Hi,
We just came back from the Royal Pacific (stayed Dec 14th through Dec 17th) and I have to say I do not think it's worth the money.
We split our trip, staying at Disney's Port Orleans French Quarter (which was VERY nice-CLEAN and Quiet!) then checking out and heading over to Royal Pacific. Honestly even though I was very happy with the disney room, I couldn't wait to check out because all I had read about Royal Pacific made me anxious to stay there.
We checked in, Loewe's first member....and check in was terribly slow. I won't go into too many details there. My problem was the room. Now we are not picky people. All I want is a clean, quiet room. I don't need anything fancy to be happy. We booked our room in Oct, club level king room, non-smoking. We get to our our rooms (we checked in around 10 and received our keys and room right away-which was nice)....we walk in the room, it STINKS like smoke! The table has a little note that says it was prepared non-smoking. Immediately I am not happy. The carpet is horribly stained (i took pictures), and there is a pretty bad patch job on the ceiling. Again, I'm not happy, we're paying well over $200 a night.
We go down to the front desk and ask the woman if there is another king room available Possibly with a view of the park? (we had a highway view) She tells us no. Annoyed we walk away, she comes over and says that if we want to change to a Queen room she may be able to help us. I ask her if there is just another king room available on the club floor, doesn't matter about the view, because our room stinks. She tells us no, but she'll send up an air cleaner right away and that will help. Once again, I'm not thrilled but say fine.
We go to the parks, come back, the air cleaner is in the room, and it really did help. So that made me happy, but I just don't think for the money I should have any of this aggravation.
The bathroom was nice, kept very clean (honestly the cleanest part of our room). Couple of lights burnt out in the room. Turn down service was nice, they leave you a small 'gift' each night and bring you ice.
On our last night we got back from Seaworld-a note on the free shuttle-It leaves to go to Seaworld almost an hour an a half after Seaworld opens, and leaves to go back to the hotel before the park closes. So if you want to see everything, there's a good chance you won't be able to--definitely not the last Shaumu show, being the short December park hours. We ended up taking a taxi both ways. So we get back from Seaworld and our bed has already been turned down, and there is a stain about the size of a quarter, which looks a lot like blood (and it's not from me or my husband!) We call star services and ask them to change the sheet, which they did. My thing was how did housekeeping not notice when they made the bed? Or how did the turndown lady not notice when she turned down the bed? It was very noticeable (white sheets) and she put our "gift" right around it.
The front of the line access is a great feature (although we didn't need it because the parks were empty). The water taxi's are great, can't beat it. We ate the Island's restaurant twice, food was GREAT, service excellent, prices not so bad because you actually get decent portions. Wednesday's they have a card magician named Dr. Cardoo who is REALLY good, still can't figure out how he did it.
The club level is fine. The free drinks are nice, I think the breakfast is good enough (bagels, toast, boxed cereal, pastry, fruit). Lunch time they have lots of veggies, pb&j sandwiches, fruit. Coffee is good.
It is quiet at night, we only woke up once around 2 am with a loud group in the hallway but I think that's to be expected, so I was very happy it only happened once.
All in all, I thought the hotel was just fine. If i had the same room I had, but paid $100 less, I wouldn't complain.
If you want to see pictures of the room, email me, I'll be happy to send them. We also did the Beluga Whale Interaction Program at Seaworld if you want any info, you can email me for that too! J
Amy
