If you are a resort guest (and pay for parking) do you still get free parking at the theme parks?

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My wife and I staying in a cabin at Fort Wilderness. I know if we rent a car, we will need to pay for overnight parking. But does that extend to parking at the theme parks if you want to drive there instead of the buses?
 
Since you are now paying to park at the resort I no longer consider parking at the parks as "free". Plus, it actually costs more to pay to park at a deluxe resort than the pay at the park ($25 resort/$22 park). Even moderate resort you are only saving $2. Add to the fact that if you a) take Disney transportation or b) do not go to a park every day of your stay, it may actually cost you more to pay parking at the resort than if you had to pay for parking at the parks.
 

Since you are now paying to park at the resort I no longer consider parking at the parks as "free".
Not sure what you’re trying to say. Resort parking and theme park parking are 2 separate things. If you are a resort guest, you do not pay to park at the parks. Parking at the resorts is irrelevant to that.
 
Not sure what you’re trying to say. Resort parking and theme park parking are 2 separate things. If you are a resort guest, you do not pay to park at the parks. Parking at the resorts is irrelevant to that.
Until about 5/6 years ago, resort guests did not have to pay to park at the resort. Once they instituted the parking fee for resort guests I no longer considered parking at the theme parks to be free. What difference does it make where I pay for parking?
 
Until about 5/6 years ago, resort guests did not have to pay to park at the resort. Once they instituted the parking fee for resort guests I no longer considered parking at the theme parks to be free. What difference does it make where I pay for parking?
Yes I know that. But theme park parking has always been free for resort guests. So the fact that they started charging for hotel parking still has nothing to do with the theme parks.

Regardless, I think OP's question has been answered.
 
Are the Ft. Wilderness campsites (I guess sites for trailers) charging a parking fee? Just curious for that day when I can convince DH to tow our airstream down (on my bucket list)!!
 
Since you are now paying to park at the resort I no longer consider parking at the parks as "free". Plus, it actually costs more to pay to park at a deluxe resort than the pay at the park ($25 resort/$22 park). Even moderate resort you are only saving $2. Add to the fact that if you a) take Disney transportation or b) do not go to a park every day of your stay, it may actually cost you more to pay parking at the resort than if you had to pay for parking at the parks.
Well, if you are staying at a resort and have a car, you can't *just* park at the parks. You have to park at your resort too. So the fact that its cheaper to park at the parks than it is at a resort is a moot point for someone who is already staying at a resort. Its just semantics, but a better way to phrase it might be that parking at the parks is included in the cost of resort parking. But the point still stands that parking at the parks does not cost additional.
 
Until about 5/6 years ago, resort guests did not have to pay to park at the resort. Once they instituted the parking fee for resort guests I no longer considered parking at the theme parks to be free. What difference does it make where I pay for parking?

It wasn't even 3 years ago that resort parking fees were announced. Started for thsoe bookings after March 21, 2018. Wild, right?

I'm with you. Parking at the resort was free, and so was parking at the parks if you were staying onsite. Now you just pay for one of those fees, which feels to me like they are charging for parking at the parks.
 
My wife and I staying in a cabin at Fort Wilderness. I know if we rent a car, we will need to pay for overnight parking. But does that extend to parking at the theme parks if you want to drive there instead of the buses?

If you're an on site resort guest and you have a car, you pay a daily parking fee at your resort. When you then drive your car to one of the theme parks, you will NOT be charged a theme park parking fee. You'll scan your Magic Band at the toll plaza, they'll see that you're a resort guest and that you've already paid your daily parking fee, and will then send you on your way.

So when people reply and say that your parking is 'free' for resort guests, the above is what they're talking about.
 
If you're an on site resort guest and you have a car, you pay a daily parking fee at your resort. When you then drive your car to one of the theme parks, you will NOT be charged a theme park parking fee. You'll scan your Magic Band at the toll plaza, they'll see that you're a resort guest and that you've already paid your daily parking fee, and will then send you on your way.

So when people reply and say that your parking is 'free' for resort guests, the above is what they're talking about.
This is the key though... you now have a daily parking fee where you did not have one previously. It doesn't matter where you pay it (at the resort or the park), you still have to pay it. The same this happens if you park at one park and then hop to another, you are not charged a 2d time. When you drive from your resort to the park, they are just not charging you a 2nd parking fee.
 
If you are DVC and not paying for resort parking, can you still park at the Parks for free?
 












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