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TJM1976 · May 13, 2009

P.I. Squirrel said:
Nice pics. But, where is the big crowd everyone's been talking about?

Thanks! Those pics were taken around 10:15 in the morning, so most people were either in the parks or just waking up and in the food court eating.

Boncho · May 13, 2009

We were there from Apr. 29-May 6th and there were no enormous crowds.
The crowds were normal for this time of year - it was great!

TJM1976 · May 13, 2009

Boncho said:
We were there from Apr. 29-May 6th and there were no enormous crowds.
The crowds were normal for this time of year - it was great!

Yeah, this is the "middle season". Meaning Spring Breaks are pretty much over and school is not out for the summer yet.

serene56 · May 13, 2009

The paid subscription sites said that the parks lst weeks in may had crowd levels at 8 and 9. Kinda makes me wonder about spending my money on information that is no correct in any manner.

Boncho · May 13, 2009

serene56 said:
The paid subscription sites said that the parks lst weeks in may had crowd levels at 8 and 9. Kinda makes me wonder about spending my money on information that is no correct in any manner.

I know what you mean, the crowds were no where near 8 and 9.

danceintherain · May 13, 2009

I think it's hard for them to predict crowd levels right now, because levels are lower than usual for every time of year. Then, Disney keeps throwing out some pretty amazing deals to get people in the parks, which makes the crowd levels even more difficult to predict.

amberg@eastlink.ca · May 13, 2009

just throwingmy two cents in. went to see my physiotherapist yesterday who was there over easter and she said the park hit max capacity and shut down cus the crowd was so large!

TJM1976 · May 13, 2009

amberg@eastlink.ca said:
just throwingmy two cents in. went to see my physiotherapist yesterday who was there over easter and she said the park hit max capacity and shut down cus the crowd was so large!

Correct. Over Easter, the parks were unusually busy. It was a combination of the Easter Holiday, Spring Breaks, and the promos that WDW was offering on resort rooms. It has now slowed back to normal.

jenseib · May 13, 2009

amberg@eastlink.ca said:
im not sure if they do have enough or not. when dh and i went in 05 we were asked by our ta if we wanted two doubles or a king sized bed. we sleep in a queen at home and knew a double'd be awful so we asked for king. so perhaps the kingsized are automatically handicapped?

coincidently enough im trying to figure out how to book a closer room this year. i dont specifaically need a handicapped room, but our dd who will be four by the time we visit has cp, and wears an eye patch so she has depth perception problems and has hard times walking long distacnes. our ta suggested paying for a preferrred room altho i dont think we should have to pay extra to be closer for i guess what you would call "medical reasons". but then i dont want to take a handicapped room(plus theres four of us and we woudlnt fit in it!).

when we went in 05 we payed for a prefered room to be closer to the pool- joke! we were in fanatasia but the back part of it and it was still a hike- and that was obvioulsy a handicapped room. if i had payed extra for a handicapped room for that reason id want my money back!

You should ask these questions over at the groovier pop thread in the resorts section. I do know closer rooms cost more, I also know there is a number to call about medical needs and rooms. Not sure if you can get that room cheaper or not, but might be worth looking into. I think Pop has about half of there king size rooms for handicapp, and the other half not. I could be wrong on percentages, but I do know they have alot that are not handicapped as well. Not sure if htey are any closer or not. But the first page of that thread has alot of info and maps of the layout and where rooms fall.

Now lets get back to pictures. I'm enjoying all the new ones! :thumbsup2

amberg@eastlink.ca · May 13, 2009

yeah i did take a read throguh it the other nite, altho didnt notice it. but then again it is a few pages worth to skim through. im off to hit them up- thanks!

yooperfan · May 13, 2009

mauimouse said:
I've been to Pop a lot and going back next month. This thread has given me some good ideas. But I'd also like to post some photos of my own. Here they are.

We are considering POP for our first value ever next Jan. If you have stayed at POR, can you tell me if the beds at POP are the same as POR or harder or softer? DH has back problems and this is his main concern. Thanks

slyjly · May 14, 2009

yooperfan said:
We are considering POP for our first value ever next Jan. If you have stayed at POR, can you tell me if the beds at POP are the same as POR or harder or softer? DH has back problems and this is his main concern. Thanks

The beds at POR are a lot better than the ones at POP :lmao:

The beds at POP are a little firmer that the beds at POR but still comfortable

Corjack · May 14, 2009

This is from the Magic express when we were arriving.

The fam walking in...

When we were going to check in...it was pretty empty!

The room...

Inside a cube...we were iin the 90's way back by the computer pool. It was nice but felt kind of far away from things.

Catching our first bus to the MK

I have LOTS but no more time right now. Back soon!

marybrat · May 16, 2009

Staying at the POP in August. This thread will help me wait.

utkscvol1 · May 17, 2009

amberg@eastlink.ca said:
im loving looking at everyone's pop pics! they are incredible! were currently deciding between pop and asmovies. does anyone have a pic of the bathrooms? i know i know weird but i like to see what the restrooms look like. when we stayed at movies in 05 i think we were in a wheelchair accessible one- there was no tub- shower and toilet ran together- very messy. is this how it is with all value resorts?

We've only stayed @ asmovies(last year) this year we are booked @ pop. We go in September so the crowds aren't as bad. But the main reason we chose pop was the buses. @ movies you are sharing buses with ALL the allstar resorts and movies is at the end of the line. Now granted the crowds weren't too bad but there were instances where the buses would get filled up before getting to movies and we would have to wait quite a while. But the hotel was clean, lots of fun stuff, can't complain about anything to do with the hotel itself.

amberg@eastlink.ca · May 17, 2009

very good point! i had forgotten that pop had its own bus. i remember staying at movies in 05 and sometimes waiting forever to get a bus. more often than not wed take another then hop on the monorail to get to where we wanted. im hoping for pop when we go, but i think it was full last week.

utkscvol1 said:
We've only stayed @ asmovies(last year) this year we are booked @ pop. We go in September so the crowds aren't as bad. But the main reason we chose pop was the buses. @ movies you are sharing buses with ALL the allstar resorts and movies is at the end of the line. Now granted the crowds weren't too bad but there were instances where the buses would get filled up before getting to movies and we would have to wait quite a while. But the hotel was clean, lots of fun stuff, can't complain about anything to do with the hotel itself.