Room requests for POR

[mrsgthatsme]

I understand that room requests are not guarantees, but wondering if anyone has suggestions as to what buildings or other specifics you would request at POR. We will be looking for either standard or garden view....

 

[aaarcher86]

I understand that room requests are not guarantees, but wondering if anyone has suggestions as to what buildings or other specifics you would request at POR. We will be looking for either standard or garden view....

Well, what's important to you?

 

[loves to dive]

I'm a huge believer in it's not worth paying for a view at the moderates or values. They have outside hallways so in most cases you probably aren't going to have your shades open as people passing can see in your window and you are also going to have a view of a railing in a lot of cases. POR has a bad reputation of a being a big resort but I really didn't find even the farthest away building that far (same for CBR as well). There are a number of bus stops located throughout the resort so you are never really far from one. When I stayed there I stayed in the Magnolia building in the Plantation section. There was a bus stop right behind the building, I think I technically had a garden view since if I stepped outside my room straight on there was the little green space between buildings and to my left was the parking lot so it could have been standard. I would walk to the main bus stop in the morning since it was the last stop and I didn't want to ride the bus around the resort. I would just stay on the bus coming back until my stop, I think it might have been the second to last stop. I like the style of the Plantation side better than the rustic side of the Bayou but that is just personal.

 

[Babsy]

I often request as near as possible to the food court and bus stop, top floor and a quiet location. As PP said, views are not really that significant in a room without a balcony and exterior corridors so I am not personally worried about the view. A corner room is nice, but less important to me than the other requests. I try to keep my requests to a minimum in hopes of actually getting what is important to me.

BTW, POR will take faxed requests, and apparently still reads them. I think that it actually helps to send a pleasant request in a fax. We have been thrilled with all the rooms that we have stayed in at POR!

 

[mrsgthatsme]

So it sounds like you suggest giving general requests (quiet area, close to bus,etc) vs naming actual buildings? Aaarcher, as far as what is important to us, I would say quiet location and close to busses would be our top priorities.

 

[dansdad]

So it sounds like you suggest giving general requests (quiet area, close to bus,etc) vs naming actual buildings? Aaarcher, as far as what is important to us, I would say quiet location and close to busses would be our top priorities.

I would word your requests just like that.

 

[aaarcher86]

I would word your requests just like that.

Seconding this ^^^