ART shuttle not reliable in the morning for rope drop

[vspenn]

Hello,
Just wanted to share my experience about using ART shuttle in the mornings. I was staying at Delta hotel in Garden Grove. It's on the Grove District Line for ART shuttle. There was a scheduled shuttle at my stop for 7:02am, which was going to be perfect for rope drop. the bus didn't come until 7:28am, seriously impacting my morning plans. previous shuttle was at that stop at 6:35am.
I spoke with a more seasoned traveler and she said that over the weekend and on mondays, they have two busses running in the mornings, but the rest of the week it's just one bus that makes the circle. This makes sense that it took one bus an hour to do the full route circle this was wednesday)
On the upside, for the return, I got to the stop at DL at 11:55pm and there was a bus just arriving. It was also showing another bus for this route in 16 minutes, so there's definitely buses if you stay all the way till closing.

 

[pennym]

We had the same issue when we tried using ART. Waste of time, we almost always ended up walking because the schedule was not a schedule. We also noticed that when we caught it back in the afternoon, the driver didn't do the whole route, so likely people waiting at other hotels never got picked up too.