Any "bad" rooms at ASSports?

[Simba's Mom]

Next trip I'm staying the first night at ASSports. Probably won't be checking in until after 1:00am. I figured that for one night, no room can be really bad, so I didn't make any requests. However, now I'm getting horror stories from friends about how since I'm checking in so late without any requests, I'm sure to get the absolute worst room because that's all that will be left! Now I'm a little nervous-are there any really "bad" rooms at ASSports?

 

[gibbys1]

As far as the distance from the food court and bus stop, I dont think think this resort is as spread out as AS Music was when we stayed there. So you should be alright. I remember being in the country music section at AS Music and boy was it a hike at the end of the day!

 

[Kaybee]

The All Stars always seem to get a bad rap!! I have stayed in
the Sports and Movies and found both to be very nice! There is
not a "bad" room at the Sports. The resort is not spread
out that far. All buildings are easily walkable to the food courts.

 

[milmore104]

We stayed at ASSports in Dec. 2001. We loved the resort and think it's a great place to stay. But we hated our room location. I would have to say the "bad" room for us was ours. We were overlooking the football field. Now I'm not saying our room was bad just the location. There was always people outside playing football and basketball at all hours of the morning even though there were signs everywhere stating that the field was closed! So I wouls definatly request a room that's not on the field seeing you will be arriving so late and will want to go to sleep!

 

[MatthewNY]

I personally would say a bad room is any with a parking lot view. I know sometimes you can't controll this but if you get a preferred room you can avoid this and even if you dont you can probably still get a better view just by asking. I usually make a room request on my resevation, then call 4-7 days in advance (people's opinions vary on when the actually allocate the room), then at check in when the show us the room, if its not what I want I try to nicely say, "that really isn't what we wanted, is there anything else we can get", you have to be a little bit of a pain sometimes if they aren't accomodating but hey, its your money and vacation. I think the difference between the people who get the parking lot view and the people who get a much nicer view, for the same amount, is asking. Somtimes they will say, yes , we have a different room but its not ready. I find waiting for a better room is worth it. After a long trip you dont want to but your exhaustion will pass and a nice room really makes your vacation.

I have this thing about having the pool right outside my room if possible, so I checked out the map and requested baseball, first floor, poolside. It was a little dragged out as we had to get our allocated room switched, and wait a while, but it was fantastic. This is a loud spot mind you, but that comes with the poolside territory. If you want to be near the pool, request Baseball or Surfing, Football is in between them with a large field as stated in one of the above posts. If you want a quiet spot, Tennis was very pretty and quiet, with Huey , Duey and Luey playing Tennis in front of the buildings, Basketball was also in a quiet spot. I'd check out the floorplan and make a request:
http://www.wdwig.com/asp_map.jpg

This is almost the exact view you had when you opened my door when I stayed at the Home Run Hotel (Baseball),(building 8)
http://www.wdwig.com/astar31.jpg

Good luck, and either way it will be a great time.

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