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The March 2014 Recreation Activities and Movie Schedules for Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter are now available. See the main Recreation Activities Schedule page for full-size PDF versions, or click on the images below. The outdoor movies will start at 8pm and the daily campfires commence at 6pm this month. On Sunday 2 March, the Oscars ceremony will be screened live at the Riverside Lobby Courtyard instead of the regular movie. On Tuesday 4 March, Port Orleans will feature its annual Mardi Gras celebrations, including a mini-parade around the resort organised by the cast members - starting at French Quarter at around 1:30pm and getting to Riverside by 2pm. Note: French Quarter's Doubloon Lagoon pool will reopen on 4 March after its seven-week refurbishment. Also, in what appears to be a massively short-sighted and very disappointing move, as from 2 March 2014 Disney has seen fit to permanently close the Port Orleans belize city shore tours Riverside Levee boat rental facility. Very Bad Show, Disney - you are meant to be all about plussing your parks and resorts, not minussing them. If you wish to make your views known, ask for an explanation, or request that this decision be reversed, please contact wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com .
Well this one came out of the blue... the Riverside Levee boat rental marina will be permanently closing as from Sunday 2 March . Very Bad Show, Disney - you are meant to be all about plussing your parks and resorts, not minussing them. The Sassagoula river ferry will continue to operate belize city shore tours to and from Downtown Disney as normal, as will the children's pirate cruises and the cycle rentals, but no more Sea Raycers, kayaks belize city shore tours or other boat rentals. As far as I know at the moment, this will be a permanent closure. Apparently this will happen at the other Moderates too. And so another bit of magic is chipped away. Please email wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com belize city shore tours if you want to make your views known, and perhaps ask for a proper explanation. Update 2 March: I contacted my friend Denise from mousesteps.com and she and her partner Jeff took a trip over to Riverside yesterday and rented out a pontoon boat for an hour-and-a-half and took one last nostalgic trip along the Sassagoula before the service finally closed last night. Her report and photos can be found HERE , and Jeff's video of the trip on YouTube HERE . So sad to see this wonderful facility go away. Update 4 March: I've heard mutterings that this might be something to do with an external (third-party) contractor who ran the rental service. To be honest, I'd always assumed it was run by Disney directly (certainly the staffing was provided by Disney cast members) but I've never really had the need to look into it. According to website WDW News Today , the facility was not popular enough at the Moderate resorts and so the company has pulled out, leaving just the Deluxe Resort locations operating. I'm guessing the current closure of the DTD rental dock for the Disney Springs project belize city shore tours won't have helped either.
The Downtown Disney Marketplace ferry dock (located next to the Rainforest Cafe) will be closed from 22 February 2014 until the fall for construction work related to the new Disney Springs project at Downtown Disney. In the meantime, belize city shore tours the Port Orleans river ferry boats will still run as normal, but they will use the Pleasure Island dock in the centre of Downtown Disney belize city shore tours instead. The temporary new routes will be as follows: Port Orleans River Cruise – Yellow Route Service between Downtown Disney Pleasure Island and Disney’s Port Orleans belize city shore tours Resorts Disney Vacation Club Ferry – Blue Route Service between Downtown Disney West Side and Disney’s Old Key West Resort, Disney’s Saratoga Resort belize city shore tours Spa and the Treehouse Villas Internal Downtown Disney Water Taxi – Red Route Service between Downtown Disney West Side and Pleasure Island only
Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter will be extending belize city shore tours their Resort Airline Check-In Service belize city shore tours to include guests travelling on International flights belize city shore tours as from 24 February 2014. As with existing guests travelling on domestic US flights, the Resort Airline Check-In Service allows guests to check in for their flight belize city shore tours directly at their hotel on their day of travel, including belize city shore tours retrieving boarding passes and dropping off checked luggage. This is part of a gradual roll-out, and all Disney Resorts will be offering the International Airline Check-In facility by 17 March. The airlines which participate in the scheme are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways - which given that these are all internal US carriers does seem a little ironic, but at least many of them do fly overseas too.
