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You can pad your odds. Two of the four mansions have the Princess rooms (Parterre Place and Oak Manor). If you book a Royal Princess Category room you’d be guaranteed a room in one of those two buildings.

On the other hand four of the AB buildings are preferred (14, 15, 18, and 27) so if you don’t book a preferred room there is little likelihood you’d be placed in those buildings. A standard room could get you in any of the other Bayou buildings or either of the other two Mansions (Acadia House or Magnolia Terrace) though. If I for sure wanted in the mansions I’d go ahead and book one of the Royal princess rooms. I believe there are like 512 of them, all in the last two mansion buildings.

Personally we prefer the AB section, so would be willing to pay more for the preferred room category in order to ensure we got there. lol If you book standard or even water view, you could wind up in either section.

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Is there a market type store at BWI? One that sells milk, boxed donuts etc? Most resorts that have DVC have a store where you can purchase basics like this but I don’t recall seeing one mentioned for BWI. If it does have one…where is it located? A picture would be most welcomed too!

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by esmeet7

I’m a Disney newbie trying to plan a group trip to the Magic Kingdom. We’re thinking of staying in the new Art of Animation (AoA) Suites because of our larger families.

I was wondering about advantages to staying in a property like AoA over off-premises properties that have their own shuttles to the parks. It seems like the Disney properties would offer advantages in that the buses would run more often, the time to get into parks would be shorter, and you might even get to enter early/stay late if you’re in a Disney property.

Can anyone summarize for me what time-saving conveniences exist for the AoA property versus an off-site property with its own shuttle? Thanks in advance for your help.

You pretty much summed up the advantages yourself!

The offsite shuttles, in my experience, really aren’t that great. They don’t run frequently or consistently, and they pick up in the middle of a parking lot with no real designated queue.

You’ll get there faster on Disney transport, plus you have the advantage of extra time in the parks with Extra Magic Hours.

The disadvantage, of course, if that you’ll pay extra for the convenience.

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While the pictures of the exterior of the resort and Nemo pool look AMAZING – well, just not too impressed with the rooms. Does anyone else think they look tacky and like cheap furniture in a child’s room or playroom?

Doing a split stay with one night at Yacht Club. Me and kids saw all the great AofA pictures and decided to switch our reservation that night over with the Disney Visa 15% off. Pool looks gorgeous, the grounds look gorgeous… and figured since just opened and only Cars and Nemo will be open so far, should be fairly quiet at the resort.

But then when we saw pictures and videos of the Nemo rooms – eh, kind of turned me off. Now, I’m all for characters and Disney themes totally in your face – but just not so sure now. The Cars seemed more subdued to me at least.

Actually, YC would be $315 for the night – AoA more – $329.

Thinking perhaps just heading over to visit AoA and check out the resort a bit – but then end up staying at YC instead… and wait till our Nov trip when did book LMermaid section for one night for $156.

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