46 days until we're here at POR!!! I can not wait to see our Royal Room! What time do you suggest getting on a bus to arrive for rope drop at a park?? Would one hour before open be enough time to travel? Thanks!
We stayed in a Royal Room a few weeks ago! You are going to LOVE it! They are so lush and beautiful! It's just my husband and I (no kids) and we adored it. The view from our room (and when we walked out our door) was also incredible and we really felt like we were staying in a Moderate+. Not a moderate, but not quite a deluxe
As for the buses.....others have said you should be fine getting there an hour early, but what we experienced during our trip was nothing short of mayhem. I have given my feedback in the survey they sent me with some suggestions. Here's what we experienced on our days trying to go to Magic Kingdom in the morning. It's sort of hard to explain if you haven't been there and don't understand the way the South Depot is laid out, but I'll try my best.
The park opened at 9, so we arrived at the bus stop at 8 (South Depot.) Upon arriving, there were already huge mobs of people. And I am using the term mob literally. The two depots are so close together. One is for 2 parks and the other is for the other 2 (just detailing the 4 major parks.) The two depots were so crowded that you couldn't tell which people were waiting for which park, and you couldn't even get through the crowd at the first depot to get to the second one. We walked up to a line that went all the way through both depots and people told us they were in line for the Magic Kingdom, so we waited...further than two depots back from where the bus actually comes. A MK bus pulled up to the MK depot and loaded a full load and left (it was already at least half full with people from POFQ and the other POR stops so they didn't take many more.) The rest of us moved up and were now in a line that went to a spot one and a half depots back. On top of all this, people were coming up the path from the Alligator Bayou rooms which brings you between the two depots and they were just standing and waiting there in the middle, when there was a LONG line behind us in line for that bus. We then waited 30 minutes for another bus (so now it's about 8:35.) A bus for DHS pulled up (it shares a depot with MK,) so people were going through our line and trying to weave around to get on that bus (imagine, strollers, toddlers walking, wheelchairs,
ECVs, the works.) Meanwhile, a MK bus pulls up behind the DHS bus, and now all of us at the end of the MK line (between the depots) are now first, and the people who were first are now last. It was mayhem, people were really angry. We tried to be polite and let the people who were first go first, but the driver was telling people to get on and they were. After having waited through a couple full buses, and seeing that this one was pretty full too, people were annoyed. Especially because they were all trying to make Rope Drop. By the time we finally got to MK it was 9:10. By the time we got off the bus and into the park is was about 9:20. Missed RD, still a decent/early time frame and we still got to do everything we wanted, but it was NO fun to have that bus situation.
They really need to have people there in the mornings directing and making sure there are defined lines so people know where to stand. It seemed like MK was the only park in which the South Depot was the last stop, so if you're going to MK for RD, avoid getting on at the South Depot.
Disclaimer: This is just my opinion after one stay. I'm not sure if this is the norm, but it was our experience on two occasions during our stay.
We are getting so excited!
Now the hardest part: waiting!!! 
