Firstly, it’s very important to remember that any room requests are just that, requests. Disney will not guarantee to fulfil any special requests apart from medical requirements and categories that have been specifically paid for — such as Preferred Locations, King Size beds and Royal Guest Rooms. The other thing to be aware of, especially with Riverside bookings, is that the cast members who handle room allocations may have to allocate several hundred new guest rooms every day, and requests would need to be ‘blocked out’ for the duration of that guest’s stay, so it simply may not be feasible to accommodate all of the special requests that they might receive. All of this notwithstanding, it’s always been my experience that the room allocators and Front Desk staff usually try their best to match requests where possible, and it certainly can’t do any harm to ask.