iheartjuppy
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We're staying at the Hilton DTD for the first time (always been on-site in the past) and I'm a bit anxious about the transportation TO the parks. We are fine with taking their shuttle back to the resort at night - we leave before the fireworks and are not in a rush - but I'm not really sure about what to plan for mornings and hoping I can get some insight from others who have been there, done that! I wouldn't ordinarily care as much but we're hoping to do some park hopping and with the current limitations on FP+ being one park per day, it will be extra important for us to get to a few parks at Rope Drop (RD)in the morning so we can do some rides/attractions and save our fast passes for our second park of the day.
If I understand correctly, the Hilton shares a shuttle bus with other DTD resorts, but if it's the only one with access to EMH we wouldn't stop at any of the others in the AM right? We'd like to be at the parks for RD at EMH two of our days (Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom) and regular RD at HS on a third day (to sign my son up for Jedi Training Academy). I'm not sure if relying on the Hilton Shuttle to get us there is realistic or if we'll be behind hordes of people already if they roll in at 8:00 on the dot for 8AM rope drop, etc. I can't find a shuttle schedule with when the shuttles start vs. park open times.
If they aren't as early as I'd like (I'd like to be there at least 40 minutes before RD at HS since they tend to open earlier than listed), we are fine with paying for a taxi but our kids will be almost 3 and almost 6 at travel time and I have heard that only some taxis have carseats. The five year old can be buckled if necessary but the 2 year old needs a carseat I think, right? She's fine without on a shuttle bus but a taxi I think requires her to be in a carseat and our experience with cab carseats has been sketchy (at best) in the past - one tried to convince us to put her in an infant bucket seat at 2 1/2 years old. Yeah, not so much.
I'm hopeful people can weigh in on the shuttle schedule, taxi experiences, shuttle experiences, etc. Thanks in advance!
If I understand correctly, the Hilton shares a shuttle bus with other DTD resorts, but if it's the only one with access to EMH we wouldn't stop at any of the others in the AM right? We'd like to be at the parks for RD at EMH two of our days (Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom) and regular RD at HS on a third day (to sign my son up for Jedi Training Academy). I'm not sure if relying on the Hilton Shuttle to get us there is realistic or if we'll be behind hordes of people already if they roll in at 8:00 on the dot for 8AM rope drop, etc. I can't find a shuttle schedule with when the shuttles start vs. park open times.
If they aren't as early as I'd like (I'd like to be there at least 40 minutes before RD at HS since they tend to open earlier than listed), we are fine with paying for a taxi but our kids will be almost 3 and almost 6 at travel time and I have heard that only some taxis have carseats. The five year old can be buckled if necessary but the 2 year old needs a carseat I think, right? She's fine without on a shuttle bus but a taxi I think requires her to be in a carseat and our experience with cab carseats has been sketchy (at best) in the past - one tried to convince us to put her in an infant bucket seat at 2 1/2 years old. Yeah, not so much.
I'm hopeful people can weigh in on the shuttle schedule, taxi experiences, shuttle experiences, etc. Thanks in advance!