My mini and interesting trip report from the lousy Pop Century and POFQ

Ragingstorm

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Took magical express to Pop Century. Went in with an open mind, however after staying at POFQ last year I wasnt expecting it to be better than that. But on this board I noticed people seem to go back and back so I chose it as a way to save some bucks.

Well when I arrived I had no idea that it would be this packed with people. I was mortified. I waited in line for 43 minutes to check in to this dump. The icons were cute however why you guys brag about the pools is beyond me. They look like pools u see at the motel 6 off route 80. So one is shaped like a bowling pin. BIG DEAL.

We went into our room and said Oh this isnt to bad (close to the main building since we paid for a preffered room.) My wife said WOW this is small. I thought I could care less at least its clean. We then went to Epcot and we seemed both depressed like we werent even at Disney. The lines were horrendous. So, we got a fast pass to ride my favorite ride which is Soarin. There was a 90 minute wait. It wasnt like this last year during Katrina ill tell ya that. So we went to go to spaceship Earth which I think is very cool. No wait there. After walking around we went on Soarin' we had to figure out a way to kill 5 hours until we met out reservations at Le Cellier. I checked in and and told the girl i was going to smoke a cig. With our res at 6:45 I found my self sitting at the lobby until 7:45. I asked what was up and another women said "we didnt think you were here". Apparantly we were "unarrived" I was about to scream so i asked the girl "did u unarrive me?" With a ****ty attitude she said "Unfortunately I did" I asked why and she simply ignored me. If I was in NJ I would have raised hell however I remained calm and we got the next table. After eating we went back to the hotel.

We were miserable. I wanted a drink. When I noticed that there was a line of about 8 people long in three different lines I was about to freak out!! The food court was packed at 10 pm. My wife was about to cry. I said listen we wont be here that much. We woke up at 7 to get ready for the bus. We got there at 8 to go to the Magic Kingdom. Well needless to say it was standing room only.

The kingdom was packed 45 minute waits on every single ride. After getting dropped off and picked up at the furthest bus stop we had simply enough. When I got back to the resort. I asked to speak to a manger. After waiting in line to do so we told him how unhappy we were and asked to transfer us to the POFQ. He said ill see what i can do. We went back to our room and he called us at around 4PM an hour or so after I spoke to him. He had the greatest news . Not only would he tranfer us they would do it at NO EXTRA CHARGE!. I was so damn happy. I love the French Quarter.

Ok here are my reviews. By the way Monday thru wednesday the lines were amazing in and out of rides in less than 15 minutes.

Revies later.
 
Were you there over Labor Day weekend? I was at POP then and it was very crowded. I really liked POP, but it is just that POP-ULAR. Despite low park crowds (I thought), the bus lines for POP were long. However, I think they did their best to keep the lines moving. I could deal with the bus lines. What I didn't like was the large number of people every where when I returned to the resort. The resort had to be close to capactiy. The moderate resorts aren't so over run with people. I knew that when I went to POP, so I just dealt with it.

I loved POP and would stay there again if it was low, low season mid week. Other than that I would stay at the mods. You are fortunate to have been upgraded at no extra charge. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your vacation.

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Max is my favorite cat! :love:
 
Ragingstorm said:
Since no one likes my report I will stop here.

I don't know that it's that no one likes it, it's just that your TR is VERY negative, and I know, I'm not sure what to say, I bet many others might feel the same way.
 

I sure wanted to hear the rest. I understand how frustrating the Value resorts can be.

Tell away! I would be interested to know what you said that they upgraded you to such a nice resort!!

Michele
once staying there (VERY pregnant), decided to stay longer and was told there was no room and I had to go!
 
Honestly I like to hear all. The good, the bad, the ugly as they say. I wouldnt mind hearing about POR.
 
im VERY ticked off right now. I did a whole write up and it says I have to many Url in my post. What does this mean? I have it copied ready to post but I keeps saying that? How do i fix that?
 
