Quietest rooms POR/POFQ

[SwanVT2]

I am a light sleeper. Which rooms are quieter..POR or POFQ and which part of the hotel ? I assume upper floor. Thank you.

 

[stinkpickle]

At POFQ, we request anything top floor that's away from the river. The boat horns are the only things that bother us.

 

[Jadyreen1282]

It' a graveyard at POR...until the wife and I get back at 2 am...nightly....

 

[ncc1701]

If you book POFQ don't book River . We didn't find it noisy but we live on a landing path for Philadelphia International Airport so the boat sounds didn't bother us.. The pool view at POR are mostly for the quiet pools and they are open 24/7 as far I know. So you may want to stay away from those rooms.

 

[Animal]

If at POFQ, request top floor. If you're in POR Alligator Bayou, you'll also want top floor. We have found at POR Mansions that the buildings are built such that we have never noticed upstairs neighbors, but we still request top floor to avoid folks walking right outside our door.

Also at POFQ, you may want to request Buliding 7. It's out of the way (but still not far from anything because it's French Quarter, and you're NEVER far from anything!). In general, we book Garden View at POFQ, but some of our quietest rooms have been standard view in Building 7. If you book standard, I recommend requesting "top floor in Building 7". Building 1 is also a possibility. If you book Garden View, there are lots of quiet rooms. As long as you aren't next to the pool or on a thoroughfare near the main building, you're probably OK. I don't recommend booking river view if you're concerned about noise; too many rooms subject to boat noise.

POFQ is awesome at granting quiet room requests. Since I don't want to be where other folks want to be, it makes the room assigner's job easy! They're inundated with requests for Building 4, so when they get requests for Building 1 or 7, it's easy for them to make me happy!

 

[disneyinthespringtime]

Two building face a lawn where they show movies at night. 5 and 6 I think? Those would also not be good.

 

[GoofyJayDawg]

We've stayed at POFQ multiple times. We love the smaller footprint and proximity to everything. Every stay has been very quiet save one. Unfortunately, if you have noisy, inconsiderate neighbors, it doesn't matter what part of the resort you're staying at. When we stayed at POFQ at Christmas, the neighbors we had were up till all hours of the night, every night. Constantly slamming doors, standing outside of their rooms yelling at the others in their party that seemed to have several rooms occupied, running from one room to the next. It got old, fast.

 

[sponica]

If at POFQ, request top floor. If you're in POR Alligator Bayou, you'll also want top floor. We have found at POR Mansions that the buildings are built such that we have never noticed upstairs neighbors, but we still request top floor to avoid folks walking right outside our door.

Also at POFQ, you may want to request Buliding 7. It's out of the way (but still not far from anything because it's French Quarter, and you're NEVER far from anything!). In general, we book Garden View at POFQ, but some of our quietest rooms have been standard view in Building 7. If you book standard, I recommend requesting "top floor in Building 7". Building 1 is also a possibility. If you book Garden View, there are lots of quiet rooms. As long as you aren't next to the pool or on a thoroughfare near the main building, you're probably OK. I don't recommend booking river view if you're concerned about noise; too many rooms subject to boat noise.

POFQ is awesome at granting quiet room requests. Since I don't want to be where other folks want to be, it makes the room assigner's job easy! They're inundated with requests for Building 4, so when they get requests for Building 1 or 7, it's easy for them to make me happy!

I was just in a standard view in building 7 (4 was still being renovated, so I'm pretty positive that's why we couldn't get into 3 and I needed connecting rooms on the ground floor). It's super de duper quiet out there.

 

[Animal]

I was just in a standard view in building 7 (4 was still being renovated, so I'm pretty positive that's why we couldn't get into 3 and I needed connecting rooms on the ground floor). It's super de duper quiet out there.

Those trees between building 7 and the parking lot makes the standard view rooms garden view-lite. Not much foot traffic on the parking lot side of 7 either!

 

[SpaceMtnGirl]

We stayed in a river view room at POFQ in building 6 on the third floor. Our room was next to the elevator. It was so quiet! We never heard the boat horns or even elevator noise or foot traffic. It was lovely. Our room was 6332.

 

[ncc1701]

OP forgot to mention a lot depends on the time you plan to go to bed & wake up ( if at POFQ). The boats stop by midnight & don't resume until after 9:00 . The movie between buildings 5 & 6 is usually finished by 10:00.
You can have rude neighbors in any building on any floor. We had someone last trip who decided to have a loud phone conversations right outside the doorway, well after midnight☹ . We had a lot less noise from the people above us & when we heard them it wasn't during the middle of the night .

 

[SwanVT2]

OP forgot to mention a lot depends on the time you plan to go to bed & wake up ( if at POFQ). The boats stop by midnight & don't resume until after 9:00 . The movie between buildings 5 & 6 is usually finished by 10:00.
You can have rude neighbors in any building on any floor. We had someone last trip who decided to have a loud phone conversations right outside the doorway, well after midnight☹ . We had a lot less noise from the people above us & when we heard them it wasn't during the middle of the night .

I go to bed about 9 and am an early riser. Thank you for the info!

 

[WDW_Diane]

During my last stay at POFQ we had a pool view top floor room. We needed a clothespin to keep the curtains closed at night because the pool lights were super bright all night.

 

[Amanda999]

FWIW Its really dependent on your neighbors at POR, IME. (Maybe every hotel?) Often its very quiet, but we've had SIX (5 plus infant) in the room next to us at POR - and connecting door which one of the neighbor kids banged on alot, and apparently sat against during her very early morning and late night meltdown sessions. (Maybe they put her pack/play next to it.) Or maybe they kept their connecting door open. Regardless it was like we shared a room with 6 more people.
We were in a royal room - mansion, which I thought had max capacity of 4 plus 1 under 3 years old. Alligator Bayou rooms have the murphy bed (so perhaps 1 more permitted?). So perhaps I was just unlucky and got someone over capacity, and so if you requested mansion you would be less likely to have 6 people next to you.)

 

[Luvs Mickey]

At POR, we stayed in building 27 and 38 and had the benefit of the river view (the boats don’t go up that far) and it was very quiet. But, as PP stated, it really does depend upon which neighbors you end up with....