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Disney’s Pop Century Resort - Why You Should (and Shouldn't) Stay There!

• Tyler and Jessica Braun • Season 4 • Episode 46

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We’re back for season 3 of the Disneyville Podcast! Our first episode in our new season is all about a resort that’s near and dear to our heart, Disney’s Pop Century Resort! From the newly remodeled rooms, to the bright & happy theming, and Disney’s Skyliner, find out why we think Pop Century is the best “bang for your buck” resort in Walt Disney World! 


We're diving deep into this beloved resort that celebrates American pop culture from the 1950s through the 1990s with oversized yo-yos, towering Rubik's cubes, and giant Disney characters. After our recent stay, we're breaking down exactly why this resort consistently ranks as a fan favorite in the Value Resort Category.


Topics Include:

• Resort features 2,880 rooms across 10 buildings representing different decades
• Rooms include space-saving pull-down beds that convert to tables during the day
• Everything Pop food court recently renovated with expanded seating and mobile order pickup
• Hippie Dippie Pool serves as the main swimming area with adjacent splash pad for younger children
• Preferred rooms that offer closer proximity to both Classic Hall and the Skyliner station
• Pop Century's history, and how it originally planned to have a sister property called "Legendary Years" representing 1900-1949
• Skyliner transportation provides travel to Epcot and Hollywood Studios
• Fun & exciting atmosphere that uniquely captures vacation excitement with guests fully embracing Disney magic
• Multiple amenities include a running trail around Hourglass Lake, laundry facilities, and arcade

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Jessica:

Welcome.

Tyler:

Welcome back to the Disneyville podcast, episode 46, season 3.

Jessica:

We have made it. This is the place where we talk about Disney, Cruise, Disney oh, I already screwed it up Disney Parks, Disney Cruise and all the magic in between.

Tyler:

You shouldn't have rehearsed. You rehearsed it perfectly. I rehearsed and then I yep, you got to be in the moment. This is why we can't script anything, because I cannot do it. I've got to just improv it the whole way.

Jessica:

I yeah, you got to be in the moment.

Tyler:

This is why we can't script anything because I cannot do it, I've got to just improv it the whole way you got to be in the moment, you got to be zen in the moment, and then you would have done it perfectly the first time zen the moment.

Jessica:

We are your hosts, jessica and tyler. We have missed you guys so much. If you didn't know, we took the summer off mostly because we just did not have time. Honestly yeah, To do that with child care and all that, and it was a nice break because it made us really miss it. It does yeah, and we were so excited to be back.

Tyler:

Yeah, and I always think about it. It's like you know all of our favorite TV shows and everything. They always take a break and then when they come back, I'm always so excited when they come back, so I'm like it honestly we're.

Jessica:

I hope, you guys missed us too.

Tyler:

So today we are talking about one of our all-time favorite resorts. I love talking about the resorts, so so much.

Jessica:

I do too.

Tyler:

And this one is like one of our OG favorites from like when we very first started going. We're talking about Pop Century today. Even just the name it just makes me happy, gets me going. It gets the people going.

Jessica:

Yeah, it is such a happy resort, I think, for us, and we've talked about this before but when we first started going to Disney, like you said, that was where we were staying. It's what we could afford. That was our vacation was going to Pop Century and the All-Stars as well. Oh, the all-stars. All-stars? Yeah, because pop century opened. I have it in our notes but, like in the early tooth, I think I know what it was. It was 2003 and I'll tell you why. I know what it was in a minute, but anyway, it opened in 2003.

Jessica:

So we started going what I'm dying, that there's a leaf blower right outside y'all, we have never sat down for a podcast without a leaf blower being outside of the window.

Tyler:

Months have gone by, I swear. We film on different days, different times, different times of day. Sometimes it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes it's 10 am, doesn't matter, there's always a leaf blower and I swear it's somebody who hates us because it doesn't. It's not even just like a constant, it's a who hates us because he doesn't.

Jessica:

It's not even just like a constant, it's a he's really, he's really revving it.

Tyler:

I don't know if you guys can hear, it kills me, I just. It makes me laugh. Go ahead, what?

Jessica:

were you saying I think he's coming back. Here it comes, he's coming back. He's blowing it right at our window. It doesn't so it's not.

Tyler:

It's not a single pass either, it's multiple passes.

Jessica:

He's very thorough not even leaves out there. He's blowing around right now um, he's gonna blow the whole sidewalk away I think that the soundtrack, the background music to all of our lives is a leaf blower here it comes, everybody wave oh my gosh, he's standing.

Tyler:

He's blowing the grass. There's nothing on the grass, buddy. Okay, do you want to do our mug shots really quickly?

Jessica:

Oh sure, mine has a little lipstick on it. Mine is Mickey through the years, because Pop Century is basically a walk through the decades, through the years. So I thought that was appropriate. It's pretty cute because it's got regular Mickey, but then he's just dressed as different characters. He's literally there's one of him as a court jester, a maestro. I mean all characters, he's literally there's. One of him is a court jester, a maestro. Um, I mean all the things like a little main street. Yeah, safari, this is truly one of my favorite bugs we've had a couple years where did we get that one?

Tyler:

did we buy that in the parks?

Jessica:

it looks like it.

Tyler:

I mean, that's a great mug, it's a goodie, this one I've talked about several times, but uh it. I thought it was very appropriate because it's very like 1970s looking, uh, for those that are not watching. It was very appropriate because it's very like 1970s looking for those that are not watching. It's very like muted tone, sort of like a rainbowy sort of.

Jessica:

You might have shown that in the last episode or two.

Tyler:

It's one of my favorites, but it's very. It's very similar to what they just redid the lobby of Pop Century. It's sort of a similar aesthetic to this. This is a little bit more muted than the colors they chose. I feel like if you watch old broadcasts, where it's like like it.

Jessica:

Oh yeah, 100, but I feel like a 1970s news bulletin.

Tyler:

Yeah, if you look at the walls of pop century where they just redid it and everything pop, it looks a very, it looks very similar to this also my shirt is a little call back to trying to show it.

Jessica:

It makes me think of like the welcome sign to disney it says walt disney world where dreams come true, and it's just like a very 1980s, wouldn't you say?

Tyler:

kind of vibe to it yeah, 80s. So again representing another decade today yeah anyway, all right.

Jessica:

So let's talk about the resort itself all righty we're both so excited to be here. I see a little glint in your eye. We posted an instagram story we'll talk about later in the episode and, uh, there was hype. I mean you. I have not felt that kind of energy from you in a while. It was very exciting to be a part of it. Most of you guys probably know, but if you didn't, pop century is part of the value class of resorts. It's the cheapest option that you have.

Tyler:

The least expensive option.

Jessica:

I'm sorry. You're right. Cheap does kind of have that negative connotation. Yeah, it is definitely the least expensive option, I would say as a general rule. I'll be curious your thoughts. The Pop Century resort tends to be around the same price as the All-Stars, but I usually think the All-Stars are slightly cheaper.

Tyler:

They definitely are.

Jessica:

Okay, because I was going to say we're not usually looking at the All-Stars, because if we're going to do a value, we almost always choose Pop Century.

Tyler:

Well, what I always say is that the All-Stars are less expensive than Pop Century, but you get more bang for your buck with Pop Century because of some of the things we're going to talk about. You get the extra transportation with the skyliner you get there's just you get some more amenities. So it is a little bit more expensive, but you're getting more for your money out of pop century over an all-star.

Jessica:

So and we're still talking in the same class, though you know we're not talking about hundreds of dollars more expensive between them.

