Originally Posted By teachermom99 Hi, Help! I need to book a room for my 8 daughter,14 old niece,and myself in July. We have stayed at Pop Century in the past-ready for a change. Can anyone reccomend a moderate hotel? How is Orlando Radisson? Thanks
Originally Posted By teachermom99 Hi, Help! I need to book a room for my 8 daughter,14 old niece,and myself in July. We have stayed at Pop Century in the past-ready for a change. Can anyone reccomend a moderate hotel? How is Orlando Radisson? Thanks
Originally Posted By danyoung My favorite moderate is the Coronado Springs Resort. The rooms are laid out around the 15 acre Lago Dorado Lagoon, and it's really a beautiful southwestern themed property. They have a great food court, a nice sitdown restaurant, and a terrific aztec themed pool area. It's a convention resort, but the conventioneers have their own area and don't bother the regular guests too much. Great hotel!
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun Glad to hear that danyoung. We have been thinking of staying there next time! We checked it out in Feb and it seemed like we would enjoy it there.
Originally Posted By marutzw We have stayed at Port Orleans Riverside many time and we love it there. We tried Coronado once and it is very nice but I still think that Riverside is nicer. the landscaping in just wonderful and the food court is great. They have a really fun act every night in the bar and it is really a blast. Check out the pictures at the website. Have fun...
Originally Posted By jkayjs Our fave is POFQ. It is easy to navagate, the rooms are lovely, there is a boat to DTD and food court has BEIGNETS. Need I say more. All kidding aside it really is our fave mod and our 2nd fave over all. We believe we get the biggest bang for our buck here. The pool has a dragon slide that seems to be well liked by the kids. The nice thing is that at the end of a long day in the parks(and might I add very hot since you're going in July)it's nice to get off the bus and know that even the last bldg is a very short walk. Actually all the mods are pretty nice so which ever you pick I bet you'll be happy. I suggest you go to allears.com it has a wonderful section with many picks and all the info you could ever want. Sit down with the girls and see what excites them it will make them part of planning and enhance their experience.
Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct <<They have a great food court>> Love the Coronado food court too. The real metal silverware with cloth napkins up the ante. It is a nice contrast to the plastic sporks and paper napkins in the other moderates (just like a school cafe). The Coronado food court feels more adult and civilized. The lake at Coronado is so big and the rooms surround this massive water feature. I can imagine a large centerpiece in the lake (some building) with bridges meeting in the center from all around the lake. It would offer some beautiful eye candy to the resort and offer some much needed short-cuts in getting around this resort - especially the CASITAS buildings on the far side. I also agree that POFQ is a true gem and the downtown area in PORS has the feel of staying in Frontierland. Carribean Beach is my least favorite but even THAT is nice (no bar though). Pick a theme you like and ENJOY ! It's all good.
Originally Posted By FenwayGirl Totally agree with you Jkayjs. We love POFQ also. I think the main reasons are that it is small and easy to navigate. Also love the architecture. Very relaxing.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun I agree that you'll be happy whereever you decide. Since we have done CBR twice, we checked out he other mods. We actually let the boys pick Coronado. I may have leaned toward PORS - but DH reminded me that was Dixe Landings and we have stayed there. Does anyone one know if it has changed much since then or is the change in name only. (I think it was the pool that hooked them!) Both POFQ and CBR were having their main pools refurbed in Feb. If that mattes to you you;ll want ot check and see when they should be done. CMs at CBR told us theirs was doubling in size (it was pretty big before) and getting a few more waterslides and a much larger hot tub. The other little pools are still nice but in the Aug they felt like bath water and weren't very refreshing. I'm assuming it's bacause they are so much smaller.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...but DH reminded me that was Dixe Landings and we have stayed there. Does anyone one know if it has changed much since then or is the change in name only.< Just the name has changed - the resort is almost exactly the same as when it was Dixie Landings. A really stupid name change, if you ask me. But if they had to change, why not something completely different, instead of tying it in to Port Orleans, making them the same, but not really but different? Dumb.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun I agree danyoung. I remember when we stayed in 1993 (for our honeymoon) the bedposts were like tree trunks, bark and all. I thought and still do think htat is so cool. Looking at some pics of rooms I see they still do, at least in one part.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun Let me clarify, danyoung did not stay with me on my honeymoon. "We" referred to DH and me
Originally Posted By danyoung That's funny, sun-n-fun - I have very clear memories of you & me, when was it? Oh yeah, 1993. Those were some cool bedposts! And FA, what are you trying to unstick?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It showed that there was an 11th post, but I could only see the first page, so I tried (successfully) to add another post to make the page rollover and show all the posts. Just one of the little random things that happens every now and then with the borads...
Originally Posted By dshyates Ferrot, I have noticed you having to bump the boards several times. It doesn't seem to be happening to me, but years ago it used to happen all the time. You might want to contact Doobie and ask whats up.
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 I've stayed at CBR and POFQ. Liked them both, but Liked POFQ more. POFQ was very charming. loved the pool. Also liked the boat to DTD. It was neat taking it at night. Loved the theme there.
Originally Posted By kennect These days who knows what to give as advice...I have gotten three different offers in the mail over the last two weeks in addition to email offers from Disney for dirt cheap rooms...Who knows if they will being doing the same this summer but if I were planning to go I would hold off for a while and see what might happen...Then again I would never go during summer...Just too brutal weather wise...
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun ^^I'd love brutal heat today. It's 12 degrees here Boy I miss sitting by the pool at CBR one month ago....
