Tony the Tigger
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Don’t you think they will just wait out the new Brightline station?
People flying into the airport can then take the train to somewhere near Disney Springs.
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New Transportation Option to/from MCO for Deluxe Resort Guests
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People flying into the airport can then take the train to somewhere near Disney Springs.
mattpeto
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I'm not saying never, but this feels as far away as taking a skyliner straight to the moon.
DisneyHead123
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I see them as tangentially related in that post ME, this has been Disney’s only move into providing some kind of airport transportation. Kind of like how post FP+, only LL has been offered. Clearly only significantly monetized offerings are on the table now in certain areas.
TrainsOfDisney
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Yes - even when DME was free I wouldn’t take it TO the airport. Only from. Same thing with Mears now.
TheMaxRebo
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I don't think Disney is planning on that too much. Personally if it only goes to Disney Springs I am not dealing with Luggage, etc - but who knows if/when/how it even happens
Grimley1968
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It's hard for me to see how this will be a successful offering for Disney, but then I also never dreamed monetizing Fastpass would be something Disney would do, much less have success with, so my prognostication skills in this regard are rusty at best.
easyrowrdw
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For sure. We had one awful experience with Mears with an incredibly long wait late at night. Gave them another try recently and it was better but still a downgrade from DME.Yup we have done MEARS. It was okay. The main problem was, with our young kids, it took quite a while between the line waiting for the bus to arrive, the wait on the bus waiting for departure, and then being the last drop off on the list. This is after the long plane flight....did we survive? Of course we did. But as with everything Disney...sometimes you can pay to lower your stress. This is one of those cases.
Secondly, one nice thing about doing the private transportation is not having to worry about a set bus schedule on your departure day that is also equally early.
So, in the end, private transportation (Gearfusion/Tiffany/etc.) is better than MEARS....but the Minnie Van feels like a vacation to our family
My kids are big enough now to ride with regular seats so Lyft has worked for us. And it's cheaper than Mears for a big family. Haven't tried the private options just due to the price.
TheMaxRebo
Well-Known Member
Guess I just see this more like trying to monetize private cars - which existed parallel to DME vs an alternative to that
I could definitely see them have a paid version of DME, but this feels different from that
TheMaxRebo
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Regular Minnie Vans are successful and they are like 2-3x the cost of using Lyft around property.
People are willing to pay a premium for "Disney services" vs non-Disney options
Rhinocerous
Premium Member
Man, I wish. Have you tried to get a rezzy at Chez Whitey's lately? It's next to impossible. At least, that's what my PA tells me.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
You mean the one that doesn’t exist anymore?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Right…but it’s complete vanity. No need to explain it…Leave it at that.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
It’s straight up vanity…and fuels the insanity of “luxury Disney”…which doesn’t exist and never will. It can’t by design and the realities of the market.
It’s also silly when you try to think of Muffy and Buffy jetting in from the Hamptons to get into magic kingdom. Whether they have a jockey with them or not.
for what? To eat at Tony’s and and a lighting lane for mine train.
It was built to serve the WW2 gen and their boomer/X descendants…the middle class in other words.
There was never a “lever” to pull to change that. No matter what the sitcom king tells Sun Valley
Using Minnie Vans around property is not paying a premium for a service Disney isn’t providing. It’s paying a premium for a service because Disney’s free offering can be utterly terrible at times. In other words - Monetizing a solution to a problem they themselves created.
easyrowrdw
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I think a bunch of people and their bags trying to get from Disney Springs to their hotel would be a disaster. That doesn't seem like much of a "service" either, particularly compared to what existed before and now.
Also, I remember seeing in multiple places that luggage is not allowed on Disney transportation. Although on my last trip, I saw two people get off the Skyliner with roller bags so maybe that's not enforced lol
TrainsOfDisney
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I’ve taken my roller bag to transfer resorts in the past - but if a whole family showed up with lots of bags they would more likely say no.
The Brightline line station would / will present some logistics - but plenty of solutions.
Vegas Disney Fan
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With all the resorts already having buses running to Disney Springs it wouldn’t take much to remove a couple seats and add luggage space to buses specifically running the Disney Springs route, with all the ADA space on the newer buses they probably wouldn’t even have to modify them.
We take the train every time we go to DL Paris and it’s very simple, get off the train with your luggage, walk to the shuttle area right outside the station and get on the next bus to your hotel, I don’t see any reason that wouldn’t work at WDW also. I doubt you’d ever get more than a handful of families with luggage going to any one resort at a time.
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TrainsOfDisney
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Simple for you! I got lost and ended up in the parking lot!!! Haha. True story!
I do think the train station would need a dedicated bus loop - could probably run busses with luggage space that stopped at multiple hotels - kinda like how mears already does it.
stuart
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A perk which was largely not available to international guests. After what I may be mis-remembering as only a couple of years, they stopped sending out the yellow tags internationally.
They could still collect bags, but it meant an even longer wait as they basically would check bags when they were the last ones off the belt.
So international guests were advised to take their bags with them. Hotel bag drop and check-in wasn't available, even if you had a connecting flight.
Virgin Atlantic used to offer a dedicated check-in at Downtown Disney, in the pre-covid days of 5 or even 6 747s per day. It was $15 a skull to drop bags off, unless Virgin Holidays or in Upper Class. Well worth it though. I believe they stopped as fewer pax post Covid and the company they used for luggage transfers may have been the same one as Disney which went bust.
We've used Mears Connect the last few years and no real issues, other than a year we arrived a bit later, instead of resort area it took in a few places before dropping us off second last.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I see we’ve pivoted…
It’s not coming back. Maybe they’re eying a for fee version? But the only reason they did it in the first place was because Mears ran it for them. They have no desire to take on that kinda overhead themselves…so leaving it status quo is the best in the wash.
It’s not coming back. Maybe they’re eying a for fee version? But the only reason they did it in the first place was because Mears ran it for them. They have no desire to take on that kinda overhead themselves…so leaving it status quo is the best in the wash.