We stayed at Pop for our Christmas 2014 trip. Originally I wanted to stay at Coronado Springs. We were only there for 5 days/4nights so was a short trip for us as well and like you, ended up going to Pop to cut cost as much as possible. I had previously stayed at All Star Music 9 years ago and was not impressed. My biggest thing was I LOVE hot tubs and the value's don't have them. I had to cut cost somewhere thought to stay in budget and finally decided this was where because truly, How much time do we really spend in our rooms and when we are there, we are really just resting or sleeping and how much room do you really need to sleep/rest.. As for the hot tub, was I really going to take time to swim/soak on a December trip when the only time we would be at the resort would be night time and pretty chilly? We were worried about the bed size as well, as my husband is a pretty big fella. I went with very low expectations realizing that I had to compromise somewhere. I was VERY SURPRISED with this resort. The large than life icons just seem to be so much more detailed than the All Stars. My kids loved seeing Roger Rabbit and Mr/Mrs Potato head. The beds ended up not being an issue at all. We did notice the smaller size of them, but we were not uncomfortable in any way. We did find that it seemed the room got messier quicker than previous stay's, but that also could be attributed to the fact we were only in there to either eat snacks before bead, get ready for bed,get ready to leave for the parks, or to drop off our treasures. I spent no time arranging things as I would have on a longer trip to keep things more organized. I was also pretty happy with " Everything Pop", their quick service and gift shop. It was actually pretty nice. The food was on par with quick service in the moderates and the whole theme was very relaxing to me. AoA is about a 15-20 minute walk over "Generation Gap" bridge. We made it over there to see some of the details of the resort, but we could never get motivated enough to get over there to enjoy their quick service restaurant. Oh and Pop doesn't share buses!!!!!! That is one thing that I absolutely loved and think you will benefit from as well with all of your bad bus mojo. We never waited more than 15 minutes and that was only on our MK day pre- park open breakfast and because we had to wait for a 2nd bus as the first was full. Most times the buses were only 5-10 minutes, and since the gift shop was right by the bus stops. Hubby hates to shop, so if there wasn't a line, I would just go in there with the kids and browse around while he waited at the bus stop so the bus driver would know someone was waiting and if there was a line starting he would text me and let me know and we would come out to get in the back of the line as to not miss the 1st bus. It was a VERY nice trip.