Disney's POP CENTURY RESORT Information & Questions

[SPOERLX3]

I am staying at POP for the first time in October with my DBF. I have seen that you can request a lake view room if you book the standard room category which I did. My question is would I be better off requesting a certain section or a top floor? I just want a peaceful room with a nice view. Also, preferably, not too long of a walk to the front of the resort. Thanks so much in advance! I have been reading through this thread and am getting excited for my first stay!

4th floor, lake view is definitely going to be your quietest rooms (no one above you) and if you score one toward the end of the rooms, you would have less foot traffic passing your room. The 70's section, top floor, lake view seemed to be the quietest area that we have stayed in since there is no pool, however, we have never had any trouble with noise at POP in any of our 9 trips. We have always requested 4th floor, lake view and we have been assigned rooms in all every building in the 50's (building 2 & 3 twice), 60's building 5 & both buildings in the 70's and we have had rooms on the 1st, 2nd & 4th floors.

If you, as you mentioned, just want a peaceful room with a nice view, you will have a much better chance of getting a top floor room if you request lake view, 4th floor since that would give the room assigner a much larger pool of rooms to choose from however, if you are assigned building 2 it a pretty long trek to get to Classic Hall and the buses. Once you start asking for a specific section, it does limit the room assigner to only what is available for that section and if all the 4th floor rooms are occupied, then you go down to a lower floor with people above and below you. 4th floor, 60's and 4th floor, 50's sections are definitely the most popular room requests and they fill up the fastest.

Hope this helps! pixie dust for the perfect room!

 

[hamilkm]

4th floor, lake view is definitely going to be your quietest rooms (no one above you) and if you score one toward the end of the rooms, you would have less foot traffic passing your room. The 70's section, top floor, lake view seemed to be the quietest area that we have stayed in since there is no pool, however, we have never had any trouble with noise at POP in any of our 9 trips. We have always requested 4th floor, lake view and we have been assigned rooms in all every building in the 50's (building 2 & 3 twice), 60's building 5 & both buildings in the 70's and we have had rooms on the 1st, 2nd & 4th floors.

If you, as you mentioned, just want a peaceful room with a nice view, you will have a much better chance of getting a top floor room if you request lake view, 4th floor since that would give the room assigner a much larger pool of rooms to choose from however, if you are assigned building 2 it a pretty long trek to get to Classic Hall and the buses. Once you start asking for a specific section, it does limit the room assigner to only what is available for that section and if all the 4th floor rooms are occupied, then you go down to a lower floor with people above and below you. 4th floor, 60's and 4th floor, 50's sections are definitely the most popular room requests and they fill up the fastest.

Hope this helps! pixie dust for the perfect room!

Thanks so much! I think I am going to go with 4th floor lake view because the view and quiet are most important. We can walk if we need too!

 

[Camaro305]

How early do they do this?

Pretty early... I believe 6-7am.

 

[SPOERLX3]

Thanks so much! I think I am going to go with 4th floor lake view because the view and quiet are most important. We can walk if we need too!

You can always call and have requests added to your reservation, ex: 4th floor, lake view, 70's and then when you do your on line check in, choose 4th floor, lake view. Just make sure that you ask the CM to list them with the most important request first and make sure that what you choose during on line check in doesn't contradict the requests you made on your reservation. This may give you a chance of a certain section. Just remembering that these are only requests, keeps me in perspective when I don't get the section/floor/view that I had hoped for

Truly, we have never been disappointed in any room that we have stayed in at POP. We always book standard and we have always requested top floor, lake view. Last year we were a party of 6, traveling with some of our grandkids and when we booked our reservation we asked our CM to add connecting rooms, 4th floor, lake view, 50's to our reservation with connecting rooms listed first since it was our most important request. When we did on line check in we chose 50's, 4th floor. We were assigned lake view, ground floor, building 2 with connecting rooms (so we got 3 or our 4 requests met). I won't lie, I was kind of bummed that we were on the ground floor and I was concerned that we would have alot of noise but we LOVED it so much that we are requesting ground floor this year!! A lot of POPpers don't like a ground floor because of the chance of critters but we never had a problem.

Make sure you are booked standard since all lake view are standard rooms. 4th floor, lake view should get you into a room in building 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6! Good luck!

 

[yayornay]

Pretty early... I believe 6-7am.

It began around 8:30ish for us. And it was not only around the pool. We were in room 3240 and they were doing the walkways outside of each room/each floor. One morning our "Privacy Please" door hanger was dripping wet from them pressure washing our door.

