Hi - I am booking a week in mid April for me and husband and 2 daughters (8 and 11). We have stayed at the WL and YC in the past but this year are thinking of trying either POFQ (might be nice to save a little this time?) or maybe Boardwalk (about $900 more)...we have not stayed at either. What would you do?
We just stayed at POR in January for one night before we moved to VWL for eight nights (we are DVC members and usually stay in one bedroom villas). We thought POR was really very nice and would stay there again. We always drive so parking is really important to us. We find BW to have the worst parking of any resort. We stayed at POFQ a few years ago and it is a nice compact resort, plus easy to walk to POR for dining and swimming if you want to use that pool.
So if you will have a car and plan to drive to the parks, I'd avoid the BW.
POR now has queen sized beds in the room (not sure about POFQ). The bathroom probably isn't much different from the BW bathrooms. But the BW rooms will have a balcony and POR will only have the outside entrance into the room and the walkway outside your front door. POR has smaller buildings. BW has endless corridors.
BW is walking (or boating) distance to two theme parks - Epcot and DHS. You have to take a bus to all four theme parks from POR and POFQ, but you can take a boat to DTD. The buses to AK and MK at the BW pickup at the Swan and Dolphin and sometimes YC and BC.
The food court at POR is really very good. Great selections for breakfast and pretty good for lunch and dinner. BW has some nice table service dining (Flying Fish, Kouzzina, Big River Grill - but we refuse to eat there after two bad experiences and the places at YC, BC, Swan and Dolphin), but it is kind of lacking for counter service. At least until the BW Bakery reopens. But, even then, that won't compete with the moderate food courts.
