2 Rooms at a value for extra space or One at moderate? Help??

[DizneyFamof4]

I have to say my worst experience noise wise was at WL, our room location was upstairs and all we got was crowd noise from the lobby/restaurant below.

OP: I think with your kids ages one room is fine.

Our friends said the same thing when they stayed there. They requested to be moved away from the lobby area. I had noisy neighbors at all 3 levels with AKL ranking 1st, they were even louder on the balcony. Thank goodness they left 2 days later, because we were planning on moving to another room.

 

[Miffy]

Our friends said the same thing when they stayed there. They requested to be moved away from the lobby area. I had noisy neighbors at all 3 levels with AKL ranking 1st, they were even louder on the balcony. Thank goodness they left 2 days later, because we were planning on moving to another room.

Yes, the balcony-to-room voice level can be really bad. Not to mention people smoking on their balconies, even though it's not permitted.

 

[pens4821]

If you do go with the value, I’d recommend asking away from the pools. We’ve stayed at sports twice and AoA/movies once. Movies we were pretty close to the ducks pool (great location to Music bus stop and food), and it was very loud in the evenings. Same at sports one stay when we were facing the home run pool, but actually much closer to the parking lot. I thought it would be ok since we werent right by the pool, but it was still loud. The only quiet stays we had was we were in the tennis section facing the surfs up section, and at AoA suite facing the lake.

Other than the rooms being smaller, my biggest complaint of the values is the noise in general. I don’t know if there are more kids or what at them, but it just always seems like such a ruckus at those resorts the times we’ve stayed (even the more quiet rooms I feel like the grounds are just louder in general). We haven’t had the noise issues at CBR, CSR, Y/C, or CR (minus the excitement you can hear from chef mickeys).

 

[Miffy]

I'd like to clarify about the in-room noise factor: At All Star Music, anyone could have been in the room next door and I would've heard every single word they said and everything they did unless they never said a word and tiptoed around the entire time. What I'm getting at is that these were not unusually loud neighbors.

There's a big difference between the experience I had at ASMu and being anywhere on property (or in any hotel or motel, for that matter) and having noisy neighbors or people yelling or talking loudly on their balcony or in the corridor or stomping around overhead at 2 a.m.

BTW, it's not that I'm especially sensitive to noise from neighbors, since I lived in an apartment most of my adult life.

However, I also cannot abide the sound emitted by white-noise machines and am quite uncomfortable wearing earplugs, so factor those things in, since I gather that many people who stay at the Values make use of either or both of those things.

 

[Sunshine11]

French Quarter is the cutest and geared for young children. I think you'd be fine in one room there.

 

[Disneylover99]

I'd like to clarify about the in-room noise factor: At All Star Music, anyone could have been in the room next door and I would've heard every single word they said and everything they did unless they never said a word and tiptoed around the entire time. What I'm getting at is that these were not unusually loud neighbors.

There's a big difference between the experience I had at ASMu and being anywhere on property (or in any hotel or motel, for that matter) and having noisy neighbors or people yelling or talking loudly on their balcony or in the corridor or stomping around overhead at 2 a.m.

BTW, it's not that I'm especially sensitive to noise from neighbors, since I lived in an apartment most of my adult life.

However, I also cannot abide the sound emitted by white-noise machines and am quite uncomfortable wearing earplugs, so factor those things in, since I gather that many people who stay at the Values make use of either or both of those things.

Do you remember if you had a connecting door when you were at Music?

We stay at a mix of values/mods/deluxe and what I’ve noticed is that we hear our next door neighbours whenever we have rooms with connecting doors. It doesn’t seem to matter if we’re at The Poly or the AllStars. We usually jam a towel under the connecting door to help muffle the conversations we hear.

 

[DizneyFamof4]

I'd like to clarify about the in-room noise factor: At All Star Music, anyone could have been in the room next door and I would've heard every single word they said and everything they did unless they never said a word and tiptoed around the entire time. What I'm getting at is that these were not unusually loud neighbors.

There's a big difference between the experience I had at ASMu and being anywhere on property (or in any hotel or motel, for that matter) and having noisy neighbors or people yelling or talking loudly on their balcony or in the corridor or stomping around overhead at 2 a.m.

BTW, it's not that I'm especially sensitive to noise from neighbors, since I lived in an apartment most of my adult life.

However, I also cannot abide the sound emitted by white-noise machines and am quite uncomfortable wearing earplugs, so factor those things in, since I gather that many people who stay at the Values make use of either or both of those things.

Totally understand, but I have stayed at values a LOT and rarely here our neighbors that clearly. Our family has no issue with background noise to sleep and we do not need our room pitch black either, where many people do, so that's what is great about WDW resorts, you have many to choose from if some are not for you, like the values are not for you.

 

[lisset005]

Two rooms at All-Stars unless you really want to utilize the Skyliner.