sbkline
Well-Known Member
We are 4 weeks out from our trip, and today I had to get new tires on the van, as the steering wheel has been shimeying lately. This got me to thinking that with all the people who drive long distances to WDW, if Disney could make good money by opening an auto service shop on property. What if we got all the way to WDW and we had a tire blowout, or the brakes needed replaced, etc? Now we have to leave property to go to an auto shop and waste a whole Disney day waiting for our car, unless we want to take a taxi back to property and risk leaving the vehicle in the parking lot of the auto shop overnight. I got to thinking that it would be very convenient to resort guests to be able to take their vehicle to a WDW auto shop, and leave it there and then take WDW transportation back to their resort, theme park, or wherever. Such an auto shop could have a big parking lot, parking garage, or whatever, so they could park your car when it's done and you can leave it there until a convenient time to go get it.
On our 2004 trip, we were on our way back from visiting Bush Gardens, and my brakes went out on the way back, as in metal on metal grinding. We finally made it back to our motel, having to go slow and very carefully. The next morning, I had to take it up the road to get the brakes replaced and we didn't get to the park until noon. Granted, in that case, we were staying off property anyway, so it's a moot point in that instance. But what if we were staying on property and that happened? Wouldn't it be convenient to just take it in that morning (or even that night, depending on how late they had someone working) and just leave it and go about your business using WDW transportation, and just be able to come back at your leisure to pick up your vehicle? This would be better than having to leave the car parked until the end of the trip, then delay the trip home to wait on a car job. Or to miss a park day having to tend to automotive problems.
I'm just thinking of the vast amount of people who drive down from all over the country, and how much business that could be as people might want to get oil changes for the road trip home, or emergency jobs like I just described.
Anyone else think something like this could do well at WDW? Anyone know if it's ever been considered?
Of course, what I am envisioning is a huge place capable of servicing many cars at the same time, given the huge volume of road tripping vacationers staying on the grounds, and a huge parking lot to park the vehicles while waiting for the owners to come pick them up. But they have plenty of space to put such a facility. What do you all think?
On our 2004 trip, we were on our way back from visiting Bush Gardens, and my brakes went out on the way back, as in metal on metal grinding. We finally made it back to our motel, having to go slow and very carefully. The next morning, I had to take it up the road to get the brakes replaced and we didn't get to the park until noon. Granted, in that case, we were staying off property anyway, so it's a moot point in that instance. But what if we were staying on property and that happened? Wouldn't it be convenient to just take it in that morning (or even that night, depending on how late they had someone working) and just leave it and go about your business using WDW transportation, and just be able to come back at your leisure to pick up your vehicle? This would be better than having to leave the car parked until the end of the trip, then delay the trip home to wait on a car job. Or to miss a park day having to tend to automotive problems.
I'm just thinking of the vast amount of people who drive down from all over the country, and how much business that could be as people might want to get oil changes for the road trip home, or emergency jobs like I just described.
Anyone else think something like this could do well at WDW? Anyone know if it's ever been considered?
Of course, what I am envisioning is a huge place capable of servicing many cars at the same time, given the huge volume of road tripping vacationers staying on the grounds, and a huge parking lot to park the vehicles while waiting for the owners to come pick them up. But they have plenty of space to put such a facility. What do you all think?
