Port Orleans News

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/

Recreation Activities Schedules for March 2012 are now available, see the main Recreation Activities Schedule page for full-size versions.

A quick bit of site news here. We have now set up pages on all the major social networking sites, which you can easily access using two new rows of icons located just beneath the menu area on every page of portorleans.org.

The smaller icons allow you to 'share' or '+1' interesting pages with your social networking friends, while the larger icons on the second row are a quick way to follow our pages directly.

At the moment, the accounts will mainly be used as an additional distribution method for our news updates so you can get the latest Port Orleans information just as soon as we post it, but who knows what will happen with them in the future?

If you want to visit them directly, the new pages are:

• Facebook: PortOrleans.org (or go to www.facebook.com/PortOrleans.org)
• Twitter: @PortOrleansOrg (or go to www.twitter.com/PortOrleansOrg)
• Google Plus: PortOrleans.org (or the ever-so-friendly plus.google.com/104157718608742492026)
• RSS News Feed: www.portorleans.org/portorleans-news-rss.xml (not new, but still available)