Animal Kingdom Lodge Or Port Orleans French Quarter

[Chef Mickey]

Which resort would you prefer, price almost identical (pretty cool) for 8 nights in September?

I have the AK Lodge on hold and we just stayed at French Q in April, but we really liked it.

I've stayed at Kidani Village, but not the Animal Kingdom Lodge main building. Which would you choose?

 

[patch553]

port Orleans is nice but animal kingdom lodge is amazing,its beautiful,awesomely themed,great resturants and the animals will blow you away,we cannotspeak highly enough about the resort

 

[jlsHouston]

I've never stayed at Riverside or French Quarter. I like AKL. I might not like Kidani but I really like Jambo.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

What is the difference between the Savannas, and do you know how many there are? My room type says "View of Arusha Savanna" and other room types say "View of One of the Savannas"

The Arusha Savanna is the central / "main" savanna. It's the most expensive of the various room types and some people consider it better. I'd probably agree that it's slightly better, though not worth the upcharge IMO.

 

[21stamps]

The Arusha Savanna is the central / "main" savanna. It's the most expensive of the various room types and some people consider it better. I'd probably agree that it's slightly better, though not worth the upcharge IMO.

Thank you. It's the only "view type" listed with concierge. I'm hoping that the resort is a lot smaller than it looks. It does look like I would want a room closer to the lobby and on the same side as the pool/playground/etc, even though unless there's a heat wave chances are pretty slim that we will be swimming.

Our flight doesn't even arrive until after midnight on Thanksgiving, so I'd rather not have us trek down an extremely long corridor @ 2am.

I'm not planning on unpacking any of our bags, besides a carry on. Do you know if DCL transport will come collect our luggage? Or at least bell services bring them to wherever we get picked up?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Thank you. It's the only "view type" listed with concierge. I'm hoping that the resort is a lot smaller than it looks. It does look like I would want a room closer to the lobby and on the same side as the pool/playground/etc, even though unless there's a heat wave chances are pretty slim that we will be swimming.

You'll be on the fourth floor towards the center of the large semi-circle. The main elevator bank is centrally located so it won't matter much whether you're on the pool side or not. But you should be able to request "close to pool" in your online check-in. Note that the pool is on the opposite side of the bus.

Our flight doesn't even arrive until after midnight on Thanksgiving, so I'd rather not have us trek down an extremely long corridor @ 2am.

I mean, even an "extremely long corridor" will be seven minutes versus five minutes. Even if you're on the furthest area of the concierge level rooms, you'll be fine.

I'm not planning on unpacking any of our bags, besides a carry on. Do you know if DCL transport will come collect our luggage? Or at least bell services bring them to wherever we get picked up?

No idea.

 

[21stamps]

You'll be on the fourth floor towards the center of the large semi-circle. The main elevator bank is centrally located so it won't matter much whether you're on the pool side or not. But you should be able to request "close to pool" in your online check-in. Note that the pool is on the opposite side of the bus.


I mean, even an "extremely long corridor" will be seven minutes versus five minutes. Even if you're on the furthest area of the concierge level rooms, you'll be fine.


No idea.

Thank you. I may be carrying a 1st grader on my back down that hallway at 2am, so 5 minutes would be better than 7.lol.

I found out that DCL transport meets us in the lobby and we board right outside- so that is a relief!