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I'm Trying to Decide on a Value Resort
My brother and I (both adults) are planning to be at DisneyWorld in early November, and we want to stay in a Value Resort. I've stayed at All-Star Sports many times and liked it, but would kind'a like to try something new this time. I hear a lot of positive talk hereabouts about Pop Century...and I'd like to try the new Art of Animation Resort, but if I understand correctly, the only non-family-suite building is "The Little Mermaid." I think y'all can understand that we might not be too keen to jump on the Disney Princess bandwagon. So, I welcome your thoughts/suggestions/anecdotal experiences. Many Thanks in Advance!
EJ in Houston
3-16 -- Port Orleans Riverside
11-12 -- Pop Century
11-11 -- Animal Kingdom Lodge
11-09 -- All-Star Sports
11-07 -- All-Star Sports
11-05 -- All-Star Sports
09-95 -- Off Property
3 prior visits as a child beginning in '72 -- Polynesian/Contemporary Resorts
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We've only stayed a night or two at Pop but did enjoy it.
Linda aka: Faline
INTERCOT Staff: Vacation Planning,Trip Reports and Disney Camping
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We love POP, and if you stay there you can walk across the bridge to AoA to look around without staying in the "princess" room.
1980 Disneyland
2004 & 2006 Pop
2008 AKL
2010 CBR
2011 POFQ & WL
2012 CSR & Contemporary
2013 Villas @ WL Christmas Family Trip
2014 YC 25th Anniversary Trip
2015 AoA Spring Family Trip
2016 Move to Florida and AP Holder
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Prior to buying into DVC, Pop was our resort of choice. We've stayed at all of the All Stars several times, and Pop many, many times. I would pick Pop and as "Ms Mode" said, you can easily walk over to AoA to look around and possibly catch a meal at the food court.
Jodie
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Well as you will see from my signature I have stayed at POP quite a few times.
The pluses I see.
1. There own buses
2. Theming
3. Food court
My next favorite is All Star Movies
1. Theming
2. Food court
3. Smaller size resort
Hope this helps
Itchy for another trip
Caribbean Beach 1989, 90, 92
All St Movies 1999, 04, 05, 11
All St Sports 2006
Pop 2007, 08 x2, 09 x2, 10, 12 x2,13,14,15,16,17,18,2021,23
POR 2010 x2, 11
Coronado Springs 2019
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If you were happy at All-Stars, you won't regret staying at Pop Century. We've really enjoyed our stays there, and will be back again next spring.
1971 (age 15) MK was new!
1974 off-site (Senior Trip)
1982 off-site
1988 off-site
May 2002 AS-Sports, with DW & kids
May 2004 Pop Century
Feb 2005 Wilderness Lodge
Oct 2006 Pop Century
Oct 2008 Camped at Fort Wilderness
Feb 2010 Cruise on the Wonder
Dec 2014 POFQ for Christmas!
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For some reason I wasn't a big fan of Pop but I only stayed there one night before resort hopping. I would give it another try.
Our favorite value is All Star Movies. I like the food court and theming the best. I never found the shared busses to be that much of an issue.
As long as I am in Disney I'm happy.
Good luck!!!
"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Too many people grow up. That 's the trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - Walt Disney
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POP...try it. no shared buses. more centrally located. and you can walk across the bridge to AOA and eat at that food court
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WL CL 1
AKL 4
SOG 3
POFQ 3
POR 2
CSR 4
CBR 2
Asp 3
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12-13 WL CSR ASM
3-14 POR, AS s Dolphin
6-14 Us CSR
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6-15 WL, SSR.
11- 15. AOA, OKw
7 16..CSR, FW, AKL, POR
7 17..ASM, CSR, WL AKL club POP
8 18 As sports, Pop
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DVC WL, CSR and idk 10-20
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We love all the values. There is no particular order but all of them are wonderful
18 Previous Visits
Most Recent December 2011 (POP)
May 2012 (Disney Fantasy !)
Sept 2012 POP Mom/Daughter Trip
Sept 2013 40th Anniversary Adventures Disney Ireland
2014 Check out MK Makeover!
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I'd go for Pop. I like the idea of going to visit AoA to visit the Nemo/Lion King/ Cars lands without having to stay in the princess areas
-Laura
Engineer by Day... Imagineer in my Dreams!
