Value Resorts at Disney...

[AVeryDifferentDisneyDad]

So... I'm chalking this one up to "lesson learned."

Been to WDW 6 times, stayed on-site 5 of those 6. However, never at a Value Resort.

Don't think I'll do it again. Staying at All Star Music. Nice hotel, wonderful restaurant, great pool. Negatives? Room is very small, but we're hardly in it much, so we cope. Noise. We brought a mini air purifier that hums so we drown most of it out.

Biggest complaint? The BUSSES! How in the WORLD does Disney think that one bus every 15-20 minutes will move the 100's of folks waiting in the All Star lines coming home from parks and DTD??? The bus stops at all 3 VALUE Resorts... Been here 3 days and every bus has been packed and with people left behind. So my $100 a night means packed buses and longer waits?

Can't tell you how many people I heard fussing and complaining. Then again, maybe Disney wins in the end, because the next time these people come - and most WILL come back - they will spend MORE money to stay in a nicer resort.

Hhhmmmm..... Think I have been hoodoo'd.

=-)

 

[Master Yoda]

Well, you could always tell the resort guard you're going to eat at one of those resorts close to the park. Between my experiences in doing it years ago and friends who've gone recently, no one checked to see if I had an ADR/give me some kind of temp pass good for only an hour or 2.

It depends on both the resort and the time of year.

No one is really going to care if you are going to one of the values or moderate resorts pretty much any day of the year. While it is "technically" not allowed, it is not enough of an issue for them to do anything about it.

You will find a very different story at the monorail and Epcot resorts. Show up to one of the monorail resorts during peak or holiday season and they will often turn you around if you do not have a dining reservation or are staying at the resort.

When we went to the Poly for fireworks on July 3rd a number of years ago we were required to show our dining reservation since we were not on the list at the guard shack (made the reservation the day of). Without it we would have not been allowed to park there.

I have personally seen cars being towed from the Contemporary parking lot during the week between Christmas and New Years that were parked there illegally.

The short and skinny of it is staying at one Disney resort does not give you a free pass to park at all of them. Most of the time they don't care and will look the other way. Things can change though when the parking lot hits capacity.

 

[Mumeof3]

We have stayed at Port Orleans Riverside awful buses,but have stayed at POP and no issues at all only one stop and your there,buses right after each other.....staying at POP again next month.