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Journey Through Disney's Riverside and French Quarter Resorts
Have you ever wondered what it's like to visit Disney's Port Orleans Riverside or the quaint French Quarter? Allow us, to take you through our memorable journey, painting a vivid picture of these spectacular resorts. We loved the low-key vibe of Riverside with its serene atmosphere. As we navigate our way around these resorts, we delve into the aesthetics, food and the easy walkability, giving you a first-hand account of our experiences. Whether you're a seasoned Disney aficionado or planning your first visit, we hope our experiences and tips inspire your own magical adventure.
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Hey friends. Hello, it's Elizabeth and Sarah.
Speaker 2:Thanks so much for listening to this week's episode of the Tiki Room.
Speaker 1:We are going to be talking about our trip that we took in May that we realized we never talked about. Was that May? It was May because it was your birthday. Oh, that's right, it was Thursday, friday before Mother's Day. Yes, we stayed at Port Orleans Riverside and we wanted to talk about that because none of us me, sarah and Ashley, none of us had ever stayed there, had ever stayed there.
Speaker 2:Yes, I visited before just to get beignets. To be honest, you know, like made the whole trek there just to get some beignets.
Speaker 1:Worth it.
Speaker 2:Worth it. Westlin and I we did like a park hopping adventure a few years ago and that was one of the places we went to, but none of us. I couldn't believe. It's like a moderate resort. None of us ever stayed there.
Speaker 1:None of us. It is equivalent to Caribbean Beach. Yes, in terms of price. In terms of price right, and so there's two.
Speaker 1:there's Port Orleans Riverside and there's Port Orleans French Quarter, yeah, and we stayed at Port Orleans Riverside and we went over to Port Orleans French Quarter. We were like we just were so chill that I mean, I'm not gonna lie to you, that was probably one of my favorite chips, it was so chill. So laid back, yes, but we went over to French Quarter just to go into the, I think it was. It was like the grab and go place for dinner and we grabbed something to eat and we kind of walked around and then we went. We went to get beignets, yes, but we just wanted to see what French Quarter was, because we'll talk more about the Riverside. But French Quarter was much smaller and in true Disney fashion they did such a good job at. I've never been in New Orleans, I've just seen pictures of it but they did a true.
Speaker 1:I mean they had the wrought iron and the detailing on the buildings, but it was a much smaller footprint and once you got inside the gate there was nowhere to drive, like you parked. Yes. You could try to drive through to go from building to building, whereas with the Riverside or even Caribbean Beach, you can drive from building to building.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's open. Yes, yeah, you can walk or you can drive, like on the other side, I think, of each of them, just to kind of get closer if you're really far. But it's not a super spread out resort, but once you get on the inside, it's like a.
Speaker 1:it's like a there is like a meeting spot on the inside of the main area the pool, whatever and then it's. I mean it's super cute how they do it. I love it. It was so well done. So that was the French Quarter side, and apparently French Quarter is very hard to book.
Speaker 1:It is apparently always booked up but, after looking at it, it's because it's so small. Yes, so we stayed at Riverside and it was so serene, it was delightful and quiet. Yes, and, oh my word, it was so nice. Yes, it was so nice, and it is massive. Yes, it is massive. So I'm trying to remember this. We went that morning. Our room overlooked this. I don't even know, I don't even know. It was like a, it was like a stream. I remember we had to cross over the bridge, yeah, and there was something.
Speaker 2:There is because there's access, water access to be able to get to the springs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, so sorry. So what did we count? So there's like 10 different building units, right, we were like Alligator Alley or something like that. Yeah, alligator Bayou, alligator Bayou. And then, just to compare it, in Caribbean Beach they have like the Bahamas, aruba, tortuga or whatever it is, so it was equivalent to that. So there were 10 of those, I think we counted, and within each of those there is its own pool yes, so it was.
Speaker 1:That is just how large this property is, or that resort is. Is that they are able to have a pool with each unit, if you will? And then they had the big pool in the middle. Yeah, right, is that right? So they had small. Okay, it wasn't 10. I lied One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven, oh, seven, yeah, that's bigger More than five.
