Which would you stay at? Pop Century or Art of Animation Resort?

[heresabe]

Originally, Pop was intended to cover the area currently used by both resorts. However, construction was halted and the 2nd half of the Pop Resort was never built. Instead, the area became the separate- themed Art of Animation.
Having never stayed at AofA, I still feel comfortable recommending Pop. I have never seen Pop rooms priced higher than AofA.

As was mentioned, AofA's food court used to be slightly better than Pop (for example- Pop offered premade omelets during breakfast while AofA offered a choose-your-own, made-to-order omelet). However, in recent experiences, the two food courts were very similar- in other words, AofA's food court has been downgraded to Pop-level.

When staying at Pop, I always stroll over to AofA during my stay.
I love the Hourglass Lake walking path encircling the boundaries of both resorts.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Pop Century!

 

[Blondie58]

Pop is the best for me. Very much enjoyed the week I spent there solo. Nice laundry facitlity. Busses were fine. Folks were professional and friendly. Plenty of food choices. (Fast food type things.) And the gondolas.

 

[nkereina]

Looks like OP's hand was forced into choosing AOA due to changes now, but that's what my vote was going to be anyhow. We love the theme more than Pop and the LM rooms at AOA are also newly refurbished. Before our first stay at AOA, I had always read about the long walk from them, but we didn't find the walk to be that egregious. There's a pool in the LM area, and you can cut over to the front sidewalk to get to the bus depot and walk along the back sidewalk along Hourglass Lake to get to the Skyliner. The only time we had to walk to the front was for the food court, but I'm not sure we'd be doing that quite as often in the current environment with mobile order needed to enter.