We were at the POR the first week in April and it was GREAT. We were in building 35 which was in the AB section- far from food court but the walk was nice along the paths. I was also there in Sept and stayed in AB building 27-closer to food court and a bit confusing to get to parking lot but still a good location. So, 35 was better for parking, 27 closer to food court. This visit we were on the first floor (second fl. last time) and both times we only heard a few of the toilets flushing, and altough we saw neighbors, never heard them in the other rooms. I had made some advance requests for a closer room but we arrived early and decided to take what was ready rather than wait for specific rooms
We rented a car so I can't speak to the transportation issues. It was a busy week at the parks and the hotel appeared to be at capacity but still, our area was peaceful. We used the food court often and it was great for us. We preferred the POFQ pool so we drove there a lot.
There was a pin trading board that the staff brought out nightly in the lobby from 5-5:30 and kids could trade pins with the board plus any CM's that were there-that was neat.
Mousekeeping was fine- I dropped the coffee carafe on the tile floor late one night (great!) and they came within 5 minutes to help clean up the glass and provide a new one. Making coffee was tricky as the pot is right there on the fridge but no place to plug it in so I had it teetering on a narrow shelf near the sink and it slipped and broke. That is one of my only complaints with all of my darn electronics to charge, etc- not enough outlets in the room to charge everything.
Our room was cleaned between 1-3 daily but the day of check out they came by frequently to see if we were gone beginning around 9 am- most likely to turn it over for the next guests. We finally left around 10 am.
Also on the day of check out we went to Sea World and it just wasn't our day there and we had multiple problems due to downpours, thunder, cancelled shows, and crabby kids. We left there much earlier than planned and had to come up with a new plan as our flight took off at 9:30 that night and we were thankfully able to still get back into the POR area as our room card still worked at the gate to get back into the resort area. It continued to pour so we hung around in the food court for a few hours, playing games that we had brought, etc. It was nice to still be able to access this area although we had checked out. I had read somewhere this was possible until midnight of your check out day and it was a savior for us.
Overall a great stay and we booked a bounceback in September!
