Jean Sébastien F.
Yelp
Pop century is currently my favorite hotel. Why? First the price. It's a bit more pricier then the all star value hotel, but still way less then the moderate like art of animation. Maybe 20$ more a night depending on when. But why pay more for another value and not just go to the all-star? Because this is a moderate value. A what?
This hotel is nearly a moderate at the price of a value. Sure, you don't have closed door like other hotel higher up, it's still the door that open to the outdoor like all star. But the confort of the room is above all star, more space, and all renovated.
I've been 4 times to pop now, this time in a wheelchair accessible room with a bath. The space of the room is bigger since the exterior wall is flat instead of recessed in. We could easily Parc the ecv inside by the door, then have the wheelchair go around both bed (we used both the bed and the wall bed that you pull-down). Difference is with a wheelchair room, there's no door between the toilet and the bath like the other room but that's alright, it would be hard to navigate with a wheelchair.
Both bed were of equals comfort which is very nice. We asked for extra blanket and it was delivered fast.
I opt-out of the housekeeping. They still will do daily checkup for security, and if you take out the thrash or towel, they will empty and replace. You can anytime request more towel or anything you need and they'll deliver very fast.
As for noise level, this depend heavily on location. All pool side view will have more noise because eof the music and people going this way. Music is turned off at 11pm when the pool is close, but you'll still have many people up which can make noise. Also ground level will have more foot traffic and also more noise from upper floor. This can be said of any hotel in fact, it's a normal setup. I always bring ear plug specially for that.
I also request a fan I can use. It's normally a big square fan that will move the air perfectly. It also cover a bit of the noise.
A complaint I have is with wheelchair accessible room. The door is the same for every room. It means heavy door (that weirdly have no protection surrounding it thus you see outside from the contour of the door). And the door automatically close like all room. Which mean entering in the room alone in a wheelchair is impossible. I had the hold the door open. There should be a button you can activate with magicband that open and close the door like other wheelchair door. This should also be done in all wheelchair restroom across the Parc and resort cause the same problem occur.
Then you have the pools. All pools across Disney are heated pool. Normally, it's just ok but this time, it was too hot I'm pretty sure it's not heated right now, it's 48 degree celcius out there so enough to heat the pool a lot, plus a lot of people in it also eating it (and peeing? You go small children after all). It does refresh, just less then expected. On other trip, it was cooler so I blame the weather.
To eat, you have everything pop which is a cafeteria style restaurant with many choice. You can have more information on that venue on Yelp.
The theming is 40s to 90s. You'll see big wheel, play doh and other stuff from this era, and the music will also be from those period.
Theres a lot of resort activity like treasure hunt, sing along, trivia, campfire, movie by the pool, etc. You can check everything there is to do right on the pop website or directly on site.
This resort is also connected by a small bridge to art of animation. While you can't access the pool there, you can still access the shop, diner and playground around the resort. It is a very nice theme resort around animation thus cars, little mermaid, lion King, etc.
You also now have access to the skyline on the same bridge. This get you to Carribean beach resort, then you can go to either Riviera then Epcot or to Hollywood studio. Normally when the sky liner is active, the bus to these station aren't active so you must take the skyliner.
All in all, I like this resort cause it's not too big (the further you are from the bus and main entrance is like maximum 5 min walk), the food does the job for a quick late night dine, there's a lot to do, it's as cozy as a moderate but at a value price, it's freshly renovated, it's well located in the Epcot area meaning shorter bus ride to attraction and the theming is just wonderful. Also, the ac still work properly at pop. At least in my room, I could lower to 62 where in all star music, I was stuck at 69 minimum. The lobby, shop and diner are also well climate vs all star and many other Disney location recently.