Just back from a lovely trip with my daughter. We were there 03/09-03/16 and stayed on the 3rd floor of Acadian House in the Mansion section. Having only stayed in Alligator Bayou before, we were nervous about the location and using the North Depot rather than the West one. My worries were completely unfounded! Hooray!
We loved our room and its proximity to the Lobby/Food Court and the bus depot. We were maybe 5 minutes from the lobby and 3 to the bus depot.
They DID have the new mugs at the food court, but as a previous poster said, they are still selling the older designs. We noticed and purchased TWO new designs (the black one with varying Mickeys and a pink one with Lightening McQueen and Buzz/aliens).
We saw a (small) dog twice in our entire week there. They were both totally silent, leashed, and well-behaved.
Mousekeeping was friendly and lovely, although they consistently forgot something small each day (coffee cup lids - which I got myself from the food court, small towels - no problem, a bar of soap - they left extra the next day).
We were so sad to leave our favourite resort, but we will likely be back sometime in the next year. Sadly, I think our next March Break will be spent at Universal (!!) as my kids are itching to visit there. Sigh. Perhaps we will be able to stay a day or two at POR and spend just part of the week at Universal.
I will say that in all the years I've been visiting WDW in March, I have NEVER seen the parks so so busy and packed. Luckily, we used the refresh method to FP+ every ride and never waited for anything (except 30 minutes, by choice, at the end of the night for Slinky Dog Dash), but I could just imagine someone new to the parks and the waiting they must have done ...