Disney Answer: Yes

For years, Port Orleans Riverside was Disney’s only moderate resort that slept 5 in a room (there were no value resort options either). Recently, during the remodel at Caribbean Beach, Disney added quite a few rooms there that also sleep 5, so now there are 2 moderate resort options available to families of 5. The rooms at Port Orleans Riverside that sleep 5 have 2 queen beds and a smaller fold down murphy bed. They used to offer trundle beds, but that was changed a few years ago to a better option, the mattress is now in a fold down part of a bench in the room. Please note that the extra bed is small, and meant for kids under 9, or really small teens/adults. If you are traveling with 5 people that need a normal size bed, then I would not look at Port Orleans Riverside as an option.

Please note: The only rooms that sleep 5 at Port Orleans Riverside are in the Alligator Bayou section of the resort, so if you are planing on staying in Magnolia Bend (where the new Royal Guest Rooms are located), you will be out of luck. 

Disney Answer: Yes

Walt Disney World’s Art of Animation Resort is Disney World’s newest value resort, and features two completely different types of resort rooms, a standard Little Mermaid theme room that is very similar in size to the rooms at Disney’s Pop Century next door, and a two room family suite that is themed after the Lion King, Finding Nemo or Cars.

As with other value resorts, the standard Little Mermaid rooms do offer connecting rooms. However, none of the family suites offer connecting rooms, you cannot connect one suite to another. Please note as with all other resorts that offer connecting rooms, you connecting room request will only be guaranteed if your family is required to be in more than one room due to size (ie. 2 adults and 3+ kids). If you just want connecting rooms with a family you are traveling with, then it is just a request, and Disney will do their best to get you connecting rooms, but there isn’t any way to guarantee it.

Please note: to Disney, adjoining and connecting ARE NOT the same thing. Adjoining means next door to each other with no connecting door. Connecting means that the rooms are next to each other with an interior connecting door. If you want connecting, you must request connecting, not adjoining.

Disney Answer: Yes

All Walt Disney World resort pools, including the three pools at Disney’s Pop Century Resort are heated year round. Every single day of they year, all Disney pools are 82 degrees.

By the way, Pop Century has three pools, the Hippy Dippy Pool, the Bowling Pin Pool and the Computer Pool, all heated all year round. Happy swimming!

Disney Answer: No

While Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Contemporary Resort are only about 1,000 feet apart, you cannot walk between the two. They are separated by a body of water, the canal that runs between Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake. While World Drive runs in front of both resorts, there isn’t any sidewalk or anyway to walk on the road.

While you can’t walk from the Wilderness Lodge and the Contemporary, there is a boat that runs between the two resorts as well as the Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort, so you can get back and forth between the two.