Tyler:

But and technically, art of animation also falls into that category, but it definitely does we'll talk about that here monetary category. But so quick intro for pop century. It has 2880 rooms. That is a lot of rooms. There are 10 buildings, three pool areas and obviously then classic hall. Hall which has the lobby, the gift shop, the dining everything, everything pop, dining hall, all that kind of stuff.

Tyler:

Here's Disney's blurb on their website. Here's how they describe it. It says experience the unforgettable fads of the 1950s through the 1990s, all over again. From yo-yos to play-doh trademark, to rubik's cube trademark and rollerblades.

Jessica:

This resort hotel salutes the timeless fashions, catchphrases, toys and dances that captivated the world through the decades so first of all, I really appreciate that you did that in the same voice over voice of whoever the guy is that does like a lot of the Disney planning things or like videos you'll see from, I feel like the early 2000s.

Tyler:

I feel like I could have done it better, but that's all right, try again. Experience the unforgettable fads of the 1950s through the 19. Now I'm 90.

Jessica:

I'm not doing it again. I wondered if you'd go all the way. I was better Anyway. So my favorite story about pop century and if you're a Disney file you already know this story, but if you're not, lean in okay, lean in back in two like, let's say, 2000,.

Jessica:

The plan was to build two sister resorts that would be right across Hourglass Lake, a little waterway there from each other, and it was going to be the classic years and the legendary years. So I want to make sure I get this right. The classic years were 1950 to 1999. So that is pop century. That's what we know it as today. But it was originally just going to be called the classic years side of this resort, as today. But it was originally just going to be called the classic years side of this resort. The other side would be the legendary years and that was 1900 to 1949.

Jessica:

The turn of the century. Oh my gosh, the flappers and the talkies. I would have loved this resort. So obviously we ended up with pop century, which represented the fifties through the nineties, but we did not end up with the legendary years, the 1900s through the 40s. That was the plan. They were building the entire resort and they were well underway of building both sides of it when September 11th occurred. Obviously that was a huge hit to the tourism industry. So Disney kind of had to rethink through things like budget wise, all of that. So they went forward with completing the classic year side.

Tyler:

It might have already been done by that point.

Jessica:

It was not. It was not so it was not done, but my guess is that side I wonder if it was more done than the other so they ended up finishing it and opening it in 2003.

Jessica:

OK, OK so 2001 was September 11th. So a couple of years later and all throughout this time. So it opens in 2003, all the way until 2012, when art of animation opened. You could look across the lake from pop century and see, and we'll put some pictures on the screen. I found I'll put the. The source was a really it was a really cool blog post. I'll put the source in the show notes and description. You could just see these unfinished, kind of abandoned looking buildings across the way and they were not that far away. They even had some like the lobby with the 20, 30, 40, like really in the large letters that you see. You know 60s, 70s, 80s at the front of pop century.

Tyler:

They already had that done at the lobby of the. I feel like we saw this. We did Well think about it. When did we start going?

Jessica:

We went in 2010 together for the first time. So that was when I think it was 2010 is when they announced hey, we're going to do something with this and make it a different resort.

Tyler:

Right.

Jessica:

So they would have started getting underway shortly after we started visiting getting underway shortly after we started visiting, so we definitely saw it.

Jessica:

That's why maybe that's why it's so. I've tried to find that footage. I know we were there and saw it with our own eyes because the bridge that currently houses the Skyliner that I know I'm getting in so deep. I just love this kind of stuff. The bridge they call Generation Gap Bridge because it gaps the gym. So cute it was. You could just walk part of the way and then you had to stop, but you were even closer to the creepy abandoned buildings with like the weeds growing up Like oh my gosh.

Jessica:

Anyway, now that is where you get on the Skyliner from both resorts, so it's really cool that they did end up using it. But yeah, I wonder, I bet Art of Animation would have been pretty different if they didn't already have the structure of a lot of these buildings completed.

Tyler:

Well, those buildings are now the Little Mermaid rooms, which is why the Little Mermaid rooms very closely resemble the Pop Century rooms. They're the smaller rooms, they're just kind of standard Standard rooms.

Tyler:

And then they started building because they realized that they had this gap, generation gap. They had this gap where they needed larger rooms for larger families, because the pop century rooms and a lot of the all-star rooms can only hold up to four you know, a family of four or a family of four with a child under three. So families of five and larger could not fit in one singular room. So they started building all these family suites there.

Jessica:

Yeah, so, and I wonder if the entire resort would have been family suites, had they not already?

Tyler:

Probably yeah, they didn't do that. Just a whole value resort of just family suites.

Jessica:

Well, they kind of did with art of animation we need more and at a better, at a better price point. So that's my favorite little. I'll get off my history horse. So one thing I think that's important to know is where the resort is in regard in relation to the entire walt disney world resort proper. It is kind of to the south, assuming Magic Kingdom is actually north right, the farthest north yeah.

Jessica:

Okay, what's funny is I always you see it on a map and Magic Kingdom is always at the top. But I'm like is that actually north or did they just make it so that I don't know? So it's definitely then southeast and it is closest, I would say, parkwise, to Hollywood Studios, if you were just kind of trying to place it in your mind where it is. It's not far from the water parks either.

Tyler:

And it's so interesting because when you're on the Skyliner you get to kind of see like where everything is, because you know you have especially when you're on your way you've got art of animation on one side, pop century on the other. Then you start going over, you can see caribbean beach and you kind of everything's laid out and then you kind of go over and then you see, oh, this is a straight shot. As you get off of caribbean beach there's a straight shot over to hollywood studios and then it's. It's just, it's a very different perspective from the sky yeah, a bird's eye view, I'd say all right.

Tyler:

So again, talking about theme obviously covers the 50s to the 90s. We've talked about that ad nauseum here. But the lobby is one of my favorite areas because they have all these shadow boxes that have all these different bits of memorabilia from all these decades that are actually legitimate items from those, those time frames.

Tyler:

So it might be records, it might be shoes, it might be like a fur yeah, one of my favorite things, though, is we have both of us had this weird wheel of fortune game, and I remember, when we first went, I was like I had that game.

Jessica:

When you were like I had that game, and we played that oh my gosh, I feel like that's all I did in the car it was so fun I was back.

Tyler:

You children have no idea how good you have it these days.

Jessica:

They don't, they don't know they don't know, they don't know. Honestly, I think we had it better yeah, with my cd player.

Tyler:

That's my wheel of fortune game you know what we were living life baby this is true, and we had two feet in the real world. We looked out the window and we liked it oh we, I'm sure I complained.

Jessica:

So yeah, ask my parents. Yeah, I'm right but anyway.

Tyler:

So the these shadow boxes are so fun. So if you have just like five or ten minutes, just go through, start on one side and then work your way through. It's so cool to just spend a few minutes looking through all these different and seeing, like again, all the music legends that they have and you know they'll have magazines up like what was big at the time and there's a lot of disney memorabilia because obviously disney's been around since the 50s I mean the parks have been around since the 50s and obviously longer than that for all kinds of disney memorabilia through there too.

Tyler:

So it's very cool to see through all that stuff yeah, it'll unlock some memories for you, I bet so it's funny, because one of the complaints that I heard is that people don't like bringing kids to pop century. This is the silliest thing I've ever heard. Really, do not listen to this. I'm only relaying this because kids won't understand the references. Kids don't care.

Jessica:

Kids don't care. First of all, that is the most nonsensical thing they're in a sparkly floor. So it's, it's, yo-yos, it's they're like what a fun way to like. They won't understand what groovy means like then tell them that's how else will they learn?

Tyler:

honestly, not showing them they won't know what a cassette is. Well, this is how they learn. This is I don't know. That was the silliest thing in the world I've never heard that, wow isn't, yeah, isn't that absolutely ridiculous?

