The $30 Upgrade I MUST Pay for Every Time I Stay at Disney’s Pop Century Resort

I’ve made no secret of how much I like Disney’s Pop Century resort, Disney World’s incredibly unique Value Tier hotel dedicated to 20th-century kitsch culture. However, there’s one upgrade I always splurge on at the resort!

Like Walt Disney World’s other Value Resorts, Pop Century features 2,800 hotel rooms spread across 10 motel-style buildings, all surrounding several pools and the central Classic Hall building, which houses the hotel’s lobby, and the Everything Pop! Shop and food court. However, the hotel offers a Deluxe Tier perk that its All-Star brethren can’t match: Skyliner Access.

Pop Century shares a Disney Skyliner station with the Art of Animation Resort (which was originally supposed to be the second half of the Pop Century), connecting the two resorts to the Caribbean Beach Resort, the Riviera Resort, EPCOT, and Hollywood Studios via the gondola system.

So here’s where the upgrade comes in: For an additional charge, guests at Pop Century can guarantee a Preferred Room, which is guaranteed to be in one of the sections of the hotel “close” to the central Classic Hall.

This puts those guests not only close to the Classic Hall’s offerings and the hotel’s bus stops, it also puts them closer to the Skyliner station than the outlying buildings, which is especially beneficial in the mornings, as lines for the Skyliner can quickly grow.

While prices for the hotel’s rooms can fluctuate, the cost to upgrade from a Standard to a Preferred Room is in the range of $30 to $40, as seen in these examples of rates for July…

… August…

… Halloween…

… and late December, including Christmas.

If you’re staying at Pop Century and planning to take advantage of the Skyliner, we’d definitely recommend upgrading to a Preferred Room before your trip! Stay tuned to AllEars for more Disney World tips!

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Have you ever stayed in a Pop Century Preferred Room? Let us know in the comments below. 

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