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French Quarter Food Court Refurbishment starts 11 July
Posted Tuesday 14th June 2016, 5:00pm (EDT) by The Sassagoula Sentinel
It looks like the cat is now out of the bag as to why work has recently been occurring inside the original Bonfamille's Cafe restaurant location at Port Orleans French Quarter (as reported here back in April, in http://www.portorleans.org/news.php?first=300416).
![]() (The original Bonfamille's restaurant, as used during Christmas 2015 with the revised name of Scat Cat's Cafe) ![]() The current Sassagoula Floatworks & Food Factory - maybe the big scary heads might be on their way out? The following email is being sent out to guests staying at French Quarter during the affected period (which will last until sometime during the fall):
The Disney Reservations Center phone line won't be able to tell you anything that's not in the information sheet that they've been sent though (they are just a call center). Since it says exactly the same as the guest email that has already been mentioned, I can't see they can object to it being quoted here too: There are a few rather pointless reactive FAQs too, which just reiterate the start date as being 11 July until Fall, the fact that the dining plan will be accepted (which will still be Quick Service incidentally), and that there will be no noise impact in the guest accommodation areas "while you are enjoying your room" (yes, that's precisely how it's written in Disney-speak). |
Beignet Sundaes and Bayou Burgers
Posted Sunday 5th June 2016, 8:57am (EDT) by The Sassagoula Sentinel
A couple of new items have appeared at the Port Orleans food courts over the past few weeks, which is welcome news indeed after the removal of multiple options a few months ago. |
June 2016 Recreation Activities & Entertainment Schedules
Posted Monday 30th May 2016, 5:38pm (EDT) by The Sassagoula Sentinel
The June 2016 Recreation Activities and Movie Schedules for Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter are now available. See the main Recreation Activities Schedules page for full-size printable PDF versions. ![]() ![]() |
Celebrating 25 Years of Disney’s Port Orleans Resort
Posted Tuesday 17th May 2016, 4:00am (EDT) by The Sassagoula Sentinel
Celebrating 25 Years of Disney’s Port Orleans Resort 17 May 1991 - 17 May 2016 In 1982, Walt Disney World Executive Dick Nunis proposed a new development near to the Empress Lilly steamboat-inspired restaurant in the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village area (today known as Disney Springs). The expansion was to include an intricately-themed hotel complex designed to evoke the relaxing laid-back feel of the city of New Orleans, reminiscent of Disneyland’s New Orleans Square. Surrounding the ‘recently docked steamboat’ would be a variety of themed buildings, with affordably priced guest rooms on the upper levels and restaurants and retail outlets on the ground floor. Sadly this plan never materialised during the turbulent early eighties, however in the world of Imagineering good ideas never really die and the two-level resort hotel and shopping/dining district eventually reappeared in the mid-1990s as Disney’s Boardwalk Resort. In the meantime, as part of massive expansion plans brought about by new Disney chief Michael Eisner, the New Orleans resort concept was resurrected from the vaults — but instead of being situated within the rapidly expanding Disney Village Marketplace area, it was relocated to create an entire new themed area to be accessed via a specially built waterway, the Sassagoula River. So it was that Disney’s Port Orleans Resort first opened its doors to the public on 17th May 1991. Originally featuring just 432 guest rooms in three buildings, the room count was soon increased to 1,008 as construction work on the remaining four buildings was completed. Nine months later its sister resort, Disney’s Dixie Landings (now Port Orleans Riverside), opened — and the rest, as they say, is history! For more background on the resort, and fun facts and trivia details, please see our History and Trivia pages. As a special Anniversary treat, we’ve just made available for downloading a complete early copy of the official eight-page Port Orleans ‘resort newspaper’ The Sassagoula Sentinel as a fully detailed PDF file. Enjoy! ![]() |