Good afternoon from Katy, Texas! We returned late last night from our seven night stay and I wanted to post now before the week gets ahead of me. I did NOT request connecting rooms, but we did receive connecting rooms. I felt somewhat bad for this as my only request was that the rooms be on the same floor and relatively close to one another. My daughter turned 21, so no need for the connecting rooms. With that being said, our room had the shower and their room had the shower/tub combo. I suppose to make it easier for parents who are bathing small children in the bathtub. We received rooms 3168 & 3169 in the 50's section. I was quite happy with our room location. I hope that you have a magical vacation!!
Other bits of info for anyone else reading ~ we experienced a security check on only one day. The lady was very nice. We had been napping and she said she'd return later.
The 15's tour groups were EVERYWHERE. Everyone was commenting on them - we overhead a lot of conversations about them from other families, mainly complaints. They were chanting very late at night and I could hear them running around outside at all hours (because we were on the first floor). They were also chanting very early. For this reason we won't be staying at the values again. Quite honestly the only reason that we did stay at Pop was because we wanted to experience the new rooms and beds.
I do plan on emailing management about some random items once I have time. Our door jam was broken, maids NEVER brought more than two towels per day (which meant we had to call each night for more towels), never replenished cups, my daughter's room ran out of body wash, a $40 charge on my credit card that says "WDW Room only Res" which I've disputed twice, but won't go away, A/C was out in both of our rooms unless we called daily to have it fixed... Minor things, but there was a note there saying to email him the manager so that's what I intend on doing.