We've done HR CL several times. Why I ever repeated it is beyond me. I guess I keep thinking, it can't really be that bad. But it is. It is really that bad. Breakfast is a joke. Donuts from Dunkin' Donuts, I'm assuming. Maybe hard boiled eggs. A few other pastries and packaged cereals. Juices. Yogurt. Snacks at lunch are now equal to what Disney has switched to, packaged chips and other snacks. At least Disney adds on veggies and fruit. Dinner is just poor. First, alcohol is served and very limited in how long it's out. It's never out for lunch, they've never brought it out for us if we asked. I hate when it's served. They clearly want to limit how much you get. It may not be spoken that it's limited but it is clearly how they make you feel. Dinner food felt like frozen and reheated chicken nuggets, chicken on skewers dipped in jarred sauce, frozen meatballs in jarred sauce, you get the idea. We love HR otherwise. We stay there several times a year and know several of the staff well. We always walk to the parks from HR. We'll take the boats to City Walk if there's a boat there when we come out. Otherwise we walk there too. We cut through the butterfly garden. We do miss the pool cut through. I'll be glad when the outside refurb is done and they have that reopen (maybe it is? haven't been since March)
We are trying Portofino CL next week. We have DGD with us and thought we'd like the bigger room, and not have to pay for the Rock Star suite over at HR. I've heard better things about their CL so we'll see. I know it can't be worse. LOL I'm going to really miss HR this time, it's been several years since we've stayed anywhere else. But I know we'll like the bigger room. We've only done the walk between HR and Portofino once, when we went over to a Harbor Nights event. It wasn't too bad. I'm not sure if we'll do the boat or walk this time. Will leave it up to the vote