Ok hotels finally booked! We are resort hopping about 4 times but it's for a few reasons, one is to see other resorts while we stay as we are spending a good 2 weeks there and the second reason is to save a little bit of money (every $$ counts now our $$ is so low!). We are staying at art of animation for 3 nights, then onto Caribbean beach resort with the majority of time then being spent at port Orleans riverside (stayed here last year and it was awesome and so pretty), then for the last few nights we are staying at pop century to save some $$.
Already made ADRs but haven't bought park tix yet, still deciding if we want 4 or 5 days with a park hopper.
Mum from oz - I stayed at cabana beach for a few nights last year. It's a great nice new hotel and the the lazy river is super nice to come back to but just note you have to 'buy' the inner tubes for the lazy river. You can still go in it without the tubes but they aren't free. The rooms are very new and the 50s theme is fun, also super close to universal and universal city walk, let me know if you have any questions.