Speaker 2:But it's big, you can see on the map how much bigger it is yeah, then French Quarter.
Speaker 1:Yes, so, like I said, there's a little pool at each of these buildings and some of them it looks like it's in between some, and then there's the main pool in the middle, and this is just for Riverside, not French Quarter. And so our little, our little room there was like a stream outside of it. And I mean I think that I sat outside and I called Scott and like no noise. Right, no road, no road, no road noise. I don't know why that took me a minute to say. There was no bus system that went through it, which was so nice. But we walked from our room to the main building, which was called Riverside Mill. We walked to that and Got coffee. Got coffee, yes, and it was a quick, I mean less than five minutes it took us to get there. Now, the Alligator Bay was the closest one, so after that we went and we walked around and we walked around the whole thing, yeah, and we made it back to our room in less than 20 minutes. So it seems big, but the walking footprint is small Right.
Speaker 2:I remember you guys saying I mean because obviously I wasn't awake when they went to go get coffee but you guys were like, oh, I wonder how far it's going to be, because we have to go and get coffee in the morning. Yes, and you guys were back so fast.
Speaker 1:So fast, yes, but you weren't rushing no.
Speaker 2:You were just like it was just a leisurely stroll to go get the coffee. It was a leisurely stroll.
Speaker 1:And to be clear, I was definitely in my pajamas, no question about it. I just wanted.
Speaker 2:It was beautiful, it was so great. It was exactly what we needed.
Speaker 1:People probably look at me and they're like keep on a universal studio. But I think that Disney does that. We're on the map, it looks bigger than it really is.
Speaker 1:Probably. Maybe I drew Disney's maps because my to scale drawings are always way off, so it was so the quiet, the quietness there were, and there were. I mean there were kids around. I just thought it was just it. Yeah, the Japanese map, there were kids around our hotel room and it was still so quiet, so I don't know. I said a while ago that I loved Caribbean Beach. Remember when I was like, because we stayed in that one that was right next to that cafe or whatever which was so convenient I really liked Riverside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know we were all kind of shocked. We thought I mean we were going just for one night. We were wanting to go to Epcot just having like a little girls weekend, and just to. It was the week after my birthday, I don't. I think we did Guardians.
Speaker 1:And that was it.
Speaker 2:And that we were like it rained in the afternoon. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right and we didn't want to leave, we were just, it was so nice to not just rest.
Speaker 1:We were in bed by like eight o'clock. I know it was so lovely, it was so nice.
Speaker 2:We had friends who were also there and we were like we're going to try to meet up. They did not go to bed at 8 pm they did not go to bed, they.
Speaker 1:I think went out at 8 pm. They are so much cooler than us. They were staying at the Riviera and they were, they lived it up.
Speaker 2:They lived their best life.
Speaker 1:They lived, we lived our best life, but our life is lived a little bit differently than theirs is yes. Yes, we were able to. Not only were we functioning the next day, we were lively the next day, because we were so relaxed.
Speaker 1:But one of the other things about it that I loved was that there was no bus system, and I know I just said this, but there's no bus system internally, so you don't have the loud bus traffic. Excuse me, you don't have the loud bus traffic. You don't have the noise of the other people running to the bus stop or trying to get to the bus stop. I don't know how the bus system works. I guess that, since it's so easy to get to that bus hotel oh, there is, if you look like, you can see on the map that the bus system does go around.
Speaker 2:But if you are staying like, it goes on the perimeter of the whole property. But if you are staying closer, like towards the water, like on the inside of the resort, you're not going to hear any of that bus, None of it. You're going to now. You're going to have to walk, like to the parking lot, you know, into the bus. You're going to have a little bit of a walk, but not that long. Yeah, it's not like buses are going all the way through the resort. Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1:And I and I think Caribbean Beach is that same way, but I think that, however they positioned these buildings, it's like they're in I don't. I don't know, I don't know how to describe it, y'all, but it was so nice and we did do that. We got two Queens and we got the fifth sleeper. Yes, and Elizabeth loves this love the fifth sleeper.
