We are back from Fort Wilderness and had a good vacation besides lots of bad luck. As some of you know, the transmission when out in DH's truck three weeks before we were to leave gobbling up most of our spending money. Well our first day at Fort Wilderness my Husband fell off a stool while setting up the camper and twisted his ankle, we were afraid it was broke at first. However, the first three days of vacation he was in terrible pain, he was a trooper though he did not let on just how much pain he was in until we got home. Wednesday we were headed to AK for breakfast and our truck broke down, Disney had to tow it and reapair it, it was a bad batter cable. Then on the way home Sunday our truck broke down on the Fl turnpike. I guess luck was with us a litte bit because I called an Uncle who lives in FL and turns out he was only 15 miles from us, so we had to get a wrecker to tow the truck and my uncle towed our camper with his truck. Our truck and camper are still in Fl, a fuel pump went out and according to the mechanic it was caused by some of the work Disney did.
Fort Wilderness is a first rate campground all the way around. However, our family had decided that camping and Disney do not go together for us. We spend most of our time at the parks and very little time at the camper, we just used it to sleep, so it really does not seem worth the extra work to camp. Now if we went to Disney more often than every two or three years and did not want to spend most of our time at the parks, it would be a great place to camp. We also felt that the campground did not have the same disney magic the resorts have. We did have a good time except for our series of misfortunate events and we are glad we tried the campground for we have wanted to do so for several years now. We were in site 1437 which was really a great site it was right across the road from a comfort station and the campfire/movie area. It was also a quick walk to the pool and the trading post. I would definently want that area again if we did camp there. We actaully did fine without a golf cart being so close to everything, but I think we would have regreted not having one if we had been in a loop further away. We did find it a hassel having to take a bus to catch a bus or boat to get to the park, one night coming back from MK we had to wait 45 minutes for a yellow bus, it had rained we were all soaked and DD was worn out it was not a good experience. Actually it was a fairly short walk to the settlement bus stop from our campsite, but DH's foot was hurting him so I did not want to put any more extra walking on it that necessary. I will be posting my trip report on the trip report board, but if anyone has any specific questions I will be glad to answer them.
Fort Wilderness is a first rate campground all the way around. However, our family had decided that camping and Disney do not go together for us. We spend most of our time at the parks and very little time at the camper, we just used it to sleep, so it really does not seem worth the extra work to camp. Now if we went to Disney more often than every two or three years and did not want to spend most of our time at the parks, it would be a great place to camp. We also felt that the campground did not have the same disney magic the resorts have. We did have a good time except for our series of misfortunate events and we are glad we tried the campground for we have wanted to do so for several years now. We were in site 1437 which was really a great site it was right across the road from a comfort station and the campfire/movie area. It was also a quick walk to the pool and the trading post. I would definently want that area again if we did camp there. We actaully did fine without a golf cart being so close to everything, but I think we would have regreted not having one if we had been in a loop further away. We did find it a hassel having to take a bus to catch a bus or boat to get to the park, one night coming back from MK we had to wait 45 minutes for a yellow bus, it had rained we were all soaked and DD was worn out it was not a good experience. Actually it was a fairly short walk to the settlement bus stop from our campsite, but DH's foot was hurting him so I did not want to put any more extra walking on it that necessary. I will be posting my trip report on the trip report board, but if anyone has any specific questions I will be glad to answer them.
