DTD Marketplace Bus Stop Closed

[Feralpeg]

For those of you visiting WDW soon, I just spotted this sign at DTD this afternoon. I went over to the stop and checked. The marketplace bus stop is currently closed.

 

[Laren]

oh my goodness, that's a LONG walk!!!

I'm so glad that we didn't have to do that walk when we had to go to Team Mickey to get my dad tennis shoes since it's the only place on property that carries them for men! Thank you so much for the heads up!!!

Laren

 

[Amy&Dan]

Oh man, I feel really sorry for the people who trek over there and then have to go ALL the way over to the other one. I guess they'll know when they arrive but that is really inconvenient.

 

[Mulan82]

yeah, it closed for the bus stops to get refurbished on the 17th when we were down there. it was a long walk. especially when all you wanted to do was crawl into bed..

 

[Tink215]

Thank you so much, glad i am taking my car its a long walk form the Market Place to Pleasure Island......
will be there in 6 days.....

 

[Shasta]

By Monday, Disney will realize a 45% drop in revenue at the Marketplace and come up with a solution. This is silly. The buses can have curb service instead with a simple temporary kiosk, sign etc. within the parking lot entrance.

 

[JenniBugInPink]

oh my goodness, that's a LONG walk!!!

I just heard this info on one of the podcasts a few days ago, and I have one thing to say:

"Oh, Taxi!"

 

[Aquagirl]

Oh great the whole time that I am there.

 

[mking624]

Ok seriously...exactly how much farther is it to walk from the marketplace stop to the opposite side of marketplace then it is to walk from the PI stop to marketplace and back? A bit further but not all that much. The stop closed while we were there. There was a lady on our bus throwing a fit at the bus driver about it being closed about how inconvenient it was and what a waste of time it is blah blah blah...then she's demanding to know how long it will take her to walk there. I chimed in saying it would only be a few minutes, it's all connected. She was too busy convincing herself that it would take her half an hour to walk to marketplace. ZShe got off at the PI stop and bolted to marketplace. DH and I got off at the PI stop and casually strolled to the Christmas shop that's right by the marketplace bus stop. We did not rush, just strolled along. It took us all of 6 minutes (yes, we timed it). What made us laugh was when we saw her in the Christmas shop with us. All that getting worked up for nothing.

So I'll just remind everyone what I told her...it's all connected, it takes mere minutes to get from the PI stop all the way to the other side of Marketplace. It's not that different than if you went from the Marketplace bus stop all the way to the other end of Marketplace and back again (which is what we have done to be able to get on the bus and not left waiting at the PI stop at night as full buses pass by). It's not a big deal.

 

[Passions71203]

By Monday, Disney will realize a 45% drop in revenue at the Marketplace and come up with a solution. This is silly. The buses can have curb service instead with a simple temporary kiosk, sign etc. within the parking lot entrance.

i agree

 

[mking624]

By Monday, Disney will realize a 45% drop in revenue at the Marketplace and come up with a solution. This is silly. The buses can have curb service instead with a simple temporary kiosk, sign etc. within the parking lot entrance.

A 45% drop in revenue? That many people seriously cannot walk the extra couple of minutes? Because that's all it really takes unless you're walking at a snail's pace. Somehow I doubt that it will really decrease revenue so drastically.

 

[seashoreCM]

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That many people seriously cannot walk...

(Ph.D. in retailing needed to figure out the on-topicness) The word is "impulse". If supermarkets did not put high profit items at the front ends of aisles and at eye-height in the middles of aisles, sales of those items would plummet 45% or thereabouts.

Now what if the Pleasure Island stop needed to be refurbished? How many people would walk from Disney Quest or Cirque' or House of Blues all the way to Marketplace to catch the bus. Oh! there's the old West Side stop that could be re-opened.

Disney hints: http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[mking624]

(Ph.D. in retailing needed to figure out the on-topicness) The word is "impulse". If supermarkets did not put high profit items at the front ends of aisles and at eye-height in the middles of aisles, sales of those items would plummet 45% or thereabouts.

Now what if the Pleasure Island stop needed to be refurbished? How many people would walk from Disney Quest or Cirque' or House of Blues all the way to Marketplace to catch the bus. Oh! there's the old West Side stop that could be re-opened.

