The Groovy New Pop Century FAQ Thread!

[sandymandr]

Thanks Terry. The values don't have refrigerators now do they? Do you know what part of the 70's in preferred. We stayed in the Big Wheel building last time and I was going to request that again.

No refrigerators, but you can check out the frig swap at this thread:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1201997

I don't know when you are going, but they may have your dates open If not, I think there are other swaps going on, search POP frig swap.

 

[jeni1072]

I need somones knowledge on rooms...
I was going to fax in a request tomorrow. I called the 800# to verify which rooms are preferred, since I seem to see lots of different answers around. The CM told me the 60's building is the ONLY preferred section! I repeated what he said two or three times and he just kept saying YES and prefaced it with saying something about "recent changes". I really don't think this is right- can anyone give me a solid answer?

 

[goofy4tink]

That hasn't been my experience, but I have found that the CM's at CRO don't always know what's what. To the best of my knowledge there are preferred rooms in 50's, 60's, and 70's. I would just request the area you want to be in, and then see what happens. When you get to checkin, ask about a 'preferred' room. I'm assuming that you have paid for a preferred room already? If so, I would just state my bldg preferences in my request.

 

[jeni1072]

Actually no I did NOT get a preferred room, which is why I want to try for a specific area thats not preferred.

 

[Zandy595]

Actually no I did NOT get a preferred room, which is why I want to try for a specific area thats not preferred.

I can't seem to find out where the preferred rooms are either. When I call to book I'm just going to tell them I would like a standard room in the 70's Big Wheel building.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

Tyler, please correct me if I am misquoting you...

A preferred room is now any room that is within 500 ft walking distance of the classic hall building, taking in to account pathways, walking to the elevator, then from the elevator to your room.

BTW, that makes some of the rooms in the close 80's building "preferred"

I REALLY don't like the change.

Can you be more specific? Within 500 ft of what part of the building. Using GoogleEarth, I measure a distance of 570 feet from the elevator of BigWheel 70's building to the back main entrance of Classic Hall. That would mean that only a few rooms on the ground floor of the 70's could be "preferred" (unless you measure from room to stairs to Classic Hall rather than room to elevator to Classic Hall).

And why do you think some parts of the 80's building would be "preferred". Based on my measurements, it's 515 feet from the closest edge of the 80s building to the closest edge of Classic Hall. The only thing I see less than 500ft for the 80's is the edge of the bus stops (minimum of 425 feet).

And interestingly enough, if you measure from the logical location of the main back-entrance to Classic Hall, many of the 60's rooms are a distance of 550ft.

[Edit]
NOTE: Distance measured with GoogleEarth's Ruler (which can do a strait line or a series of strait lines defining a path) seem to be pretty dead on. I tried to test it my measuring the distance between goal post at a local football feild. The distance came in as 359.97 feet (I'm sure the 0.03 error was cause by my inability to click right on the very edge of the two goal posts ).

 

[CruznLexi]

If you have a car the 90's is our favortie section! We have stayed there 2 times, It is right next to the computer pool and the parking lot is right there too. We are going in 9 daysand will stay 2 nights at Pop and then Disney Magic~
Lexi

 

[maxsmom]

We just there in Aug. I asked when we checked in which rooms were now preferred. I was told the front part of the 60's and part of the 50's and 70's. I was in the 70's Mickey Phone building on the wing closest to the 60's and facing the lake. This was not preferred that I know of. I had tried to change our reservation to preferred when I had heard of the changes and they were full. SO I assumed this wasn't. SO my guess for the 70's would be the big wheel building, the wing closest to Classic Hall. Even though they would be basically the same distance.

Unfortinately our room had an awful oder and we had to change rooms. Since it was late in the day at this point there was nothing left (we had connecting rooms) but the 80's. THey were real nice and said we could come back down and explain what happened and that we weren't happy w/ our room location and there should be more choices after people checked out. WE stayed, however it was a long walk to the kiddie pool and we just didn't go over hardly at all b/c of it. We were however right next to the parking lot which was nice since we drive everywhere.

HTH

Oh yeah, I have no idea about the 50's.

 

[ChairborneRangr]

Can you be more specific? Within 500 ft of what part of the building. Using GoogleEarth, I measure a distance of 570 feet from the elevator of BigWheel 70's building to the back main entrance of Classic Hall. That would mean that only a few rooms on the ground floor of the 70's could be "preferred" (unless you measure from room to stairs to Classic Hall rather than room to elevator to Classic Hall).

And why do you think some parts of the 80's building would be "preferred". Based on my measurements, it's 515 feet from the closest edge of the 80s building to the closest edge of Classic Hall. The only thing I see less than 500ft for the 80's is the edge of the bus stops (minimum of 425 feet).

And interestingly enough, if you measure from the logical location of the main back-entrance to Classic Hall, many of the 60's rooms are a distance of 550ft.

[Edit]
NOTE: Distance measured with GoogleEarth's Ruler (which can do a strait line or a series of strait lines defining a path) seem to be pretty dead on. I tried to test it my measuring the distance between goal post at a local football feild. The distance came in as 359.97 feet (I'm sure the 0.03 error was cause by my inability to click right on the very edge of the two goal posts ).

I did not do the measuring like you did, but I did chat with Tyler (Chip-n-Dale Express, the guy that started this thread). He is a Pop Century CM. He was the one that told me that some of the 80's building was preferred, and about the 500 ft measurement. The only thing I can figure is they measure from the nearest point of the Classic Hall complex, including the bus stops.

