So, that was or that is
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the wave break terrace which is man is
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really nice. I would imagine during
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fireworks it fills up with a lot of
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people just because it's like such a
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great view. So, if you're staying in
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this particular hotel and let's say you
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have the golf course side, construction
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side, and you're kind of disappointed
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that you can't see the fireworks, you
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just go over to the Wave Break Terrace
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and get there a little early and you can
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get a pretty good view of the fireworks.
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So, even if you don't have the the room
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that you the side that you wanted, you
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can still see the fireworks and anyone
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that's staying in this particular tower
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can go to any of the four little terrace
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lounges. But that was the second one,
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the Wave Break Terrace. So, we'll go
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check out the other two now as well.
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It's like a full hotel tour tonight.
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We'll go to the go to the third one now.
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Now, this one is about the same size as
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the other. I think the it's basically
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going to be two small ones and then two
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large ones. And this would be the sunset
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side. This is known as the lava rock
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terrace.
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This the one of the two bigger ones. So,
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I'm just going to guess the fourth one
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is going to be a kind of a smaller one
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like the first one we saw, but the lava
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rock terrace is the sunset side. Which
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means our room in the morning, we'll
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probably get to see the sunrise from our
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room because the opposite side would be
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the sunset. But that was the second of
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the larger terraces. That was the lava
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rock terrace. So we got one more to go.
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Facing the facing the lakeside. That was
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the lava rock terrace.
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The bamboo forest terrace on level
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Bamboo forest hair. Oh, it's over this
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way.
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Just amazing how they put these things
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together.
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>> It's amazing how quick this was put
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together. I mean, they started
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construction on this like less than two
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years ago, a year and a half ago.
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>> Now it's open. And this was the spot
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that you said you and dad went to a luau
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once.
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>> This was where the luau
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>> our anniversaries. It's been 15 years
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ago.
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>> But you're on the spot where you saw
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that luau.
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>> Okay. So,
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>> you're staying on the same spot where
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you saw the luau. And this is the bamboo
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forest terrace right here. Okay. I stand
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corrected. There are three large
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terraces. I was thinking maybe it' be
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two and two, but in fact, there are
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three large terraces. The fourth one,
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well the third large terrace and the
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fourth terrace out of the complete the
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four that I've been to, two on either
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side is the bamboo forest terrace. That
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one was really cool, too. That was on
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the third floor facing over Seven Seas
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Lagoon. The Bamboo Forest Terrace. So,
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if you're staying here at this
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particular tower, you have access to all
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four terraces to your heart's desire.
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And really, I mean, probably when
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they're doing the electric light, you
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know, on the on the on the lake and when
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they're doing the fireworks, I'm sure
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more people would be out. But right now,
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there was nobody in the terraces, so
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they're pretty empty. All right, that
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completes the four terraces here at the
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new DVC tower at the Poly. All right,
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back up on our level now and going to
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head down to the pool. I think mom and I
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are going to head down and take a dip in
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the pool and in the hot tub.
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>> Here we go.
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>> You got it. Take it. See, it's not too
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bad. Feels good, right?
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>> Feels wonderful.
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>> Oh, he's submerging himself. [laughter]
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>> All right, we did the pool
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for a half hour or so and now we are
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soaking in the hot tub.
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Soaking it up.
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>> Boiling water.
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>> It's a little bit warmer than it is in
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the
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>> Yeah, it feels wonderful.
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>> Oh, that feel great. What?
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>> These old bones. It feels great.
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>> Mom says that every time we get in a hot
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tub.
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>> Speak for yourself.
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>> All right. Now, going to head back to
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the room. The ducks have taken over the
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pool. The ducks have taken over the
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pool. They haven't taken over the hot
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tub yet, but they may hit the hot tub up
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next now that we've gotten out of the
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hot tub. There's two ducks. One of them
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is like right there on the edge and the
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other one's just flapping its wings
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right there in the pool. That now that
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one's flapping its wings. You going to
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do a cannonball? All right. We ended up
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going out to the sunset porch area and
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watch tried. We didn't catch the sunset
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exactly, but after it kind of dipped
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down below the horizon, ended up getting
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to see the sunset. But we got some nice
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little Montreal views going across the
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construction over on the golf course.
