POPCent - preferred

[DisneyBugs]

My friend asked me to find out -- does anyone know which buildings are considered the "preferred locations" at PopCentury?

 

[MomLC]

The ones closest to the Hippy Dippy Pool which is closest to the food court. My family and I always ask for a preferred room and love it. We love waking up every morning to see the sun and the pool right out our door. It's worth the extra money.

 

[GrammyJudy]

We were in the 60"s. It is such a huge resort that we still had a walk to food and buses

 

[WillCAD]

The preferred rooms at Pop are spread out in multiple buildigs.

I have a map on my Maps page showing all of their locations:
http://willcad.org/disney_maps.shtml#values

 

[DisneyBugs]

Thanks everyone!!!!! I'll let her know!

 

[goofy4tink]

We were in the 60"s. It is such a huge resort that we still had a walk to food and buses

While it's a large resort, it really isn't all that large. I've had much longer walks to the food court while at POR!! Even at BWV, it's a much longer walk from my room to the bus stop that from any room at POP to their bus stop!!
I'm always amused when people say how long a walk it is to the bus stop/food court at POP....I have been in rooms that are as far as is humanly possible to be from the food court and the walk only took me 5 mins!! My room in 60's (bldg 4, 4th floor, facing the lake 4441) was about a 3 min walk to the food court.

 

[sjlupin]

The ones closest to the Hippy Dippy Pool which is closest to the food court. My family and I always ask for a preferred room and love it. We love waking up every morning to see the sun and the pool right out our door. It's worth the extra money.

I am so glad to hear your experience with this! I am thinking of going to WDW in August with just me and my 3 kids and staying at POP. This is a very budget minded trip, but I was thinking that the extra convenient location might be worth the money if I am alone with the kids (they will be 13, 11 and 9). It sounds like you would say 'yes'.

Thanks!

 

[kaytieeldr]

I would say it's NOT worth the extra money.
No room at Pop Century is more than 750 feet from the center of Classic Hall; many, obviously, are a lot closer.
Some rooms in the 80s, and many of the Standard rooms in the 70s, are closer to the bus area and Everything Pop than some of the Preferred rooms in the 60s.
If you look at WillCAD's map (thank you VERY much for that, by the way), you will see that no more than 25% of the Preferred rooms directly face a pool (and half of those face the kiddie pool). Another 12.5% have a skewed view of a pool. That means you have only about a 1 in 3 chance of getting such a room.

 

[Eeyore's My Favorite]

The ones closest to the Hippy Dippy Pool which is closest to the food court. My family and I always ask for a preferred room and love it. We love waking up every morning to see the sun and the pool right out our door. It's worth the extra money.

The preferred rooms aren't always close to the pool, food court, etc. Our preferred room last September was on the back side of the 60's far away from the food court, pool, elevator & bus transportation with a view of absolutely nothing. Just an fyi........for us it wasn't worth the extra money that we paid to be put in the location we ended up.

 

[sjlupin]

I would say it's NOT worth the extra money.
No room at Pop Century is more than 750 feet from the center of Classic Hall; many, obviously, are a lot closer.
Some rooms in the 80s, and many of the Standard rooms in the 70s, are closer to the bus area and Everything Pop than some of the Preferred rooms in the 60s.
If you look at WillCAD's map (thank you VERY much for that, by the way), you will see that no more than 25% of the Preferred rooms directly face a pool (and half of those face the kiddie pool). Another 12.5% have a skewed view of a pool. That means you have only about a 1 in 3 chance of getting such a room.

Really? Only 750ft??? Even off in the 90s? That isn't bad at all. I have never been there and I am thinking about the one time I stayed at POR and we were in building 24 and it was a looooong walk to the pool or foodcourt area. So is Pop just *that* much smaller than POR???

Thanks so much for the info and help! It is invaluable!

 

[kaytieeldr]

You're welcome

I've been asked before how I "know". I used the Google maps, switched to the option where you actually see the streets and stuff, zoomed in on Pop, and used that key-thing - you know, the one that tells you how many feet are represented by the lines? Like, "one inch equals ten feet" (not the actual measurement) and a ruler.

 

[lovesdumbo]

So is Pop just *that* much smaller than POR???

Pop is a LOT more compact than POR. I wish POR would have prefered rooms. I could care less about a water view room at a moderate but would pay for a room close to the food court at POR. I've never paid for a prefered room at Pop and always had a great location not too far from the food court.

 

[Shir Kahn]

After having repeatedly telling our travel agent that we don't really need preferred, we ended up getting it anyway! Not sure how that happened. Last time we stayed at Pop, we had a regular room and loved it. It didn't take any time at all to walk anywhere we needed to go.

 

[WillCAD]

You're welcome

I've been asked before how I "know". I used the Google maps, switched to the option where you actually see the streets and stuff, zoomed in on Pop, and used that key-thing - you know, the one that tells you how many feet are represented by the lines? Like, "one inch equals ten feet" (not the actual measurement) and a ruler.

The "key thing" is called a graphic scale, or scale bar.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Thanks, WillCAD! I'd been awake for close to 24 hours when I wrote that, and my mind just wasn't working quite right

 

[WillCAD]

Thanks, WillCAD! I'd been awake for close to 24 hours when I wrote that, and my mind just wasn't working quite right

24 hours? When I'm awake for more than about 20 hours I lose the ability to type at all.