ml sumner
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 23, 2013
We just returned from out 7 night stay. I faxed my room request 5 days before we left and every single request was granted. We had garden view booked and I asked for closest area to Ole Man Island and my two request in the DME were ground floor and corner. We were put in Magnolia Bend room 8510. The room looked dated and in my opinion the carpet didn't looked vacuum well, but it was clean. The air conditioner worked great but the ceiling fan would wobble and make noise if you turned it up any higher than slow. The pillows were the worst I have ever slept on! They were so flat and you could tell where they were folded over through the years for added thickness because the middle part was almost bare (that is my biggest complaint with our room and no I didn't complain to anyone, just made do with them). The soap, shampoo, and conditioner refill bottles on the wall were empty our very first night and we did call the next day to request they be filled and when we returned that evening they were, but the lock was not closed correctly so the bottles were slide around when you used the pumped. The overall resort was beautiful though! I really enjoyed the walk from our room to the main lobby where the food court and store is located. We declined Mouse keeping because I"m the type who keeps our room clean anyway and it didn't take no time to straighten our bed each morning. We received a $60 gift card that was emailed to use right away for use. We did call and ask for fresh towels and for the garbage to be emptied on our 3rd day and when we returned that evening those two request were handled. They also came on the 6th day and replenished towels and emptied trash, even though we didn't need it at that time, but it was nice though. The buses in the morning were no problem with less than a 10 minute wait for any park we were going to that day. The buses leaving the park in the evening were awful. We always could tell which line was for our resort, because it kept the longest line. We always had to wait for a 2nd bus in the evenings due to how long the lines were. We couldn't figure it out, we just guessed everyone choose POR since the other two moderates were having heavy construction at this time.
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I am having surgery on my back in six weeks and have had to cancel my entire 16 day Orlando vacation including POR from 10/19 to checking out 10/27. Our room was a preferred Alligator Bayou room and from what I can see right now there are not a lot left so jump on my cancellation is you can.
After planning this trip for the past 2 years it's hard to believe we will finally be there. I just put on the Magical Express tags on the suitcases and it's real now and I hope that everything will go smoothly.
And, good luck 
for the first time and that was fun. Two quibbles: the AC in our room was LOUD. The first night it was making this horrible grinding noise, so I called maintenance and they fixed it while we went to the parks (it was a loose cover), but even without the grinding, it was still super noisy. Fortunately DS can sleep through almost anything, and it wasn't enough to keep me awake. Despite the noise, it worked beautifully and the room was always VERY comfortable. Second quibble, and nothing POR could change, were the horrible yellow biting flies. I'd NEVER experienced them before, and I discovered I had at least a mild allergy to them. The first bites I got are now nearly 2 weeks old, and they are STILL itchy. WTH, Florida????? 
