I'd stay at the Swan/Dolphin before I'd stay in a room at Boardwalk. We didn't like Boardwalk at all but that might just be us. Swan/Dolphin had so much more to offer in room size, food-wise, shopping-wise and the boats to MGM and Epcot were awesome.
Depends on your fave park. For my teen, he seems to think that MGM will be his fave, I believe that Epcot will be my fave. Since we are DLR AP holders we believe that at MK we only need a day there so an Epcot resort is for us. Price wise the Swan/Dolphin is the better choice. As far as not being able to use DME or DDP, that is no biggie to us. We wouldn't use DME anyway and the dining plan has TOO MUCH food on it for us. JMHO
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