Speaker 1:It's like I get to like nestle in my little cocoon in Caribbean Beach, the way that they do. The fifth sleeper is the two Queen. Fifth sleeper is one of the Queens. Is the fold down bed from the? Wall and then you have the small bed Sarah and Ashley claimed was a toddler bed, but I literally did from head to toe and my feet did not hang off the edge.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, Carly's feet were off the edge and I think I'm taller than Carly. It's going to be fine. I was like it's not going to be fine. We're sharing a bed.
Speaker 1:Am I taller than?
Speaker 2:Carly.
Speaker 1:I don't think so. I think we're like the same height.
Speaker 2:I think you're about the same height but she was like it'll be fine.
Speaker 1:I'm like we're not doing that. Yeah, I did not. I was like you're not, you're not winning this battle, but I do think the beds are different sizes. I think they're different sizes. Yeah, I do, but there was. I mean, so we. So you go in the room. It's the hardwood floor, which is so nice. Yes, and after staying at Universal Studios in a carpeted floor, I was like, oh, I miss hardwood floors.
Speaker 2:How many people have thrown up on this floor.
Speaker 1:What has happened on this floor? It's it's the hardwood floor. The bathroom situation in the one we were in was not as convenient as the one that was it that I stayed in at Caribbean Beach, yes, but I have a feeling that that could be reversed right, because we've stayed in rooms at Caribbean Beach where the bathroom situation was not as nice. So, but it was still a separate toilet room, toilet and shower room, and then there were two sinks at Caribbean Beach. The one the fifth sleeper that I stayed in, there was a door that shut the sink, the whole bathroom area. Yes, in Riverside there was no bathroom door to shut it. Remember.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was like a curtain.
Speaker 1:It was a curtain. It was a curtain to shut the sink area.
Speaker 2:That's how they all used to be, yeah, and now they've kind of transitioned all the like that barn door yeah. All the refurbs, like the barn door and yeah.
Speaker 1:There was a kitchenette refrigerator, there was a coffee maker, there was a little table with two chairs, and it was. I mean, it was so, it was so nice.
Speaker 2:It was so nice. You know what I wonder? I wonder if it's the trees that have the noise. Yes, Because it's very wooded. I what I liked about Riverside was it's like you get a piece of Fort Wilderness with your stay. Are you speaking to my heart right now? It does.
Speaker 1:It feels like you're walking through a vibe of Fort.
Speaker 2:Wilderness, but you're staying in a hotel still, yeah, and there's trees everywhere.
Speaker 1:There's birds they have like fishing it just feels To your point about the stream. Like you got the sound of the of the. It's not a real brook people. I'm very well aware.
Speaker 1:But you got that water noise. You're right, it did, that did and it's. I mean, everywhere was shaded. Everywhere we walked to go to to get coffee was shaded, and even when we walked over that bridge, pass by that pool, everything was shaded there too, yeah, so it also is convenient and we had to look this up. We had to look it up on the map because we knew that there was a boat access.
Speaker 1:Yes, and we were not sure if it connected to Magic Kingdom and we were like we need to make sure that we know this to be the truth before we like broadcast this. The, the lake that the boat is connected to, does not take you to the Magic Kingdom. It only takes you to Disney Springs. Yes, and, and you go and you meet that right there at the front. What was it at the main area for Riverside? You get on the boat there and it is a door. I mean, it is so cute.
Speaker 1:It is so well done, so you can take it to Disney Springs and it's a little. It kind of reminded me of the boats that they have at Hollywood Studios, like Hollywood Studios Epcot area. Yeah, the fair, like the Friendship Ferry or whatever it's not the same one that is in the over in the map by the Magic Kingdom and does all those. So, yeah, it was really cute, really well done the beignets.
Speaker 2:Oh Lord the beignets.
Speaker 1:Y'all my tummy's about to grow. I'm sorry, I was a big one too.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize okay, I've gotten beignets before, but I didn't realize the selection that it was a cult fire.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you were gonna say you didn't know it was a cult following, cause I didn't either, I. So we pull up to French. I don't know if you paid attention to this. I did, cause I was like holy Moses, so I knew that there was somewhat of a cult following behind the beignets. I've heard of people being like oh yeah, I just stopped in to get beignets and I'm like what in the heavens is happening? Here, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we walk into French Quarter that next morning. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. That night we eat dinner over there. We go, we get the beignets and they're like for six of them it was like $3. It was that's not it, but it was like six for $10 or something. And these are y'all. These are massive beignets and they pour like the entire thing of confectioner's sugar on top of it.
