AoA-Value To Moderate?

[popcenturylover]

The suites always qualify for free dining- it's the little mermaid standard rooms that are excluded.

Actually, like I said above we also stayed there a week after the LM rooms opened & got free dining. They haven't offered it since though.

 

[1023]

I assure you all... AoA is a value resort.... If you like to sleep, move up to moderate or better.... The beds are horrible. The location is not optimal. The transportation queues are akin to livestock chutes... You are often housed near the cheerleader convention or some such group revenue generating, noisy, and unchaperoned mass of humanity. All these value resorts are "value" for those reasons.

If your only option is to utilize the value resorts to realize your vacation (as I did in my younger days), then have at them. But be warned gentle humans, they can be constitution testing rites of passage. If you can opt for moderate options, I advise you to do so...

*1023*

 

[MRGEFF]

I think it has always been a bit of a misnomer to call AoA a value resort.

Yes, it is true that AoA doesn't have some of the things that typically are needed to categorize a resort as a moderate. For example, there is no actual sit down, table service restaurant at AoA. However, the Landscape of Flavors food court seems, by all accounts, to be absolutely amazing and something entirely different from just about anything called a food court anywhere else on property.

Also, AoA is much more themed to appeal to children, while the moderate resorts typically have a more "adult" theming with a bit more elegance. But to the audience they are trying to draw, including my family, that is a positive, not a negative.

AoA is definitely a cut above any other value resort on property, by a mile. If not a moderate, it should be put into a new category in between value and moderate.

We're hoping to stay at AOA next spring with our son, daughter-in-law and 2 grandsons. We have walked around AOA and thought it would be a good fit for them. Can't wait. Thanks for the positive comments.

 

[daisyduckie]

I assure you all... AoA is a value resort.... If you like to sleep, move up to moderate or better.... The beds are horrible. The location is not optimal. The transportation queues are akin to livestock chutes... You are often housed near the cheerleader convention or some such group revenue generating, noisy, and unchaperoned mass of humanity. All these value resorts are "value" for those reasons.

If your only option is to utilize the value resorts to realize your vacation (as I did in my younger days), then have at them. But be warned gentle humans, they can be constitution testing rites of passage. If you can opt for moderate options, I advise you to do so...

*1023*

I have stayed at deluxe and moderate resorts, and still really enjoy my stays at the value resorts. I had a great stay at the Sports last year. The bus service was some of the best I have ever had, my bed was comfy, and I never had any problems with noise at night. In fact my next stay will probably be some combo of value/moderate or value/deluxe, as one of my traveling companions loves the Sports. And I am just fine with that!

It is all in what you like. For some values are barely a step above sleeping in the parking lot. But I really like them.

 

[slappy magoo]

I stayed in a Little Mermaid room for one night, having arrived in the area a day before our reservation at Bay Lake Towers began. A night is about all I could tolerate. The pools look amazing, and if you have the time and access to get there easily, I'd recommend walking the grounds and checking out the attention to exterior detail...

But the room was as cramped as I thought it would be if not more so (something like 260 sq. ft, whereas I believe the moderate rooms are between 312-320 s1. ft). Beds were not comfortable (disclaimer, neither my wife and I are "tiny," if you're a grownup who's short and slight, you might be just fine), and the din from the food court was like listening to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, but less joyous. A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to stay there (not in a Little Mermaid room anyway, maybe one day we'll try a suite).