Help POP vs AOA

[apress]

Would you pay an extra $650 for AOA. We currently have 2 rooms at POP booked for 11/11-11/21. This trip with include 3 adults and 3 kids. We have stayed at POP before but never at AOA. Which would you go for and why? Thanks for the help!

 

[sammykster]

Is it an additional $650 for the family suite or LM room? We really love the family suites and I would probably do it for that price just to have everyone in the same place! depending on the age of the kids it might seem a bit cramped but we are going there tomorrow with 4 adults and 2 kids and have been fine with this in the past! We spend little time in the room so the fact we all go back together and stay in the same space is nice for us. I also really love AOA! Now - if it is the LM rooms I would stick with pop. Unless the pools are a huge draw you can still walk the bridge to check out AOA (minus the pools) from your room at Pop almost as close as you are with the LM rooms.

 

[dansdad]

If it's a Family Suite at AoA I would go that route so everyone can be together. If you go with 2 rooms they may not even be close to each other.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Would you pay an extra $650 for AOA. We currently have 2 rooms at POP booked for 11/11-11/21. This trip with include 3 adults and 3 kids. We have stayed at POP before but never at AOA. Which would you go for and why? Thanks for the help!

I would not spend an extra $650 for AoA. It is just too much of a price difference. You can walk across the bridge to visit AoA at any time, so it doesn't seem worth it to spend so much money when there isn't really a benefit besides the decorations.

 

[goofyintoronto]

I would not spend an extra $650 for AoA. It is just too much of a price difference. You can walk across the bridge to visit AoA at any time, so it doesn't seem worth it to spend so much money when there isn't really a benefit besides the decorations.

I totally agree with this. Thats a huge price difference. I'd stick with two rooms at Pop to be honest. While at pop you can easily walk over to AoA and look around, and even try out the food court. Think of all the things you can do with that money.

 

[tabistar]

If the extra $650 is for a suite, I'd say it's definitely worth it. I haven't stayed in a suite yet, but they look awesome!

If it's for 2 LM rooms, I'd say to stay at POP. I think it's worth a couple hundred extra, but not more than that. We've stayed at both POP and AoA and, while I love the LM rooms, they aren't worth an extra $650. They are pretty far from the food court and bus stops. Like others have said, you can walk over the bridge from POP and check out all the awesome themes.

 

[apress]

Yes the additional $650 is for a suite and the kids ages are 12,9, and 5.

 

[mom2cgj]

I've been debating this same issue. We are deciding between a suite at AoA (Cars - we stayed LK last time) and an AB room at POR. There are 5 of us (2 adults, 3 kids 11, 8, and 7). The kids like the idea of staying somewhere new and like the water slide at POR. But, looking at the rooms, they are going to be a tight at POR for 5 of us. You wouldn't have that at POP, since you'd have 2 rooms, but you don't know for sure they would be together. At AoA you have lots of space, 2 bathrooms (again, so would you at POP), and we like having a separate master so we can shut the kids' light off and they can sleep while I download pictures, etc. The other things we looked at were food courts, pools, buses, and theme. Food courts for us really didn't look that much different in terms of having something everyone would eat. We basically only do breakfast there, so they came out equal. Pools: POR has a slide (POP doesn't and neither does AoA) otherwise, the AoA pools are fantastic. Especially the Big Blue pool. The kids love hearing the sounds under water. Buses - AoA has it's own dedicated buses, so we found them to be really reliable. I don't know what the bus situation is like at POP - for us, POR shares with POFQ AND has to travel to multiple stops within the resort, so AoA won that round. Theme - POR is much more relaxing which is nice, but we kind of like something that screams Disney. To us, POP is equally bright and flashy, but not as Disney as AoA. So we basically came down to (all other things equal) AoA would win for us. BUT we are looking at a $500 difference...is it worth it? To us, I think just not tripping all over each other by moving to the family suite over a single room is worth it. I don't know if that helps at all, but maybe it will give you some things to think about!

 

[Disneylover99]

For that price difference, I'd stick with Pop.