Pop Century has lowest AP rate. Anyone know why?

[JohnD]

Not that I'm complaining but I noticed that Pop Century has the lowest rate in mid May ($97.50 avg/night). Even All Star Sport is slightly higher. Since I'm being as budget conscious as possible, I went with Pop Century. Just wondering.

 

[DisneyJoe]

Did you take the tax rate into account? All-Star tax rate is 0.5% higher due to the county difference.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It has the most rooms available. Discount rates are based upon bookings.

 

[disney4life2008]

Make sure you add it to the cart. I thought that too and once tax was added pop was more expensive than sports.

 

[Mumeof3]

I love pop and rather stay there anyway not that I ever stayed at All Stars,love the one stop busing,,,,,but very interesting on the tax increase

 

[JohnD]

I added Sports to the cart and it was still higher because of avg room rate/night. I replaced it with Pop.

 

[Fizban]

I've had that happen a couple times. I usually call Dis directly to book my rooms and twice when I did they said that a AS resort was cheapest when I found POP to be less. Each time the CM was surprised as well.

 

[Master Yoda]

When you compare full price, rack rates the All stars will be the cheapest per night. Pop comes in about $5-$10 per night higher than the all stars and The Little Mermaid rooms at AoA come in about $5-$10 higher than Pop.

Promotions however can throw a monkey wrench into this.

As mentioned before, promotions are based on availability. If a resort is not meeting its booking numbers, the rooms get discounted. Because All Stars is the least expensive and AoA is so popular you will on occasion find an instance where Pop it under-booked and promotions make in come in less expensive. It does not happen often, but it is often enough to where you always check.