Jessica:

yeah, but if you walk around you wouldn't want to expose kids to things they don't, they've never seen prior to their time anyway, oh my gosh.

Tyler:

so yeah, that always kills me. I'm like, even like older people than me will bring up like well, you don't know what an eight track is. I'm like, of course I know what an eight track is, I'm alive, I learn.

Jessica:

Yeah, yeah I.

Tyler:

I? I'm a student of history, I don't know.

Jessica:

It's not even a history Anyway it kills me.

Tyler:

I'm like, yeah, I know, I know things oversized characters from jungle book and from lady and the tramp and from all these different great.

Jessica:

Um, they have mr potato head, they've got it's so fun mickey telephone with like foosball, giant foosball, like it's crazy, it's so fun.

Tyler:

So, no matter where you stay, you should definitely walk around and and look at all these giant figurines. But again, we love it, the kids love it, it's so it's. It's just a fun, right atmosphere to walk around and, whether or not your kids get the reference, teach them, teach them and use this as a learning opportunity for for your kids, and I just think it's it's one of the most enjoyable resorts to be at. I feel like pop century maybe more than anywhere else. Everyone at pop century is excited to be at disney world sometimes that's it.

Tyler:

There is a feeling there, yeah sometimes you go to resorts and maybe it's a convention resort and there's a lot of you know people there. Yes, they're there because they're there for work and maybe they'll spend an evening in the park or you know, but they're there. They're wearing polo shirts. They got their name tags on like they're whatever pop century people are, disney people.

Jessica:

They are there? They're there for vacation, baby. Yes, they, that's what we I totally forgot we had that realization on this trip and I think that's part of it like we'd be by the pool and like this feels so vacationy yeah, more so than like we love grand florida and sure but it's a totally different. I mean, of course it's a totally different vibe, but it's a totally different vibe and it is so fun to be at pop century and I feel like all stars can be like that too.

Tyler:

But pop century is a special little animal.

Jessica:

Yeah, it is. I don't know how else to explain it yeah, I've talked about this so many times.

Tyler:

People who've watched this before are going to be so annoyed at this. I filmed a an intro to pop century years ago and I filmed like a 1970s television intro and like it was like the love boat intro kind of thing, where it's like you zoomed in on all these big, gigantic characters and it still just makes me so happy yeah, it makes me happy too. I don't know why, but it just it's. It has like its own character we talked.

Jessica:

Did we share that again in like a vlog or something recently from like our last trip? If you by the way, shameless little plug if you want to watch our vlogs from this most recent Pop Century trip. They were some of our best. They were so much fun.

Tyler:

So fun.

Jessica:

And if you're wanting to see, like, what it's really like, let's say you're watching this and you're actually planning a trip and you've never stayed, or you're just a Disney nerd I bet most of you guys are just like us planning a trip and you've never stayed, or you're just a disney nerd, I bet most of you guys are just like us.

Tyler:

Um, we'll link the that vlog playlist below because it was, it was truly one of our best vlog series and if you go to our disneyville channel, they all, all of our vlogs are on that disneyville channel as well. They're all linked there as well.

Jessica:

So, okay, let's talk about the rooms we have some stuff to say in this department, if you were thinking about booking there.

Tyler:

So quick overview For years and years and years they were very similar to the others and obviously all of them have now been updated. All the value resorts have been updated. I don't know, eight years ago-ish give or take Between six and ten, I don't know when yeah, between five and 20 years ago they updated all the rooms and it was a huge, huge renovation, a huge improvement. They pulled the carpet out, they they changed one of the beds into a pull-down bed. They put flat screen tvs in. They did.

Jessica:

I mean, it was a huge better usb plugs by the nightstands like it was a massive renovation and it was so well done.

Tyler:

I feel like they did such a great job. Yeah, right now as we're filming this in 2025, they're currently undergoing a soft goods refurb, which is I don't know. It can mean any number of things. It's just kind of code speak, for we're doing another smaller refurb. It's not much different they are doing. They've painted the walls. They were white walls, now they're painting them like a light blue. I think they're redoing the floors like a.

Jessica:

It's the same floors were decent, though they were like that fake wood, that that is, and yes, they're doing the same fake wood, but they're doing.

Tyler:

I think it's a slightly darker fake wood, but it's a big improvement. The carpets I never liked walking around carpet and um yeah they just yeah, but now they they actually feel clean.

Tyler:

um, they're, they are. I think they updated some of the artwork, they put new curtains up on the window so small things, but it's virtually the same room as what it was. But the biggest thing that I think they did from the old room to the new room, besides the flooring, was they changed it to have a pull-down bed, which is huge, because now one of the beds can go up during the day, so you have so much more floor space and even having two young kids that I mean, although I feel like sometimes young kids take up more room than grown adults- I would agree wholeheartedly with that.

Tyler:

It's so great because then they wake up, we can kind of put the bed up, they can be on the table, they can be coloring.

Tyler:

They can be on the table they can be coloring they can be. Yeah, because, as you mentioned, there's a table and chairs under it, underneath. It's such a smart design. So you get I don't know 60 of the bed space as floor space back, but then there's a table underneath it, so it just it's. It's a very, very smart design. But then the bed itself is just as comfortable as the other bed because it's not like a spring loaded mattress where it's full blown, it's just a bed with a full blown plank under it, if you will.

Jessica:

Yeah, it's, it's just as comfortable. A couple of things I appreciate in the design of this room that I think was really well thought out is that, especially again thinking through, like if you're a family, adding the extra space of lifting up the bed is huge. But not only that. Like having the little mini fridge or beverage cooler, whatever, is so nice. You have a whole little area there where you can put like we usually order some groceries, as you guys know. We can put some of those snacks in there and it's kind of out of the way in its own little area. There's enough hooks around to be able to hang stuff up. There's room underneath the bed to be able to slide your suitcases under that's a big one.

Jessica:

There is a bath, like with a tub, which is nice, but of course a shower too, all in one. But again, thinking about kids, it's nice to have a bathtub.

Tyler:

Disney's really good about that in general anyway, but and having a separate door to the water closet area where the shower and toilet is, and then a separate sliding door into the shower like the sink area, yeah, so you can.

Jessica:

Someone can be getting a shower, going to the bathroom, while another person's at the sink brushing their teeth or getting ready. You can have that door shut behind you If someone's napping. Like we utilize all of those different things. So, and again, I also mentioned the nightstands. Like they have a nightstand beside each side of the bed and there's like plugs and USB ports on both sides, so you're not having to decide who gets the nice side of the bed and who doesn't on the dresser, I think on either side.

Tyler:

Now there's multiple plugs on the dresser, so if you're so well recharging your stroller fans or, for me, charging like six camera batteries or everything else, you're charging nowadays. We've all got so many devices nowadays. It's it's very well thought out. Yeah, all of the rooms are 260 square feet. Almost all of them have the two beds. There are a few that have king beds you can request.

Tyler:

So most of the king bedrooms are the ada accessible rooms, but you can still request them, just so. You know, it's not a guaranteed, but if you do want a king bedroom, like if you're just two people and you want to have a king bedroom or one person, you can request it. The preferred rooms, though, are a location, not a larger room, not any extra amenities or anything like that. It's just that you are closer to classic hall and you're closer to the skyliner. So this last time we were in the 60s section, which is the preferred area, we were in building four. I wrote it down, hold on, we were in, yeah, building four, and, if you want to know, our exact room was 42 11 it was an awesome room.

Tyler:

It was an awesome room the location like it was unbelievable we've never done a preferred room there, we always just get usually okay.

