Best place we have stayed in Orlando
Posted: October 27th, 2013, 8:30 am
Hi everyone
We have just returned from a two week trip to WDW staying at POR, what a fantastic place. Yes there are a couple of things that could be done better the dining hall does get hectic, you do have to stand sometimes on the buses no big deal really.
The rest of the place we could not fault we were upgraded to a royal room on checking in and stayed in building 90 at the Oak Manor building room 9425 overlooking the pool, we could not have been happier with this. The shop is also very good and along with the usual Disney merchandise it also has a section that sells medical supplies like plasters, child and adult medicines sun creams and other bits that you may be short of.
I did read a lot of comments on how spread out the site was and how far away everything was but we did not think that this was the case,in fact quite the opposite it just makes the place feel more relaxed as you stroll around the grounds which are stunning.
We had the quick service dining plan which also worked very well saved us a bundle of cash and the resort mugs help a lot too.
We hired the bikes and the surrey bikes which our little one loved great fun having a leisurely ride around the site, you do get a bit more freedom on the bikes but both are good. We also did the fishing down at the fishing hole where between the three of us we managed to catch 5 fish in a half hour period beginners luck.
The water taxi to downtown disney is also well worth doing we used it a couple of times and I would recommend it.
The check in was quite easy, done in around 20 minutes we found the room easily and did not have any problems finding our way around the site.
We were given the magic bands which I thought worked very well once we had realised that we needed to download the disney experience app to make them work properly.
My only downside to whole trip is Fast passes, this was our 7th trip to Orlando and we have always visited around this time of the year September/October when the park wait times are not very long. I can see why they would have FP in the really busy periods but during quieter times I think they only add to wait times for the majority of people and on the hole slow things down. Maybe they give too many of them out and this means they have to keep letting more and more people in the FP line on whilst making the standby wait times longer, i would like to hear what others think on this issue.
Anyway just a minor gripe and I don't want to put a negative on a fantastic stay in a fantastic resort which we are already looking at visiting again just as soon as we can and we only got back yesterday.
We have just returned from a two week trip to WDW staying at POR, what a fantastic place. Yes there are a couple of things that could be done better the dining hall does get hectic, you do have to stand sometimes on the buses no big deal really.
The rest of the place we could not fault we were upgraded to a royal room on checking in and stayed in building 90 at the Oak Manor building room 9425 overlooking the pool, we could not have been happier with this. The shop is also very good and along with the usual Disney merchandise it also has a section that sells medical supplies like plasters, child and adult medicines sun creams and other bits that you may be short of.
I did read a lot of comments on how spread out the site was and how far away everything was but we did not think that this was the case,in fact quite the opposite it just makes the place feel more relaxed as you stroll around the grounds which are stunning.
We had the quick service dining plan which also worked very well saved us a bundle of cash and the resort mugs help a lot too.
We hired the bikes and the surrey bikes which our little one loved great fun having a leisurely ride around the site, you do get a bit more freedom on the bikes but both are good. We also did the fishing down at the fishing hole where between the three of us we managed to catch 5 fish in a half hour period beginners luck.
The water taxi to downtown disney is also well worth doing we used it a couple of times and I would recommend it.
The check in was quite easy, done in around 20 minutes we found the room easily and did not have any problems finding our way around the site.
We were given the magic bands which I thought worked very well once we had realised that we needed to download the disney experience app to make them work properly.
My only downside to whole trip is Fast passes, this was our 7th trip to Orlando and we have always visited around this time of the year September/October when the park wait times are not very long. I can see why they would have FP in the really busy periods but during quieter times I think they only add to wait times for the majority of people and on the hole slow things down. Maybe they give too many of them out and this means they have to keep letting more and more people in the FP line on whilst making the standby wait times longer, i would like to hear what others think on this issue.
Anyway just a minor gripe and I don't want to put a negative on a fantastic stay in a fantastic resort which we are already looking at visiting again just as soon as we can and we only got back yesterday.