Blue Skies
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- Jun 28, 2000
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We arrived back yesturday afternoon 
from a wonderful Disney trip! 
We stayed at ASMu from 4/29 to 5/6. This was the first time staying at an all star resort. Our previous on site trips we had stayed at the Caribbean Beach (1995) and the Beach Club (2000). I had been nervous to stay at an All Star and had said loudly "I'll never stay THERE!" Okay....I might have been a little bit of a resort snob. But no more! I am an All Star convert! I have been set free from my pre-conceived notiotions about these hotels! Some people (as with any Disney resort) can be pretty negative about the All Stars. Visions of cheerleaders on the ramapge at all hours were running through my head.
When we originally booked our hotel late last summer, we were planning on staying at thw WL. Then I thought, why not save some $$ and I switched to Coronado Springs. Then I thought, lets make this a budget trip (we have a new house I want to decorate!
), so I took the plunge with one of the codes and booked ASMu (preferred room) for our stay.
When we arrived (even though I had checked out pictures on many different sites) the theming of the report was much better in person! We arrive at the report around 3 pm and a nice CM checked us in. I had requested on our reservation a first floor pool view room (I did not send a fax to the room controller). We got room 557 (building 10) a 2nd floor pool view. Wow! What a great room! We had a better view than first floor (there was a lot of foilage in front of the first floor rooms). Our room was three rooms from the end of the building closest to melody hall (food court, bus stop). Most of the time we were able to park our car in the small lot by our building (just a few steps to our room after a long day!).
The room was larger in feeling than expected. In our room was myself, my husband and young son (5 yr). We had no problems getting ready in the morning (I was up about 1/2 hr before them). Maybe if you had a family with more girls that need their bathroom time, it might be an issue.
Our only complaint about the room was mousekeeping. I tipped everyday and we were having issues where things were missing (cups, kleenex, liners for the ice bucket, etc...). So we would have to call housekeeping everyday. I stoped tipping for two days and I think our maid (on the card that was left it was always the same name, so I assumed we had the same mousekeeper each day) got the message.
On our last day she left my son's Pluto stuffed animal in his life jacket for the pool in a chair in the window awaiting our return. This was the only thing our mouskeeper did for us our whole stay. We noticed lots of stuff in other peoples windows, but I had not expected anything either. We never had anything like this done for us when we stayed at the Beach Club either.
The pool was very nice! We only swam in the main Clypso pool. We never had a problem finding any empty lounge chair (I read the thread about lounge chairs this morning
). We swam on three different occasions and had no problems with a young child (no unruly people, etc..). We swam before 7-8 pm everyday though. It looked like older kids hit the pool later in the evenings.
We never had a problem with noise from the pool. I can sleep through anything (even an earthquake once!), but my husband needs earplugs (he uses them at home too... and we live in a small town in a subdivision with no noise!). He never once complianed about the noise level at night.
We ate at the food court once. It was huge, but whenever we walked by it was never too busy. Food was okay... but we always had sancks, water, soda, beer in our room (we had stopped at Winn Dixie our first night).
The transportation was fine. We mostly used Disney transportation. I can't compare it to the Beach Club (we never used the bus...only a car), but the waits were simular to when we stayed at the CB. Once leaving EPCOT the wait was over a half hour (accoriding to the people in head of us in line at the bus stop). But none of the waits we experienced were intolerable. We had a great bus driver one night from EPCOT, Roger Dodger the old Croger! (that's what he told us his name was!) He was a hoot! Great fun and the most personality of any CM our whole trip! ASsp was always the first on and first off, followed by us then ASMo (they usually ended up standing becasue seats were usually filled by the time they were picked up).
Well, I think that mostly covers our stay. I would definately stay in an All Star resport again!
I might even be brave and try Pop Century (if it's open by our next trip 
!!)
I thought All Star Music was a great value for the $$. I had been disapointed in the Beach Club (in respect to the mucho $$ spent to stay there...great hotel...but wow.....not worth the $$$ you fork over for it ....IMHO).
Our son loved the hotel. Whenever a CM asked him, what resort are you staying at, he would reply "the green one!" (his fav color is green).