Speaker 2:It was so good it was so good.
Speaker 1:If you get it to go, they have to double bag it because they bring them out hot and they pour that sugar on it and it is great.
Speaker 2:You are not far off. Six beignets is 10.99. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you get three dipping sauces.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Two but dipping sauce.
Speaker 2:This has served with choice of one dipping sauce. An additional is a dollar. So it's one for six of them we bought all three, but I think that they did. I think you're right. I think for the six they did give us two different kinds. I don't think that they charged us for the second one. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was like chocolate, a caramel and a raspberry or strawberry or some sort of a fruit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Salty caramel, strawberry and then chocolate ganache and then three beignets, is $7.49.
Speaker 1:I mean it was good. It was good. So we got that. That was our dessert Friday night. Or that night, thursday night, friday morning we went back because we all said we were gonna get some for our kids. Yes, so everyone every one of us Draper, grave, branick got a six pack of beignets, yep. And when we walked in, the lady was like, oh no, I guess it was Thursday night when we walked in to go to the restaurant. Yes, she was like are you here for the beignets? Yes, and we were like, I mean later we're here to eat dinner. And she's like okay, if you would like the beignets, you need to go over here. And they were prepared for, I guess, the nighttime crowd to come and get the beignets and they do. They had a live music. There was a little bar over there. Yes, it was super cute. Yes, it was super cute. I mean it was super cute. I also the smell.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, when you walk in, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:So it's not the beignets that you smell. Okay, you know, have y'all seen these candles? And it's supposed to smell like Disney.
Speaker 2:Yes, magic candle company.
Speaker 1:Whatever Disney does to Whatever scent they chose for the French Quarter Lobby, which, by the way, was beautiful.
Speaker 2:I know I loved it.
Speaker 1:It was so well done. I just can't get over the detail that they put into these.
Speaker 2:I have. I was in New Orleans recently. I was in the fall. We went to a floor stake. Oh yeah, that's right and we were there with all our old college friends and so I had it fresh in my mind what New Orleans looked like. And then when we went to French Quarter, I was like this is why Disney does like destination trips with their Imagineers, and they go to the places and Take notes and really figure out exactly what the feel is what it looks like the smell like they hit.
Speaker 1:They hit those vibes so well and I feel like they do it. I mean they. That's why Disney is so good at their jobs, that's why but they Remember I made like so many comments about that smell. Whatever it was, it was like a gardenia smell. It was so good and it was so unique and it was just in the lobby.
Speaker 1:Yeah so when you walked in you kind of got that vibe, that feel, that vibe. But I Don't know how you can, because to get into French Quarter or River Port Orleans through the gates, just like anywhere else, you have to have some sort of a reservation. Yes so I don't know, have you ever just gone to get the?
Speaker 2:vineyards. We have gone just to get the vineyards, but I think it through the gate. Well, you, so you can take a boat from Disney Springs. Oh so you can get on the boat and go over that way that way.
Speaker 2:When I went with Westland, we were renting bikes, so we kind of resort hopped and the bus too. Yeah, we took a bus. That's what we did. We resort hopped around Magic Kingdom and then we took a bus over to Port Orleans. Okay, we rented bikes, we rode bikes all around Riverside and had like the best time, and then we went at the end we dropped off the bikes and then got Benye's you're so cool.
Speaker 2:I know I used to be really cool. That was like three years ago. I need to pick it up. Think that you're so cool. But that's what you can do if you want to. That's what I tell people. They're like oh, I can't get into the resource resort because I don't have a ration, a reservation. That's when the bus system does, you know, work. If you really want to get over to that place, if it's not a monorail, it's not a skyliner, you're just gonna have to take a bus.
Speaker 1:Scott Brannick's favorite story about me in the bus is when we were dating. We went to Disney with my dad.
