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How great that Sophia was into meeting the characters! I have an almost 14 year old that refuses to meet characters. Luckily for me, I have a 10 and 9 year old who are willing to do character meets. So this girl will get to meet lots of characters, even some princesses.
What a fun time with Gaston and how great Sophia's suddenly into meet and greets!
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How great that Sophia was into meeting the characters! I have an almost 14 year old that refuses to meet characters. Luckily for me, I have a 10 and 9 year old who are willing to do character meets. So this girl will get to meet lots of characters, even some princesses.
I was thrilled that Sophia "became a kid" again on this trip. She's getting to the age when it's not cool to be like a kid, so I was glad she became my little girl again on this trip!
I'm hoping our next trip won't be too far away...I'm going to plan for meet and greets and character meals!
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We arrived at POR loaded down with "stuff" and couldn't wait to check in and go to our room. I gave Sophia the backpacks and food boxes and told her to take Evan over to the little seating area in the lobby. I walked up to check us in, and it was very easy as always. I told the CM I had a second set of Magic Bands since this was the second resort of our trip. She wasn't sure which one I should use, but she took the second/POR set to check and see if the reservation was on there, and it was. She gave me a map of the resort, and I asked her if it was close enough to walk to our room. She said of course! She gave me general directions to our building...out the door, to the right, over the bridge on our left, then left to our building. Ok, no problem! I called over to Sophia and Evan to bring our stuff, and we set off.
It was a beautiful night tonight. It was cool but not terribly cold, and there still wasn't any rain! The resort looked gorgeous, even in the dark. There was a river that ran through it, and the wooden bridge to cross over the river was so quaint and fit right in with the theming. Our room was in Oak Manor, and we found the sign for it. We couldn't quite tell if we were in the right part of the building, but the room numbers began with 92 on the second floor of the building, so that's where we started (I think our room was 9216, but don't quote me on that).
It turns out we entered the building at almost the polar opposite of where our room was, lol! Still, we were in the building, so we walked...turned right, then turned left, then walked through a middle walkway to the other side of the building, turned left, turned right, then turned left...and FINALLY found our room! I'm making it sound like it was far away when it really wasn't that bad, but I was expecting the walk to be a little shorter!
I had told the kids where we were staying, but I hadn't told them we were in a Royal room! At check-in, the CM gave us a paper scroll, so before we walked into our room, I had Sophia read it. It was a cute little letter from Tiana welcoming us to her Royal Guest Room.
I opened the door, and this is what we saw.
Then I heard a squeal, and then I saw Sophia running through the room looking at everything. She absolutely loved the room! She immediately said we had to stay in this room the next time we visit, lol!
And yes, our room did have a working fridge.
And then I had to show the kids the fireworks in bed!
With the lights on:
With the lights off:
Super cool!
I loved the table in the room. It looks like there's an open letter on it, but there isn't!
It's part of the table!
Well, at this point we were getting hungry. I figured we could take our leftovers to the food court and use the microwave to heat it up. Sophia, where's the food? Well, it turns out she left it in the seating area in the check-in lobby! Ugh, it had probably been a good 20 minutes since we left the lobby. I called over there to see if anyone by chance had found it, but no luck. I guess even if they had found it I'm not sure I would've still eaten it, but oh well.
I wasn't too thrilled about this turn of events because I was planning on not having to buy dinner for us (yes, we had spent our vacation budget and the trip wasn't over yet!). But, nothing to do but walk over to the food court and get us some dinner. We headed back out and saw the nightly movie set up in the courtyard of our building. People were sitting on beach blankets watching Tangled.
We stood there and watched for a few minutes, and then we continued on to the food court...after we took a quick peek in the gift shop!
The POR gift shop was much larger than the one at OKW. We knew we'd be back to shop!
At the food court, I decided on baked ziti.
Sophia decided on just breadsticks with sauce, and Evan went with his perennial favorite, pepperoni pizza. I had to wait about 10 minutes for Sophia's breadsticks. I guess there was a run on breadsticks or something, because I couldn't believe we had to wait that long...there were 3 other people standing there waiting...and hungry!
I didn't take a picture of Evan's pizza, but here's a picture of him back in the room eating it!
I also decided to buy a refillable mug. We were reasonably close to the food court, so I figured we'd make good use of it, even though it was already late in the day. It was Tuesday night, and we were leaving Thursday afternoon, the 28th. A sign on the wall said the days are based on calendar days. I confirmed with the CM how many days I needed to buy, telling him we were leaving on Thursday the 28th. He said 3 days. Ok, 3 days it is. I think it was $14.99.
I went to go fill up my mug. It said my mug was good until the 29th! What?! I paid an extra $3 bucks for a day I wouldn't use? Oh geez, I was too tired to argue the point. We'd just make sure we would drink at least $14.99 worth of coffee and soda before we left (which if you think about it is a LOT of coffee and soda!).
On the walk back to the room, we started to feel a few large sprinkles...just a few.
We ate our dinner, and then I decided I had to go back and get a refill, darn it! I walked all the way back to the food court and filled it up with my favorite mix...half Sprite and half fruit punch. The machine was actually able to figure out how much I had dispensed. I made my half and half concoction, took a big swig and then I went to top it off with a bit more punch, but it said I had to wait! I guess it knew I had filled up two halves! Bummer about the wait, but cool technology!
I think it was about a minute and a half until I could refill again, so what did I do? I downed that entire puppy so I could get a full refill! I was going to make this overpaid refillable mug worth it, so help me!