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....another nod in the direction of POP. We've been there 8 of our 9 times to WDW...and will be there again in 18 days. I can't say enough good things about it. From the theming ...to the perks of dedicated buses ....to the really great food court, we've always had a fabulous time.
April '04- POP
"Jersey Week" '04 - ASM
"Jersey Week" '05- POP
"Jersey Week" '06- POP
"Jersey Week"'07- DCL & POP
"Jersey Week" '08- POP
Dec '09- Jan '10- POP
Aug-Sept '10- POP
Aug-Sept '11- POP
Aug-Sept '12- POP
Aug-Sept '13- POP
Aug '17 - POP
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Pop is our WDW home! We really enjoy the resort, it's bright & colorful & lots of neat things to see representing the decades of the 50's thru the 90's! We stayed at ASMo's our first trip & we really liked it, but Pop had just openend a few months before our next visit so we wanted to try out the new resort & it just suits us. We really appreciate the dedicated bus service there compared to the shared AS's busses that we had experienced during our stay at Movies. I've read alot of negative experiences of loud noises at Pop, but this has NEVER been our experience in the room or touring around the property. Quite the opposite! The grounds are nicely landscaped with lots of benches around property for a quite break and walking or sitting & relaxing around the lake is a super nice feature that Pop has over the AS's! And now with AoA open, we can finally walk across the bridge & check it out! IMHO, I can't wait to check out AoA, but now that my DS's are teens, I don't see us staying there as my thoughts are that it will be primarily families with young kids. Please don't take offense, my DS's were those little ones! I'm just saying I don't think that AoA would appeal as much to mine now as it would have when they were younger.
We have stayed in bldg 4 of the 60's section with views of the Hippy Dippy Pool (pool view rooms are the noisiest in our experience) and we've had lake views, quiet & a nice view when you walk out of your room! But we also really like building 10 of the 70's section or bldg 9 of the 90's section, the closest to the bus stops & maybe only a few more steps to the main pool, but the added advantage of closer to the quiet computer pool!
All of our family & friends that have stayed at Pop truly enjoy it, from the very young to my 70 year DM! It's a neat resort, not all the plusses of the mod's & deluxe, but if you're looking to stay Value, IMHO, Pop is appealing to all age groups!
Sending you some for a wonderful trip where ever you choose to lay your head at night!
Shari
-"There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow..."
'02 - All Star Movies
'04, '05, '06, '10, '11, '16, '19, '21 - Pop Century
'08 - Offsite/Pop Century
'13, '21 - Offsite
'17 - Port Orleans/French Quarter!
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I've stayed at Pop Century, All-Star Movies, and All-Star Music (just this past weekend.) I've liked them all. I think Pop Century is my favorite. Our room at All-Star Music was nice and it was quiet around our building. The food court was smaller at All-Star Music.
Steve (aka brownie)
INTERCOT Staff: Accommodations & Mousellaneous
ASMv 4/00, 10/01, 11/03, 5/21
ASMu 8/12, 11-12/22
AKL 6/18
BC 9/94
CSR 8/14, 3-4/22
POP 11-12/10, 3/12, 10/12, 7/17, 4/22
POFQ 10/01
POR 9/04, 1/16, 11/19
WL 12/03
Disneyland 6/07, 1/15
Disney Dream 8/14
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POP is very nice. We typically only have stayed at Riverside, and now AKL has spoiled me BAD, but POP would be my choice of a value !!!
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14FQJun/14POPJul/14PORNov/15POPFeb/15FQJun/15AoADec/16ASPNov/17AoAJun/ 17POPSep/18CBJun/19PORApr/
IN GOD WE TRUST !!
STEELERS, SIX TIME SUPERBOWL CHAMPS
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We've stayed at all of the values. We enjoyed all of then however, the food court at Pop can be out of control busy. Absolute bedlam. I'm a fan of trying new resorts, so give pop or AoA a chance.
