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

Disney’s Pop Century resort has been one of my favorite Disney World resorts for decades, as the Value Tier Resort’s 20th-century kitsch culture theme differentiates it from pretty much every other on-property Disney hotel.

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. The hotel even offers a Deluxe Tier perk that its All-Star brethren can’t match: Skyliner Access. In other words, the hotel’s property is a bit sprawling, which leads to the one upcharge I ALWAS recommend.

So here’s where the upgrade comes in: For an additional charge, guests at Pop Century can upgrade from a Standard Room to 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 close to the hotel’s bus stops, main pool, lobby, food court, and the Skyliner station that the resort shares with Art of Animation (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.

This is especially beneficial in the mornings, as lines for the Skyliner can quickly grow, and the closer a guest is to the station, the better a chance they have at beating the crowds to hop on and head to rope drop.

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…

… September…

… and the Holiday Season in December.

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! I’ll be more than worth the cost.

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