CSR has the best mod pool/slide combo. The main pool area also has an arcade, playground, hot tub, kiddie pool, sand volley ball area, bar and snack bar. DDP can be used at the snack bar.
Here's a vote for the POR. My daughter, who is 6, loved that slide! It was just wild enough to get her "excited", but not too wild that she couldn't go down.
POR would be my first choice, but CSR comes in a close second. If the children are really young, then POFQ, but older children would prefer the other two. Ole man's island is awesome at POR!!!
My kids are 12 and 6 - I had thought it wasn't a huge difference between the value |(where we are booked) and the moderate- and for our last two nights when we return to Disney I may look at a moderate for the better pool (as we scratched water parks from our itinerary)- but it looks like it would be substantially more- which it isn't worth for the few hours of pool time we will get-
In my opinion definitely POFQ, if you're renting a car you can drive to ANY resort or park without having to pay for parking. Also if you're not staying at POFQ the atmosphere is a lot of fun to walk through the first time you see it.
The only time we were asked why were were going to a resort that wasn't our own was when we went to the Boardwalk, and we told them we were going to the bakery for a sugar fix, (which i recommend) and they said welcome home and moved us along.
also keep in mind that using a pool at another resort is not technically "allowed"
Except that the pool at Pop was kind of weak, IMO. there is a water fountain play area, but it didn't seem that exciting to us. the kiddie pool was kind of cute and the rest of the resort is nice. I think the pools at ASMu and ASMo were better. I never made it over AMS pool.
There are tons of great pics on all ears . net
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Just look under accomodations