Before the refurb, I remember families posting that a family of 5 booking into one AB room needed to have one family member under a certain age. I guess for fitting on the trundle bed. I never asked personally because our youngest was under the "Disney Adult" age on our past stays there. He is 10 now. Will Disney have a problem booking all 5 of us in one room now?
No problems at all. They still suggest "under 10 years" for the murphy bed (basically to avoid guests arriving and having issues with the bed size) but the only technical limitation that that the website imposes is that the fifth person cannot be an adult - it's fine with four adults and a 17-yeay-old child, but not five adults. I would suggest that 5' 3" is about the comfort limit, but if someone tends to sleep curled up a bit then taller would be OK.
Wow, that is shocking! I knew about the "front desk" line really being an offsite call center, but the offsite call center should have a "button" to push that immediately connects the room to the real front desk when there is an injury to a guest.
They can transfer calls to the resort. Whether or not they choose to do so is another question though, and it depends on the person you are speaking to. In this case I would have thought it was a no-brainer that the guest needed to speak to someone on-site urgently though.
I'll be going 11/11-11/17 were staying in a standard room with roll in shower. Not sure what section we will be in but I assume I will need to fax something to let them know my mom will have a
scooter.
You shouldn't need to fax, no. All of the roll-in shower rooms are either on the ground floor or located very close to an elevator (see my floorplan maps). If you do want a specific location for accessibility reasons, call the special assistance line on 1-407-939-7807 well in advance of your visit.
As for buses, I have very rarely seen two guests in wheelchairs or scooters at the bus stops at the same time, and the drivers always give priority load loading those guests first. You may have more of a wait returning from a park after fireworks - but then everyone has that problem anyway!
Thank you so much for these photos! They are bright and detailed and current.
I've tried to calibrate them so they are fairly accurate, and so the flash and natural/artificial light images don't clash too badly (in-room photos are really difficult to get exposed and correctly colour-balanced without using proper professional lighting). Then I very slightly over-saturated the colours to make them 'pop' a little and give a bit more of a "postcard" look to them, as they were looking a bit washed out otherwise (not sure whether I may have slightly overdone it though?).
For example, here's an original JPEG as it came out of the camera (this one was taken with flash) versus the version I created with a bit of work in Photoshop using the RAW image file (I'm still not 100% happy with the ceiling colour, but the rest is more accurate I think):
It's a rather tedious and laborious process with so many photos, but I'm glad you liked the results. I guess it'd be easier with a reference calibrated monitor, but I need a lot more people to press the 'Donate' button on the website before that's going to happen!
(at the moment, donations don't even meet the annual server costs)
Andre
Oh, Disney, how we love your lack of knowledge about yourself. 
