It is with a heavy heart that my family and I have decided to cancel our Polynesian Club Level stay from June 24-30, 2020.
I have held on to hope, but after reading a CDC warning for asthmatics, I realized that I would be foolish to put my family in danger for the sake of a vacation. We would be flying out of NY where it is a disaster. There are no guarantees that WDW would be safe in June, and God forbid we threw caution to the wind and all three of us ended up on ventilators. DH is an essential employee, and he found out that he would need to be quarantined for two weeks after travel...just another reason not to take the risk.
I don't know what this means with American Airlines. We booked our June vacation in October 2019. The soonest I could see us going would be April 2021, but I would prefer June or July...July 2021 would be my very first choice. I just don't know if we could postpone with the airline that far out. Our first class tickets were almost $2,000, and our private car service to & from the airport was $400. I would hope we could just postpone with both and not lose $2,400, but if we do, we do. I'm not risking our longterm health and well-being.
We have already starting talking about our rescheduled trip in 2021. We might stick with CL, but we might not. This thread has been very illuminating, and other than lounge access, I'm not sure if we would actually benefit from CL. We only do parks in the morning, so the extra FP's don't matter to us. I had managed to make all of my own ADR's, so I didn't need DSS. Frankly, I'm not sure what DSS would actually do for us. They aren't going to help book a Minnie Van. There apparently isn't always someone around for check-in. CL sounded like a dream, but I'm not sure if it is my dream. The lounge really sounds awesome, especially being able to view fireworks from there, but I could book a theme park view and watch the fireworks from there. I don't know. My brain is swimming right now. DD talks about having her own room, which was how this all started. We wanted to book a suite in Tonga. That proved to be impossible. Then DD got a discount for CL room in June, and it was such a great deal that we grabbed it.
Now that we are rescheduling, maybe we will book two rooms, one TPV, and get deluxe dining. Maybe we will get LUCKY and book a Tonga suite!!! Maybe we will book CL Hawaii again. I guess when we talk to our
travel agent, we can explore the possibilities.
So, for now, no Polynesian resort in my near future...but let's see what happens. The story isn't over yet.