In this post we’ll review a Family Suite at Disney’s All Star Music Resort. We’ll start with the basics before diving into a discussion of the room and, maybe most importantly, what we think of its price point in the value tier. Read on to learn all about the Suites at All Star Music!
Basics of All Star Music Family Suites
All Star Music Resort is a value hotel at Walt Disney World, part of the All Star Resorts complex that also includes All Star Movies and All Star Sports. We’ve reviewed All Star Music and its non-suite rooms separately here. We also have reviews of the other two All Star Resort hotels, neither of which has suites:
In this post, we’re going to focus specifically on the Suites at All Star Music.
While the other All Star Resorts don’t have suites, there are other suites in the value tier—the Art of Animation Family Suites. Those are themed suites—Lion King, Finding Nemo, and Cars. A good place to start learning about them is our post asking Which Art of Animation Family Suite is best?
The family suites at the value resorts are not the same quality as one bedroom villas at DVC properties or one bedroom suites at deluxe or moderate hotels. Basically, these are bigger value rooms with a separate bedroom.
This isn’t to say they’re bad—we’re actually completely fine with the quality of the room, as you’ll read. But in booking them it’s best to expect space, not luxury.
You can expect to pay $365 to $700+ per night in 2026 for a family suite at All Star Music. The suites are often a part of discounts, though.
The Family Suites at All Star Music are all located in the Calypso and Jazz buildings—the four buildings closest to Melody Hall and the main pool. These buildings are not exclusively suites, and unlike the suites at Art of Animation these suites all have outside-facing doors.
Booking All Star Music Family Suites
We had our travel advisor Lauren Quirk of Travel With Character book our room. We paid $354.98 per night for two summer nights, using an annual passholder discount.
Suite Pricing at Disney World
We’ve got a separate post talking through Suite and Villas Pricing at Disney World. It’s worth a read if you’re navigating these high-priced options. Relevant to this post, you’ll see that the All Star Music suites are the best-priced option. If you want to spend a little more, you’ll see that you can usually rent DVC points for much nicer rooms for just a slightly higher cost than Art of Animation or deluxe suites.
Our Suite at All Star Music
The All Star Music Family Suites have a living room, bathroom, kitchenette, bedroom, and second bathroom. Let’s start with a gallery of the first room you’ll walk into, the living room:
Right off the bat, you can see the theming in these suites is pretty minimal. This is a far cry from the Art of Animation Family Suites. We’ll discuss theming more below. In terms of functionality, though, these rooms are just as good (mostly).
The living room is fairly spacious without the beds down, and I imagine lounging in it would feel like quite the sweet experience if you weren’t using it for beds. As it is, most guests are going to be using at least one of the two pull-down beds in this room. Once you do that, space gets a little tighter.
So, here’s a gallery looking at the one-or-two bed situations in this room:
You could do the sofa bed as the only bed down, particularly if you’d make use of the desk, but the sofa bed is closer to the door and the room is less lounge-y without the couch.
We didn’t find this room too cramped, even with two beds down, but we’re small people and still noticed things were a little tight when it was time to get ready in the morning, for example. The most awkward part of this is that while the desk is probably the natural bed to use if you’re only using one, you immediately have the problem of where to put the extra chairs.
If you use both beds, space for the chairs gets pretty bad, because now you’ve also got this ottoman to deal with. We wound up with a less than idea situation in the corner:
If I recall correctly, we actually wound up shuffling stuff around and stacking chairs on top of the ottoman in that corner. Having the ottoman obstructing the door in any way is not safe, so I’m sure I didn’t leave it as in that photo.
If you were willing to store this stuff throughout the entire suite, maybe you’d have less trouble. We had Emily’s parents with us and didn’t feel right asking to just store a stack of chairs in their bedroom.
Off the living room is a standard value resort bathroom:
In a crowded suite, it is nice to have a door separating the vanity from the living room, and another door separating the bathroom from the vanity. In terms of space and scheduling, you might consider that this bathroom is fairly limited in size for the living room that could accommodate four people.
