we just got back from 4 nights AKL and 4 nights POR-mansions. Of course it was hard to go from a deluxe to a moderate, but I expected POR to be a bit nicer than I found it. The mansion room we were in (Magnolia Terrace, 1st floor 8552) was very shabby - the bedframes had the veneer coming off, the room smelled damp, the shower curtain was a tiny bit moldy (not as bad as the one at home, though
) and there was some brown stuff on the shower ceiling...
We didn't want to change rooms, since we were right next to my mother and cousin's family, and I wiped the mold off with a facecloth. Next time we'll request 2nd floor, and as far away from the condenser units as possible. That humming/machine noise was unpleasant. Couldn't hear it from the back side of the mansions, but they were in the shrubbery right outside our front facing room.
We didn't spend as much time at the resort as we did when we stayed at AKL, so we didn't care too much about these things. But it just didn't seem as clean (gum stuck to a footbridge was there for the 4 days we were there, no one attempted to even clean it up) as AKL, or as I remember CBR to be. They did a lot of tree trimming while we were there as well - piles of brush half way across the paths were a bit annoying, as were the sounds of chainsaws at 7:30 AM. And there was always litter in the shrubs around the mansion we stayed in.
My BIL and his family stayed in the Alligator Bayou section, building 39. I loved the theming there, it appeared much cleaner, and much quieter. A bit of a long walk to the food court, though! If we have to stay there again I'd definitely ask for the bayou section, somewhere close to the food court.
Schmeck