Mug full once again, I trekked back to my room. I felt a few more large sprinkles, but that was it. By this point, it was about 9:30pm. I guess we really lucked out with the rain!
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Nice rooms at POR! I guess you have the themed rooms? I stayed in Oak Manor back in 2009. A bit of a walk, but not quite as bad as some resorts, depending on what section you're in.
Too bad, that Sophia left your dinner back in the lobby!
That's a lot to pay on the refillable mugs for the last day. I used to get these, when each resort had a different mug. Now I don't, since I pretty much just have coffee in the morning at the resort and I don't drink much soda. I'm usually having lunch outside the resort in one of the parks or one of the golf courses and dinner is always table service somewhere within Disney. In my ten trips to WDW, I've never had a non table service meal at dinner! I definitely, enjoy my meals!
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Boy, you had some great eats today! Sorry about misplacing the leftovers for dinner! Great pictures from MK! Glad Sophia got to meet Gaston! Love your room at POR!
The room looks so nice! Funny about the mug! I imagine you chugging the drink and getting your money's worth. LOL
We really loved the room. It was smaller than our studio at OKW, but it was plenty of room for the three of us. The resort was just gorgeous and so peaceful. We were there during the busiest times (the two days leading up to Thanksgiving) yet we it didn't feel super crowded at all.
That darn refillable mug made our time at the resort so funny. We had less than 48 hours to drink $14.99 worth of liquids!
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Nice rooms at POR! I guess you have the themed rooms? I stayed in Oak Manor back in 2009. A bit of a walk, but not quite as bad as some resorts, depending on what section you're in.
Too bad, that Sophia left your dinner back in the lobby!
That's a lot to pay on the refillable mugs for the last day. I used to get these, when each resort had a different mug. Now I don't, since I pretty much just have coffee in the morning at the resort and I don't drink much soda. I'm usually having lunch outside the resort in one of the parks or one of the golf courses and dinner is always table service somewhere within Disney. In my ten trips to WDW, I've never had a non table service meal at dinner! I definitely, enjoy my meals!
It was a "special" Royal Room costing a little bit more than the standard room. At first I wasn't sure I wanted to spend the money, but seeing those kids running around the room in aw made it so worth it!
We bought the mug around 9pm on Tuesday night, and we were leaving the resort around 2pm Thursday afternoon, so we had less than 48 hours to use it...but it did span 3 calendar days. I guess somebody didn't tell the computer, because it gave us 4 calendar days (but 72 hours from the time we bought it!). Anyhow, I just wanted to make sure we got our money's worth. I wanted a mug as a souvenir anyway, so I should've just bought a length of stay mug at OKW...although we would've hardly gotten any use out of it at OKW.
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I love the Royal Room! Glad it was hit with Sophia!
It was a huge hit! Even Evan got into the spirit and was trying to name all the princesses.
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Boy, you had some great eats today! Sorry about misplacing the leftovers for dinner! Great pictures from MK! Glad Sophia got to meet Gaston! Love your room at POR!
We did have some great eats! We had enough food for all three of us to eat dinner! We had two half sandwiches and almost an entire order of pumpkin pancakes! What bugged me the most was that we had lugged that food around all day! What a pain! LOL!
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The royal room looks gorgeous. I'm so glad you decided to extend the trip and got a couple of nights there, especially after the somewhat disappointing stay at OKW. Wonderful that both kids really appreciated the extra theming in the room! What a shame you didn't get to eat the food you'd carried around and stored all day.
I am just signing in but, I have read your whole TR in 2 days! I love the Royal Rooms too! We stayed in one last year. Looks like you all had a magical time!
The royal room looks gorgeous. I'm so glad you decided to extend the trip and got a couple of nights there, especially after the somewhat disappointing stay at OKW. Wonderful that both kids really appreciated the extra theming in the room! What a shame you didn't get to eat the food you'd carried around and stored all day.
I think it will become a family tradition for us to resort hop at WDW! I kind of like it that way!
The only thing that wasn't great about OKW for us was our luck with the noise. The room itself was great, and the resort looked really nice. I would stay there again, but next time I will be extremely careful about room location (which of course isn't guaranteed except for the expensive ones near HH!).
The leftovers...I'm still slightly mad that we lugged that food around and never got to enjoy it! And I hardly ate any of those pumpkin pancakes! I literally had been looking forward ALL DAY to having them for dinner that night!
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The room looks absolutely beautiful - I'm not surprised Sophia said you have to stay in one of these again.
I really wish we could've stayed an extra night at POR. It was such a beautiful resort. I wish we could've taken a little more time to explore. On one of the days, I came across a horse drawn carriage going through the resort...I had seen the signs for it but there wasn't any time when we could've done it.
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Kona and BOG looked delish!
Glad you switch over to POR was easy. Glad Sophia loved the Royal Room too!
Welcome back! I've had so much fun with this TR!
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I am just signing in but, I have read your whole TR in 2 days! I love the Royal Rooms too! We stayed in one last year. Looks like you all had a magical time!
Welcome aboard! We had a really great vacation! I'd really like to try different resorts each time, but POR was one of those I wouldn't mind going back to sooner rather than later!
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What a great day at the MK! You all look like you are having so much fun in your pictures.
I forgot you were staying in a Royal Room at POR, I'm so glad it was such a hit with Sophia! I had heard that they got rid of the full comforters in the rooms and replaced them with a runner, but I hadn't seen any pics of that. I kind of like it, the white blankets really brightens up the room, those old comforters were really dark.
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I stayed in Oak Manor back in 2009. A bit of a walk, but not quite as bad as some resorts, depending on what section you're in.
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