Reviews of Pop Century Resort (Value Resort)
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 08/21/2022
Rating: (1) Not Recommended
FILTHY!!!! We have found mold in the shower, begged for a linen change during a 10-night stay but didn't get one, even after the housekeeping manager promised it. This hotel will soon have insect/bedbug infestation!
Pros:
Cheap for WDW, skyliner accessCons:
Sleeping in filthReviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 08/07/2022
Rating: (5) Not Recommended
Great time at Disney, but this hotel I would skip over. The All Stars are equal quality rooms and the consistency of the bus is superior to sky-liners. No question about it. Outside of that. This hotel is really good for the price and the value it offers. Amenities are pretty normal for cheaper Disney resorts, but still great. I would suggest working your trip schedule so that you start at Magic Kingdom or Animal Kingdom in the morning and park hop in the afternoon from those parks (or a restaurant) to Epcot and Hollywood
Pros:
Rooms are good and nice enough for a fun and busy Disney trip. Food is pretty good for a quick dinner or breakfast. Staff was great and super helpful.Cons:
Skyliner… every time we needed it over the 5 day trip it was down. Sometimes it wasn’t even storming yet, and the back up buses took 30+ minutes to show up at, if at all. Really the only real negative to this. You can not rely on getting to Epcot/Hollywood easily from PopReviewed by KimberlyLake Review Date: 06/26/2022
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
The Resort was clean and the rooms were well appointed. However, after flying for 5 hours it took us 2 hours to check into the hotel because somewhere along the way they did not have my children registered. I showed my conferfirmation but they still made me stand there. In the end, they could have settled the problem all while I was in my room. Then, we bought $20 cups that we were supposed to be able to use our entire stay for free refills. Nope. every single day they did not work and we had to ask for new cups. Then we wanted to get coffee and there was no coffee in any of the 3 coffee containers. So we tried to get ice and drinks in our cups that did not work. and there was no ice. The staff was less than helpful with the problem.
Pros:
nice roomsCons:
we stayed a full week and never had our beds made. $20 cuos didn't work. Check in was a night mare.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 02/04/2022
Rating: (6) Not Recommended
Happy 50th Anniversary, Disney…”The Not so Happy Place” where you are getting a lot less of everything for a lot more money. We have been going to Disney since the 20th Anniversary and have loved it for many years. We have visited 25 or more times. We will NOT be going back any time soon unless things change. Disney has always been a place where you get great service and service with a smile, not so much anymore. You’re lucky if you can find someone to help you at a park or at your hotel and you have to wait a half hour or more to talk to a person on the phone. Many of Disney’s workers are more like Grumpy than Happy of the seven dwarfs.
We stayed at Disney’s Pop Century Resort because they have the Skyliner to take you to Hollywood studios and Epcot. The resort itself is beautiful and the rooms are very well thought out and comfortable. They also have buses for the other two parks and we thought for Hollywood and Epcot also. We were so surprised when on Monday, January 31, 2022 we waited in line for over an hour to get on Disney Skyliner for Hollywood Studios. The Skyliner takes you to a a switching station where you must get off to switch and wait in another line to get on another Skyliner. The whole ride took one hour and a half which resulted in our being late for the early park opening perk which was the reason we stayed in a Disney Resort in the first place. We had asked if the buses were running since we would rather have taken a bus as they are much quicker, but no, no buses to Hollywood or Epcot. Your only option was to take the Disney Skyliner. After leaving at 7:30 AM, the end result was that we got into Hollywood studios with the general population 9:00 AM thus we had to pay $24 extra along with the $15 extra for the Genie Plus in addition to the regular ticket price just get on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. The whole experience was very frustrating indeed.
The following day we went to Epcot and we had a similar experience except it took 45 minutes to an hour to get there instead of an hour and a half. but the line was still very, very long. Disney is not doing it right. They should’ve offered buses and Skyliner option. Supposedly there are less crowds at this time. I can’t imagine how long the Skyliner lines will be when it’s at peak season.
