FancyNancy
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- Joined
- Mar 29, 2012
Happy Belated Thanksgiving Everyone! I hope you all had a lovely day!
S wants to stay here on our September trip! What section has Hewey Dewey and Lewey? they ae his fave!
Hi everyone! I am planning a last minute trip for January. It will be myself, my mom & my 2 boys (who will be just turned 4 & 6). I know they would love the All Star Sports but I have also heard good things about POP. I'm still leaning towards ASSports though. Would anyone mind sharing reasons you would choose Sports over POP. Thanks so much!
Hi everyone! I am planning a last minute trip for January. It will be myself, my mom & my 2 boys (who will be just turned 4 & 6). I know they would love the All Star Sports but I have also heard good things about POP. I'm still leaning towards ASSports though. Would anyone mind sharing reasons you would choose Sports over POP. Thanks so much!
Lustergirl, Thanks for the good thoughts that all went ok.
Aidensmommy,
I have stayed at both Sports and Pop and prefer Sports. I kind of feel like it is a great secret that everyone likes to hate on. lol I think the biggest misconception is the busses. The majority of times I have stayed at Sports the busses only shared with Music and not Movies and even the times they shared it was not always mostly on the way home and Sports is first on first off. When I have stayed at Pop the lines would be so long you were lucky to get standing room only on the bus either way. Sports IMO is quieter and much less crowded. Pop is much bigger and spread out and the food area and pool is crowded a lot more often than at Sports. That is just my opions on it all. Plus I have had horrendous house keeping and the CM's always seemed less friendly at Pop compared to sports. Well except for Matilde our wonderful house keeper over at POP and I think she needs to come over to Sports and work. lol
Have to agree. I think the busses at the All Stars are better than POP. We stood in line a long time when we were staying there. Too many people!!
Thanks everyone for your help! We are trying to avoid the crowds with the little ones so it looks like Sports is the best choice for us.
Hi Everyone! Ive decided to book a last minute wknd trip to see the Osborne Lights and MVMCP this week and have chosed to stay at ASSp for the first time! Im really excited but im super curious about the mug situation - no flames please...I have in my collection so far pink, teal, and red from my past travels and im wondering if they sell the black mugs or if i'll be stuck with another pink (I have like 3 now) im really hoping for a red one! If not they make great stocking stuffer/souviners for my neices and nephew's when I get home...
Also wondering where the best rooms are at ASSp..i'm staying in just a standard but wondering if one location/bldg is better than another? It's just me travelling and no car...
this past october, when i stayed at sports, they had the purple, blue, pink and black tops on the mugs.
i already had the purple from last year so this year i took, ugh, pink.
i'm not a pink type of girl but i had the other colors from past visits........
this is the way i can remember which year the mug came from..........lol
i was at sports in late sept/early oct 2011 when they did the testing for the soda machines.
it was a big mess.
too many times (7), i had to get a supervisor to over ride the machine within a 3 day period as the dispenser did not read my mug correctly.
they exchanged my mug i bought 4 different times.
was told it was defective.
on my last day there, the mug was exchanged for the last time.
the supervisor had it checked out and told me the sensor piece was burned out.
i know others had issues during the time period i was there in that testing trial.
i don't know if the other time periods prior to my stay then had dispenser/mug chip issues.
they did away with the sensor chips in the mugs and the machines are back to normal.
princess, i can't find fault with any of the buildings at Sports.
many on here have voiced their favorite buildings, we all like some more than others.
if you like a very quiet building, they are in the back of the sports grounds.
(tennis for one example)
none of them are much of a walk to the pool, food court, lobby, busses...
Thanks for the tip on the buildings! It does seem like a fairly compact resort...I stayed at CSR earlier in the year and I think im just panicked i'll have to walk FOREVER to get to the main bldg - but I know this wont be the case...
Very excited about purple mugs! Ive never seen those ones hopefully they still have them...I like to use my mugs at work for my tea in the mornings...makes that drive to work a little more magical LOL
When we stayed at CSR we were so far from the main building too and everything seemed like miles away. I think prefered there just means lake view and I don't think it gets you closer to the front. I think the closest buildings at CSR are about as close as the farthest buidlings at Sports.
Casitas 1, 2 and 3 are Preferred. They are the closest buildings to the main building. Not all rooms in those buildings are lake view.