Since I have enjoyed reading everybody else's "just back" reports, I thought I should post my own.
First of all, we are DVC owners and have stayed in MOST of the Disney resorts including Shades of Green. We've done value up to Home Away from Home, but our only Moderate experience has been Port Orleans Riverside to date.
The positives: The rooms size was very nice for us. I did request a corner room and got that, but it did not connect to another room at all so the rest of our family had the room next to ours. I like the shampoo and soap dispensers. The corner I think gave us some extra storage space. We had a large cooler with us and it stayed in the area where the sinks were most of the time. The refrigerator was fine for storing our bottles of water, though it would have been nice to have a freezer. We just kept the cooler stocked with ice for our drinks. The beds were comfy, plenty of towels were provided. I think the resort is beautiful, yes the construction takes away a bit but overall it was still nice. We had the pool at Aruba mostly to ourselves just about every day we went there in the morning/early afternoon. Splyglass Grill had some GREAT food...wish I could have tried the tacos again (I shared with DH one day...could have kept them to myself) and I had a kids lunch salad with shrimp one day...also good. They also had a fresh fruit platter that was very good. Oh and on July 4th we walked to the far end of our building and could watch fireworks in the distance at HS and a bit closer at EPCOT on each side, which was kinda cool.
The negatives: I requested Jamaica, got building 52 of Aruba. I didn't love this location at ALL. It was too far to me from the bridge walkway to the main pool and to get any kind of late night food. We did find we used the Jamaica bus stop more than Aruba as it was just as easy of a walk. Yes the first and only day we waited for a morning bus to the parks we had to wait because the bus was filled when it got to us. Instead we caught the next bus (EPCOT) and decided to just ride that to EPCOT, then monorail to TTC then hit MK and yes this was a very long way to do this but not as crowded at all. We caught an internal bus one time, which was nice to take us to Trinidad North for lunch. The good news was that coming BACK on the bus, we got off at the very next stop (Jamaica) and walked to our room. As a late-night snacker, I was disappointed in so few options for late night food. Yes you could walk to the main pool and they had a small counter service there where you could get Ice Cream Novelties and chips...but nothing like cupcakes or other treats I'm used to getting at other resorts and food courts. Just very limited food options so that's my main complaint. We did take a bus back one night from MK after it was close to closing time (around 10pm) and that wasn't too bad at all but we had good timing on the bus. I did see a lot of people seemed to be waiting for buses, so much so that our bus driver one morning stopped to call to find out where another bus was located for somebody he noted was waiting a long time. She seemed unhappy. Oh and we did wait one day at HS for a bus back to our resort around 1pm and I think we waited at least 30 minutes, or so it seemed, and it was hot out.
So would I stay there again? Maybe once things are all open. Overall it wasn't the worst...that's reserved for Pop Century where we had kids running around and knocking on doors late one night one time...and yet we've still returned there too. We did have our own vehicle and used that more often than the buses which probably was a good thing. Oh and our building was one that was RIGHT NEXT to one of the transport poles for the gondolas...and even my FIL commented he's not sure what that is going to do to the landscape/fell of the parks and resort once those are running.