princess rooms not ready

[nkereina]

There's a lot of posts about this in the POR thread. Most people are upgraded to Poly, and someone else was told they couldn't pick Contemporary also.

 

[cruisingkat]

Daughter got an upgrade for the last week in Feb. She is doing the Princess half marathon and booked a Royal Room. We booked at POFQ so that we would be close to take the grandkids on Race Day morning (hubby has heel spurs and we like FQ because all the buildings have elevators). When they called her to tell her about the upgrade, she made sure they were upgrading her to a host hotel. They upgraded her to Yacht Club. She also mentioned that we were going too and were supposed to take the grandkids Sun. morning. So Disney spread their magic even further and upgraded us too to Yacht Club.
I am so excited - I have always wanted to stay there but being retired, it's a choice between staying at a deluxe once a year or every other year or staying at a value and going several times a year.

 

[pmaurer74]

Daughter got an upgrade for the last week in Feb. She is doing the Princess half marathon and booked a Royal Room. We booked at POFQ so that we would be close to take the grandkids on Race Day morning (hubby has heel spurs and we like FQ because all the buildings have elevators). When they called her to tell her about the upgrade, she made sure they were upgrading her to a host hotel. They upgraded her to Yacht Club. She also mentioned that we were going too and were supposed to take the grandkids Sun. morning. So Disney spread their magic even further and upgraded us too to Yacht Club.
I am so excited - I have always wanted to stay there but being retired, it's a choice between staying at a deluxe once a year or every other year or staying at a value and going several times a year.

awesome! Thank you so much for posting this! My parents are staying at POR but we could not get them a RGR so I was going to see if Disney would upgrade them to so we could be at the same resort. It is their first trip to Disney. Congrats on Yacht Club! It is on my list of resorts but I have the feeling it will not be available during our week so I am hoping for GF, BC or WL. I know Disney does not HAVE to do anything but I am hoping for some pixie dust our way as well! I did tie our reservations together last Monday before I knew about the upgrades.

 

[Missytara]

Does anyone know what buildings the royal rooms will be in? I am getting ready to book and want to know if the added price will place us near the main building?

The Royal Rooms are in Oak Manor and Parterre Place.

While some of the rooms in Oak Manor can be close to the bridge over to the main building; many of the rooms in Parterre Place can be somewhat far.

 

[cruisingkat]

awesome! Thank you so much for posting this! My parents are staying at POR but we could not get them a RGR so I was going to see if Disney would upgrade them to so we could be at the same resort. It is their first trip to Disney. Congrats on Yacht Club! It is on my list of resorts but I have the feeling it will not be available during our week so I am hoping for GF, BC or WL. I know Disney does not HAVE to do anything but I am hoping for some pixie dust our way as well! I did tie our reservations together last Monday before I knew about the upgrades.

I hope the pixie dust goes your way too.
We would have been fine staying at POFQ if it wasn't for the Princess marathon. But with roads being closed for the Princess and having to get the kids at 4am, it did make for a rather difficult situation since she was switched to an Epcot hotel and roads around Epcot and Magic Kingdom start closing late Sat. night before the race.
We have occasionally stayed at a different resort when traveling with our children and grandchildren - we would meet up at the park.