Create a Resort Hopper package?

[DISForumMember]

Hi, my first post!
Anyone stay at two or more resorts during one Disney trip?
All but sold on staying at Fort Wilderness Lodge for a 5 day Disney trip September 2016.
However, more I read about the Polynesian, I am interested in the experience for the Monorail to Epcot.

Stayed at a Fort Wilderness Cabin at the Campground 4 years ago and enjoyed the experience. Boat ride to MK and rode the parade horses at the stable made it worth it. (The cast members leading the ride shared lots of fascinating behind the scene operations and family planning tips.)
What dunced the "serenity-now" experience was the bus ride to all the other parks.

Thought about coordinating stays. Wilderness Lodge for boat rides to MK. Then hop over and stay at the Poly for Monorail to at least Epcot.

Family of three with an 8 year old...
Thoughts and concerns??

 

[Hopefully]

Hi, my first post!
Anyone stay at two or more resorts during one Disney trip?
All but sold on staying at Fort Wilderness Deluxe for a 5 day Disney trip September 2016.
However, more I read about the Polynesian, I am interested in the experience for the Monorail to Epcot.

Stayed at a Wilderness Cabin 4 years ago and enjoyed the experience. Boat ride to MK and rode the parade horses at the stable made it worth it. (The cast members leading the ride shared lots of fascinating behind the scene operations and family planning tips.)
What dunced the "serenity-now" experience was the bus ride to all the other parks.

Thought about coordinating stays. Wilderness Lodges for boat rides to MK. Then hop over and stay at the Poly for Monorail to at least Epcot.

Family of three with an 8 year old...
Thoughts and concerns??

Welcome to the DIS!!! Lots of friendly helpful folks here to help you.
Lots of folks here do what is known on the DIS as "split stays", more than 1 resort per trip.
But I am confused by your post.
I don't think Fort Wilderness has Deluxe accommodations - that would more likely be Wilderness Lodge. But later in your post you do mention staying in the Cabins in the past and that would be Fort Wilderness Campgrounds.
Epcot monorail access is available from the TTC. You can walk to the TTC station from the Poly and it is an easy walk. But any hotel that accesses the monorail will go to the TTC where you transfer to the Epcot monorail. So in theory, you could stay at either Wilderness Lodge or Fort Wilderness and boat to the CR and hop the monorail. A longer commute for sure, but possible. Or also stay at the CR or GF, all on the monorail line.
I don't like split stays. It is a personal thing. I am a "nester", I like to unpack and settle in once and for all.
But if I were to do a split stay I would choose a MK resort - ie Wilderness Lodge or the Cabins at Fort Wilderness, and an Epcot area resort ie BC/YC or BWI. I would focus on the MK and AK (only bus needed the whole stay) will in the MK area, and do DHS and Epcot - both of which can be walked to or a short boat ride from the Epcot area resorts.
Have Fun Planning.

 

[loves to dive]

There is a split stay discussion, just about everything you ever wanted to know about split stays. I don't have a link but I'm sure you can search split stay and find it.

I do split stays often, I start out at a moderate resort for a night or two then move over to a deluxe. I do it for a number of reasons, I'm on a quest to try all the resorts is one. The other is that I tend to stay in the Epcot resorts and since I drive down, it just doesn't make sense for me to pay the price of a deluxe for the arrival day since I normally don't get there until around 3:30 or so. I normally do two nights, one for arrival night then the next day I plan my AK day, since no matter where you stay you have to take a bus to there. That way, I have all my bus riding done since at an Epcot resort you can walk or boat to both Epcot and HS and monorail to MK. If you do a split stay general wisdom is to do the less expensive resort first. Also keep in mind Disney does not recognize split stays, they are two different reservations so if you do dining plan it has to be treated that way.

 

[bumbershoot]

You can't create a package with two different resorts. Each resort stay is its own reservation with its own reservation number.

If you want a package at each, you would want to do a package deal with tickets for the first one (and make sure the tickets cover the whole time you'll be at WDW), then call in to request a "ticketless package" for the next.

 

[DISForumMember]

Ah, split stays is the term! Yes, that will help with the online search.
Thank you for the comments, thoughts and feedback everyone!
I corrected the resort typos (I think) in the original post.

The logistics and need for multiple bookings for a split stay do make sense...even if its not a conveient opportunity.
Hmmm....

 

[mousefan73]

You can book resort nights and park tickets separately.. Both are not dependent on the other. You can also book a room offer discount without any park tickets.
You can book a "package" which is booking room and tickets at the same time.
Where it gets tricky is if you book a complete package with special offers, promos, or free dining. Here you are usually given a minimum night stay or need to book tickets for a min or have to include park hoppers if part of that package. Here though you have the min. night stay but you can always add park days.

So for example we book a 5 night free dining package at one resort and then a room only for 2 nights.. We make sure our free dining then has park tickets for 7 days . We still only get food form 5 nights.. Where you need to do the math is if it makes sense to do two free diniing packages.. because each package you need to start with the base ticket prices... park tickets get cheaper per day as your package gets longer.. with a new promo package with a park ticket min. you start over with pricing.

I hope I made sense.

 

[Babsy]

FYI: Wilderness Lodge is currently undergoing significant construction. I wouldn't recommend a stay here at this time. I would look at the Poly, GF or CR. You can boat to the MK from either the Poly or GF as well as monorail to MK and to Epcot. Cr has a walk to MK option as well as the monorail to the MK and Epcot.

If I were splitting a stay from a MK resort to another for convenience to Epcot, I would look at splitting the stay with either the BWI or the YC/BC. You can walk from either of those to both Epcot and the DHS. Plus, Epcot resorts are generally less expensive than the MK resorts.

Good luck!

 

[Shellyb84]

Hi, my first post!
Anyone stay at two or more resorts during one Disney trip?
All but sold on staying at Fort Wilderness Lodge for a 5 day Disney trip September 2016.
However, more I read about the Polynesian, I am interested in the experience for the Monorail to Epcot.

Stayed at a Fort Wilderness Cabin at the Campground 4 years ago and enjoyed the experience. Boat ride to MK and rode the parade horses at the stable made it worth it. (The cast members leading the ride shared lots of fascinating behind the scene operations and family planning tips.)
What dunced the "serenity-now" experience was the bus ride to all the other parks.

Thought about coordinating stays. Wilderness Lodge for boat rides to MK. Then hop over and stay at the Poly for Monorail to at least Epcot.

Family of three with an 8 year old...
Thoughts and concerns??

Which parks will you be spending the most time at? If it's MK and Epcot, I would just stick with the Poly. You can ride the monorail to both or it's also a very nice ferry ride from Poly to MK.

 

[AllieBoo]

You could also do a split stay with Poly and either BC or YC. At BC/YC you can walk to Epcot and walk or boat to DHS

 

[DISForumMember]

Thanks everyone for the kind replies and great ideas!!

 

[P2KMommy]

What a great idea!

 

[Disney Khi]

I just did a split stay at GF and BC. It was our first split stay, and it was fine. I usually just stay BC, but was taking some first timers and thought that they might like the MK resort area, and I was traveling with someone using a wheelchair so I thought it would be easier to use the wheelchair.

We did end up taking the monorail to Epcot one day, and it was easy. I would prefer just walking to Epcot from one of the Epcot-area resorts, however.

I would do a split stay again, but I found I really missed a long stay at BC. If you don't have a favorite resort, it might not matter to you.

Happy planning!