Disney's Port Orleans Riverside Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Riverside Resort is one of two Moderate Resorts in the Downtown Disney Resort Area, the other being the adjoining Port Orleans French Quarter Resort and both are close to Downtown Disney and Epcot. You can use the complimentary ferryboats along the Sassagoula River to reach the Downtown Disney Area.

Transportation to the Disney theme parks and water parks is by Disney motor coach.

Information about Disney's Orleans Riverside Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Riverside Resort Map

Dining

The Boatwright's Dining Hall, which is styled like a shipbuilders warehouse, offers full table service with lots of home-style cooking. This restaurant is also used by guests from the nearby Port Orleans French Quarter Resort.

The Riverside Mill Food Court is set inside a working cotton press complete with 32-foot water wheel and offers Cajun delights as well as American cuisine and packaged snack food. It is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day.

The River Roost is a lounge with live entertainment most nights and serves snacks and light refreshements from late afternoon until midnight.

Recreation

There is a choice of five heated outdoor swimming pools located at Alligator Bayou and Magnolia Bend and the Muddy Rivers Pool Bar which is open from late morning until dusk serving snacks and refreshments. You can also swim at the pool on Ol' Man Island which also has a spa, rope swings, a waterslide, and a childrens play area but it tends to be busier than the other pools.

If that is not enough, guests can also access the Doubloon Lagoon over at the Port Orleans French Quarter Resort. Bicycles and a variety of watercraft can be rented from the Riverside Levee to explore the local area or you can take advantage of the 0.7 mile jogging trail along the riverside.

In the evening you can take a horse drawn surrey carriage around the grounds.

If you like fishing then you can enjoy yourself at the Fishin' Hole at Ol' Man Island. Here you can catch catfish, bass and blue gill but you have to put them back.

The hotel also has an amusement arcade, the Medicine Show Arcade, where the children can play a variety of video and pinball games.

Amenities

The hotel offers a number of amenities including:

limited room service
concierge desk
rooms and facilities for guests with disabilities
in room pizza delivery from the Sassagoula Pizza Express
free parking
iron, ironing board and wall safe
coffee/tea maker
dual pedestal sinks and hair dryer
voice mail, dial-up internet access (charge applicable)
refrigerator
babysitting and childcare services, Pak-n-Play Crib available
laundry facilities/services (coin operated)
plus the Fultons General Store where you can buy groceries and gifts

Other hotels nearby

In the Downtown Disney area, there are two Disney moderate resorts, Disney's Port Orleans Riverside Resort and Disney's Port Orleans French Quarter Resort.

There are also two Disney Vacation Club resorts, Disney's Old Key West Resort and Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort close by.

Just on the edge of the Downtown Disney area are a number of what Disney term "Good Neighbor" hotels, Holiday Inn at Walt Disney World, Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Disney World Doubletree Suite Hotel, Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort, Best Western Lake Buena Vista, Downtown Disney Grosvenor Resort and Royal Plaza Walt Disney World.

See the map above for all their locations.

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