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[Goofyernmost]

I just did a quick check on car rental prices at MCO.

It ranged, at various vendors from $26 per day to $56. per day. That later was for a Mercedes and the smallest was a Compact car. So if you are going to stay just onsite, with no outside ventures you will have to get from MCO to there one way or the other and it won't be for free and will be on an individual in party rate. Anytime you want to go anywhere offsite it will cost you at least that for a daily trip. You will also be paying premium rates for everything you buy onsite. It seems to me that if someone is willing to pay $200 to $400 per night to stay onsite another $100 per day for a vehicle shouldn't be a problem. (Rental and parking) I have never paid over $70. per night for a room (a special at Uni) but I average $50. per night at the other quality hotels on the outside of WDW. I don't know how much it would cost to go Uber from WDW to Uni, but I'll bet you will have saved very little by the time it is done. As you can see when you look at the difference between cost to get the FREE ride (not free anymore) to Disney and what I pay offsite I have a whole lot left over after paying all the fees to park, gas, lodging and meals. And I don't wait for buses (timing is everything with them) or wasted a lot of time going from Resort to Resort. Never have to stand and can come and go anytime I please. No calling people to pick me up.

To me an argument can be made for staying onsite, if the immersion thing is important to you, but make-believe will never be worth that much money to me. As I said before, now that I live in NC car rentals are no longer a factor. So whatever floats your boat is what you should do.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

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We have not exchanged greetings in quite awhile.

 

[Figgy1]

I just did a quick check on car rental prices at MCO.

It ranged, at various vendors from $26 per day to $56. per day. That later was for a Mercedes and the smallest was a Compact car. So if you are going to stay just onsite, with no outside ventures you will have to get from MCO to there one way or the other and it won't be for free and will be on an individual in party rate. Anytime you want to go anywhere offsite it will cost you at least that for a daily trip. You will also be paying premium rates for everything you buy onsite. It seems to me that if someone is willing to pay $200 to $400 per night to stay onsite another $100 per day for a vehicle shouldn't be a problem. (Rental and parking) I have never paid over $70. per night for a room (a special at Uni) but I average $50. per night at the other quality hotels on the outside of WDW. I don't know how much it would cost to go Uber from WDW to Uni, but I'll bet you will have saved very little by the time it is done. As you can see when you look at the difference between cost to get the FREE ride (not free anymore) to Disney and what I pay offsite I have a whole lot left over after paying all the fees to park, gas, lodging and meals. And I don't wait for buses (timing is everything with them) or wasted a lot of time going from Resort to Resort. Never have to stand and can come and go anytime I please. No calling people to pick me up.

To me an argument can be made for staying onsite, if the immersion thing is important to you, but make-believe will never be worth that much money to me. As I said before, now that I live in NC car rentals are no longer a factor. So whatever floats your boat is what you should do.

I just priced UNI for August in a suite 150 per night 70 per night just off site but the boys would be on a pull out couch

 

[Goofyernmost]

I just priced UNI for August in a suite 150 per night 70 per night just off site but the boys would be on a pull out couch

That's the one thing that I don't really think about is the number in the group. or the need for more space. Car rentals cost the same no matter how many people sit in the seats. When you have to start thinking about suites because of family size that adds a whole new dimension to it. But a room with two or up to 4 usually cost the same as for one. I stayed at the Endless Summer Universal Resort. At the time it had only been open for about a month. However, any directly associated park property will be more expensive. I only did that one because it was dirt cheap. (comparatively)

 

[Songbird76]

I still wouldn't rent a car unless you truly needed one. A car rental, unless you've got just two or three people and can make due on a midsize, can run you $400-$500 per week unless you get some sort of deal with your airline. Then many hotels, not just Disney, charge parking, so that can run $10-$25 on top of what you're already paying, though I've seen some hotels charge more. Then amusement parks charge for parking, so you'll pay an additional $10-$25 daily on top of that. Meanwhile, if you stayed on Disney property or another nearby hotel that had transportation, if you had a family of four with luggage, you could get a shuttle for $85 each way and then use Lyft/Uber if you wanted to see other stuff, avoid the parking fees, and you wouldn't need to drive. Meats also has a thing called attraction transfer, so if you didn't want to stay at Disney the entire time and you wanted to go to Uni, that's still cheaper than renting a car.