Jessica:

So the farthest rooms away, just so you know, is the 80s and 90s is definitely the farthest 70s kind of, but it it really the 80s and 90s, especially the 90s rooms, are the farthest seventies kind of, but it it really the eighties and nineties, especially the nineties rooms, are the farthest you can be away from the main lobby and the Skyliner. And I think one of the recent times we went we were in the nineties and it was far. I mean it's doable but it's far. It feels just the two of us.

Tyler:

It's one thing, but especially with the kids. But I will say it was, I will say it was so nice. So so many times we would like being up early in the morning because our girls get up at 5, 30 or 6 o'clock. We we order mobile breakfast.

Tyler:

I'd run up, I'd be at the lobby in 30 seconds yeah get our mobile breakfast, be back within two minutes, have all of our stuff. And then there was one time we were like, oh, my breakfast is supposed to come with maple syrup or something like that it was oatmeal.

Jessica:

They gave it to me dry. No, no sugar, no nothing.

Tyler:

I'm like yeah, and so it's like oh no big deal. So I hopped right back up and grabbed our, grabbed a few extra the fixings, the, the, the craisins and the yeah, whatever it was sugar, and then whatever the yeah, and so maple sugar.

Tyler:

So I came back and then I was like, oh, I meant to get hot sauce. I went right back. I mean, all of this is so fast, like right there, back and forth. Then, uh, one night it was pouring down rain and felicity fell asleep. But despite the fact that it was pouring down rain, genevieve and I just ran right up to the thing we played in the arcade for a couple hours, or maybe at least an hour.

Jessica:

And then.

Tyler:

So even though we barely got wet, we were just dodging rain drops and it was just so nice being so that close to Classic Hall to get to the buses.

Jessica:

Then on the other direction is the Skyliner, so we could hop over to the Skyliner in 90 seconds it was, yeah, the beauty of the center, the way we'll pop a map of the resort on screen, the center of the resort. On one side of the center is the Skyliner and the other side is the hall, so it's all. Anywhere you're staying near the center, you are going to be close to both. Right, you might be closer to the lobby than the other, or vice versa, but you are close to both. And, of course, you're close to the main pool right there. Ours was like overlooking the pool, basically, right.

Tyler:

And one concern that I think people have is is it going to be too loud being close to that main pool? Those doors are solid steel or something. We never heard anything.

Jessica:

I didn't hear anything, I think there was one day we kind of did, but it was, like you know, some kids running by. If you want quiet rooms, that's really important to you. I mean you can always request those outer buildings, higher floors, maybe facing away from any pool, but even at the main area by the main pool. Now we use like a light sound machine at night. I'm like maybe, but I just don't think it was. I don't think that's as big of a problem as I think people.

Tyler:

Yeah, If you're that light of a sleeper, I mean you probably travel with a white noise machine Probably do that light of a sleeper I mean you probably travel with a white noise machine. Yeah, you probably do and you'll be fine.

Jessica:

I didn't notice anything. So another thing to consider if you want to be closer to the Skyliner than the lobby, which again, anywhere there in the center you're going to get there, but I would say, request buildings three, four, five or six with a water view, because that means you're going to be facing Hourglass Lake, which of course the Skyliner is literally above Hourglass Lake. But I think any preferred room you're going to be a happy camper because you're going to be there in that center area, close to both.

Tyler:

That's it. Yep Loved it Also. Just so you know, the rooms are 260 square feet, so if you can kind of visualize that in your head, you did say that. Did I say that out loud? Okay, okay, tyler's really into the data points that none of us care about.

Jessica:

Hey, some people are like thank you, I want to know. Well, it's really helpful too, like if you're comparing, like if someone's watching this and they're thinking about the moderates and they're thinking about square footage difference.

Tyler:

So I think the moderates are 320 square feet average, so 260 to 320, maybe it's 305, 320, something like give or take, yeah, and then around. Most of the standard deluxe rooms are around 450 to 500, so it is a step up, and then the villas obviously are much bigger.

Jessica:

So okay, let's talk food. I'm getting real hungry, so we got a glosser. I'm just kidding. Okay, I am hungry, though they're sorry, I'm so sorry.

Tyler:

You glossed over something you wrote down.

Jessica:

You wrote lobby sparkly floors oh yeah, I love the sparkly floors in the lobby.

Tyler:

How dare you skip over that Very important I?

Jessica:

mentioned it flippantly earlier about kids liking just. They're like it's bright colors and sparkly floors. They'll be happy.

Tyler:

And that's great. Ok, sorry, now you can talk about food.

Jessica:

OK, so everything pop. What do you think about the theming and all of that called everything pop? Yeah, so they just did a huge renovation.

Tyler:

I think it is much better. Yes, they have the. The biggest thing is obviously just the colors and stuff like that. They did it. All the walls, all the tables, all that stuff is new. But the biggest thing they did was they have a huge seating area now, which I think is really nice, so they've got areas where you can just go over and play board games and stuff like that and they have board games put out.

Tyler:

That's so cute, but I think the bigger idea behind I think is that you do you think. I think is, if you are, if you get to your resort early and your room is not ready, you can relax in this area.

Jessica:

There's plenty of room in there, plenty of your suitcases and stuff like that and it's comfy chairs, like you know it's you.

Tyler:

It's not like a dining chair right, yeah, they're big, these big blue comfy chairs. Uh, on the big comfy chair and then they have. Or if your room like you have to check out, and then your flight's not till I think that's exactly what we did that's it. So it's just this nice little area. You can get something to eat, you can relax it's in, it's within the dining part right but it's kind of off to the side.

Jessica:

Here's something I had forgotten about coffee shop there too. Now, that's what I was about to talk about I had totally forgotten about it until I saw pictures from our trip and I'm like, oh yeah, they opened a whole new coffee counter and it's actually like kind of faces where the seating area is. You can go up and get coffee, specialty coffee, etc. You can get little pastries and then you're not waiting in the longer lines that there can be like in the mornings for breakfast in the main area.

Tyler:

Again, it's all connected, but that is really, really cool it's all still very vibrant, still very colorful, but it's a little bit more muted color tone and it all is more cohesive the tables, the colors on the table match the colors on the wall.

Jessica:

It's very retro sort of 1950s retro futurism kind of feel like again it's sort of this feel, if you can see my mug here I like to think they put all the decades in a pot, spun it and then just pulled out whichever one, and that's the one that won, and they're like we'll do that but I think they did a great.

Tyler:

They did a great job. They did the, the leather or the pleather on the gosh, you noticed way more detail than I did this on the um uh the big comfy couch, the booth. Okay, areas. Is the same colors on the tabletops.

Jessica:

Is the same color on the walls, if you ask me what colors were there, I'd be like I don't know that those okay. The other thing is they have really streamlined their mobile pickup windows and we really utilize that a lot on this trip. So they have again, kind of near the coffee counter, a whole wall of like little cubicles with numbers. So when it says your mobile order is ready, you just walk up and take it, kind of like you're going to Panera and picking up your, if you picture like those big 12 by 12 square Ikea things.

Tyler:

Where you can, that's it is, and you just grab your food and you're gone.

Jessica:

It's, it's got your name on it it's simple and I did double check and I think we did this on the show. I can't remember. You can order. You can still get your large pizzas there yeah, they're not going to deliver them to your room. You got to go pick them up, but you can order it mobile order and then just go grab it when it's ready.

Tyler:

A large cheese pizza just for me. Uh, what was I going to say about that? We've got that. We got our cheese pizza there. It was so simple. We got our other food there.

Jessica:

I feel like there's one time we got pixie dusted there on this last trip where I had ordered like yogurt or whatever came with one of the kids things and anyway one kid had yogurt and the other didn't. And so I was going back and I was going to go buy the little like danimals yogurt thing I'm sure it was a dollar 99, like overpriced for what it was but it was going to happen. So I went through the checkout and the lady said oh, don't worry about it, it's on Mickey. And I was like what.

