I am a big Disney fan, been there twice so far , me and my family just returned from our first trip to US. We stayed at the HRH and absolutely loved it. The HRH was beautiful, the staff was great, the ability to walk to the parks, terrific, FOTL awesome, the rides were great. I polled the family and they all said they like it better then Disney.
Overall it is just more relaxed and you can go at your own pace.
I still want to go back to Disney but we will definetly be back to Universal, probably once HP arrives, by the way when is that supposed to be 09?