Disney hints: http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

For the record, we walked from Disney Quest "all the way" to the Marketplace stop just a week and a half ago. You do way more walking when you're at a park. I mean seriously, think about it....it's not like the parks have multiple stops...in fact with all the parks, it takes at least a couple minutes of walking just to get to the gate, then you need to add extra minutes just to get to what you want to do. And yet you don't see people complaining about how terrible it is that the stop is "so far away" and "inconvenient" and how now their revenue will drop 45%. All that walking in the parks and now the fuss about walking just a couple minutes extra at DTD? Again I bring up the example of the people who get off at the Marketplace stop, walk to the other side of Marketplace and then come back to the Marketplace stop because of wanting to avoid waiting with a 2nd crowd at the PI stop. There are many people who do that. So what is the difference here? And let's talk about the West Side stop that is no longer in use. Do you think revenue dropped by 45% when that stop closed? Doesn't seem to be....45% is a huge number in retail and most places would be in danger of closing their businesses if revenue took a sharp drop like that. Yet West Side seems to be doing pretty well for itself...probably because people eventually realized that it's not a big deal to walk from the PI stop to the West Side...and it takes about as much time to walk there as it does to Marketplace.

 

[Shasta]

The quote was fixed. Disregard this post.

 

[Barb]

Ok seriously...exactly how much farther is it to walk from the marketplace stop to the opposite side of marketplace then it is to walk from the PI stop to marketplace and back? A bit further but not all that much. The stop closed while we were there. There was a lady on our bus throwing a fit at the bus driver about it being closed about how inconvenient it was and what a waste of time it is blah blah blah...then she's demanding to know how long it will take her to walk there. I chimed in saying it would only be a few minutes, it's all connected. She was too busy convincing herself that it would take her half an hour to walk to marketplace. ZShe got off at the PI stop and bolted to marketplace. DH and I got off at the PI stop and casually strolled to the Christmas shop that's right by the marketplace bus stop. We did not rush, just strolled along. It took us all of 6 minutes (yes, we timed it). What made us laugh was when we saw her in the Christmas shop with us. All that getting worked up for nothing.

So I'll just remind everyone what I told her...it's all connected, it takes mere minutes to get from the PI stop all the way to the other side of Marketplace. It's not that different than if you went from the Marketplace bus stop all the way to the other end of Marketplace and back again (which is what we have done to be able to get on the bus and not left waiting at the PI stop at night as full buses pass by). It's not a big deal.

This is what I thought, too. It's not a big deal. It's just getting the bus at the other end.

 

[Shasta]

My 45% was more tongue-in-cheek. I appologize for that exaggeration.
I have not idea how much revenue would drop.

I know it's not a long way to walk as compared to how much we walk in the parks but I'd guess that Disney's best case scenerio is that we all leave the Marketplace with bags of merchandise. I feel that it would be more considerate to place a temporary stop within the parking lot entrance.

 

[mking624]

How did you manage to quote me with a statement that is NOT in my post? I did not say those words, read my post again.

It looks like he just typed in your name with copying & pasting the actual statement rather than directly quoting it. If you look, there's no "arrow" button next to your name, which is something that appears when you directly quote someone.

 

[doconeill]

We've always taken a car to DTD (except once), so never thought about the buses, but I did know about the abandoned stops on the West Side.

When taking a car, the first place you come across is the West Side, and there is a lot more parking over there. So the first couple times we went, we didn't realize how much there was to the Marketplace...we usually went as far as WoD and that was it. It wasn't until we stayed onsite the first time and didn't use a car that we took a bus and found all the other less conspicuous stores by walking by them.

So there IS something to the posssible loss of revenue. 45% may be a bit much though - I could see that with the stores closest to the bus stop (and thus and the fringes of the Marketplace), but I doubt WoD would see that.

As for the distance, it's only about 0.4 miles walking I think from one stop to the other (plus the distance to the particular stall). Sure, its a pain if you walked all that way to find out that the buses are at the other, but you had to get there somehow - shouldn't you have known already?

 

[TDC Nala]

hey, I get ONE night out of this where I don't have to stop at the Marketplace before I get to PI

 

[Tom Kurowski]

The way I understand it is they closed the stop so they can build a conveyor belt system that runs the length of the entire park. It will go through every store, up and down every aisle, thru the mens room and ladies room and then directly back to the bus stop. There will be shopping carts that move along side it so noone has to carry any packages, and at the end there will be a CM that will lift everyone up and carry them to their assigned seat on the bus. The only drawback so far is that everyone has to use a visa credit card so the cashiers do not have to slow the conveyor for cash paying customers.