Speaker 1:Yes and I can't remember if my mom was there or not, but we went. My dad was definitely there because we went to. We were on the boardwalk and we were staying in the cabins, and my friend Lindsay was there too, and I was like let's just take a bus from the boardwalk. And my dad was like that's the worst idea You've ever had. And I was like, dad, the bus system takes you ever y'all. We waited for an hour and a half, yeah, and so to this day, scott will tell you let's just take a bus from the boardwalk.
Speaker 1:We'll be like in Colorado skiing, and I'll be like which way should we go? And who be like? Let's just take a bus from the boardwalk. I.
Speaker 2:Mean it is. The bus system is not super convenient all the time and you do have to wait. But if you want to go, if you have time like if it's not a park day and you're wanting to go to some of those moderate resorts, but definitely go to from up, from wherever you are.
Speaker 1:Get go to a park. Yeah, go to a hub, go to a hub. Don't sit at the boardwalk to wait for a bus for Fort Wilderness.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's right you need to go to a Hub yeah, go to a park or go to the transportation ticket center. Yeah, go to Disney Sprint, like wherever you're the closest in all those areas. Go there and then go find the bus. Yeah, for the said.
Speaker 1:Do. I'm sorry that this is a distraction. We should. This is pretty usual. This is not. I don't. I cannot believe I'm gonna say this at Well, oh my gosh, do it. I think that we should go and just use Disney transportation.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh Elizabeth, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:We could do a live recording of how frustrated I get that's.
Speaker 2:We should do it just for the purposes of trying to see how it's gotten better or worse a hundred.
Speaker 1:We're usually just driving a thousand percent every time we're driving.
Speaker 2:We're driving, we're taking the car, we're parking in the parking lot and we should see how it is now. We do it a lot when we do the skyliner like if we're doing something on the skyliner, but I'm talking about the bus. I know if we just use the bus wherever we need to go. I Did that for the run Disney and the bus system was on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it was 4 am.
Speaker 2:I know that's true. It's the only thing that they were using y'all. Do you want to sidetrack?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2:Everybody know this. Okay, I signed up for the Disney run Disney half marathon weekend. I Signed up for a 10k. A 10k for Ren Disney. This is for the princess half marathon weekend next year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have no business.
Speaker 2:I have no business Making plans for myself to do something without my family next year. I'm like I have no idea what we'll be doing. I have no idea if my kids are gonna. I don't know. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:I signed up. I'm gonna read this text chain okay.
Speaker 1:Sarah, sarah Graves texts. Ashley Draper and I. I registered for another run, disney race. I Send a picture of a cowboy hat, an American flag cowboy hat with a eagle on it. That was at Walmart. I was in Walmart and I said you and I are on different journeys right now. Sarah Graves, walmart friends finds a I. When is the run next February? A 5k question mark. I have no business committing to something outside of my family that far out. 10k, six miles won't be bad. That's on the long. That's the longest I'm doing from now on me.
Speaker 2:Elizabeth has said this. Okay, she hasn't writing.
Speaker 1:I have been writing. Do you have someone to run it with? If not, I will do that for you, but it's in caps only because I love you and the gift of my presence at Disney run is At a Disney run is the biggest gift I could ever give you, not because I have a desire to do it. Sarah says that would be the most amazing gift if it wasn't actually sold out. Hate that for me, but at least I found a cool hat from Walmart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but do you want to know what is that I am?
Speaker 1:I have an app that is the worst, like a notification for when something becomes available, because I've committed to this.
Speaker 2:I have an app, if you are wondering, because you want also do the princess run. There's an app called Telegram and then you can subscribe to the Run Disney Race Availability channel. And when the 10K shows up as available and, if I get it fast enough, I am going to register Elizabeth for it, and she has to do it with me because she said she would do it. So let's all be excited because I think I have.
Speaker 1:That's talk about something that you're going to record it is me at 4am. Yeah, it's going to be great. It's definitely going to be a like six months version.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got a long time to be able to get to get in on this race.
