We always stay in a DTD hotel the night before we check into our WDW resort.
Stayed at BW last yr, I had gotten an amazing rate from a newsletter for a disney view room for $59 plus tax.
CHeck in was quick, they gave us a coupon book for DTD and we went up to check out the room, it was very clean and had an amazing view. Now Epcot seemed far off but we could clearly see Epcot Ball.
Later that night we opened a bottle of wine on the balcony and watched Illuminations, wonderful way to start our trip.
While we went with Hilton DTD this yr I would defanitely go back to BW DTD.
We chose Hilton b/c they had a special rate that included 4 disney quest tickets so we just couldnt pass it up, we dont do the water park and more option we normally buy DQ tickets offline from mapleleaf or ticketmamma but this deal was even better..
Now remember they will charge you a $8.99 resort fee per day when you check in..