Braindead? Yet, you cannot see that this isn't a restaurant like you might find in your neighborhood, this is freaking Disney. They have made it a point to tell everyone that the only way to experience Disney is to lock yourself into their ungated community and, as they say, rely totally on them for all their needs including transportation.
Even though some like to "shield" Disney from any responsibility, at the very least, they have the responsibility to inform their captive audience of what will be expected from whatever venue they chose to throw away their money. Since this particular requirement only involves a few people making sure that those people understand what is needed if they miss that normal opportunity is not even questionable. It is not that the option isn't there, it is that not everyone is aware of it and might not know if the DS option is workable. I'm surprised that you would call me braindead when you seem to have a problem grasping the point. I'm not advocating that Disney supply a limousine for them just that it be stated in any restaurant it applies too, to make sure everyone foolish enough to throw away their money in a Disney owned or sponsored restaurant how to get back to their resort without ANY degree of panic. Proper information solves a great many man made problems. If that's your idea of Braindead then I sure as hell don't want to know what your definition is of genius!
Yes braindead, as in unthinking, as in being too dumb or lazy to figure out how you need to get from point A to point B. As in being reduced to skills of a second grader who has to be told where to line up, where to get on a bus and how they are getting to and from school. While i am lucky enough to work with numerous people i would characterize as geniuses in their fields, i am not looking for special education/training/skills, nor does it take any to know how you are getting home at night.
These restaurants ARE like any normal restaurant that you might visit. Unless ANY restaurant is physically in your hotel, or within walking distance you need to know how you are getting home after your meal is done. Disney, no business in fact, has any responsibility to hold your hand and figure that out for you.
As to your moronic "captive audience" statement, I, and many others enjoy staying on WDW property. I have had just as much fun visiting WDW when staying on good neighbor properties, or at the Four Seasons, or at Marriot World. I, and many others who have relatives or second homes in Florida enjoy WDW staying in their own homes. Hell many time when we do stay on property we drive down so we have a car. And we have access to uber/lyft, ect. WDW isn't taking people's passports and holding them hostage when they get on property.
No matter how a person gets to the restaurant, and no matter where they are staying, THEY not the restaurant, need to figure out how to get there, and how to get back. Its no different from being at any other vacation resort or Hotel. If your not eating at your hotel, you can either take your own transport to the restaurant, you can take hotel offered transport, you can take public transportation, or you can take private transport. All those options are yours to make...as is the responsibility to figure out which one works best for you...and how each one works at all. You remind me of some of the freshmen that had come to Boston for college from NYC, and complained after getting stuck outside a club at 2AM, that no one told them that the T shut down at 12:30.
The fact that you are using such derogatory language "captive audience" and "everyone foolish enough to throw away their money in a
Disney owned" shows more about your subjective bias than anything else.