We're planning California this year as long as restrictions there ease, but we're probably going to still use Super Shuttle to get to the hotel and then Lyft if we want to get around. It runs cheaper than a rental car.

That only works if you're willing to use ride sharing, which my husband won't. He refuses to use Uber or Lyft at all. So if he's there, we'd have to rent a car for at least part of the time. That's what we did in 2019...we used Magical express to get to Disney, then on our last day, he used ME to get back to the airport to get the rental car for our Universal part. What is "meats" ? Or is that a typo and it's supposed to be "mears" ?

 

[StarWarsGirl]

That only works if you're willing to use ride sharing, which my husband won't. He refuses to use Uber or Lyft at all. So if he's there, we'd have to rent a car for at least part of the time. That's what we did in 2019...we used Magical express to get to Disney, then on our last day, he used ME to get back to the airport to get the rental car for our Universal part. What is "meats" ? Or is that a typo and it's supposed to be "mears" ?

Mears, yes. Sometimes the autocorrect on my phone fails me.

 

[Figgy1]

That's the one thing that I don't really think about is the number in the group. or the need for more space. Car rentals cost the same no matter how many people sit in the seats. When you have to start thinking about suites because of family size that adds a whole new dimension to it. But a room with two or up to 4 usually cost the same as for one. I stayed at the Endless Summer Universal Resort. At the time it had only been open for about a month. However, any directly associated park property will be more expensive. I only did that one because it was dirt cheap. (comparatively)

I can sleep in the same room with they boys for a night 3 max and then, nope just nope. 4 people me being the smallest is beyond tight in a regular hotel room. That being said SOG wasn't bad at all for a "regular" room as they're among the biggest "on property"

 

[Goofyernmost]

I can sleep in the same room with they boys for a night 3 max and then, nope just nope. 4 people me being the smallest is beyond tight in a regular hotel room. That being said SOG wasn't bad at all for a "regular" room as they're among the biggest "on property"

If you could leave the confines of your cell, are you still qualified to use SOG?

 

[Figgy1]

If you could leave the confines of your cell, are you still qualified to use SOG?

I'm not a ferret or am I?

 

[Goofyernmost]

I'm not a ferret or am I?

Wouldn't even a younger sister of a Ferret, still be a Ferretess. I guess I should have said, as soon as you get out of imposed house arrest.

 

[donaldtoo]

I'm sure you saw city lights that were far away...who knows...there are other islands out there, or venezuela, columbia, etc. I'm not sure how far you would be able to see lights across the water. I bet it was beautiful, though. I always loved coming home from the North on the interstate because where I grew up, we lived on the ranch about 40 miles South of the town. When we came through on the interstate, we could see the lights of Gillette in the distance before we drove through it and it was always so pretty to me. I loved city lights after dark.

This reminds me of when we used to travel from No Cal to Texas and back every summer in our camper to visit friends and relatives, back in the early-mid 70’s.
On the second day of our drive home, we always started from a KOA campground in Las Cruces, NM in the mornin’ and headed for our stop for that night in Indio, CA.
The twinkling lights of Indio at dusk in the distance as we emerged from the mountains on I-10 meant we were not spending another night in the hot camper, but, were always treated to a nice motel room with A/C on the last night of our 3-week-long trip...good times...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

but Marie doesn't have magical powers

I disagree...!!!
Emmy still calls the Marie I drew for her for her 2nd birthday “My beautiful kitty...!!!!!



As well as loving the silly bear (that I’ve posted before) that I was in the midst of carving more than a few years ago (well before we even knew Emmy was coming into our lives), that Megan thought was “So cute, as is!!!”...!!!!!

 

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