Once the Port Orleans French Quarter refurbishments are complete around the middle of July, work will commence on Riverside’s Alligator Bayou section, starting with building 37. This is currently scheduled to begin on 21 July, but please remember that maintenance plans and dates are always subject to change at any time. Each 64-room building should take around four weeks to complete, and there will be periods of overlap when two or more buildings may be worked on simultaneously. The entire Alligator Bayou section should be complete by the end of the year.
All of the work will be of a similar nature to the current French Quarter room refurbishments (new hard flooring, larger TVs, raised beds, new curtains instead of blinds, USB power sockets, wall-mounted soap-dispensers, etc) but since the bayou buildings are a lot smaller than those in French Quarter each one should be completely closed before work commences. There will be no major external work, just in-room redecorating, so there should be little if any disruption to anyone’s stay — if indeed you even notice at all.
I won't go into too much detail on specific start and end dates at this stage, as it's too far out to be sure that they will be accurate, but the following should be a good general guide:
- Building 37: Starts 21 July 2018
- Building 38: Aug 2018
- Building 39: Aug 2018
- Building 36: Aug 2018
- Building 35: Aug/Sep 2018
- Building 34: Sep 2018
- Building 24: Sep 2018 [was Oct 2018]
- Building 28: Sep 2018
- Building 26 :Oct 2018
- Building 25: Oct 2018
- Building 27: Oct 2018 [was Sept 2018]
- Building 17: Oct/Nov 2018
- Building 16: Nov 2018
- Building 15: Nov 2018
- Building 18: Nov 2018
- Building 14: Dec 2018
Once all 16 Alligator Bayou buildings are complete, work will commence on the Magnolia Bend area. This section is expected to begin in early Spring 2019, and the four large mansion buildings should take a total of around six months to complete.
In advance of this work though, next week will see the start of installation of the new style wall-mounted amenity dispensers (shampoo, etc) in the bathrooms of the Riverside mansion buildings, starting with Parterre Place and working back to Acadian House over the next few weeks.