Originally posted by helenk
I will be staying at the ASMU in September, it has been a while since I have stayed at the AS, last time was in 1995 at the ASSP,
did you have a chance to eat at the food court? If so how was it, was there a good selection. How was the bus service, you indicate that there crowds in the am. How about leaving the parks? Generally what resort did the buses stop at first?
How was housekeeping?
Sorry I have so many questions, I am a bit nervous about my choice.
We did eat at the food court and it was pretty good -- sandwiches, pasta, pizza, salads, cereal, ice cream, cake, etc. Our only complaint was that one of the stalls was closed for the entire week we were there. So that cut down somewhat on the selection. Again, didn't look like refurb, just that there weren't enought people to justify opening it. We've been before when all the stalls are open, and there was definitely a smaller selection this time. But we did OK.
The bus service was very efficient -- we've been before and found no difference this trip. We shared buses with Sports and Movies the entire stay. Never enough people to just attend to one resort. First stop is always sports, followed by Music then Movies. There were never any lines at sports or music (at least not enough to fill a bus) but Movies was another story altogether. Was I gald I wasn't staying there!!! Almost every AM, no matter what park we were going to, the bus just couldn't fit everyone from movies on the bus. There were always leftovers for the next bus. But when we would get on at music, hardly anyone else was getting on and it had very few people on it from sports. Movies must have been jammed! Leaving the pasrks was good. We rarely had to wait for more than 15 min. for the next bus, even if the one ahead of us had just pulled out. The only exception was one day at EPCOT where we had to wait 40 min. But that was a screw up in communication and the transit guy at EPCOT came over and apologized to the line.
Housekeeping was fine. We had to ask for extra soap and it came right away and were were drowned in towels. I guess they expected us to use quite a few in the pools/water parks, so we always had like five extras in the room. That was weird -- I've never seen such towel overkill before! As always at the All-Stars they don't go too much out of their way, but I did see some people on our floor who had arrangements of animals and toys in the windows that I assume were done by the maid. Our room was clean and neat every day and at check in, so no complaints.
The piano pool was still closed for refurb, but the crowds were so light that the big pool was never that jammed. The only time I saw it really bad was our last night around 10:00. But it seemed to be a large group all together. But the afternoons we practically had it to ourselves.
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay, but then we always do. We've done all the AllStars and never been disappointed. They're not as loaded with ammenites as the deluxes, but for all the time we're in the room, it doesn't matter to us. And at $59/night with the AP rate, who can complain!!
Hope this helps
JW
