Nickylv
DIS Veteran
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As a DVC owner for 25 years and have two home properties Boardwalk and Animal Kingdom we make it to D.W. A few times a year. I retire this April and my wife will retire early next year, so we will be traveling much more.
How many times we stay at a Disney Resort, get off our plane at Orlando International, go to baggage claim and then get in line at the rent a car, most times there is a line and a long wait. After about an hour or more of our precious vacation time wasted, finally we are on the road to the resort. We pull up to check in and hand the luggage over to valet and go park the car in the guest parking lot. Well there it sits the whole week or more that we are there since Disney provides all the transportation that we will need the whole trip. Not to mention the $300-$500 we had to pay to rent a parked car.
This time we wanted to try something different. We hired a luxury driving company that meets you dressed in a suit at the bottom of the escalator by baggage claim holding an ipad with your name on it. We all have seen them there. We greet each other and the driver escorts us to the large luxury SUV. The driver opens the doors for us to get in and then loads our luggage in the back of the SUV, drives us right up to the front of our resort building unloads our luggage, after tipping our driver they leave and we head up to our room never having to wait in line for a car and park it in a lot that we will not even look at until we are leaving. The cost of hiring a driver is much less than the cost of a car rental (about $60 each way plus tip but with gas prices rising it may be more now) and you get picked up and dropped off at your building or your out going flight. Unless you have plans of leaving the Disney property and will need a car this worked out great plus what a savings. If you need a rental car for one day last I knew there is a rental car agency in the Dolphin resort and you can rent one there. This was a great savings and much more convienent. We never missed having a car and the convience was worth it.
How many times we stay at a Disney Resort, get off our plane at Orlando International, go to baggage claim and then get in line at the rent a car, most times there is a line and a long wait. After about an hour or more of our precious vacation time wasted, finally we are on the road to the resort. We pull up to check in and hand the luggage over to valet and go park the car in the guest parking lot. Well there it sits the whole week or more that we are there since Disney provides all the transportation that we will need the whole trip. Not to mention the $300-$500 we had to pay to rent a parked car.
This time we wanted to try something different. We hired a luxury driving company that meets you dressed in a suit at the bottom of the escalator by baggage claim holding an ipad with your name on it. We all have seen them there. We greet each other and the driver escorts us to the large luxury SUV. The driver opens the doors for us to get in and then loads our luggage in the back of the SUV, drives us right up to the front of our resort building unloads our luggage, after tipping our driver they leave and we head up to our room never having to wait in line for a car and park it in a lot that we will not even look at until we are leaving. The cost of hiring a driver is much less than the cost of a car rental (about $60 each way plus tip but with gas prices rising it may be more now) and you get picked up and dropped off at your building or your out going flight. Unless you have plans of leaving the Disney property and will need a car this worked out great plus what a savings. If you need a rental car for one day last I knew there is a rental car agency in the Dolphin resort and you can rent one there. This was a great savings and much more convienent. We never missed having a car and the convience was worth it.
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