Tyler:

You know what I got another similar thing, where one morning maybe it was the oatmeal morning, that fateful oatmeal morning I went back and got your and got your craisins and your maple sugar and, um, I, I brought up and they, they, they brought me all the fixings and and she was like well, here, let me get you a free coffee. And so she got me a cup of coffee.

Tyler:

Well, well, I know I mean, that's really sweet, say plain oatmeal with nothing, it said, oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar, and whatever you get, your gruel sandwich is no sugar, no sugar, two quick things. This is what I was going to bring up. The avocado breakfast bowl I ordered at least two mornings, maybe three you definitely did two at least the that with a little bit of hot sauce. That does not suck. I I'm a big fan.

Tyler:

It's really good the uh it's so it's potato barrels, they're tater tots. You can't, I'm tater tots must be trademarked. You can't say tater, don't say tater tots they can't afford that, don't say murphy beds and don't say tater tots. They're potato barrels and pull down beds. Uh, scrambled egg. Uh, cheddar. Doesn't say what cheddar cheese I would assume, but it's just cheddar. That's funny. Southwest style beans, avocado and salsa fresca, um, and then we both got the sesame chicken it was really.

Jessica:

That was really good too. I would get that. I might have gotten that a second time yeah just something different. I mean, you know how it is when you're on a trip and you're like okay, I can only eat so many potato barrels and fries and burgers or chicken, whatever.

Tyler:

Yeah, they're very, very into their potato barrels there, that is for darn sure Well they are really good.

Jessica:

I could go for a handful of potato barrels right now. Okay, let's talk the pools. So there's three pools. The main one is the Hippie Dippie pool. That's the one right when you walk out the back of the lobby or classic hall. It's kind of shaped like a flower, if I remember right ish um, it's a simple pool, but it's a very fun, happy, bright pool and I even wrote in our notes this is where you really feel like you're on vacation. We have done every single resort, or nearly yeah, I think you have.

Tyler:

You have not done caribbean beach yet.

Jessica:

I did caribbean beach, but only for two nights and it was back in the pirate nights and it was back in the pirate rooms, which I don't think even exist anymore.

Jessica:

So we'll have to do Caribbean Beach again soon, but OK, so generally all the resorts. So we've been to all of the pools. There is something about Pop Century's pool that is just so happy and, like we said, it feels vacationing, because everyone is there really trying to soak up all of their vacation time with their family, and there's just a feeling there I can't explain it no-transcript.

Tyler:

In the pop century pool it is bugs and band-aids all the way down don't share that gross just close your eyes, I think that would be true for literally any pool.

Jessica:

Remember when you lost your camera in jamaica in that pool, in the water slide, and we got the footage back from that camera. That was, I don't know blisters and band-aids all the way I don't know what this pool was.

Tyler:

I'm my hope. Are you talking about jamaica? The jamaica pool. My hope it was it was like a milk bath. My hope is that it was some sort of natural spring pool, and so this was like some sort of natural water I think it was a more natural pool okay think about.

Jessica:

Think about the like okay, now we're getting off, yeah, we're getting off but you can, I'll put a little bit of footage up here.

Tyler:

You, you can see that in Jamaica this is not pop century. It was a pool. So normally you lose a camera in a pool, you see like, oh, there it is and you pick it up. This pool was so murky that it was only like four feet deep. It took me and this other guy like 20 minutes to find my camera at the bottom of this pool because it was so murky and we had to like get snorkels on and we were diving down.

Tyler:

In fairness, the camera was this big, so but even still tiny like an inch, if you should be able to find it anyway okay.

Jessica:

So another thing I want to add is, if you have small kids or just kids that would prefer a splash pad, they have one right next to the main pool, like right there, and so that was great, because we do have a seven and a three-year-old, so the seven-year-old could be in the pool with one of us, the three-year-old, but we're generally in the same area like that worked out.

Tyler:

But you know what's funny is our seven-year-old's like no, I want to go to the big pool.

Jessica:

And then she had so much fun, so much fun so you know, and then they have two quiet pools the bowling pin, one over in the 50s area and then the computers, one in the 1990s.

Tyler:

Yes, yeah also. Yeah, the the pool I'm. I swim in it all the time, so I mean it's definitely, it's fine, it's definitely. It's probably as cleaner than most clean as any public pool is yeah, so don't don't let that, don't let that deter you.

Jessica:

I'm just I don't think it looks dirty at all you probably saw one singular band-aid and you were like okay, there must be a hundred thousand band-aids in here ipso facto probably our own kids band-aid, who knows?

Tyler:

I'd like to talk about the amenities for a moment, if I may. There's a playground in the 1970s area which is just nice. Most of the resorts. Could you stop looking at me?

Jessica:

I'm sorry I was picturing. I can't remember this playground. I'm delighted.

Tyler:

We didn't do it this time.

Jessica:

That's what I thought, but I remember now doing it last time.

Tyler:

But I just pictured, grown from the actual 1970s. And what would that look like? You know, it would look like the, like a hot metal, hot metal slide. But you know, what I'm picturing is the opening to the original sesame street I mean, that's the same song, that's all I know.

Jessica:

But like, can you?

Tyler:

picture that like the opening, like the original opening no, I don't think I can, I don't know that's what I'm picturing. That slide was definitely definitely a thousand degrees. All right, there is a running trail that goes around Hourglass Lake. There's no gym at either of the properties, but there is a running trail.

Jessica:

And it's really nice. You're literally running under the Skyliner, you're going across. You're going around both Art of Animation and Pop Century. So it's a pretty cool running trail, but of course, disney weather. It's so pretty cool running trail, but of course disney weather it's so hot.

Tyler:

So we I mean you got to run at like six in the morning or not at all. And even still though we didn't run this last time, but the time before that we did run, we would trade off running, and I think it was like 0.8 miles give or take, something like that I don't think it was.

Tyler:

It was close to a mile yeah, the whole way around, but not quite there is laundry over by the main pool area, so if you you need to do laundry, yes, and there's another one, I'm pretty sure, over by the computer pool I think you're right which makes me wonder.

Jessica:

I bet there's another one over by the other pool too.

Tyler:

I think you're right Now that you say that.

Jessica:

Which is so nice, and there's plenty of washers and dryers, no matter which area that you're in.

Tyler:

So you're not having to lug your laundry, yeah. And then, finally, there is this airport luggage service. Quick little story time here. I uh was all cocky about it our last trip because, uh, I was all like, oh yeah, they've done this. They did it for 20 years and they're talking about, like it's this brand new service, lurker, durker and they used to do it all the time, and then they lost our luggage they did lose our luggage.

Tyler:

I totally forgot so, long story short, they have this service. They used to do it for years, when they had the magical express, where you would drop off your luggage at your resort and you wouldn't see it again until you got to your home, so at the end of your trip, yeah right At the end of your trip.

Tyler:

You wouldn't see it again until you got to your home airport and it was glorious. So you didn't have to lug it through the airport, you didn't. It was fantastic, and when we did it back then it was always great. Yeah, never had any issues with it and it was just such a nice extra service that was included with your resort and you did.

Jessica:

There was always a stipulation I think there still is like you have to drop it off by a certain time in the morning because there's a cut off, because they've got to make sure they get it to the airport in time exactly, yep, and so it was this amazing service.

Tyler:

Well, they kept touting it as like oh, we're doing this brand new service and blah, blah, blah. And I kept making fun of them, like oh, as if you didn't do it for 20 years back, when you had the Magical Express. Anyway, they must have heard me and lost our luggage on purpose, because I can't make fun of them Throughout the whole vlog series. I'm making fun of them. And they were like oh, we got speakers everywhere. The mouse misses nothing.