So much for Disney transportation. Now onto the topic of Genie plus. Whoever was the Developer of Genie plus, needs to Re-examine the program because it is awful. First of all, you need to buy regular park tickets and pay an additional $15 per person per day for the Genie plus option. Next you can’t ever sleep on your vacation because you need to be up each morning at 6:50 AM to make sure that at Exactly 7:00 AM you open the Disney App and try to get a ride of your choice at the park that you’re going to that day. The most popular rides are an additional charge that you need to pay in order to secure that you get on that ride that day. If you make a mistake in your morning fog and choose a ride that you didn’t want or the time is late in the afternoon, you can’t go back and correct this. The developer did not add the question are you sure you want this? You are stuck with your choice. If you get one of the included rides and could only get a time for 3 o’clock in the afternoon, then that will most likely be the only ride that you will get with your fast pass (Genie plus) because you can’t get another one until the 3 o’clock window passes and you have gone on that ride. Many times by later afternoon there are no fast passes (lightning lanes) left for you to get because they have all been taken. Genie plus is not really worth the money. The old fast pass system worked much better. So much for modern Apps.
Additionally, the 50th celebration is a bust. There are no parades
as pre-Covid, there was a mini parade of two floats going by every once in a while, nothing like it used to be, Even The Lion King is missing the beloved acts of the trampoline monkeys and the flying ballet dancers. They can’t use the excuse of Covid because they continually herd you into small areas with no distance between people as you wait in lines. The bottom line is You are definitely getting much less for much more money, so if I were you, I would skip Disney this year and wait until they start offering the Disney services we all knew and loved before!
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The RoomCons:
Skyliner LONG LINESReviewed by JTTimbs Review Date: 10/10/2021
Rating: (6) Not Recommended
We stayed for a week in June. Being on the skyliner route is really nice. However, I would not stay here again. We found the resort to be very loud almost 24/7. We also had a few grocery deliveries lost at Bell Services. I actually had to go in the storage room to look for them.
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SkylinerCons:
Loud Bell ServicesReviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 10/01/2021
Rating: (1) Not Recommended
Very confusing to get around! Online checkin is a joke! Waited until after 5pm to get our room number & we checked in online at 1 pm!!
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NoneCons:
Online check in is a joke! Confusing to figure out where your building is!Reviewed by DisneyMama714 Review Date: 06/23/2021
Rating: (6) Not Recommended
Perfect if you plan on not staying at the resort a lot.
Pros:
SkylinerCons:
Pool view rooms are very noisy, walls are very thin, fridge in room isn't really a fridge but more like a cooler, rooms are tiny.Reviewed by PhillipsFamWI Review Date: 11/16/2020
Rating: (5) Not Recommended
I was excited to stay at this resort, but in the end I was underwhelmed. It was ok. Basically it wasn't bad, but there was nothing that thrilled me or made me excited to be there. I didn't enjoy the themeing. Our builing was #2 in the 50's section. The room was fine. Not bad, just again, not exciting although the bed was really comfortable. We were kind of close to the skyliner, or at least the path to it was so it made it easy to find. The resort is spread out and we were quite a walk to the lobby which wasn't great. I guess I expected more of an experience and didn't really get it. The food was fine, not bad, not exciting or really different. You are able to walk over to art of animation to try landscape of flavors which we did, and that was convenient of you don't mind walking. Overall it was fine, but I wouldn't stay there again.
Pros:
skyliner accessCons:
a lot of walking, didn't love the theming, just ok food.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 10/17/2020
Rating: (4) Not Recommended
Over priced for the lack of service to rooms during our stay.
Pros:
The food good.Cons:
I did not realize that I would need to empty my trash and request bath towels while on vacation. There was no room service. I expected more for Disney World.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 04/14/2020
Rating: (5) Not Recommended
I went here BEFORE THE ROOM RENOS AND THE SKYLINER ADDITIONS and I have to say, this resort is a bit tacky. I just don't think it is the best disney resort on property. It doesn't feel like Disney, but more like an outdated motel.