If anyone has any questions....I will try and answer them!
Melissa
from a wonderful Disney trip! We stayed at ASMu from 4/29 to 5/6. This was the first time staying at an all star resort. Our previous on site trips we had stayed at the Caribbean Beach (1995) and the Beach Club (2000). I had been nervous to stay at an All Star and had said loudly "I'll never stay THERE!" Okay....I might have been a little bit of a resort snob. But no more! I am an All Star convert! I have been set free from my pre-conceived notiotions about these hotels! Some people (as with any Disney resort) can be pretty negative about the All Stars. Visions of cheerleaders on the ramapge at all hours were running through my head.
When we originally booked our hotel late last summer, we were planning on staying at thw WL. Then I thought, why not save some $$ and I switched to Coronado Springs. Then I thought, lets make this a budget trip (we have a new house I want to decorate!
), so I took the plunge with one of the codes and booked ASMu (preferred room) for our stay.When we arrived (even though I had checked out pictures on many different sites) the theming of the report was much better in person! We arrive at the report around 3 pm and a nice CM checked us in. I had requested on our reservation a first floor pool view room (I did not send a fax to the room controller). We got room 557 (building 10) a 2nd floor pool view. Wow! What a great room! We had a better view than first floor (there was a lot of foilage in front of the first floor rooms). Our room was three rooms from the end of the building closest to melody hall (food court, bus stop). Most of the time we were able to park our car in the small lot by our building (just a few steps to our room after a long day!).
The room was larger in feeling than expected. In our room was myself, my husband and young son (5 yr). We had no problems getting ready in the morning (I was up about 1/2 hr before them). Maybe if you had a family with more girls that need their bathroom time, it might be an issue.
Our only complaint about the room was mousekeeping. I tipped everyday and we were having issues where things were missing (cups, kleenex, liners for the ice bucket, etc...). So we would have to call housekeeping everyday. I stoped tipping for two days and I think our maid (on the card that was left it was always the same name, so I assumed we had the same mousekeeper each day) got the message.
On our last day she left my son's Pluto stuffed animal in his life jacket for the pool in a chair in the window awaiting our return.
This was the only thing our mouskeeper did for us our whole stay. We noticed lots of stuff in other peoples windows, but I had not expected anything either. We never had anything like this done for us when we stayed at the Beach Club either.The pool was very nice! We only swam in the main Clypso pool. We never had a problem finding any empty lounge chair (I read the thread about lounge chairs this morning
). We swam on three different occasions and had no problems with a young child (no unruly people, etc..). We swam before 7-8 pm everyday though. It looked like older kids hit the pool later in the evenings. We never had a problem with noise from the pool. I can sleep through anything (even an earthquake once!), but my husband needs earplugs (he uses them at home too... and we live in a small town in a subdivision with no noise!). He never once complianed about the noise level at night.
We ate at the food court once. It was huge, but whenever we walked by it was never too busy. Food was okay... but we always had sancks, water, soda, beer in our room (we had stopped at Winn Dixie our first night).
The transportation was fine. We mostly used Disney transportation. I can't compare it to the Beach Club (we never used the bus...only a car), but the waits were simular to when we stayed at the CB. Once leaving EPCOT the wait was over a half hour (accoriding to the people in head of us in line at the bus stop). But none of the waits we experienced were intolerable. We had a great bus driver one night from EPCOT, Roger Dodger the old Croger! (that's what he told us his name was!) He was a hoot! Great fun and the most personality of any CM our whole trip! ASsp was always the first on and first off, followed by us then ASMo (they usually ended up standing becasue seats were usually filled by the time they were picked up).
Well, I think that mostly covers our stay. I would definately stay in an All Star resport again!
I might even be brave and try Pop Century (if it's open by our next trip !!)I thought All Star Music was a great value for the $$. I had been disapointed in the Beach Club (in respect to the mucho $$ spent to stay there...great hotel...but wow.....not worth the $$$ you fork over for it ....IMHO).
Our son loved the hotel. Whenever a CM asked him, what resort are you staying at, he would reply "the green one!" (his fav color is green).
If anyone has any questions....I will try and answer them!
Melissa