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And now back out on the balcony where
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we're at. and notice something really
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amazing off in the distance as they're
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illuminating all the lights over at
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Magic Kingdom off in the distance. But
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even more impressive than that is the
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full moon out there. It's not really
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going to translate to real well to the
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camera, but right there in the center of
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the screen, that is a full moon looking
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amazing over there. Does not look well
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on camera, but to the human eye, that is
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something else. It's really like look at
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this size of that huge full moon right
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there.
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Amazing. And then over here you got
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castle all illuminated. You got Tron all
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lit up. Space Mountain. It is now almost
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8:45 and the electric light pageant on
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the water should be about to begin. I
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think they're right out there. I had
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originally thought it was going to be a
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little closer to the room, but I guess
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because it's so expansive going between
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the old version of the Polynesian and
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the new DVC tower, there's only one spot
22:01
that they could do, which is over near
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where the wave pool or wave machine used
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to be on the island. You can still see
22:07
it pretty good, but it definitely was a
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little bit of a ways off. I've stayed at
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the Grand Fian before and you get the
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theme park view room at the Grand Fian
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and it comes right kind of right really
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really close in proximity closer than
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this was but you can still see it from a
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distance. It's kind of amazing that this
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has been going on since since 1971.
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Yeah, it's like a opening day
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attraction.
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And if you look really close, you can
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see over there you can see Spaceship
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Earth kind of in the center of the
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screen. [music] So, at 9:00, you'll be
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able to see fireworks vaguely from here.
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And then an hour later at 10:00, be able
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to see the fireworks over at the Magic
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Kingdom, which is just going to be
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spectacular seeing them from right
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there. But yeah, if you look closely,
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see the Epcot fireworks way
22:57
over there. Just think the Montreal goes
22:59
all the way from here, well, also to
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Magic Kingdom, then to the resort loop,
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then to TTC, then you [music] get on a
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separate Montreal and go over to Epcot
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and do the Epcot loop. So, the Montreal
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goes all the way from here over to where
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those fireworks over there are
23:11
happening. Now, that is a great way to
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end the evening watching the fireworks
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just across Seven Seas Lagoon
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over at Magic Kingdom for the not so
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scary Halloween party. Obviously, I'm
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not at the Halloween party tonight, but
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they had the fireworks for the specific
23:26
event pumped in.
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Had the audio and everything down below.
23:34
You could hear it by over down by Seven
23:35
Seas Lagoon. And then up in the sky, of
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course, all the different pyro and the
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fireworks and the explosions.
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Yeah, that was a definitely a way to end
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my first night here at the new DVC tower
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at the Polynesian Resort.
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This this room is definitely great for
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all of us that are here.
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Close proximity to the pool. You just go
23:56
down the stairs, hit the pool, hit the
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hot tub. You don't have to go all the
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way over to the original Polynesian
24:02
property. If you want to, you could.
24:05
Really, everything you need is like
24:06
right here. If you want vending
24:06
machines, they got those on each floor,
24:08
except for some reason they're not on
24:09
the ninth and 10th floor. The vending
24:11
machines are only on the one through
24:12
eighth floor.
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But great, the bal I think for me the
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selling point is the balcony and the
24:19
multiple bathrooms and the washer and
24:21
dryer. But the fact that there's a huge
24:23
balcony that just everybody can just
24:25
kind of hang out on on the balcony is
24:27
really nice.
24:33
It's also nice being out here in the
24:33
evening time where it's not too hot.
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The rain has subsided.
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Nice and cool. I want to say it's
24:47
chilly, but nice cool breeze. No, cool
24:50
for Florida in October.
24:54
But that's going to do it for today.
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Thanks for watching. first first day and
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first evening of success.
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I'll see you in the next video, the vlog
25:08
is over
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again. Just look at the size of this
25:17
balcony.
25:25
That is just just uh unheard of,
25:25
right?
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This is like a living outdoor living
25:30
room.