 

[Rendar]

It began around 8:30ish for us. And it was not only around the pool. We were in room 3240 and they were doing the walkways outside of each room/each floor. One morning our "Privacy Please" door hanger was dripping wet from them pressure washing our door.

WOW!

 

[Zhamlau]

Thank you for your very useful thread. We are staying at Pop at the beginning of December 12/5-12/12. I have two questions.

1. Has anyone successfully divided a standard room using a tension rod or other device? We will have a 4 yo and a 10 mo with us at the time of the trip. The 10mo will still be nursing most likely, so it would have to be a solution that is sturdy enough to let me in during the night as needed. We wanted a suite at AoA, but we could not get it to work financially.

2. We received a code for 20% off. There were very few rooms/ hotels available when I booked my reservation, so we decided to stay with our original res at Pop. How does the free dining and/or the room discount work? Is there likely to be another offer as we get closer, or was that it?

 

[SPOERLX3]

Thank you for your very useful thread. We are staying at Pop at the beginning of December 12/5-12/12. I have two questions.

1. Has anyone successfully divided a standard room using a tension rod or other device? We will have a 4 yo and a 10 mo with us at the time of the trip. The 10mo will still be nursing most likely, so it would have to be a solution that is sturdy enough to let me in during the night as needed. We wanted a suite at AoA, but we could not get it to work financially.

2. We received a code for 20% off. There were very few rooms/ hotels available when I booked my reservation, so we decided to stay with our original res at Pop. How does the free dining and/or the room discount work? Is there likely to be another offer as we get closer, or was that it?

1. I have never tried to divide the room but the dressing area has a curtain that you can pull closed if that would work. It may not be to comfy but you could take a chair in there while nursing.

2. I have only seen dates change via a PIN code however that is not to say that IF that week at Disney is not booking as they planned that they wouldn't send out another promo with diffrent dates. You mentioned that there were very few rooms available when you booked. Disney offers promo's to book rooms so if there were already alot of rooms already booked, I would not expect any other promo's to come out that covered that time frame.

Hopefully someone else will chime in with a solution to dividing the room.

 

[Zhamlau]

Thank you for the information. I had thought about the dressing area, but I think we might run into issues should someone need to use the restroom or already be in there. The code I have is with a Pin that I received in an email.

 

[vrajewski10513]

Thank you for the information. I had thought about the dressing area, but I think we might run into issues should someone need to use the restroom or already be in there. The code I have is with a Pin that I received in an email.

I think you'd have a hard time dividing the room with a tension rod.. its a very large room and idk if you'd even be able to find a tension rod long enough to do so. If you're driving I'd suggest maybe one of those free standing dividers? They will be too large to take if youre flying.

 

[bluezy]

Thank you for the information. I had thought about the dressing area, but I think we might run into issues should someone need to use the restroom or already be in there. The code I have is with a Pin that I received in an email.

Another option that *might* work is to use those 3M removable hooks that stick to the wall and hang a shower curtain/liner from the hooks. You might be able to create a small nook in the corner between the TV cabinet and the short wall at the dressing area -- right where the door to the connecting room is in the picture above. It would end up being a small triangular shaped area, but it might work. I know people use to use the 3M hooks and shower curtain to divide the dressing area from the rest of the room before Disney installed a curtain there.

 

[Dismom820]

we have our first pop century trip planned this thanksgiving! we usually camp at fort wilderness. I have a 2 year old, has anyone tried the cribs they offer? last year we stayed off property (big mistake) and the cribs were so small, she didn't feel comfortable and she was just 14 months! also, do the rooms come with microwaves, or will that be something i need to ask for? is there a certain building i should stay in to be closest to the buses? i knew all the tricks to which loop to stay at the campgrounds, but now, i have no idea with the hotels! thanks in advance!

 

[SPOERLX3]

Sorry, we have never used the cribs but hopefully someone else will chime in to answer that.
No microwave in the room but they have them in the food court.
Are you booked standard, preferred, standard pool or preferred pool?
If you are preferred, I would request 50's or 60's. If you are assigned building 1, you won't have to even go into the main building, just follow the path around to the front and straight to the bus stop. If you are booked preferred pool you will be in building 4 or 5 closest to Classic Hall, just a quick walk through the main building and you are at the bus stop.
Some disboard friends like building 9 for standard because there is a cut through that gets you to the bus stops pretty quick.
Here is a map of POP that may help you see what you may like:

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/...read/PopCenturyMap2012RoomCategoriesFINAL.jpg

