Review: Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort, continued
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Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort officially salutes “classic Disney films—including Disney·Pixar’s Toy Story, Fantasia, The Love Bug, The Mighty Ducks and One Hundred and One Dalmatians…the Toy Story section features a 27-foot-tall bucket of Green Army Men, a 30-foot-tall Woody icon and a 47-foot-tall Buzz Lightyear icon. The buildings are painted in bright colors and covered with playful details and hidden surprises.”
It includes an arrival building called Cinema Hall, where you check in, buy tickets, catch the bus, and find the gift shop, the food court, etc.
Just outside Cinema Hall you will find the main pool, Fantasia Pool. See photo. It’s my favorite among the pools at the values…if for no other reason that it has Mickey!
All-Star Movies has 1920 rooms in ten identical three-story buildings, all with elevators.
These buildings are in five areas, each themed around a different movie. (See the first page of this review for a resort map.)
- Buildings 5 and 8, Fantasia, grouped around the main Fantasia Pool, and very close to Cinema Hall
- Buildings 1 and 4, 101 Dalmatians, close to Cinema Hall
Buildings 2 and 3, Mighty Ducks, grouped around a second pool, the Duck Pond, and far from Cinema Hall–but very close to the food court at the next-door All-Star Music Resort- Buildings 9 and 10, Toy Story, close to Cinema Hall
- Buildings 6 and 7, Love Bug, as distant from Cinema Hall as the Mighty Ducks.
All-Star Movies (and the other values) are often dinged for being “too large and spread-out.”
This is an inaccurate criticism, as each of the values fits into a much smaller footprint than any of the three larger moderates, leading to much less walking than at the moderates.
Like the other values, All-Star Movies has no sit-down restaurant. In Cinema Hall you will find a somewhat small food court and gift shops. Compared to the other two All-Stars, Cinema Hall has more room to move around in.
Among All-Stars, Movie’s strengths for first time visitors is a slightly higher degree of kid appeal from its theming (though still not as good as at Pop Century), which will work great for kids interested in the movies it highlights.
Its negatives compared to the other values include sometimes inconvenient transportation.
See this for more on distinctions among the values.
EXTERNAL LINKS FOR DISNEY’S ALL-STAR MOVIES RESORT
LINKS FOR WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD
- For where to stay, see this
- For your next best choices, in order, see this
- For picking your resort based on appeal to kids, see this
- For picking your resort based on convenience, see this
- For where not to stay, see this
- For what you get in each resort price category, see this
- For Walt Disney World resort price seasons, see this
- For the value resorts, see this
- For differences among value resorts, see this
- For the moderate resorts, see this
- For differences among moderate resorts, see this
- For differences among deluxe resorts, see this
- For the Disney Vacation Club (“DVC”) Resorts, see this
- For suites at the deluxe resorts, see this
- For a (geeky) overview of comparative room size, see this
- Large families should look at this, and also at
- Military/DOD families should look at this
- Tightwads should look at this
- Families seeking the most comfortable place to stay should see this
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We used a Pack n Play crib at both Pop Century and All-Star Movies. It was fine. We placed it next to the window. Thanks
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