 

[mousiemom]

We just there in Aug. I asked when we checked in which rooms were now preferred. I was told the front part of the 60's and part of the 50's and 70's. I was in the 70's Mickey Phone building on the wing closest to the 60's and facing the lake. This was not preferred that I know of. I had tried to change our reservation to preferred when I had heard of the changes and they were full. SO I assumed this wasn't. SO my guess for the 70's would be the big wheel building, the wing closest to Classic Hall. Even though they would be basically the same distance.

Unfortinately our room had an awful oder and we had to change rooms. Since it was late in the day at this point there was nothing left (we had connecting rooms) but the 80's. THey were real nice and said we could come back down and explain what happened and that we weren't happy w/ our room location and there should be more choices after people checked out. WE stayed, however it was a long walk to the kiddie pool and we just didn't go over hardly at all b/c of it. We were however right next to the parking lot which was nice since we drive everywhere.

HTH

Oh yeah, I have no idea about the 50's.

From my experience, we stayed in the 50s bldg. #3 (tramp was in front of our bldg) and it was not preferred! Any bldg. that is facing the pool is considered preferred! Our bldg. was next door to a preferred bldg. We could see the pool from our balcony and it was easy to walk to but our bldg. did not face the pool so we didn't have to pay the extra $. We've booked this same bldg. for our next trip! I hope we get it!

 

[Pixiedust34]

From my experience, we stayed in the 50s bldg. #3 (tramp was in front of our bldg) and it was not preferred! Any bldg. that is facing the pool is considered preferred! Our bldg. was next door to a preferred bldg. We could see the pool from our balcony and it was easy to walk to but our bldg. did not face the pool so we didn't have to pay the extra $. We've booked this same bldg. for our next trip! I hope we get it!

Building 3 is a pretty good location. It's not a far walk from Classic Hall. We had a standard room there a few weeks ago.

 

[mushumadness]

we have just booked pop for november 2007 cant wait

we havnt booked preffered though should we

 

[HooKooDooKu]

we have just booked pop for november 2007 cant wait

we havnt booked preffered though should we

IMHO, it's not worth the extra $10+/night for a prefered location and here's MY justification (your situation might be different):

I'm mainly going to be walking between my room and the Bus Stop.
I want a 4th floor room (less noise).
I have strollers, so I'm going to be using the elevator.

This means, the only different in on build from another is the distance from the elevator to the bus stop. I once again did some more measurements with GoogleEarth.

The shortest average distance is about 770ft for building #1 (if there is a path strait from the corner of the building to the front of Classic Hall, the official maps don't show one, but GoogleEarth pictures look like there might).

Buildings 4 & 5 (60's) is about 825ft (walking through Classic Hall).

Building 8 has the longest walk of 1,200 ft.

Many of the others average about 1,000 ft. to the bus stop.

When you account for the fact that each leg of the buildings are about 200ft long, you can see that a room near the elevator in the average building is closer to the bus stop than a room near the end of a leg in a prefered location.


Of course, if your situation is that you can use the stairs or want a ground floor room, then you're going to want a room physically as close as possible to Classic Hall. In that regard, your desired locations will be certain legs of buildings 0,1,3,4,5, & 9.

If you're planning on driving, then your personal prefered location changes yet again. Then you don't want ANY 60's rooms. You want certain 50's, 80's and 90's.

 

[Zandy595]

Does anyone have a link to a POP map that has the buildings numbered instead of with letters? I can't seem to find mine.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

Best bet is to google "pop century map".

But otherwise, it's difficult to read, but WDW has this map that shows both.
WDW Pop Century Map (PDF)

Based on that map, here' how the numbers seem to go:
50's A - Rooms 1fxx
50's B - Rooms 2fxx
50's C - Rooms 3fxx
60's A - Rooms 4fxx
60's B - Rooms 5fxx
70's A - Rooms 6fxx
70's B - Rooms 0fxx
80's A - Rooms 7fxx
80's B - Rooms 9fxx
90's A - Rooms 8fxx

Above, 'f' represents floor number (1-4) and 'xx' is room number (01 - 72).

 

[Zandy595]

Actually what I meant was, what building number corresponds with which icon. I know 70's Big Wheel is building #10 because we've stayed there before.

Nevermind. LOL It's all in post #1

 

[english rose 47]

We are not going till April '07 so have plenty of time for requests/changes in requests We have paid for a preferred room cuz we wanted close to Classic Hall/Buses and have decided on Lake view. We want NOT 1st floor and connecting non smokin'also would need 1 king i dbl/dbl. Does that sound like to many requests.Should I put what's most important first . Like for us connecting is a must aand the King/dbl/dbl. I know weare close to classic with the preferred. Which poolis by which Icon and isn't Goofy Jets in the back

 

[Zandy595]

This is from post #1.

50s:
Stairwells will be Brunswick Bowling Pins
Pool – The 10th bowling pin
Building 1 – Lady
Building 2 – Jukebox
Building 3 – Tramp

60s:
Stairwells will be Duncan Yo-Yos
Pool – Hippy Dippy pool, and kiddie pool
Building 4 – Play-Doh
Building 5 – Mowgli & Baloo

70s:
Stairwells will be 8-Tracks
Pool – Goofy’s Pop-Jet pool area
Courtyard will feature giant Foosball players
Building 6 – Mickey Mouse Phone
Building 10 – Big Wheel cart.

80s:
Stairwells will be Rubik’s Cubes
Building 7 – Roger Rabit perched upon some Dip
Building 9 – Sony Walkman

90s:
Stairwells will be Cell Phones
80s/90s pool will be a giant computer monitor
Building 8 – Giant Laptop Computer

 

[sandymandr]

Anyone know where to get a good deal on a white noise machine? Thanks!

 

[Pixiedust34]

Anyone know where to get a good deal on a white noise machine? Thanks!

Try Target. I think ours was under $15.00.