Continuing our tour, between the living room and the bedroom is a kitchenette:
It’s nice to have a full-size refrigerator (that actually gets cold), plus an in-room microwave. As always, I think these more expensive room types should have Keurigs instead of Cuisinarts. I don’t think we ran out of coffee because some mix of us were always getting breakfast, but with six coffee drinkers you’d probably have to call housekeeping to get some additional packets.
The disposable bowls and cutlery are good to have in a pinch.
Onto the bedroom:
The bedroom was spacious enough, particularly when compared to the living room with both beds down. There’s a good amount of storage space under the bed and in the bathroom “closet.”
Along with the space in the main bathroom “closet”, plus some space under the living room beds, we at least were able to keep all our luggage out of the way, which helped with the space issues.
And it’s nice for the bedroom that it has its own bathroom. Notably, there’s no door between the bedroom and the vanity, unlike in the living room bathroom.
Altogether, we had no major complaints about the functionality of these rooms. There were five of us in total (Emily and I, Zoe, and two grandparents), using three beds. Even though it’s a suite, space is the main concern.
The living room was a bit cramped with both beds down, and the added problem of dealing with the ottoman and the chairs is a bit annoying. But there was enough space across the entire suite for us to at least store our luggage, so we definitely had enough space to move around.
And—as is the trend across Disney rooms these days—the consoles under the TVs have plenty of space for you to toss your maps / candy / merchandise / etc. when you get home for the day.
Finally, it’s worth comparing this layout to the layout of the Art of Animation suites. Those suites basically combine the kitchenette and living room, creating a much bigger living room space. The table bed and sofa bed are in different corners of the room, so the crunch is less noticeable. The kitchenette here does create a tiny bit more buffer between the living room and the bedroom.
The overall square footage is 520 sq ft here versus 565 sq ft at Art of Animation. It’s noticeable, but I also feel like the All Star Music suites use their space just fine.
Do the All Star Music Suites have enough theme?
While I’ve got no major functionality complaints about the suites, it’s worth discussing the theming—or lack thereof—a bit.
Admittedly, I was in the cohort that absolutely loved when the last version of the Pop Century (and then All Star) rooms debuted. Others said they looked like hospital rooms, and I get that, too.
I think Disney found its stride shortly thereafter, perhaps intentionally saving their best theming for deluxe rooms like the Moana, Incredibles, and Mary Poppins rooms around the monorail. Theme doesn’t have much marginal cost in designing a room, but Disney knows some of us will pay for it.
This is reflected in the suites, too. The All Star Music suites are wildly under-themed. You’ve basically got five small art frames, a few lamps and curtains, plus the theming once the Murphy beds are pulled down. It’s barely better than nothing.
This is in stark contrast with the markedly more expensive Art of Animation Family Suites. During my initial round of visits to the Art of Animation suites, I felt like the “theme” was more a hodgepodge of low-quality designs slapped onto the walls and furniture. But now that I’ve seen Zoe absolutely light up running around spotting theming in the Lion King suite (which I thought was the worst), I’ve softened my stance a bit.
The Art of Animation suites have a premium of something like $200 per night over the All Star Music suites. Art of Animation also has Skyliner access to two parks, which accounts for some of that difference. Do I think the theming is good enough to justify $200 per night? Usually not.
But if you can’t put a price on your kid’s jaw dropping when you walk into a hotel room, your better choice is the Art of Animation suites. Whether the strategy of charging $200 for theme is greedy or just savvy, I choose to look at it as fortunate that Disney offers the low-theme, $200-per-night-cheaper All Star Music suites for guests who want space at a reasonable price.
Conclusions
The All Star Music Family Suites are an underrated room type at Disney World. They’re generally spacious enough, though once you get to the point of needing both living room beds, you’re going to find the extra chairs and limited space in that room at least something of a nuisance.
While they’re under-themed, Disney has priced them accordingly. These are not jaw-dropping rooms by any means, but All Star Music is a fun hotel and Disney World is still Disney World. Sometimes, a hotel room is just a place to put your head between roller coasters and dole whips. From that perspective, the All Star Music Family Suites offer a unique option at an acceptable price.
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