URLs are links to something - another webpage or a photo.

I would love to hear about POFQ and I sure hope you had a better time there, nothing sucks more than a bad holiday :(
 
Ok cool. Negative or not I am just trying to be honest.

Now Monday we went to the Animal Kingdom. Damn we felt good. Nice night sleep, great seat on da bus. When we got there we didnt know what to expect. We were thinking it was gonna be slow. With it being labor day, I thought maybe the kids were gonna clear out. No such luck. We headed straight for Everest. With the park just opening they still had a 45 minute wait!! Unreal. Anyway the ride is fantastic. its fast and even backwards it was just as fast. I wont tell anymore I dont want to ruin it for people. Anyhoo at 2:40 we had res. at Chef Mickey's. It became pretty slow as we were seated with no wait at 2:00. I was very unimpressed. Im sure for dinner it is alot better but I feel my lunch was wasted. No slice meats. The only thing that was halfway decent was the ribs. Do not go there for lunch. It stinks.

At night it was dead. Finally!!! We went to MGM. We went directly to the Tower of Terror. The wait was less than 10 minutes. I love that ride. After that we went to R&R coaster. again a 10 minute wait. We rode it three times. We decided to go see Fantasmic. However it was standing room only. They said there was another show at 10 so we waited. We walked around and ate a counter service at some burger place. Again horrible. But we did find out a few Disney sercrets from a cast member who is pretty highly ranked. She was earning extra hours. Did u know if u look at the Walt and Mickey statue at a 90 degree angle it actaully show Walt with a ......
 
We then went to see Fantasmic. It was of course amazing. After that we just kept hopping from TOT to RR coaster. We walked around some then went back to our little paradise POFQ. wounted. There were 8 people besides us on the bus. Beautiful. We went back to the hotel and went swimming at 12 am we were there until 1:30 between the hot tub and the pool. Thats what I love about POFQ its never really busy.

if someone tells me how to add pics i would be happy to.
 
Ragingstorm said:
Since no one likes my report I will stop here.

I read it and was waiting for more!
 
Ragingstorm said:
We then went to see Fantasmic. It was of course amazing. After that we just kept hopping from TOT to RR coaster. We walked around some then went back to our little paradise POFQ. wounted. There were 8 people besides us on the bus. Beautiful. We went back to the hotel and went swimming at 12 am we were there until 1:30 between the hot tub and the pool. Thats what I love about POFQ its never really busy.

if someone tells me how to add pics i would be happy to.

OK, I'm hardly a technophile - in fact, you might be better off going over to the Tech Board, great folk who will walk you through - but generally speaking you need to load your digital photos on your computer, load each of them to Photobucket (or some online service), and then copy the http of each photo you want to load on to your report (using the yellow letter).
 
 
Ragingstorm said:
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OK, you're almost there, but you're missing the [IMG] on the right hand side - it must have gotten clipped when you transferred.
 
Ragingstorm said:
Since no one likes my report I will stop here.

Do you really expect people to like your review with the non open mind you have about everything. Its Disney and it is going to be packed with people. Value resorts are for people that want to go to Disney but dont have the finanical means to afford more. No need to put the resort down because you thought it was stupid. Why did you even go if you were going to have this type of attitude?
 
Are you using photobucket? You are missing alot of the stuff.

1) go to photobucket and register it is free
2) it will have a browse button. It will let you go to your computer to when you see a pic you want you hit sumit. It will upload your picture.
3) scroll down you will see the picture you selected. It will have codes on the under it .
4) that litte yellow box on above here that looks like a mountian hit that a window will open at the top put that code in there it will start with http://
5) hint if you don't have the cursor where you want it when you insert the code the pic could be to one side.

Hope this helps and hope your trip gets better.I know everyone can't be happy all the time.
 
I'm likin' your report, doesn't bother me to hear
the good, the bad and the ugly, especially if you
have a Midtown Manhaattan to go along with it :thumbsup2
 




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