Jean Sébastien F.
Yelp
First time at the all star movie. I stayed in pop century 5 time, 1 time at art of animation and 1 time at riverside. Pop is my all-time favorite (while I did love my cars suite, it's way more expensive thus why I'm more for pop). This trip, I tried all star music and movies. So far, I prefer movies over music. I like better the theming, the pool layout and theming, the food court have more choice and seems bigger (like a mix of pop and art). But I'm pretty sure they are very similar.
For the room, I was in a preferred room wheelchair accessible with a roll in shower. The room was bigger than the same (but with a bath) at pop because I had dual double bed instead of dual queen bed. But since I we were each in our bed, we didn't had any problem with the size of the bed. And the extra space was welcome to navigate with the wheelchair or crutches.
One of the problem, and I'm pretty sur it's the same in any wheelchair room with roll in shower, is where they placed the water control, shower head, bench vs the soap/shampoo/conditionner dispenser. They are at opposite side of the shower in the long side. It means if you have person that cannot walk like my girlfriend with a broken knee, she cannot reach the soap. I had to help her in the shower to wash her hair. I'm very sure it's the same across all renovated room in any hotel, not just all-star. We had a similar experience in pop with a bath, where the dispenser where over her head behind her, too high to reach (or would spread all over her face since she can't see what she was doing). Easy fix would be to simply put the dispenser next to the bench like the water controls.
Another problem across all resort is the door. There is no way for someone in a wheelchair to get in or out of the room. The door is too heavy, cannot be opened by any powered action and close quite fast. So they require someone to open and hold the door. Which mean if the person is alone, she need to request help from the front desk. Again this is not just at all-star but I still include it here for information.
Like anywhere on Disney properties, the cast member are magical and need a raise (they really are way underpaid for all the magic they make happen during your stay. Disney, without your cast member, you lose at least 80% of the magic, raise them!)
You will read bad review on housekeeping. These are from people that don't understand the new housekeeping.
First, they never enter your room when there's someone in or of you left the do not disturb sign. You can option out of the housekeeping or keep a minimum housekeeping every other day. But there's rules. They won't change any hang towel. If you want them change, they have to be in the bath/shower floor. They will empty trash can.
Wether or not you option out of the housekeeping, you can always put your trashcan outside the door to have it empty. You can also put towels and washcloth outside for disposal and request new at the front desk, ovrtthe phone or just by catching a cast member that do house keeping. Same can be done for anything in fact. I myself requested more blanket and pillow plus a fan like that. Everything was done in like 15 minutes.
All in all, the renovated room really feel the same across pop, movies and music. While I really love pop, I might start looking at movie in the futur for more saving.
But, there's 2 thing you must know. Pop has sky liner which provide very fast travel to HS and Epcot (also riveria and carabeen beach resort). And the bus line for all star travel to all 3 resort starting t sports, then music and the movies. That means bus can be full when they reach you in music or movies or have no more place for wheelchair. This can make traveling more frustrating and also a lot more slower. You might want to travel on foot to sports to be first in line. At also mean that going back to the resort at park closure gather 3 resort in 1 bus line, which can result in very big line.
The main pool is fantasia themed.
On the right of the "pool bar" or food court, there's a half enclosed place from which I forgot the name that have activity during the day and it's where movies by the star occur.