French Quater compared to Riverside

We have stayed in both and like them both. But FQ is our favorite. It is smaller, everything is right there, the bus stop is close and we never had issues with the boat for DS. Table service at the hotel is not a priority for us. When we stayed at Riverside we never ate at Boatwrights. And I agree with Building 4 100%-close to bus, pool, laundry, food court, and front desk. Perfect location.
 
You can buy them in packs of 3's or 6's. The 3 pack is definitely a snack credit. You can also use snack credits to buy a dipping sauce, which is not a good use of a dining credit. It's just a very small plastic container of caramel or chocolate that you can purchase for $1.99.

Wait, what?! The dipping sauce is NOT part of the package? Man, that's like charging extra for ketchup. :sad2:
 

We have always stayed at Riverside and love it, but booked FQ for a last minute trip. Aside from no table service restaurant, different pools and the decor, is there anything really different in a bad way? Thanks

We preferred FQ due to the smaller size, one bus stop etc. When we were the pool was always pretty quiet too. One thing I don't really like is that the hot tub is not really in the pool area, so there's no sitting in the hot tub watching your kids etc, but otherwise we like it.
 
I agree POFQ is better, we stayed both. I prefer POFQ. If the boat is full, take the boat going to POR, just stay on it and got back down to POFQ and on to DS. You will find bus service mush better at POFQ, we did, a lot less crowded, we never shared a bus with POR, as they say they do. The pool is a little more childish, but as others say you can boat ride up to POR and use the main pool or the quiet pools there. If you have never taken the horse drawn carriage ride, I suggest it, book the last one of the night, I think 9:30 and ask to go down to POFQ, they have different routes they can take, that one will bring you thru POR and POFQ, it is the best ride on site. You did not say if you have kids, another difference you can not walk in or out of the main lobby without someone giving you necklesses and some times fake coins, the kids love them and they can make a wish at the fountains. The lobby is smaller and a lot less crowded, at POR they lost our ressies, aa d we waited for over and hour at 2am, then they just gave us a room and said come back in the morning, and it took another hour. At POFQ we arrived at like 1:30 and was in our room 15 minutes later. POFQ has the biggest and I mean buggiest ice cream cookie sandwiches you have ever seen in your life, we are foodies and none of us can finish one, and you get to pick what kind of cookies and what kind of ice cream you want. When you want to refill your mug, POFQ is the only resort that makes it easy, you don't have to walk far to get to it, you can walk from the furthest room and be back in your room 5 minutes later. The only real down fall we had was you can not take a bus or boat first thing in morning to POR, you can after 10, but since the buses don't share in am and the boats are not running, you have to hoof it if you wish breakfast at POR.

Oh, and one huge benefit for us is that at POFQ, the ice cream sandwiches counted as 1 snack credit, which is what we were used to, but on more than 1 occasion at POR, they wanted to charge us 3 snack credits for an ice cream sandwich (1 for each cookie and 1 for the ice cream)...during that trip, we walked to POFQ for those.
 
Same here. While I love caramel more than most I think it does nothing for a beignet.
I'll agree with that. I've only had beignets at Founding Farmers (a small high-end chain in the DC region) and they serve it with a raspberry compote that is excellent.
 
I'll agree with that. I've only had beignets at Founding Farmers (a small high-end chain in the DC region) and they serve it with a raspberry compote that is excellent.
I tried them with raspberry too (and chocolate) and none of them improved the beignets enough for us to buy the sauce a 2nd time.
 


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