Vader2112
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Oh so you prefer the smell of BO and Mildew???? Just kidding...Mono Rail is great when staying at a Delux resort.
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How can anyone choose driving over a Disney bus when going to Magic Kingdom?
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Oh so you prefer the smell of BO and Mildew???? Just kidding...Mono Rail is great when staying at a Delux resort.
sweetpee_1993
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We prefer to drive our own car as much as possible. Not only is it faster most of the time & free of odiferus travel mates, it's your personal space. On the way to the parks when we're all psyched it's a lot of fun to jam to our favorite music and pump everyone up. On the way back to our resort it's heavenly to have that peaceful escape to decompress from the parks for a few minutes. If we have an ADR at a monorail resort we'll valet the car then hop the monorail over. Mind you, we only go to WDW during the lowest demand times and rarely spend more than a few hours in a park at any given time. It's not like we valet before an Ohana's breakfast then stay at the MK until the park is closing. If we don't have ADR at a monorail resort we'll hop a cab over to the Contemporary then walk. I just can't stand doing the buses if I can avoid it. Doesn't always work that way but I do try.
backinaction
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Careful. Last time I brought this up on the boards, it was a madhouse. Apparently, all the 1 percenters that stay at the deluxe hotels get angry when you advocate taking one of "their" public parking spaces. Just a quick question. To get to the deluxe hotels around the Magic Kingdom, don't you have to travel through the main toll booth or is their a back way in?
flynnibus
Premium Member
We walk at Epcot and mk. Dhs varies and we always have to take the tram at dak
It really depends on when you leave but I've never really seen tram backups in many years on our visits. But I think that has a lot to do with when you leave. Dak and Dhs do not have the one huge exodus like mk and epcit normally
It really depends on when you leave but I've never really seen tram backups in many years on our visits. But I think that has a lot to do with when you leave. Dak and Dhs do not have the one huge exodus like mk and epcit normally
flynnibus
Premium Member
No it's not about 'Thier spaces' but the unethical avoidance of paying for what you are supposed to that ultimately hurts everyone when the company burdens everyone with fees or policies to deal with people who feel they are above the rules.
bgraham34
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I actually love the smell in there. I always know when I am in the monorail that is for sure.
nolatron
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We normally rent a car but last trip it was just myself and my then 3yr old DD so we took the buses as we flew to MCO and used the Magical Express. At first it was ok, but:
1) sitting there for 10-15 mins waiting for a bus at the AKL in the morning with a 3yr old got old.
2) sitting there for 15-30 mins with 50 other people waiting for a bus at a park at night with a 3 yr old got old
3) carrying a stroller, a sleeping 3 yr old and a backpack onto a bus at mid-day nap or night got old
While it saved me money from having to rent a car, next time I'll pay for the convience of simply being able to walk to my comforable car when I want to.
And yes, even at the MK I'll walk to/from the TTC to/from my car as I find it faster and easier with the stroller.
1) sitting there for 10-15 mins waiting for a bus at the AKL in the morning with a 3yr old got old.
2) sitting there for 15-30 mins with 50 other people waiting for a bus at a park at night with a 3 yr old got old
3) carrying a stroller, a sleeping 3 yr old and a backpack onto a bus at mid-day nap or night got old
While it saved me money from having to rent a car, next time I'll pay for the convience of simply being able to walk to my comforable car when I want to.
And yes, even at the MK I'll walk to/from the TTC to/from my car as I find it faster and easier with the stroller.
Pooh Lover
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Riding those sometimes annoying, packed to the gills buses are part of the "Magic." I can totally understand why a family deep in day baggage and strollers would benefit from a car. For the two of us its kind of nice to drop the car keys and leave the driving to anyone else. I don't listen to my usual music while at WDW and I guess I actually look forward to the sometimes corny music they play on the buses...its all part of the complete immersion into WDW. Walking a 1/4 mile to my furnace of a car and trying to remember the right roads to get me back to my resort just doesn't appeal to us but I completely understand others enjoying the freedom a car would give you.
c-one
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Occupy Deluxe Resort Parking Spaces?
G00fyDad
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Never really paid attention to that as getting out of the park would have been the same regardless of what mode of transportation we took. As for getting home in the evening, taking the bus would have been insanity for us. Sweat, strangers, and stank. Ewww. Not to mention taking a lot longer.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Yeah. It was just a lame attempt at being funny. I didn't realize people would get upset and im not really encouraging it. Plus it really doesn't work. In reality the Contemporary is harder to get into than a military base. We were staying at BLT and my father-in-law drove over and came out to dinner with us. He had to give them our name and room number to get in and they gave him a 3 hour parking pass and told him he would be towed if he stayed any longer.
backinaction
Well-Known Member
I'm loving the sound of that. Occupy MK
powlessfamily4
Well-Known Member
When we tested it, we were leaving DHS after Fantasmic. My brother arrived at the resort via the bus 38 minutes before I did. I drove my vehicle. The tram is what took us so long. It was not even that difficult getting out of the parking lot. The tram was the HUGE slow down.
powlessfamily4
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Plus when you drive your own car you can toot and laugh about it and blame it on one of your kids. On a bus you have to keep a stern face and look around to act like it was someone else.
ROFL!!! Wow! You must know my husband!
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
It might also have a little to do with the time of the year we always go as well. We go to WDW in October (sometimes Sept.) and it is never really that packed. We get there at opening and park close, then when we leave (typically open and close a park) we just walk to the car, even at MK. I think we may have taking the tram once in all of our trips.
Not sure if this is meant as a joke at all, or not, but as someone who has not stayed at a deluxe resort as of yet, it is wrong to go to those resort and take up the PRIVATE parking spaces that those guests have paid for. Last time I checked, you had to actually be doing business of some kind at a resort to actually park there, thus not public.
You can make an argument about trying something like this with DTD, since those spaces are public and offer bus transportation places, but this is still wrong, because it's cheating the system.
As for the topic at hand, I think buses, by and large, are the way to go on property, I've never actually tried a car, while on property, though. I'd say if the line is long for a bus and you must go to that park, a car may be better, but otherwise, a bus is the way to go.
LaughingGravy
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The big difference I see is if you are like us, commando style, doing the parks opening to close, the buses are overwhelmed at opening and even more-so at closing.
For us, it makes more sense to do the car. We're OK with dealing with lines if we're going on a ride/attraction.
At the end of the night when everyone wants to just get back to their rooms, everyone is cranky, so we remove ourselves from the cranky masses to our own air conditioned car with our own music, or simply the quiet of the engine and a/c. That really makes a difference, especially since we do the value resorts and can park very close to our room. We also shop around, getting a nice but inexpensive rental on-site, which will pick me up at the on-site hotel and also drop me off. We use DME for the airport.
Now, if you are of the vacation mindset where you take a break in the day, start the parks an hour or so after opening and do water parks, yes, the less crowded bus times are the way to go.
My brother is DVC so they do things much more leisurely than we do, as they go every year.
For us, it makes more sense to do the car. We're OK with dealing with lines if we're going on a ride/attraction.
At the end of the night when everyone wants to just get back to their rooms, everyone is cranky, so we remove ourselves from the cranky masses to our own air conditioned car with our own music, or simply the quiet of the engine and a/c. That really makes a difference, especially since we do the value resorts and can park very close to our room. We also shop around, getting a nice but inexpensive rental on-site, which will pick me up at the on-site hotel and also drop me off. We use DME for the airport.
Now, if you are of the vacation mindset where you take a break in the day, start the parks an hour or so after opening and do water parks, yes, the less crowded bus times are the way to go.
My brother is DVC so they do things much more leisurely than we do, as they go every year.