Jessica:

The big mouse.

Tyler:

Anyway, they definitely lost our luggage.

Jessica:

And we got it the next day. They did deliver it to us the next day, to our home, which was nice, they did deliver it to us the next day To our home, which was nice and what was interesting, though is All the way from Disney. They drove, I'm kidding.

Tyler:

If I remember right, when we got to Indy they said that it was never even checked into the Orlando airport or something like that.

Jessica:

Yeah there was something weird, so there was some disconnect from Disney and then anyway.

Tyler:

So we got it the next day and they delivered it to our house. It was the next day and they delivered it to our house. It was not that deep, but at least it was on that end versus on the front end with you're like I have no clothes, I have no, nothing. If you're if you're on your way home it's not as big yeah yeah, for sure anywho.

Jessica:

So that's exciting, though I'll be curious if they continue to do that as they flesh things out and as we were a lesson for them right whatever it was that happened.

Tyler:

These are the times they work out this, and that's it as of right now, it's only at certain resorts and it's only with southwest airlines. So hopefully they'll add it to more resorts, add it to more airlines back, even back in the day, I think it was only three or four airlines.

Jessica:

It was like southwest american delta, like there's only some of the biggies, right, yeah, so hopefully they'll continue to expand that service and because it is and stop losing, and then maybe bring back magical express I'll pay for it. I'll pay I would pay for that, because you pay, I'll pay upwards of ten dollars per person I you know, I'd pay even 20 we're paying more than that, no more than okay transportation obviously you can take a bus to any of the resorts from the front of the lobby, but the big thing here is that they have the skyliner that we've talked about and this is huge to the resorts.

Tyler:

You could take a bus to the parks. Sorry, that's what I meant From the resorts. Definitely the parks Didn't want to confuse anybody. Yes.

Jessica:

The Skyliner can take you to Hollywood Studios and Epcot. That is huge, because it is such we've realized. It's not necessarily that it's quicker, it's really. I don't think it is. If you actually time it, it's probably about the same.

Tyler:

I think it is. I think it's faster from a waiting standpoint.

Jessica:

Oh, you're not waiting. I mean you're there and there maybe is a line. The line goes by fast and most of the time throughout the day there's no line. Yes, so I agree, but actual travel time, I think in the end it probably it's maybe a minute or two faster, and it depends on where you're going, but it is so nice.

Jessica:

You're in your own little cabin in the sky, you. You're in your own little cabin in the sky. You're maybe with another group, like oftentimes with the four of us. It's just us. If you have a stroller not like the double wides, but if you have a stroller, you can roll it on without breaking it down. That is huge, Because, of course, on a bus you're breaking it down, You're emptying it out, You're doing all the things.

Jessica:

So that alone I'm like man if there was ever a resort that uses Skyliner to go to all four, or Monorail, I would only stay in that resort. I know, while we have a stroller, that's it.

Tyler:

I wouldn't go anywhere else If you have a kid who's napping, to be able to just roll that stroller back on and go back to your resort it's a game changer.

Jessica:

You can't Prices. There was multiple times on this last trip money to be able to do that and this is a value resort. It's the only value that has the skyliner, other than, of course, art of animation. But we always say art of animation is hardly value because the price is like double, if not more, right always.

Tyler:

Now it does have multiple bathrooms, multiple rooms.

Jessica:

Yeah, there's a lot that you're getting more for your money, but we joke that it's really more of a moderate when it comes to your actual depending on the time of year it is quite.

Tyler:

Sometimes it's even less expensive to get two rooms at pop century than it is to get a single room at.

Jessica:

Yeah, art of animation not always, but a lot of yeah so let's talk pros and cons and then we're going to get some feedback from you guys of your thoughts on pop century. I read through a few of these and I was like, oh my gosh, some of these I didn't even think about okay, all right, so pros skyliner, that has to be the number one pro it it's the biggest worth its weight in gold.

Tyler:

It really is, yeah and especially, like you said, if they ever do a phase two where it goes to even just animal kingdom even if it just goes there, oh my gosh, that'd be amazing or to disney springs, I mean oh, that'd be so fun.

Jessica:

And again, I want to add that another reason the skyliner is amazing is because you're always able to sit down on a bus at the end of the night. You don't know if you're going to be sitting. Odds are you're standing unless you're needing to sit. Like don't get me started on like people that won't stand up for, like a clearly elderly person or a pregnant person that I'm like okay, let them sit, like they, obviously, but anyway, um, on a skyliner they're not loading those so full. I mean, there's a weight limit, so they're loading them with just enough people that can sit. They're not overloading it.

Tyler:

So you know what I just get? To sit, I'm gonna get on, I'm gonna get on my high horse here for a second the history horse or the high horse.

Jessica:

High horse, high horse.

Tyler:

okay, we were in London over the summer. Every single time we got on the tube and I was holding Felicity people offered me a seat. It was incredible. Men, women, anybody who was just was like oh, please have my seat. People in London are some of the Friendliest, Friendliest, kindest, most thoughtful people. It didn't matter, it was every time we got on the tube somebody offered me a seat if there wasn't one open. It was incredible. Throughout the entire five days we were there in disney on a bus, there will be 16 year old teenage boys and their parents sitting right next to them.

Tyler:

I'm holding like felicity like falling as it yeah like falling, like, and the parents will just stare at me as I'm like whole and she's asleep. So I'm like I can't even like barely hold on to her and I'm like I'm falling, as every time they break the bus this is a grievance.

Tyler:

No one even looks at me, I'm like they'll stare right at my face and I'm like, don't even. Don't like, if you want to sit down, fine, make your 15 year old son stand up who's definitely can deal with standing, yeah, or like, or make him hold the kid wait, like.

Jessica:

I think that's a fair grievance because that means, as parents, we need to do better and realize that like this is something we do have to explicitly teach our children, boys and girls. Yeah, that if you see someone struggling holding a kid or a pregnant person or an older person or whatever, offer them your seat. Yeah, we're all of our feet are tired, like, but you're, you're 15.

Tyler:

You can handle. I mean, I stand on the bus every time because I'm always offering my seat, and especially even though, even as the girls get older, like it's not just a boy thing, girl thing, like yeah even as our girls get to be older, like I'm gonna be like, get your butt up. There's a. There's a woman who needs a seat. There's a yeah even a young child who needs a seat versus you know if you have a 15 year old that can definitely handle you will stand up, you're gonna be fine, that's it.

Tyler:

I know anyway all right, I'm off my high horse. I'm like don quixote over here, I'm on a mission to civilize. Hear me now. Oh, that bleak and unbearable world that went based, and the past as can be, for a knight, with his banner all bravely unfurled, now hurls down his gauntlet to thee.

Jessica:

It's almost like Shakespeare.

Tyler:

I am. I Don.

Jessica:

Quixote no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, ok, OK, continue with the prose. The price, I mean come on, you're getting a lot for your money. Yes, the room is going to be smaller. Yes, but like you can't beat the price, other than maybe like all stars, right.

Tyler:

Exactly the vibe.

Jessica:

Yeah.

Tyler:

And I think we overuse that term. We need to come up with a better ambiance. The vibe ambiance, yeah, but like we talked about, there's so much joy. There's so much joy at pop century. I just feel like everyone's just walking around, happy to be there, smiling people playing ping pong more disney gear there than, like you see, in any of the other resorts. I know, yeah, I think, yeah, it's just there's. And then, yeah, the oversized characters, it's just. It's just such a fun place to be, yeah grown-ups and kids alike.

