Getting to MK with ECV

[RNMOM]

I know everyone on this board agrees the bus is the way to go. I am renting ECV for first time and refuse to use the bus. I am using it for arthritis in back and knees as well as my weight. I am very sensitive to staring too. We all are. We have plans to go to MK only one day 12/22. We arrive the day before. I just plain refuse to have all those xmas travelers wait for me to be loaded onto a bus. What are my options?

Some have said self driving is a royal pain. I understand you have to take the monorail from the parking area? What about driving to TTC and using the monorail their? Any better? Is it possible to park at CS and use the walk way? Maybe I should just skip MK.

 

[Talking Hands]

You park at medical parking if you have a handicapped tag. you cannot park at TTC per se. Cannot park at Contemporary as it is guarded and it not a MK parking area.
Since you refuse to ride the bus you have few options if you do not have a handicapped tag.
Me, I would just take the bus from my resort and not worry about guests who have a problem with ECVs or wheelchairs. After all you pay as much for your trip as they do and deserve to use the transportation just as they do. As for staring. Get used to it. Some people are jerks and stare and there is not much you can do about it.
I look at it this way. I have a right ot the bus transportation same as anyone else and taking a car is an inconvenience for me. If waiting for an ECV is an inconvenience to them then they should drive their own car since it is their attitude.

 

[Talking Hands]

You park at medical parking if you have a handicapped tag. you cannot park at TTC per se. Cannot park at Contemporary as it is guarded and it not a MK parking area.
Since you refuse to ride the bus you have few options if you do not have a handicapped tag.
Me, I would just take the bus from my resort and not worry about guests who have a problem with ECVs or wheelchairs. After all you pay as much for your trip as they do and deserve to use the transportation just as they do. As for staring. Get used to it. Some people are jerks and stare and there is not much you can do about it.
I look at it this way. I have a right ot the bus transportation same as anyone else and taking a car is an inconvenience for me. If waiting for an ECV is an inconvenience to them then they should drive their own car since it is their attitude.

 

[irish]

I agree with everything Talking Hands just related. Go and have a super time. We just returned on 12/8 with my husband using an ECV (and the bus transportation). Never had a problem. As for "staring", stare back.........LOL...Seriously, don't give it another thought - just go and enjoy...............

 

[RNMOM]

I forgot to mention I do have a handicapped tag. Medical parking is where at MK. I have not been able to locate a map of the parks that includes where the parking areas are. Thanks for your input.

 

[cupcake]

the only thing I can think of is to get up early and pay to rent one of the WDW ECVs at the MK (costly given that you already have one, plus the rental scooters are totally superior to the WDW ones).

my honest opinion is to just take the bus. you are transposing your beliefs about what you think others are thinking onto other people, none of whom will know you or ever see you again. if people have to wait a few minutes while a wc or ECV uses a lift or whatever, so be it. the vast majority of people won't think twice about it. if they are jerks, they are jerks. your ruining your vacation isn't going to enlighten them, all it'll do is ruin your vacation. if you constantly think about what you think others might be thinking, you will make yourself crazy.

I realize this isn't what you want to hear. but the truth is, you will be in a crowd of strangers and using an ECV. whether you are taking a bus, boarding an attraction, touring, or whatever, don't worry about other people and what you imagine they might be thinking. just hold your head up high, use that ECV and have a great time.

cupcake

 

[Talking Hands]

Be sure your handicapped tag is in view when you drive in to the parking lot. You will be following the blue line. It is at the very front with a short walkway that goes to TTC through a tunnel under the road that passes in front of TTC. Very close.

 

[RNMOM]

Talking Hands, is this for parking at MK or TTC. Or..is it the same thing? I am really confused in that area.

 

[SueM in MN]

I agree with what the others already said.
The TTC doesn't have its own parking. The MK lot has trams that deliver people to the TTC. Since some people who park in the Medical Parking have power wheelchairs, ecvs or otherwise can't ride the trams, the Medical Parking is close to the TTC.
Once you are parked, you will need to take either the boat or a monorail over to MK. The boat is sometimes not accessible to wheelchairs or ecvs because of the water level (or the level of the boat in the water compared to the dock). Even if it is accessible, they will need to put up a portable ramp for you to drive onto the boat.
The monorail is up a steep ramp from ground level - you need to get up to the level of the rail in the sky. The CMs will put out a portable ramp for you to drive into the monorail car. Not every car is accessible, so you have to make sure the CMs see you and direct you to the accessible car.
Whatever you decide to do, here's some Pixie Dust for a great trip.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I will agree basically with what everyone else is saying. You are NOT inconveniencing others if you use a bus, and if someone is unhappy about it that is THEIR problem, not yours. Your tickets pay for the transport use just as theirs do.

Technically there is no parking for MK. All parking is at TTC. The medical parking is at the very front of the TTC lots. The tunnel under Seven Seas Drive that the trams take also has a sidewalk which is used by people from the close-in parking insterad of using the tram; that is what you would use.

Since the ferry boats all use very wide ramps for boarding, you should have no problem with the ferry. As a matter of fact, you may be better off using the ferry rather than the monorail when leaving as there may be a very long wait for the special areas in the monorail cars.

Don't let what others may think ruin YOUR vacation.

 

[mhopset]

It will not take that long for you to get loaded on the bus. At the most it will take 3 minutes tops.

On my trip last week I had to wait for one of the new busses, because my ECV was to long for the lifts.

Keep in mind you may be the first one on the bus, but you are the last one off and you have to wait too.