KingEric snapped over a 100 photos of the new Art of Animation Resort. Enjoy!
http://orlandounited.com/2012/05/30/animation/
Um, I'm officially stoked.
KingEric snapped over a 100 photos of the new Art of Animation Resort. Enjoy!
http://orlandounited.com/2012/05/30/animation/
I saw the Lion King musical last month and I've been addicted to the Lion King since then. I would loooove to stay in their Lion King wing if it wasn't so expensive. Kind of hard to justify spending almost $300 when I live 20 minutes away.
Still, the resort looks really cool regardless.
Now I haven't personally been to AoA yet, but I think calling it "tacky" is degrading it a bit. I mean, yes it does have the over sized figures like the other value resorts, but really other than that this hotel is a lot more tactfully done than any of the other values. It's really on a different level.Nice to see that after 20 years and 5 tries, Disney has mastered the tacky value resort.
Random question-at the food court do the refillable mugs have the RFID barcode that they were testing at the all star sports food court about a year ago? They ran that test then I haven't seen them at the Pop Century and we've stayed there twice in the last year. Not that we would ever re-use the refillable mugs since of course you would always spend $60 for every visit even when you come multiple times to stay onsite in one year!
So out of all the themed areas that are open already which one is the best? From the pictures I really think the Cars area is the best in themeing wise but I also havnt been there to see it in person yet.
Random question-at the food court do the refillable mugs have the RFID barcode that they were testing at the all star sports food court about a year ago? They ran that test then I haven't seen them at the Pop Century and we've stayed there twice in the last year. Not that we would ever re-use the refillable mugs since of course you would always spend $60 for every visit even when you come multiple times to stay onsite in one year!
I just walked through the Cars area a few days ago (staying there in August) and was impressed by the theming. By far the best there so far. I'm interested to see Lion King, but I don't expect too much from it. Maybe Little Mermaid will be nicer though.
I wouldn't put expectations for the Lion King section that low. When the resort had its opening day stuff I was there and talked with a manager who was really excited about the Lion King area. He said the elephant graveyard was looking really cool back then, so I'm really excited to see how that turns out.