77-DL
89-DL
94-ASSp
95-OKW
98-WDW Hol.Inn MG
99-WDW Off Prop
06-ASMov
07-Pop 2/4 - 2/14
07-ASMus 9/11 - 9/17
08-ASMov & DCL 10/27 - 11/2
09-ASMov & DCL Wonder 9/21 - 10/1
10-WDW Off Prop 4/23 - 4/25
10-DCL Magic 7 nt EB 10/23
10-CSR 10/30 - 11/1
12-POR 1/8 - 1/15
12-CSR 12/20-27
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I go to Disney once a year on a "boys only" trip with three friends. We are all 40 somethings so I can relate to your situation.
After having stayed at Music in suites, corando, sports and pop we have settled on pop as our home base and will be returning there for the third time this year.
We let the front desk know we are there to let our hair down and they have always been happy to accommodate. We typically ask for an out-of-the way top floor room (sleep late/party late) and have never had a noise or neighbor problem. (never had anybody complain about us either!!)
Petals bar is adequate even if it closes too early. The buses are good and the drive time to Epcot is nice and short. Food court is as good as any although we rarely get anything there with the exception of the little pre mixed cuerveo margs. We do eat mostly signature meals and the concierge has always been very helpful when we have the expected ADR snafu.
In short it is less an issue of having great amenities and more and issue of not having any problems. You would think 4 guys on a party weekend would stick out like sore thumbs at WDW. POP has always been comfortable, friendly and very tolerant.
'76 offsite, '90 offsite, '03 Courtyard DTD, '04 offsite, '05 CBR, '05 POFQ solo, '06 Sports solo, '06 POFQ, '07 Pop, '09 offsite solo, '09 POFQ, '09 Music, '10 CS, '11 Pop, '12 Pop, '13 dolphin.
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Originally Posted by mdricks
I go to Disney once a year on a "boys only" trip with three friends. We are all 40 somethings so I can relate to your situation.
After having stayed at Music in suites, corando, sports and pop we have settled on pop as our home base and will be returning there for the third time this year.
Love it!!!
Have you been to Coronado since the refurb and the addition to the lounge? We were there for 18 days last year and LOVED it! It is by far our favorite of all the resorts, even the Poly. We had various family members in and out during our stay. One night we had my cousins in their mid 20s with us and we all met at the bar/club in the resort (thanks to mom and dad for babysitting). There were 10 of us and we had a blast and danced all night. The bars and lounge are open later and the resort is super quiet (what we like most).
"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Too many people grow up. That 's the trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - Walt Disney
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Originally Posted by Ms. Mode
We love POP, and if you stay there you can walk across the bridge to AoA to look around without staying in the "princess" room.
This is my thought too!
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Nov- Vero
Dec- BWV
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Mar- Disney Wonder
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Sept- BLT
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yes im not too happy w the mermaid theme in t single rms at AOA..and that they were already built yrs ago..but ..
POP arriving on the 20th. im glad im not the only non family person that stays at POP. this time w a friend, unless my gf can get all the time off work, but its not looking good.
looks like they changed the menu a little in the food court, but i dont eat there much since i eat in Epcot or places more. and will have AOA to eat at..
BC 2
WL CL 1
AKL 4
SOG 3
POFQ 3
POR 2
CSR 4
CBR 2
Asp 3
AS m 2
POP 7
12-13 WL CSR ASM
3-14 POR, AS s Dolphin
6-14 Us CSR
1-14 Unv
6-15 WL, SSR.
11- 15. AOA, OKw
7 16..CSR, FW, AKL, POR
7 17..ASM, CSR, WL AKL club POP
8 18 As sports, Pop
DL 9-19
DVC WL, CSR and idk 10-20
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Originally Posted by KAT1811
Have you been to Coronado since the refurb and the addition to the lounge?
We have not, although perhaps we should give it another try. When we were there the conventioneers took the lounge over. They all knew each other well and were not stranger friendly. (Or perhaps we had too much time a cave del tequila and we were not friendly?)
I loved the resort and it will be the next place i stay with the wife and kids.
'76 offsite, '90 offsite, '03 Courtyard DTD, '04 offsite, '05 CBR, '05 POFQ solo, '06 Sports solo, '06 POFQ, '07 Pop, '09 offsite solo, '09 POFQ, '09 Music, '10 CS, '11 Pop, '12 Pop, '13 dolphin.
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