Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Guest review by Marlene, visited June 2007

From Marlene: The beginning of our stay for two days was at the military hotel "Shades of Green" at Disney. The dinning plan can only be used at "Official" disney resorts, which was OK, I guess. To make this short, it seems that no one has ever stayed at different hotels.

We wanted our park tickets portion that we purchased with the package immediately and it was very confusing and difficult to get them. When that finally got cleared up, we were OK, until we came to the French Quarter. The nice thing was that we could drop the luggage off and go the parks and we can get them when we get back.

I had already checked in, it would have been nice if they took our bags up to the room and the luggage was waiting when we got in at 12 midnight. It took one hour to receive our luggage and I had to call three times. When you have two young children already tired it doesn't help to have to wait an extremely long time, it's not like it was rush hour or anything.

Oh, yeah, when we got in the room there was spider webs and spiders all over the television and we had to get the maid at that hour to clean it up.

The room, what can I say but it was horrible. The room is very and I mean very small. It is only meant for TWO people with really no luggage. The beds are double beds and one of the beds you can only get in/out on one side. So you either crawl backwards to get out or go over the other person.

There is no place to put your luggage at all. Not even one luggage stand. There is no closet. The only place you can hang something is in the bathroom next to the sinks.

Watch out and don't brake your neck taking a shower. My daughter slipped and hurt herself because there is no bath mat or skids in the tubs. When I told them about the incident they said "you should have requested it." How was I suppose to know you need to request a safety item, like a mat, real nice.

If you hear a sound like a bomb going off in the middle of the night, don't worry, it's your neighbor flushing the toilet or it could be yours. The toilets are INCREDIBLY LOUD.

Don't trust the alarm clock, ours didn't work, luckily I could set my cell phone. Hopefully your first morning you won't have to wake up to no electricity. Luckily I woke up and realized, we would have missed our character breakfast because at that time I didn't know the alarm clock wasn't working too (I guess no electricity would do that too). Taking a shower in the dark wasn't fun.:):)

Let me see what was good about the French Quarter, it was very very quiet. A little too quiet at times, you didn't know that anyone else was really staying there.

The pool is over rated. There is only one slide and it actually is very dangerous because it goes it shallow water. My nine year skinned her knees hitting the bottom.

The food at the food court is expensive as most of Disney. Get the dining plan!!! The gift shop/store is very nice. They even had donuts that you could buy or use your snack plan. You can use your snack plan in the gift shop for other things too.

To use the arcade you have to buy a special card which goes in $5 increments and that changes into points. Unless your child knows how to do math very well, you could be having a crying child because the points can be gone on one or two games. Or they have points not being used because there is (ie. 5 points left and no game is worth that many points) not enough and you need to add more. MORE MONEY!!! Why can't they just put a Quarter in like other arcades?:):):):)

There is a great distance between the French Quarter and Riverside. They have a van but if you have a car drive yourself.

Our five days at the French Quarter wasn't too great. The Shades of Green is way much better and cheaper of course. Only one advantage we had was that we could use the Dining plan, which really made things cheaper and easier when it came to food.

I heard the rooms are the same at Riverside but there is more to do over there.:):) My suggestion is DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON EVERY HOTEL, READ REVIEWS AND ASK PEOPLE!!

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