Speaker 1:I say that as I woke up yesterday morning at 4am to go fishing. My kids were in a. There's a kingfish tournament here and my kids fish in it and I love fishing and my husband loves fishing and it was like every one of our we were like this is all of our dreams come true and I had no problem waking up at 4am. But if you wake me up at 4am to run lol it's going to be amazing.
Speaker 2:I'm definitely going to register her, so you guys look forward to that. It'll be great. But back to let's. Let's finish up with Portland.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was so great. I mean, I know that we've said this about the. I feel like the moderate resort is so overlooked at Disney every time, but they knock it out of the park. I know and I loved, I loved it.
Speaker 2:You love it more than Caribbean Beach. I think Ashley said she does too.
Speaker 1:It is the it. Actually, I can't remember if it was you or Ashley talking about the loudness of Caribbean Beach because of the Skyliner, and it's not that the Skyliner is loud but I think your point of yes, it's busier, I think, that your point of the nature. I am not kidding you when I say that everything was shaded.
Speaker 2:Everything was shaded, it was. It was quieter, more chill, Ashley. That's what she loved. She looked at the pools and just could see her and her kids and Tony like getting a drink, sitting by the pool, her kids having a blast and it not being so overwhelming overloaded with noise and she would know her kids were. Everybody would have a good time.
Speaker 1:Well, and I liked that, Thinking about from that, from a family perspective, or even if it was just us Since they had these little pools that have. They didn't have slides, they didn't have splash features, they had none of that. I don't even think they had a lifeguard on duty. No, they didn't know when we were there, not when we were there the bigger pool there is more.
Speaker 1:But if you were to, just if, if the three of us were to have brought a bathing suit, we could have gone to that pool and it be quiet and not be loud.
Speaker 1:It's not crazy. On the flip side, if we were to have brought our kids and it was maybe a long day, but we didn't want to do the full pool setting where the slide and all the splash features and the games and stuff we could have just gone there, done a quick swim and then gone back and been done, which is not an option. That is not an option. Well, I guess there that isn't. It's not as prominent of an option at Caribbean Beach as it is there. Yeah, so I did like that, that you had a more reserved option for the pool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Well, we are going to transition really quick. We'll be right back. Okay, we're back. I made Elizabeth take me into her new car so we could record the rest of this episode, because she just got a new car and we were looking at these cars when we were at Disney in the parking lots. We were walking through the parking lots.
Speaker 1:Also I want you to know that I literally said I'm like they're so ugly but they're so nice, before she even continues. It's both.
Speaker 2:It's both. It's like yeah, that's how you felt. You're like I can't. I don't know how I feel about it. I don't know how I feel, but we were looking at these and we, but when we saw them in the parking lot, I think all of us were like this is the prettiest car.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure that Ashley went up and we all went up and looked inside of it. Right, yeah, it is. It's so pretty, they're so pretty. I was like we're going to get arrested. Yeah, we're looking inside. The back end is ugly. The back end is what's ugly? No, I mean on the outside, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, we're sitting in it and I just got in, I'm on the passenger side and the seat totally moved. Like, do you have it on a setting for what feels nice for the person? Like I have no idea. There are oh my gosh, there are massage chairs in here, so like you can, I don't even y'all, I just want.
Speaker 1:I feel like I need to make this clear. I had a suburban, which was my dream car when I was like 12. I was like one day I'm going to be a mom and I'm going to have a suburban. And all my I did cry when I gave my suburban up and my husband hated the suburban. He was like this is the only way I'm getting you out of this car and I was like you're not wrong. You're not wrong, so it is. It's a wagon year and there are everything is. Everything is electronic. But yes, I don't know what this is. She's right. When you come in the car like the leg, things come around you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it like it supports you. I don't know, I didn't even realize that it feel nice. Yeah, I didn't know I needed support. In the passenger seat there are massage chairs. Like could I also be getting a pedicure while this is happening?
Speaker 1:I do wish that the pressure was more.
Speaker 2:You would wish the pressure was more. The sunroof is humongous.
Speaker 1:And then the back, it's the whole car, and then the third row has its own sunroof, that is my kids dream. Oh, this is the other thing. Okay, we can raise the car or look for it. Look straight ahead. Okay, looking straight ahead Down.
