We stayed at AoA April 27 - May 1.
Based on what I was reading here, I thought we had maybe a 50/50 chance of being upgraded from our Little Mermaid standard room (booked the package that gave you two free park days for purchasing four nights/three days.) We did not get upgraded, but they did honor our request for a single king bed.
We did find the room quite spacious, but the decor just wasn't for us, which I had expected would be the case. (The oversized figures and so on associated with the value resorts has never appealed to us and we think Port Orleans French Quarter is visually "loud." Port Orleans Riverside and Animal Kingdom Lodge are our favorite hotels.) My husband's comment is that he thought the room interior was like a nicely decorated child's room. This is definitely a personal taste thing as a local friend was actually quite taken with the room when she visited us and another said she knows someone who is very, very into Little Mermaid so it's her dream to stay there.
We only ate from Landscape of Flavors on our arrival morning and subsequently stayed away because we found breakfast to be extremely mediocre. I will say, though, that they do have some great CMs working there.
Using the Skyliner was mostly very smooth for us. We never waited all that long to board, though we did use the bus to go to DHS one day as I had snagged Boarding Group 6 for RotR and didn't want to risk a big line of people also all trying to be there for rope drop. Another morning we took the bus to Epcot because I specifically wanted to start out in Future World rather than at the International Gateway. The one hiccup - and it was big - was we went to Boardwalk one night for dinner and when we returned to International Gateway via boat, Epcot was near closing time and the Skyliner was stalled. Eventually, a CM told everyone it was down for the night and was telling everyone to catch busses at the nearest hotels to Disney Springs and then transfer from there. Of course, a lot of people had no interest in this, even if Disney claimed they were going to send additional busses so we and a lot of other people beelined to the closest hotel and paged Lyft or Uber to return to our hotels.