Pop Century Questions

[vfb2girls]

I have booked this resort for part of our Orlando vacation and I was wondering about a few things. Do they have coffee pots in the rooms? If not is this something that I need to request before we arrive? Also if there are coffeepots is the coffee provided or do I have to bring our own? And one last thing, what section would be the most quiet? We do not have to be close to the bus stops or the pools we just want a quiet room. Thanks for any info.

 

[jimmiej]

Just giving you a bump back to the top & wondering if you've looked here:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=698727

 

[cobbler]

No coffee pots in the rooms, and as far as I know you can't request one but I could be wrong.

Quiet section is the 50's. Well at least it was very quiet when we stayed there. We had a parking lot view and could see Spaceship earth and some of the higher Illuminations fireworks from there.

 

[AB&Me]

I have some POP questions, too....

1. Explain the high speed internet thing. Is it free? Do we only have to bring our laptop and plug it in? How does that work?

2. How does the Disney transportation work? Do you get on a random bus with 70 other people wanting to go to 70 different locations? What if I'm the 70th location? How long will I have to ride on a bus to get to where I want to go? Or does a bus come along that says where its going and I look for the one going where I want to go?

3. Is there a way to request a building? Or a way to find out what you got before you get there? I don't have to have the best (60's?) but my dh and I loved the 80's and that would be neat for us to see.

4. What are some things we need to remember to bring from home to make our stay at POP more enjoyable?

Thanks for your advice!
AB&Me

 

[C-CMom]

I have some POP questions, too....
2. How does the Disney transportation work? Do you get on a random bus with 70 other people wanting to go to 70 different locations? What if I'm the 70th location? How long will I have to ride on a bus to get to where I want to go? Or does a bus come along that says where its going and I look for the one going where I want to go?

3. Is there a way to request a building? Or a way to find out what you got before you get there? I don't have to have the best (60's?) but my dh and I loved the 80's and that would be neat for us to see.

To original question about coffee pot: no coffee pots, and I've heard what another poster relayed that you can't request one either. Coffee is avaiable through the food court (including by the refillable mug program). The Pop buildings nearest the food court are the 60's ("preferred" room, costs ~$10 extra), the 70's and 50's.

To skip ahead to question #3 above, you can request a building, floor, etc., but none of these are guaranteed. You might do a search in this forum on what other wisdom people have left about room requests. My personal opinion is that just because the 60's building is "preferred", it is not necessarily the best (for my family anyway). It looked more noisy when we were there than the other more remote locations because the largest pool is there. Our room on the 3rd floor of the 70's building was perfectly quiet, but I'm sure it depends more on your luck in getting quiet neighbors. Others have posted that they request 4th floor rooms so they at least won't have upstairs neighbors. Even if you don't stay in the 80's where the icons match your fond memories, you can walk right over to see them. The icons are BIG, hard to miss! We enjoyed strolling to see all of the sections' icons.

Back to Q#2: we were perfectly happy with the Disney transportation. The buses pick up in a large area to the 70's/80's side of the main lobby/food court area. The areas for pickup are well-marked for the destination park, so you just walk into the line appropriate for your park (or Downtown Disney, ?maybe something else, too). We were always able to get on the 1st or 2nd bus that came for each destination, never more than 20 minutes wait (more often much shorter, depended on the time of day). The bus to the MK seemed to take maybe 15 minutes, don't know about other parks. The 60's building, while not the most distant bldg.from the bus stop, is not the closest either (again, for me, not worth the extra $10).

Hope that helps. Have a good time!

 

[cricket429]

We were there in March and had a great stay. Would definately stay there again. We were in the 50s facing the parking lot and never heard out neighbors (and this was spring break). We are coffee drinkers so we brought our own pot and coffee. It is nice to wake up and have coffee in your room without having to go to the food court first. Besides, I heard the coffee at Disney is horrible.
Transportation was fine. Never had to wait for a second bus to come along and it seemed like we only had to stand a couple times and that was mostly leaving POP in the morning. But even if you have to stand, the ride is not that long to any of the parks. My only peeve was able bodied men and women who would not give up their seat to let a small child sit down. Try to hold on while standing on a moving bus and also hold on to a child.
Other than that, everything was great.