14/04/2024
We stayed at Disney’s Pop Century Resort again during our 7 night/8 day stay. This resort has many great options, especially for families. There are standard and preferred rooms, along with preferred pool rooms, and there are three pool options. The option to use the skyliner to get to Epcot and Hollywood Studios is a definite plus. We did decide to use Lyft one morning for Early Entry to Epcot at the line to get onto the skyliner was all the way to the end of the resort due to both parks have Early Entry hours with it being spring break time. The skyliner is a great way to access both parks as well as some other deluxe resorts, such as Yacht and Beach Club as well as Boardwalk.
We chose a preferred room as it is closer to the main building, the pool, and bus transportation. There really are no rooms that are too far away, but some sections are closer than others.
Our dates were over spring break, from March 23-30 so we did expect heavy crowds. Magic Kingdom was pretty busy our first two days, but our last day was Good Friday, and lines/wait times were extremely long. Epcot was a long day as we rope dropped and closed down the skyliner, and crowds were pretty average. Hollywood Studios was another rope drop day, with crowds being pretty average and wait times typically a bit lower for spring break crowds. Our last day was Hollywood Studios as well, and there were several rides down, which made other rides have extremely long wait time (ex: Slinky Dog was 170 min at 2:00pm). Animal Kingdom was a half day for us this trip, but we still were able to ride what we wanted and be out of the park by about 12:30pm.
Food options at Pop are limited to Quick Service and snack options, but for us this was great. We did wander over to Art of Animation for lunch one day as well as dessert one night as they did have a few different options. Mobile ordering is an option at this resort if you didn’t want to wait in line, as some days the cashier lines were pretty long.
The weather was beautiful this trip, with only a small amount of rain and temperatures were very mild. Most days we started and ended with long sleeves, and our Epcot day was the only one where it felt like 90. The rest of the days were in the mid 70s to low 80s, and each day was very breezy!