Just my opinion after doing it both ways many times...I prefer staying at Universal.

All three of their hotels are deluxe in my opinion and are nicer than the Disney deluxe. We have stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge, Wilderness Lodge & the Poly.

Transportation is not needed to get from your hotel to any of the parks or City Walk. The walks are short and easy. Also transportation is not needed to get from park to park. All of that transportation back and forth at Disney eats up so much time that is wasted and could have been used on attractions.

Staying at a Universal Hotel gives you unlimited front of the line access to all the rides in both parks except for HP FJ.

You can enter IOA everyday an hour before opening to ride FJ.

We switched to staying at Universal instead of Disney about 8 years and feel we get much more for our money.

We stayed at Coronado last Oct for ICOT 15. It was a nice hotel but nothing in comparison to Universal Hotels.