Ah thanks. Like I said I'm a newbie at this.
somewhere I had read that you could. So PO it is...now to decide which one...
As others have said pool hopping is not allowed, except among sister resorts. The three All Stars allow pool hopping among their pools and POFQ/PORS allow pool hopping among their pools, but that is it. Even POP and AoA don't allow pool hopping, even though they are connected by a bridge.
I'd recommend POFQ. My husband and I took our 3 y/o GS there last Feb and he absolutely loved the sea serpent/gator pool. You can get an infant or toddler life vest for free at the gift shop to use for the entire week. My GS is very tiny for his age (easily looks two). They didn't have that many of the smallest vests that he needed, so the CM in the gift shop told us to keep it for the week, just to be sure to check it back in on our last day and not leave it in the room, or we'd be charged for it. My GS loved going down the sea serpent slide. They have to go down by themselves and won't let you go with them, but my husband would go up with him and come down just behind him while I waited off to the side at the bottom to catch him. He loved it and would have spent the entire trip in the pool, if we'd let him. Plus we love how small POFQ is and how nothing is very far from anything else. It's the smallest resort on property. It's also the first bus pick up. We loved knowing that we'd get a seat every morning and not have to stand.
Funny story: Our first night back at the resort, we called my son and D-I-L, so they could talk to my GS. They asked if he was having fun and he yelled, 'yes, I had supper with Mickey Mouse, got stuck on a monorail way up in the air, rode a boat to DTD and didn't have to wear a life vest, got to ride a bus without having to sit in a car seat, and got to slide down a dragon's tongue into a pool and almost drowned, but Nana caught me before I went under. It's great down here'. When I got back on the phone, my son asked what the heck we were doing with their son. lol The night they picked us up at the airport, it was cold here in Texas, so my D-I-L had called to make sure we had him in jeans and a hoodie for the flight home. After picking us up at baggage claim and as we were walking to go outside to the car, my GS was talking ninety miles an hour about all the fun we had. Just as we got to the automatically opening doors to go outside, he suddenly came to a sudden screeching halt, his eyes got big, he shuddered, turned, and without saying a word ran back inside. We had to chase him down and when we caught him, asked what the heck he was doing. He said "I wanna go back to Disney World where it's warm and I can swim everyday. It's too cold here". I said, 'don't you want to see your mom and dad? You've been gone a week." He looked at his parents, said "I've seen them, now I wanna go back and stay with Mickey Mouse where it's warm. Get me back on that airplane before it leaves." lol