Port Orleans News

Deb Wills from AllEars.net got to stay in one of the new Royal Guest Rooms at Port Orleans Riverside on Saturday night and seems to have really enjoyed it from her tweets (follow @AllEarsDeb).

AllEars has now posted a lot of detailed photos (including some great Hidden Mickey shots) plus their own in-room video at http://allears.net/acc/g_PortOrleans-RoyalRooms.htm.

Here is the very first batch of photos from the brand new 'Royal Guest Rooms' which opened at Port Orleans Riverside's Oak Manor yesterday, including a couple of Accessible bathroom photos. More picture to come soon, watch this space.

Disability Accessible Room bathroom details (there are also rooms which feature roll-in showers):

The in-room cable television channel line-up is being expanded across all of the World Disney World resort hotels, and Port Orleans is scheduled to be the first to get the new services on Tuesday 13 March 2012. The other hotels will follow over the next two months.

Some of the new channels include Fox News, Bravo, AMC, National Geographic, TBS, TNT, Travel Channel, WE TV, Syfy, Discovery, Bio, HGTV, TLC, History, Food Network and TV Land. Local affiliate channels (ABC, NBC, etc.) and Disney resort hotel-specific channels will still be available. Channel 17 will contain a full list of the new services.

For more details after the new channels go live, see the TV Channels page.

Opening Day for the new Royal Guest Rooms was apparently very hectic, but the cast had a lovely ceremony in the afternoon and Val Bunting (General Manager) and her leadership team dressed as Royalty for the occasion. The Exec Housekeeper read a proclamation officially handing the rooms over from the rehab crew to the Housekeepers, and got them to promise to keep these lovely new rooms looking immaculate and smelling great.

There was celebratory cake and chocolate-covered strawberries and pretzels, plus sparkling cider (in champagne glasses of course!) for a toast.




Besides the rooms, they've also done some enhancements to the courtyard area. The fountain is painted royal blue inside, and the water lighting is coloured at night. There are also spiral topiaries and royal banners featuring the crowns and swords of various princesses and princes. There are also new topiaries with twinkling lights.




(Many thanks to the cast member who kindly sent the photos for us)

The first of the new 'Royal Guest Rooms' at Port Orleans Riverside will be opening to the public tomorrow, Friday 9 March. There will be a small cast-member handover ceremony in front of Oak Manor to rededicate the building at around 3:15pm (it's really for the cast-members, but I'm sure no one will object if a few guests gather around at the back to see what's happening) and the first guests should be assigned rooms at around the same time.

We'll be updating our new Royal Guest Rooms page with more information and photos just as soon as we get them. The long wait is finally over!

[Update] New video clip online: http://www.epcyclopedia.com/2012/03/09/ ... t-orleans/