Here are all the choices you will have during online check-in:


checking "near transportation" allows the room assigner to assign you a room in your category from everything available during check in so that may be a good one to check. You get 2 choices

 

[Dismom820]

Sorry, we have never used the cribs but hopefully someone else will chime in to answer that.
No microwave in the room but they have them in the food court.
Are you booked standard, preferred, standard pool or preferred pool?
If you are standard or preferred, I would request building 1 in the 50's. You won't have to even go into the main building, just follow the path around to the front and straight to the bus stop. If you are booked preferred you will be in building 4 or 5 closest to Classic Hall, just a quick walk through the main building and you are at the bus stop.
Here is a map of POP that may help you see what you may like:
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae107/braverman4/POP Century Thread/PopCenturyMap2012RoomCategoriesFINAL.jpg

We are booked in a standard room. Will I be able to contact someone and request to be in building 1 in the 50's? will that be an added charge?
im kind of bummed about the no microwave thing haha we were hoping to do breakfast foods in the room before we head to the park.
thanks for the map! that helps a lot!

 

[Stitch808]

We are booked in a standard room with a king bed request. Would adding near transportation during online check-in help to be near Classic Hall? Last year we went with just the king bed request and got it in a preferred room in building 10. We want to be near the buses and just don't want to walk all the way to the 80s/90s section after a long day at the parks. I hope we can get the same good luck this year. If not, we'll be more than happy with the two double beds. A lot of beds for just me and DGF.

 

[SPOERLX3]

We are booked in a standard room. Will I be able to contact someone and request to be in building 1 in the 50's? will that be an added charge?
im kind of bummed about the no microwave thing haha we were hoping to do breakfast foods in the room before we head to the park.
thanks for the map! that helps a lot!

You can call and add any request to your existing reservation with Disney CM. Just remember everything you add to your request is only a request and not a guarantee Looking at the map you can see that most of the rooms closest to class a call our preferred rooms. There is only a small section, facing the parking lot, that our standard rooms(Not highlighted), But you can definitely request it. Just call Disney and ask the CM to add it to your reservation. No extra charge for requests added to your reservation.

 

[MeridAriel]

Definitely one of the better food courts, with a wider variety of options, in my opinion and gotta love having your own bus system!

 

[Dismom820]

You can call and add any request to your existing reservation with Disney CM. Just remember everything you add to your request is only a request and not a guarantee Looking at the map you can see that most of the rooms closest to class a call our preferred rooms. There is only a small section, facing the parking lot, that our standard rooms(Not highlighted), But you can definitely request it. Just call Disney and ask the CM to add it to your reservation. No extra charge for requests added to your reservation.

thank you for all the advice and the useful map! when i have done disney in the past, my parents always took care of the reservations, but it was at the campgrounds. since I'm all grown and have a little one of my own, its my turn to manage the reservations, so I'm quite the "newbie"! hahaha

 

[Dismom820]

Sorry, we have never used the cribs but hopefully someone else will chime in to answer that.
No microwave in the room but they have them in the food court.
Are you booked standard, preferred, standard pool or preferred pool?
If you are preferred, I would request 50's or 60's. If you are assigned building 1, you won't have to even go into the main building, just follow the path around to the front and straight to the bus stop. If you are booked preferred pool you will be in building 4 or 5 closest to Classic Hall, just a quick walk through the main building and you are at the bus stop.
Some disboard friends like building 9 for standard because there is a cut through that gets you to the bus stops pretty quick.
Here is a map of POP that may help you see what you may like:

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/...read/PopCenturyMap2012RoomCategoriesFINAL.jpg

Here are all the choices you will have during online check-in:


checking "near transportation" allows the room assigner to assign you a room in your category from everything available during check in so that may be a good one to check. You get 2 choices

thank you! (again) with the room requests, will i have to wait until i can do the online check-in to select these? i have already booked and paid for my trip, we're just waiting to go! hahaha and booking our dining and fast passes along the way! so i cant make these selections until I'm allowed to do the online check-in? or do i need to call now?

 

[SPOERLX3]

thank you! (again) with the room requests, will i have to wait until i can do the online check-in to select these? i have already booked and paid for my trip, we're just waiting to go! hahaha and booking our dining and fast passes along the way! so i cant make these selections until I'm allowed to do the online check-in? or do i need to call now?

You can call and add them to your existing reservation and then you can also choose them during on line check in. I'm not sure which one pulls more weight . Just make sure what you add to the existing reservation doesn't contradict what you choose at on line check in