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MORE ON WHERE TO STAY AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
Within the kid-appealing Walt Disney World resorts, the tie breaker is transportation convenience, particularly to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot theme parks, as you will be making more trips to these parks than any others.Of the three kid-appealing deluxe resorts, the Polynesian is far and away the most convenient.
- It is one of only three resorts served by the resort monorail that directly connects to the Magic Kingdom, and the only one of the kid appealing resorts to do so
- Is the only resort within easy walking distance of the Epcot monorail that directly serves Epcot, and
- Is the only resort for which you can take the express monorail back from the Magic Kingdom, walking from where the monorail stops at the Transportation and Ticketing Center back to the hotel–and saving often 10 to 30 minutes.
Among the Walt Disney World value resorts with kid appeal–the All-Star Music, Movies and Sports Resorts, and Disney’s Pop Century Resort, Pop Century wins, but the choice is not so clear cut*.
Collectively, transportation is slightly less convenient at the All-Stars than at Pop Century, principally because many of the buses at All-Stars serve more than one of these resorts–often all three of the All-Star Resorts.
This bus sharing both slows down and makes more variable the All Star round-trip time to and from the parks, and tends to make the buses and bus stops more crowded than at Pop.
Total travel times, over your entire vacation, likely would be nearly equivalent, but the time spent in Pop transit seems more productive, more predictable, and less frustrating.
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If neither of these can work for you, see Next Best Resort Choices.
*Pop also has a few other minor things in its favor:
- It has the same number of buildings (10) as an All-Star resort, but one more pool, shortening the typical walk to a pool
- Pop is the only one of the value resorts on a lake, improving its views and setting compared to the All-Stars.
- The 40-foot tall character sculptures make Pop more “Disney-like” then the All-Stars. John Hench, a Disney Legend, notes in his book Designing Disney
that “these beautiful sculptures are astonishing, unforgettable, and … have proven immensely popular.”
- Jim Hill (of jimhillmedia.com) has noted that Pop Century occupancy on average is about ten points lower that of the All-Stars. This makes it on average less crowded than them.
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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