Dining onsite, Staying offsite?

[wdwislife]

What is the easiest way to still enjoy great meals at the WDW parks and hotels, without the convenience of Disney transport?

 

[Pink Mouse Ears]

A few options-

1. Drive Resorts will let you park there to eat. Show them your ADR at the gate.

2. Take a cab

3. If your off-site place has a bus, take it to the parks. You can eat at the parks or you can take a monorail or boat to a resort to eat. Heres some places you can get to from each park:

MGM and Epcot (walking or boat):
Boardwalk
Yacht/Beach Club
Swan/Dolphin

DTD (boat):
Old Key West
Port Orleans Riverside

MK (monorail or boat):
Contemporary
Polynesian
Grand Floridian
Wilderness Lodge (boat only)

Remember, if you want to eat in the park, you will have to pay admission for that day. If you just take a bus to the park, then take a boat or the monorail somewhere, you won't have to pay admission (with the exception of Epcot, since you have to walk thru Epcot and out the back gate to get to the places listed above.)

 

[Pink Mouse Ears]

Also remember you can take Disney buses to get from place to place (but you have to get yourself on property first.)

 

[wdwislife]

Also remember you can take Disney buses to get from place to place (but you have to get yourself on property first.)

Thanks! I wasn't sure if you needed a KTTW to use them!
We've always been scared away from the resort restaurants when we stay offsite, but for my Feb. 2012 trip I'm insisting we hit some of the ones I've heard so much about!

 

[Pink Mouse Ears]

Thanks! I wasn't sure if you needed a KTTW to use them!
We've always been scared away from the resort restaurants when we stay offsite, but for my Feb. 2012 trip I'm insisting we hit some of the ones I've heard so much about!

You definitely should! Other than Epcot, we rarely eat at the parks...I like resort dining a lot more.