Just returned from a 3-night stay at Portofino CL. Our only request was a full balcony and we did get it. Villa section, 6th floor, Room 2663. The room was very nice but is in dire need of TLC (slider balcony door lock was broken and toilet paper roll almost completely broken off wall, to name a couple. I left feedback so they would know what needed to be fixed).
As far as the CL part…we loved the lounge space and all the different rooms to sit! I also loved the coffee machine and how easy it was to use (just push the button of your drink and then “start”)! The breakfast was good for us with scrambled eggs, fruit, bagels, oatmeal, sliced ham/turkey/cheese, and cafe latte for me.
Afternoon snacks were also good - we all enjoyed the breadsticks and sauce which rotated with the soft pretzels. They also had chips and dip and tortilla chips and salsa.
Dinner time was really good. Soups-of-the-night were good but they were not labeled and the workers didn’t really seem to know a name for the soup but they just named what was in it. First night they said there were pieces of seafood in it, next night they said turkey and corn were in it, and our 3rd night we gave up and just assumed veggie/split pea type of soup. All 3 soups were good, though! They had pretty much every kind of fruit from melons to berries, and they put it out at breakfast, snack time, and also dinner.
Desserts weren't great to us. They had only 3 different things each night and people were grabbing everything as soon as it came out! Each night they had chocolate chip cookies which were wildly popular and 2 different tiny desserts like Disney CL puts out.
Alcohol was generous between 5-7pm, but as others have said they wouldn't budge outside of those 2 hours. DH wanted a beer at 4:45pm, and they said "15 more minutes." I had pre-warned him, but he didn't believe me, lol. He learned to take some bottles back to the room to save. Fridge in lounge was a good size and fully stocked with bottles of water, so no problems there and we took several bottles a day to the parks.
I took some random pics - food stations were always packed with people so I just took some pics of our plates on our table. All-in-all, we enjoyed it and will gladly return
. We visited the actual Portofino, Italy, a few years ago so it brought back nice memories walking around the beautiful resort grounds.
Villas Room 2663 view and balcony:
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