For us, it's location, location, location.
We love AKL. Love it, love it, love it. If you asked my wife and I which hotel, in all of WDW, we would personally choose to stay in, we'd choose AKL just about every time. The smell, the atmosphere, the resturaunts, the savannah views...amazing.
But we'll buy at CRV...and maybe add on at VAKL down the road. I'm sure we'll try to book a stay or 2 at the 7 month window at VAKL at some point (when the kiddies are a bit older, for example) and see how successful we are, but for regular annual trips? I prefer the convenience of the CR to the spectacle of AKL.
Because for us you just can't beat monorail access to MK and, really, Epcot too. With young kids (currently) it's a life saver to go from MK to your hotel in the middle of the day for a swim/nap break. Ditto for the ease of going from Epcot to the resort via TTC. We've stayed at the Contemp twice now...the first time, we weren't overly impressed. But by the end of our first stay, it had grown on us. And after this second trip back in January, it's grown on us even more.
When I told my wife the rumors of both CRV and VAKL going up about the same time, she looked at me like I'd just asked her to choose between our two (and soon to be 3....due Sept 29th..you do the math from our January trip) kids. But, in the end, after much less discussion than I thought the subject would cause, she (well, we) had pretty much made up our minds.
The day they make the announcement is the day I call DVC to get our name on a wait list for CRV.