First time staying at an All Star

We stayed at All Star Movies and the room was nice but it seemed smaller to me, One of the beds was like the beds are at AOA, where you pull it down from the wall. The rooms were nice just small, I remember the buses went to movies, music and sports. And they did have that ice cream bar in the area where you eat which is new to us. I thought I took more pictures of the room but I can’t find them.

Ive stayed at all star music and pop century.

My stay at ASMu was a decade ago so things may have changed. The draw back to Music was the bus service. Back then, the resort shared buses with All Star Movies. The buses always seemed 75% full by the time they got to us because ASMo was first in line. Our waits seemed to be minimum 60 minutes. That may be different now.

Pop Century was fine. Bus waits were about 15-30 minutes.

Ive stayed a several resorts from budget to deluxe, this is what I found. The All Star resorts have a greater density of strollers then the others. When a bus is sardined and you have all those strollers, it is uncomfortable. That isnt the fault of the parents, dont get me wrong, but it is the case. The other thing is that, the kids who are not asleep, are crying, fidgety, misbehaved offspring that parents are too exhausted to control, and they just let them go loose in a packed bus. The parents of the exhausted children are also exhausted and tend to make decisions that…. well, don’t take other people into consideration. This isnt the fault of the resort, but human nature.

When you have really young kids who can sit on your lap, and you allow them to take seats and make other adults stand, well, I consider that rude. Everyone is fatigued, but those parents (usually young parents), would rather make others stand (and making people wait for another bus frankly), then deal with their exhausted child.

On my last trip at Pop Century, we had the same family happen a couple nights, and they seemed to not care about anyone around them. The mother just let her little minion loose. Now, I am in a motorized chair. I have the option to stay in chair or take a seat. I stay in my chair to give someone else a seat. I get it that kids are fascinated by the motorized vehicle and think they’re fun. But this mom lets her minion loose and he starts treating my chair as a jungle gym. I looked at the mother and she sat their smiling. I finally growled at the kid to get him off of me (diaper had not been changed either). Mom gave me a dirty look, I gave her international sign language and asked she control her child. The bus applauded. I find the propensity for this sort of parental and child behavior more common at the all stars.

Again, this isn’t the fault of the resort, but I have yet to run into this level of rudeness at other resorts. Unless otherwise impossible for me, I always try and stay at resorts that have 2 transportation option. Either bus and boat, or bus and monorail.

Yes I am an ole curmudgeon raised in a different time. I have behavioral expectations of others and if the lack of someone else’s behavior affects me, I do get surly, especially at late night on a sardined bus.

Get off my lawn, or my chair in this case.

dngnb8 wrote:

Yes I am an ole curmudgeon raised in a different time. I have behavioral expectations of others and if the lack of someone else’s behavior affects me, I do get surly, especially at late night on a sardined bus.

That’s just common courtesy! We’re not the same age but I expect the same decencies and considerate behavior!

Julia wrote:

@dngnb8 omg i cant believe that mother let her child climb on your scooter?? that’s just beyond rude! i have to agree though, i have noticed that children are less behaved at value resorts versus deluxes… idk why but it’s definitely true. and yeah if i could afford a resort with two transportation options, i’d be staying there

At the risk of sounding judgmental and biased (and maybe my ole curmudgeon personality bleeds out a bit), I feel many (not all!!!!!!) of the young adult generation have an opinion of entitlement and that their life and perspective is priority over others. I have experienced numerous events from children and young adults today where they have acted in a way where I am to serve them, and if I dont, I am the bad guy. Because many of them live a life of entitlement, they cannot afford the cost of a Disney Vacation, and when they do finally get one, they can only afford All Star level of amenities and they travel with an attitude of “This is costing me an arm and a leg so all need to make my vacation memorable at whatever cost to them”.

Am I biased, bigoted, a product of my generation? Probably.

Am I the type to be rude to you if you’re rude to me? Yes.

Will I point out what you’re doing wrong? Guaranteed.

Just a warning, your ride on the bus will be an E ticket with me, if there is someone pissing me off!

My wife always tells me, you attract more flies with honey then vinegar. I always say, why do I want to attract flies?

I’ve stayed at the All Stars several times. Mainly because I can’t afford much else lol. I’ve stayed at Pop too, and I honestly prefer All Stars. I can’t really pinpoint why but they all seem exactly the same to me anyhow. If you like pop, you’ll probably like ASMu. We were in the Broadway section on the top floor and we never heard a peep out of any other guests. The food court never seemed totally out of control, but then again I always go in Winter and desperately try to avoid any and all holidays etc…My advice would be, if you are driving down. Just take your own car everywhere. Sooooo much more efficient than bothering with the busses. There’s nothing I hate more than the busses. The only day I use the bus is for Magic kingdom to avoid the trip across the lake. If you drive you will be back at your resort and in your bed before the people waiting at the bus stop ever get on the bus! Now that is FACT.