Jessica:

The cons it's not as close to places like the Magic Kingdom, so you're taking a bus to get there. It's going to be one of the longer bus rides you would take because it is one of the farthest away the bus ride is going to be. I mean, even when you're close, I feel like the bus ride is still like 15 minutes. So farther away, maybe 25 minutes, it just kind of is what it is. It really is a trade-off and that is definitely something we think about a lot, like when we have very young kids with us and we're like okay, we know we're going to be at magic kingdom a lot. Maybe we should stay at a resort closer. But that's a trade-off. You kind of have to ask yourself if it's worth, and sometimes it's totally worth it exactly again the skyliner to the other resorts is nice and we love the monorail resorts too.

Jessica:

There's no, I mean, but obviously you can pay a hefty price for those you are going to be paying a very different price Exactly.

Tyler:

So yeah, no family suites, that's one con.

Jessica:

And Art of Animation has the family suites, but also All Star Music has their like double rooms that they've kind of made. They're actually pretty cool I would love to stay where and they're harder to get. You kind of got to book them ahead of time. But it's basically two rooms that they combine with the connecting door right, and one room is like the typical hotel room and the other is more like a living room with a pull-down bed. I think, too, like it's really interesting the way they did it, but it's smart use of it. So they kind of made some new ish. Yeah, and on that, vein.

Tyler:

So again, I kind of mentioned this at one point the one con is that it's a maximum of four people, or four people plus a child under three. So if a family of five can do it for a little while, as long as the youngest child is under three, you can get a connecting room and request a connecting room. Now I was told when I went in 2016 on my agent training, the cast member who I was with told me that if it is a family that has multiple children like just two adults and multiple children and they need a connecting room, it is a guaranteed connecting room because they know that children can't be in their room, but right, yeah apparently that is not always the case, because I was just reading something on the the disney parks mom blog or the plan disney blog, whatever it is.

Jessica:

Where that is, it's not guaranteed, so I feel like it has to be backwards to make it happen. If you, if you got rooms and they weren't connected, if you went to the lobby and said, hey, I have kids that are gonna be in their own room.

Tyler:

I feel like they would figure it that's it and that's kind of, unless they are completely sold out and they have to. So my, I guess maybe it's just a way of them kind of covering their own behind if they can't, if they can't, yeah, that's kind of my thing and anyway.

Tyler:

So I feel like it's one of those things you ask one cast member one thing, you ask another cast member. You're going to get different answers, but you can get connecting rooms. They do have connecting rooms. Just call, request, have your travel agent call, request all those things and make sure that you're doing it multiple times making sure it's on the reservation and then going to the front desk and being like I have kids in the other room, I have to have connected yeah, yeah, I think they're.

Jessica:

Yeah, exactly. Um. Another con is there's no sit-down restaurant. Obviously none of the values have a sit-down like fancy nice restaurant. They just have the quick service. I don't feel like we ever really miss that. There's so many many restaurants out in the parks and Disney Springs Like do you, do you need, need it? Right you could just go to the other resorts and enjoy their sit down restaurants. So we asked you guys on our Instagram, which, of course, is Disneyville podcast Uh, what your guys?

Tyler:

is like Diagon Alley Disneyville podcast.

Jessica:

Uh, what your guys' thoughts on Pop Century are. Do you have favorite places there, Favorite food items? Why do you love it? Basically, any thought you had about Pop Century. We wanted you to share that, Ooh we got a lot of responses.

Tyler:

People are into Pop Century. I know people love Pop Century. All right. All right, I'll start at the bottom. I'll start at the top. Let's go here, we go, All right.

Jessica:

Lay, okay, uh, lay. Stone. Underscore said one word vibes. Yeah, that is definitely repeated through this for sure. Um, ooh, okay, allie June McDougal McDougal, uh, said loved the hotel scavenger hunt and the hippie dippy pool. I don't think we did or asked for that scavenger hunt, but that is one of our tips we always give people is most hotels, most of the resorts, have a scavenger hunt. If you ask them in the lobby, they'll give you like the printout or whatever, and then if you have a resort day, looking for something to do, we're just, yeah, maybe one of the kids are napping, so you're you and you know, absolutely do something.

Tyler:

Or you're just a fun adult.

Jessica:

And you just want to do it by yourself.

Tyler:

Rachel Kane, rachel E Cain said Skyliner of course but also the nostalgia. I can't even remember if I stayed here as a kid, but it feels like it oh beautiful. That's it, it just it feels like my childhood.

Jessica:

It's the Hollywood that never was, but always will be Right. That's it, Like it's the place you stayed as a kid, but you didn't actually.

Tyler:

The Schmidt 3 said New Food Court.

Jessica:

Sorry, I can't wait to read this next one.

Tyler:

New food court. Pb&j croissant that sounds awesome.

Jessica:

We'll have to try that next. Y'all should not be doing this to me when I am this hungry, ellen.

Tyler:

Page Benson, we didn't talk about this, the tie-dye cheesecake. I kept seeing that advertised.

Jessica:

Yes, everywhere, even on the like elevators, and we didn't try it Even on the like elevators.

Tyler:

And we didn't try it. We should have tried it.

Jessica:

Okay, this okay. Sarah Foles said love Skyliner, cost-effectiveness and the green beans the green beans but I wish the food was better. I feel like, as a general rule, what we got was really good.

Tyler:

But I think it's one of those things that it's like you either strike gold or you don't at a lot of these quick service places where they have really good food menu menu items and then others are maybe not as good. But I want to know about the green beans.

Jessica:

I know when I think now I'm hungry, for I think they've also gotten better too. Nikki olivera said I will say I do get a bit peeved when my room is in the 80s or 90s. It's too far. It really is and honestly I feel like, if you the preferred rooms, yeah, I mean I just think that extra cost for the preferred room is totally worth it here we have.

Tyler:

I'm going to read four here, because they're all about the Skyliner. All right, so Christina and crew said the Skyliner, of course, but mainly the decor and the ability to hop over to art of animation. We, we didn't do that this time, but we used to hop over there and like get breakfast over there yeah, just a little something yeah, something different, because they have the big statues over there too just do mobile order over there and go pick it up um, ajb said skyliner makes it feel like a moderate or deluxe resort for budget pricing.

Tyler:

That's exactly it that's it carolina on my mind oh, I'm about to bust in a song over here said staying for the first time in november, excited to experience the Skyliner in all her glory. And then Shelby Lauren 365 said the walk to the Skyliner Stunning.

Jessica:

It really is.

Tyler:

It's such that waterway makes all the difference. I feel like if it weren't for that it would be cool, but, like the fact that it goes over water to start, it's just such a pretty way to start that experience.

Jessica:

Yeah, jared Me said fave, hidden thing, tyler, you're going to love this Okay. The big monitor at the computer pool still has MGM Studios on it.

Tyler:

Isn't it like the old Disney World website on there, or something like that it might?

Jessica:

be Like I remember it looking like a website from the 90s or whatever.

Tyler:

Oh my gosh, that makes me I'll have to look next time christy morales underscore said memories of my little brother trying to climb every single statue outside the buildings. That's so cute love always, joanne said, just stayed there. New coffee shop perfect to keep disney parents caffeinated yes, without having to wait in that long line.

Jessica:

I didn't know this. Maggie Hoy said can see some of the luminous fireworks over the lake. I mean Epcot's not terribly far. I mean, if you think about it, you're taking a skyline over there. It's kind of a straight shot over there.

Tyler:

I never even thought about it. Bria underscore M4 said the water view.