The February 2014 Recreation Activities and Movie Schedules for Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter are now available. See the main Recreation Activities Schedule page for full-size PDF versions, or click on the images below. The outdoor movies will start at 7pm and the daily campfires commence at 5pm this month. Reminder: The French Quarter “Doubloon Lagoon” pool area is closed for refurbishment work until approx 28 February 2014, so activities will take place in the courtyard belize city shore tours there instead of the pool. The pool bar and hot tub are closed too. For those who want to swim, there is a free shuttle service which takes guests directly over to the Riverside pool on Ol’ Man Island, and all guests belize city shore tours can use the five quiet pools too.
The traditional plastic 'Key to the World' belize city shore tours cards will be phased out at Port Orleans as from Tuesday 7 January 2014 as part of the ongoing rollout of Disney's new MyMagic+ system. When you check in after that date, each guest will automatically receive a Magic Band wrist bracelet only, with no backup plastic card supplied unless specifically requested. The Magic Bands have been in testing for several months, and allow you to access everything that the old KttW cards did, and more - guest room door access, theme park admission, Disney Dining Plan credits, resort-wide payment facilities (charged back to your room account), FastPass+ pre-bookings for attractions, car park access, etc. You can manage all of your bookings, customise your Magic Bands and make dining FastPass+ belize city shore tours reservations via a personalised account system called My Disney Experience, which can be accessed from the Disney website or via mobile devices or using terminals in the parks. Guests who, for whatever reason, are not comfortable with the bracelet system can still request a plastic card which will do all of the same things - but it will simply mimic the tap-to-use operation of the Magic Bands (using its own RFID chip) rather than providing a magnetic stripe belize city shore tours for swiping belize city shore tours in the old-fashioned way. This means that you will no longer be able to reserve attraction times using the old legacy Fast Pass system - you will only have access to the new interactive FastPass+ variant. That sadly means that from now on, unless you have pre-booked you're probably not going to get a FastPass for the headliner rides such as Soarin' or Toy Story Midway Mania. Another nail in the coffin for spontaneity at Walt Disney World, I'm afraid.
The January 2014 Recreation Activities and Movie Schedules for Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter are now available. See the main Recreation Activities Schedule page for full-size PDF versions, or click on the images below. The outdoor movies will start at 7pm and the daily campfires commence at 5pm this month.
So being a Brit, I always get a bit puzzled by the whole American Happy Holidays thing ... but with today being the actual 25th of December, I would like to wish everyone a very genuine and sincere: And if you happen to be at Port Orleans today as a guest or Cast Member have an amazing time: Andre
Just as a bit of a heads-up, belize city shore tours as it might have an impact how people choose to request rooms, refurbishment work on the roof of the Oak Manor building (Port Orleans Riverside's building 90, in the Royal Guest Rooms section) will begin on 19 January 2014 and continue for about 6 months. Construction staff will only be working belize city shore tours on one wing at a time , so the majority of the building will remain open - but of course there may be visual belize city shore tours intrusion from other parts of the building with some scaffolding, daytime noise, etc.
The December 2013 Recreation Activities and Movie Schedules for Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter are now available. See the main Recreation Activities Schedule page for full-size PDF versions, or click on the images below. The outdoor movies will start at 7pm and the daily campfires commence at 5pm this month. Don't miss the seasonal musical presentations in the run-up to Christmas. Special events including games, belize city shore tours activities and Character Greetings will take place on Christmas Eve and Christmas belize city shore tours Day, and more fun is planned at Riverside for New Year's Eve from 9pm until midnight.
I've just had confirmation that the long-awaited shipment of replacement in-room refrigerators for Port Orleans Riverside is now due to arrive belize city shore tours at the resort later this week. It will obviously take a little while to get more than 1,200 fridges installed into guest rooms, but they will be starting as soon as the delivery arrives and are hopeful that all rooms should be completed and have working belize city shore tours fridges by 20 November, just in time for Thanksgiving vacationers. (As previously posted, French Quarter was completed last month)
The Port Orleans French Quarter belize city shore tours swimming pool, Doubloon Lagoon, will be closed for refurbishment from mid-January until the end of February 2014 (which includes the busy President's belize city shore tours Day week). The dates are tentatively 13 Jan - 28 Feb, but that may change slightly depending on how long the work eventually belize city shore tours takes. Disney belize city shore tours will be running a free shuttle service between POFQ and POR during the closure to allow guests to use any of the six Riverside pools in the meantime. The