Speaker 2:What is happening there are. You have hydraulics on this car. Yeah, sure, Did you know that that's what you would get? I have no idea. This is amazing.
Speaker 1:So the level three is like what you typically drive on the main road.
Speaker 2:And then I can go off-road.
Speaker 1:This is off-road.
Speaker 2:Off-road, off-road. This is amazing. It's very tall, wow, okay. So from here we are going to do our top three of, like, our top three favorite things. While we're relaxing in this, we're getting a massage. We're getting a massage in this very pretty car. This is your top three favorite things about Riverside yeah, port Orleans Riverside, okay, or let's say, French Quarter two, because they're together.
Speaker 1:Can we say that you call it Port Orleans and I call it Port Orleans? What's wrong with us? What is?
Speaker 2:it which one of us is wrong?
Speaker 1:Definitely you, Definitely not. Yeah, I feel like that is a question that I feel like people need to respond back into us.
Speaker 2:Who is it? Is it Port?
Speaker 1:Orleans or Port Orleans? Is it New Orleans or is it New Orleans?
Speaker 2:I feel like occasion would say like New Orleans. New. Orleans, new Orleans or something, new Orleans, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know We'll get someone to comment what are your top three of Port Orleans? Top three of Port Orleans, okay, one is the quietness.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Which are your one.
Speaker 2:My number one is the environment is kind of like the quietness, just what you're seeing, yeah the aesthetics. The aesthetic trees nature.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. Number two I'm going to say that I liked that everything was walkable and not overwhelmingly walkable. Does that make sense? Like if you were to stay anywhere else? I feel like if you were to walk from point A to point B, it still may be a walk Like the walk back is what you're like. Oh, now we got to walk back. Not, I did not feel like that was the case at Port Orleans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to say my number two, for that is maybe like the amenities of things to do. Oh yeah, there were a lot.
Speaker 1:I liked. You can rent bike rent.
Speaker 2:You can rent bikes, there's pool, there was an arcade. I thought that the just the overall things to do there, the fishing. I like that there were different kinds of options of things to do there.
Speaker 1:Yes, Okay, and number three. Number three for me was the French Quarter side and how, when you walked, well the like, just how pretty it was. You walked through the lobby and it was kind of like a like you could walk straight through and then everything was winged around it. But once you walked through and you got to the courtyard area, it was just so pretty I could just. I was like we could sit out here and eat, drink coffee, and it was so cute and so relaxing and I really felt like I could go and enjoy just relaxing there.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:Are you seeing my answer?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know, I don't know I'm like maybe, well, okay, no, I'll say a different number three, which I do think location, oh yeah. I thought the location was great.
Speaker 2:You have access to Disney Springs via boat. The thing I hate about Disney Springs the most I mean it is overwhelming to me because it is just an outdoor shopping mall, but I do enjoy some of the restaurants there. But what I don't like is parking there. I don't like parking at Disney Springs, so I do like the accessibility from Port Orleans to Disney Springs that way.
Speaker 1:So location yeah, if you are somebody who frequents Disney Springs or you want to prioritize Disney Springs on your trip maybe you're going for a week, or whatever the case may be I definitely recommend saying somewhere that has access to the boat ride to Disney Springs because, to Sarah's point, transportation to out of, in and out of Disney Springs is a nightmare. So Port Orleans does it, saratoga Springs has it, and I think that's it.
Speaker 2:Old Key West.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're right, Old Key West. Yes, yes, I'm 99% sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but Saratoga is really close.
Speaker 1:It's very close, it's walkable.
Speaker 2:It's walkable to Disney Springs and I think that the boat from Port Orleans goes like kind of through Saratoga, okay, so, yeah, all right. Well, thanks, friends, we'll talk to you next time. Yeah, thanks for listening to this week's episode. I've decided now that this is the fanciest car I've ever been in. I love it. I'm so happy that you have this and you're driving all the time now, all the time.
Speaker 1:All the time, I'm never going to drive the van to Disney and you can sit right in it on the way there and actually can ride in it on the way back.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so wonderful. I love it All. Right, thanks, friends. See you next time. Bye.