Sadly it doesn't surprise me because of the traffic. I had talked to a CRO CM a few years ago who told me that due to the theming that Movies was the most popular AS Resort- and therefore had the most traffic thru it.
It's sad to me that they're not investing in the upkeep of the Values (from recent reports it sounds to me, anyway) We stayed at the AS hotels 3 times between 1996 and 1999- in the end it was the bus service v. monorail convenience that caused us to decide we wanted fewer trips at the Deluxes.
I should mention too though that they really let the deluxes go a long time between refurbs too- as evidenced by all the work they've done at the monorail resorts in the past 2 years which is still ongoing. They were working on a lot of painting and they were working on main floor rooms in Tokelau when we were there- luckly we were on the 3rd floor and didn't hear anything. Half the buildings at the GF had working going on, it appeared.
Every time we're planning, I always ask DH if he wants to try a 'bus hotel' this time, and he gets the same look. While we were there (9/4-9/12) every time we went over the bus stops on the monorail, esp. after parks had closed, we remarked how crazy they were, for a looooooong time after the parks had closed.
They need to do some reevaluating of the routes, more busses are needed. . .something. I have heard so many people complain about them that it's obvious it's only gotten worse.
As for us, it took us 45 minutes to get back- that was IN transit time on the bus from DTD to the Poly because of all the stops. Not to mention most of the bus seats were wet because of sharing the run with the water parks.
No fun at all!
Was the rest of your trip good otherwise I hope???
