Beds at Asmu Suites

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Hopefully someone can help with a bedding question. Our family has stayed at AOA we loved it but due to budget issues we are tossing around Asmu suites and the cabins . Can you tell me if the pull out beds are compatible to those at AOA at ASMU . We loved the mattress at AOA and could deal with a little bit smaller room if the beds were comparable.

I am voting for the cabins but the resort seems to intimidate DH . The busses seem to overwhelm him he's read reviews stating people waited 45 minutes for an internal bus and then 30 minutes for a parks bus . In a perfect world it would be two rooms at CBR but it's not going to happen.

Any help would be great . Planning on September 2017 .

 

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Having stayed in all three (ASMu suites, cabins, and AoA suites), I can say that bedding is similar in all three. The fold-out stuff at ASMu is quite comfortable (better than my fold-out sofa at home lol) and pretty much the same as the fold-out sofa at AoA. The Innovabed at AoA is basically the same as the murphy at the cabins.

I love the cabins. It's one of my favorite ways to stay on property, and I love the proximity to Magic Kingdom as well as the overall atmosphere of Fort Wilderness.

That being said, with teenagers/older kids and/or more than two adults, I totally recommend the ASMu suites over the cabins.

There are two bathrooms in the ASMu suite - the cabins only have the one - and there is a desk/mirror in the master bedroom of the suite that does well as a makeup vanity too. There is more storage - two closet areas, various shelves and drawers in the furniture, and a bunch of shelves in the kitchen area - than there is at the cabin. There are two TVs in both the ASMu and the cabin, but both of the ones in ASMu are full-size (27"), while the one in the bedroom at the cabin is smaller. Again with bedding, the ASMu is queen-double-twin-twin, with the queen in one room and the others on the living room side. At the cabins, it's double-bunk-bunk-double, with the double murphy in the living room and all of the rest in the (small) back bedroom. I have happily/comfortably slept on the bottom bunk in past trips, but I am about 5'5" and my feet were at the end of the bed, so anyone taller might not appreciate it as much. In the cabins, there is a full kitchen with pots and full-size fridge/freezer, while in the ASMu suites the "kitchen" is a small resort-room cooler fridge ("dorm" sized), a microwave, and a coffee pot. We rarely cook for ourselves when at WDW anyway, so it never really mattered to us, but if you're planning on meals in the room to cut costs while there, the ASMu is great for making oatmeal and coffee in the mornings, but not really suitable for cooking meals otherwise, unless you really like those little cups of spaghettios or soup (things that don't need refrigeration, since there isn't much space for that).

Bedding - it's similar across the three.
Other details - not so much.

 

[HopperFan]

Not a fan of either so maybe I can be unbiased For YOUR family I vote ASMU.

If you are two parents and three boys 18, 18, 12 as it shows then consider this:

Cabins:
- The bunk beds at the cabins has railed foot boards so if your boys are the least bit tall it would be uncomfortable.
- Or the boys will be sharing a sofabed or you could put them in the regular bed.
- Bedroom is small and tight filled with furniture, you would be cozy or put all three boys in there.
- But that puts parents on sofabed.
- One bathroom.
- Main pool, food options, etc are all far away from cabins and since your kids are old enough to be out on their own in resort .... pain.
- Transportation is a lengthy and tedious.
- First and foremost a really really nice campground, not a hotel resort.

ASMU:
- Parents get their own bedroom.
- Boys each get their own sleeping space.
- TWO bathrooms.
- Pools, food courts and two other resorts right there to walk to easily.
- Easy busing.
- Strange themed resort but ......... is that important?

 

[Hopefully]

Having stayed in all three (ASMu suites, cabins, and AoA suites), I can say that bedding is similar in all three. The fold-out stuff at ASMu is quite comfortable (better than my fold-out sofa at home lol) and pretty much the same as the fold-out sofa at AoA. The Innovabed at AoA is basically the same as the murphy at the cabins.

I love the cabins. It's one of my favorite ways to stay on property, and I love the proximity to Magic Kingdom as well as the overall atmosphere of Fort Wilderness.

That being said, with teenagers/older kids and/or more than two adults, I totally recommend the ASMu suites over the cabins.

There are two bathrooms in the ASMu suite - the cabins only have the one - and there is a desk/mirror in the master bedroom of the suite that does well as a makeup vanity too. There is more storage - two closet areas, various shelves and drawers in the furniture, and a bunch of shelves in the kitchen area - than there is at the cabin. There are two TVs in both the ASMu and the cabin, but both of the ones in ASMu are full-size (27"), while the one in the bedroom at the cabin is smaller. Again with bedding, the ASMu is queen-double-twin-twin, with the queen in one room and the others on the living room side. At the cabins, it's double-bunk-bunk-double, with the double murphy in the living room and all of the rest in the (small) back bedroom. I have happily/comfortably slept on the bottom bunk in past trips, but I am about 5'5" and my feet were at the end of the bed, so anyone taller might not appreciate it as much. In the cabins, there is a full kitchen with pots and full-size fridge/freezer, while in the ASMu suites the "kitchen" is a small resort-room cooler fridge ("dorm" sized), a microwave, and a coffee pot. We rarely cook for ourselves when at WDW anyway, so it never really mattered to us, but if you're planning on meals in the room to cut costs while there, the ASMu is great for making oatmeal and coffee in the mornings, but not really suitable for cooking meals otherwise, unless you really like those little cups of spaghettios or soup (things that don't need refrigeration, since there isn't much space for that).

Bedding - it's similar across the three.
Other details - not so much.

To be clear, this info is outdated. It is prior to the Cabin renovation.
The bedding now is a Queen bed and a bunk set in the bedroom, and a Queen sleeper sofa in the living room.
There is a vanity area in the bedroom as well

 

[HopperFan]

To be clear, this info is outdated. It is prior to the Cabin renovation.
The bedding now is a Queen bed and a bunk set in the bedroom, and a Queen sleeper sofa in the living room.
There is a vanity area in the bedroom as well

This is true.

But the bigger bed also would make a tight room tighter, and I would rather a Murphy bed than sofabed but appreciate non sleep time is more comfy to sit.