DGD arrives at 4:00. We have an ADR at 1900 Park Fare for 6:40. She will not have any luggage only a carryon (we will be bringing her suitcase with us). We are thinking we should take a taxi from airport to CR Resort (we will already be checked in as we arrrive the day before). Then if we are tight on time we could have the taxi just take us directly to the GF for our ADR. I would like to get to stop at CB first though. Am I correct in thinking we should pass on the ME and just take a Taxi?? Just want to make sure that the 6:40ADR is possible if we do the Taxi.
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I'm confused ...
Are you staying at Caribbean Beach Resort? How are you getting from the airport to your resort on your arrival day? Are you then going BACK to the airport the next day to meet your daughter? When you typed "CR Resort" was that a typo or did you mean the Contemporary?
The reason I ask about how you are getting to your resort on your own arrival day ... if you're taking DME from the airport to your resort, then you will NOT be entitled to take a DME bus from the airport to your resort a second time.
Even if her flight arrives on-time at 4 p.m., it might be a little tight to get to GF by 6:40 p.m. ... not by any means impossible, but a little tight. The average time from airplane landing to resort via DME is 70 minutes. If her flight lands right on-time at 4, chances are she's not walking off the plane 'til 4:10. If DME then takes the average of 70 minutes, then you're arriving at CBR at 5:20 p.m. Then depending how far your room is from the Custom House, it could be 5-10 minutes to get to your room, then maybe 5 minutes for her to freshen up, then a walk to your nearby bus stop, then up to a 20 minute wait for a bus to Magic Kingdom ... so it could be as late as 5:55 p.m. before you even board the MK bus. Then a 10-15 minute drive depending on traffic, so it's 6:10 p.m. Then a walk to the boat dock for the motor launch to GF, and you might wait 10-15 minutes for that, so now we're talking that it could be 6:25 p.m., and then the walk from the dock to the restaurant ....
So as you can see, it's do-able, but tight. Of course, if you have a room in Barbados right next door to the Custom House, and if your MK bus pulls up just as you walk up at the bus stop, then that shaves 25 minutes off the time, putting you at GF at a comfy 6:00 p.m. But things could go longer, also.
Like I said, possible but a little tight.
The main time saver with DME (as compared with a taxi) is that you get to skip baggage claim. But since she's not checking any bags, this advantage is erased. A taxi will definitely be faster for you guys ... it's just a matter of whether you want to spend the money. A less expensive taxi ride would be from CBR to Grand Floridian ... you could hop off the DME bus and have Bell Services store her carry-on, which cuts out the time it takes to walk to your room and wait for a MK bus and all that ...
So you have options.
But like I said, if you already took DME the day before to get to your resort, then the DME option is off the table for you for the next day. Your daughter is entitled to a DME ride from the airport on HER arrival day, but you aren't entitled to take the same ride twice.
I hope this all makes sense.