Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10042890.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Art of Animation Resort and PO-Riverside Royal Guest Rooms Now Available for Booking</b></a> <p>The Official Disney Parks Blog reports Disney's new Art of Animation Resort (opening early Summer 2012) is now available for booking. This new Value resort will feature 800 standard guest rooms and more than 1,100 family suites which sleep up to 6 people. Standard rooms start at $94 per night and family suites start at $248 per night.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img height="269" width="400" src="http://laughingplace.com/files/latest/20110617-1.jpg" /></p> <p>In addition, the new Royal Gust Rooms at the Port Orleans Resort - Riverside are also available for booking for stays starting in Spring 2012. Each room will feature regal touches left behind by some of their favorite Disney characters like fiber optics special effects above ornately decorated beds with gold and crystal accents. custom linens and drapes, in-room art and details including princely banners and princess friends. There are 512 Royal Guest Rooms starting at $189 per night.</p> <p> </p>
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Not my style, but there will be some very happy little girls.>> Little girls? Doncha mean fanbois? ;-) (Oh, and the Walmarting of WDW continues!)
Originally Posted By Bolna Still not a fan of those - the theming just doesn't fit to Port Orleans Riverside. And already the cheapest price of $ 189 is an awful lot of money for a hotel room...
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo BTW - I think POR is one of the better resorts in the swamps, but I really hate this. So I am sure it will do very well.
Originally Posted By TP2000 This just looks so.... dumb. Talk about a cheesy, distasteful way to shake out a few extra bucks from tourists. They take a uniquely themed hotel facility and cram in a Princess plotline that has nothing to do with the real theme, but make it so cloyingly adorable that precious-precious super-special little angels who have been raised on Direct To DVD releases by their charmless lobotomy patient parents will have no choice but to demand to stay there. It just makes you want to puke.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Unless the matching themed characters actually come to your hotel room kinda like an expensive Free FastPass. No more standing in long lines forcing your children to get that autograph you have secretly wanted all your adult life. The matching themed character will be knocking on the door after your high tech key card has alerted the front desk that you just got off the elevator and entered your room.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I wouldn't stay in one but they are a move in the right direction. Why not a Disney character meal at Boatwrights or somewhere on the resort property as a tie-in?
Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct I went to the blog site and couldn't find the posting. I like the idea of family suite rooms. Makes more sense for families than having to buy two rooms. One for the kids and one for the parents. The extra theming is nice. I mean - it offers a reason to choose a Disney resort over an offsite hotel room. It's cute.
