We were just there a couple of weeks ago; Royal w/ roll-in shower. Our room was river view; we love the boats at POR/POFQ, so river view is almost a "must" for us!
Our room also had the luxury of being a corner room, which I love! I know it's silly, but it makes me so much happier to have that extra window! (Can you say "claustrophobia" boys and girls? I knew you could!)
Pros - the Royal room was a "bucket list" item for us. It was another one of our infamous Mother/Daughter trips; no boys allowed! so it was "all princesses, all the time" on this trip!
Cons - we love the Port Orleans resorts in general, however, our room was situated in such a place that we felt it was kind of inconvienent to get back and forth to the QS and the bus stops in front of Fulton's. (we preferred to use those stops simply because we were usually coming from the food court anyway). To get over to the main building, we had to run a serpentine course every time, despite being able to see a much shorter, more direct route, we would have had to carry my
ECV down the steps to reach it.
The other major issue we had was simply with the threshold of the room. As with all Value and Moderate rooms at WDW, the door opens to the sidewalk and the outside world, necessitating a strong threshold. The one in our doorway felt a bit "taller" than others we have had in the past (perhaps it had been recently changed?) and so "bumping" over it a couple of times a day began to take it's toll on me. It sounds like a little thing, but it did drive home to me how much I prefer the indoor corridors and smoother entryways of the Deluxe resorts, especially for longer stays like we had (10 days).
One final note: This was a "bucket list" room for us; we will likely not stay in a Royal room again (until maybe I have my own tiny granddaughter to spoil!) simply because by the end of the trip we would have been insane. The room is very heavily themed, which looks and sounds great on the surface, but after the first 5 days we were thrilled to move off to the Cabins at Ft Wilderness, simply to get some relief. Admittedly, I believe that those rooms were intended to be occupied by princesses of a slightly *younger* age group, and probably for a shorter duration, but nevertheless - we found that we need a visual "break". YMMV.
