We almost always do split stays now days. It's one or two nights at either a value or moderate (whichever one is less) then move over to an Epcot resort, again whichever one is less, including Swan/Dolphin. If it's a value or moderate depends on how many nights, if it's just one night it's a value, 2 it's a moderate. We do it because we drive down and arrive around 1 or 2 and go directly to a park and don't get back to the room until around 8 at the earliest that first night. I just didn't make sense to pay for a deluxe for that first night. Then I started doing two nights because we can do AK our second day, you have to ride a bus there no matter where you stay so again, it saved a little money to just stick at the moderate. MK is a half day park for us and we always have hoppers or an AP so if we stay in an Epcot resort, we just hop on the monorail while in Epcot to get to MK.