People decorate the Little Mermaid room windows (external hallways). They don't decorate as much in the Family Suites since those are all internal hallways. AOA's tree is my favorite one, it's so creative!
There's no way to know, you just have to watch social media and see when someone says they see AOA's tree going up. The order resorts are decorated in is all done through a lottery system, so it's a different day every year and impossible to predict.
Building 1 and 3 are going to be about a 3-4 minute walk (definitely under 5 minutes unless you have slow walkers) walk to Skyliner. It's really not far. It's about 1,000 feet if you map it out on Google Maps. We were in Building 6 (first floor) in the LK section which is basically the same distance from Skyliner as Building 3 in Cars and we could get from our room to the entrance of Skyliner in about 2 minutes. We had a room that was very close to the back door of the building so we had about the shortest distance possible from a LK room. We used the Skyliner 12 times during our stay so we were happy to have the room location we had (and that's why we requested that location - we knew we'd be using Skyliner a lot).
. Someone tell me it’s going to be fine 
It’s going to be fine.We go in a couple weeks and booked a Mermaid room. Family of 4. My kids are 8 and 9 and have been fighting SO much lately, now I’m nervous about not having a lot of room for them to be able to have their own space… the rooms look TINY so I’m a little nervous about that as the trip gets closer, and starting to regret not sticking with POP.
Regarding the refillable mugs:
When we went during Covid/2020, the only place to get them filled was in the quick service restaurant, and someone did it for you. Is this still the case? Can you fill your own now?
Also, have they re-opened the machine where you can fill your mug at the Drop Off Bar?
6 more days!
Thank you!
A note of clarification. LM rooms are 17' larger than Pop rooms but, the second bed remains down in a fixed position which takes up floor space.It’s going to be fine.
The LM rooms are slightly bigger than the Pop rooms.