Jessica:

I didn't think about that. We, the the hourglass lake view is a very pretty view, so if you're and you're seeing a skyliner maybe luminous, so true, okay, a lot of people are mentioning the smell of the lobby I saw that too, yeah I don't remember. I feel like all disney resorts have some kind of smell that just smells so nice, but this one didn't like stand out to me, so I'll have to pay attention to that next time too jackie 36 says that you have room windows facing the walkways.

Tyler:

I love to see the guest decorations. That is a big thing. So many people decorate their windows so as you're walking by they've got especially like during the holidays and stuff people will decorate them. We actually what's the? What are those things called that? We ended up buying perler beads. Perler beads we saw somebody had a bunch of different things. They're like like these little I don't know.

Jessica:

They're like Like a tiny cylinder bead, yeah, that you place in like a certain design on a thing and then you iron it so it sticks together, yeah. And then they were hanging them on like little hooks or whatever on their window but like on the inside. I don't even know how they did that.

Tyler:

Yeah.

Jessica:

I took video and pictures because I was like I would totally do this. So, yeah, we ended up getting some, and genevieve made a few of those perler beads disney characters for our disney cruise door.

Tyler:

On the last cruise we went on, so we hung them and it was. It was so cute, yeah, and she has fallen in love with doing those things. Honestly, it's fun yes.

Jessica:

Kmr xx4 said overall groovy vibes, giant yo-yo, the abandoned construction lore. If you know, you know well now you all know. Yes, hey, kelly q said um, low-key, best splash pad because it's actually a fully fenced, zero entry shallow pool and that's that's it. I'm remembering now, I think, why genevieve liked it so much was because it really is a splash pad, but it there was like a little bit of like water in it, so I mean it was not deep, but she, they were kind of like laying in it, remember, and kind of splashing, too.

Tyler:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Jessica:

So it's just a good, simple splash pad that kids of all ages enjoy.

Tyler:

Yeah, all right. So here's actually one negative. Magical Melly said I will never stay there again. We were there for seven nights and did not have housekeeping. So a couple of things. I wonder when you stayed there, I wonder if it was during, like like right after COVID and stuff like that.

Jessica:

Cause their their housekeeping was all kinds of. It was real weird. Well, cause they were, I don't remember. I remember reading about.

Tyler:

And it was like they were doing like every three nights or something like that, and it was really bad for a while. I it's gotten much, much better. But also, if that ever happens, you can call the front desk and ask them and they will come out pretty quickly and say I want my room serviced and they will do it within within an hour or so. So don't let that happen again, because that's I would.

Jessica:

Yeah, that would be awful, I would. I don't like just trash piling up, even just that.

Tyler:

Yeah, that's it. I mean needing new towels and stuff like coffee, coffee and yeah. So I don't blame you, but hopefully they just hopefully it's.

Jessica:

Yeah, I mean, well, we know. I mean we were just there and it was serviced every day. It was. It was nice. Oh, a couple of you guys okay t lee three said staying for the first time in october. You're gonna have so much fun and I hope that the weather is amazing. You're gonna have so much fun. I'm excited for you all right.

Tyler:

And then kristin on main street Love Pop stayed there four times, theming is. And then this emoji, and then plus the sky in that skyliner and then said met you there during Wine and Dine.

Jessica:

Ah, hey, we always love when you guys come up and say hey and you know everyone's home will get messages after a trip Like hey, we saw you, but we were too nervous. Say hi or whatever. Please don't be nervous. We're exactly the same as you see here. We will be so excited to meet you now. We just ask that you don't judge us if we are dealing with a three-year-old meltdown or my meltdown, because I'm dealing with a three-year-old I know, so you know just give us grace too.

Tyler:

But yeah, I'm busy being always love. When you guys say hey, always glad to say hi I always joke that I'm like it's, it's, oh, it's always when I'm at the point where I'm at the end of my rope and I'm losing my mind Me too.

Jessica:

That's always when one of these comes up.

Jessica:

It's hilarious. I'm like, well, we're real people, I don't know what else to say. So we always like to read a review that one of you guys left us on our podcast. I know you can leave reviews on Apple Podcasts. I don't know that you can on Spotify and stuff. So if you listen to us on Apple Podcasts, or even if you listen to us here, if you go leave us a review over there, it really does help us out. It helps push our podcast out to people that would be interested in listening to this kind of content. So this one was from Becca Loves Disney five stars love, love, love. She said I love this podcast. I've watched Jessica's YouTube for a number of years. I'm so glad I found this podcast. Also, jessica, if you were walking by Trader Sam's in Disneyland and I believe it was 2023, and you got creepy vibes from you, got creepy vibes from a woman looking at you it was me. I'm so sorry.

Tyler:

I feel like I vaguely remember this and I can't um.

Jessica:

I think we were there in 2023 was it january of 23? I think so because we were doing the uh, marathons, the or the, you know whatever. So yeah, I was doing the 10k um so funny it took me until after you walked past to realize it was you, and then I felt so awkward just staring you down like a creeper. Anyways, thank you so much for this delightful podcast.

Tyler:

Oh, becca I love you.

Jessica:

You are my people. I love that. You wrote all of that in the review. That is so funny. Oh well, I wish you would have said hey, but hey, well, let's consider this me saying hi right to you. That is awesome.

Tyler:

Well, it is so fun to be back for season three feels good like getting into a warm bath this emoji again. We have some exciting news coming up here. We'll be sharing soon about our other videos. We've got some other housekeeping things we'll be talking about here in the few coming months, but we'll we'll get to all that as we come up. So be sure and be following along, because we'll announce all that stuff here soon yes, oh.

Jessica:

one other little small announcement is I finally wrote a blog post and finished it about our top 10 best tips, tricks, hacks, whatever you want to call it for a disney world trip. This is something that we're hoping will be evergreen, and we will change it as things update, but it is truly like this is what we will send evergreen, and we will change it as things update, but it is truly like this is what we will send to family and friends that are going to Disney that are like, hey, I need your best tips. We will literally just send this blog. We were very painstakingly, we went through with the fine tooth comb and tried to make sure we covered everything that we feel like makes or breaks your trip.

Tyler:

Right.

Jessica:

Free stuff people don't know about. We did an episode on this a while back. Honestly, at this point it was like seven months ago, but it's all covered there. So if you have someone going to disney or maybe you are someone that you're going for the first time, definitely check it out. We'll link the blog post below.

Tyler:

Share it with people that you feel like it would be helpful yeah, for you know what I mean yeah, I have another one that I'm about 80 of the way done with about taking kids to disney, and that one should be done here.

Jessica:

It might be done by the time this is up.

Tyler:

So if it is, I'm very close to being done with that one. So that'll be up. So those are kind of our two like main going to Disney world top tips and then going with kids top tips.

Jessica:

So, and this is, you know, all of our experience poured into this and distilled into a useful and again it and it's like what would I tell?

Tyler:

like our sister-in-law, like she's?

Jessica:

taking the kids.

Tyler:

Like. What would I like? These are what I would tell my friends.

Jessica:

That's basically what I did, just send my sister when she was going. I was. I sent her my notes for the blog post.

Tyler:

That's it. So it's like, yeah, these are our tips for our friends and family.

Jessica:

So this is.

Tyler:

We're letting you in on our Exactly so anyway, I.

Jessica:

I gotta get my hat back out.

Tyler:

I know right, we still are continuing to keep the Disneyville welcometodisneyvillecom website up to date. We've got blog posts. We've got all our old episodes there.

Tyler:

We've got the merch there the merch everything, anything you could ever want and again, we'll talk a little bit more about this later, but that's our home for all of our Disney stuff. So welcome to Disneyville. Youtube page will be our home for all Disney stuff, so we'll talk more about that later, but anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this. It's good to be back. Yes, it is, and we will see you guys on the next one. Bye friends.

Jessica:

Goodbye.