ME saw it with my own eyes

[clanmcculloch]

just got back yesterday from a great nine day trip at yc and hrh arrived 9/24 saturday at noon on continental from cleveland since we do a split say stay we use a car service not me after being met by the driver near baggage claim we took the elevator down one floor there was a couple with four young kids on with us the lady saw the card with our name on it and asked if they were going to be met by a driver using me our driver said no then the doors opened to reveal a line for me that snaked all the way through the airport our driver said the wait just to get on a bus was 4 HOURS lost the couples jaws dropped no lunch no dinner ressies no first day at the parks what a nightmare towncar driver said this happens more than people realize just thought i would share this and hope it does not happen to you not anyway to start a trip

Having taken DME several times, I'm just not able to picture where the heck this happened. DME is at the end of a long, long wide hallway. What door would need to be opened to view the DME area? With the queues the way they're set up, how the heck would it be possible for a line to snake all the way through the airport? Even if, for the sake of arguement, the lines could possibly be long enough to take 4 hours to get on a bus (which it wouldn't because I don't believe the resort capacity could even handle that many people showing up on the same day but for the sake of arguement....), the line STILL wouldn't snake through the whole airport.

For that matter, why is a car service necessary for a split stay?

I'm so confused. Or more accurately, I think OP was confused and misled by a sneaky person who wants his passengers to be really appreciative when it comes to tip time.

 

[goofy4tink]

Having taken DME several times, I'm just not able to picture where the heck this happened. DME is at the end of a long, long wide hallway. What door would need to be opened to view the DME area? With the queues the way they're set up, how the heck would it be possible for a line to snake all the way through the airport? Even if, for the sake of arguement, the lines could possibly be long enough to take 4 hours to get on a bus (which it wouldn't because I don't believe the resort capacity could even handle that many people showing up on the same day but for the sake of arguement....), the line STILL wouldn't snake through the whole airport.

For that matter, why is a car service necessary for a split stay?

I'm so confused. Or more accurately, I think OP was confused and misled by a sneaky person who wants his passengers to be really appreciative when it comes to tip time.

THey said they stayed at both YC and HRH...so one was over at US/IoA. THey would need a car service to get to HRH.
I am also going to assume that the 'door' mentioned was the elevator door. I had your exact same thought but then kept rereading the post...yes, it is hard to understand with no punctuation. So, if you get off the elevator, that is right across from baggage claim on level 2, on level 1, you would be able to see a very long DME line as you got off the elevator. BUT....I have had this happen to me....on my arrival on the first day of PopWarner....hugely long line, that stretched about half way to the elevator. But even that line only took 25 mins to get through.
So, yes, there are some inaccuracies here. There are about 20 resorts within WDW. And not one of them gets their own DME bus. Each bus services 3 or 4 different resorts. So...you have about 5 buses at MCO at any given time, picking up guests. I find it hard to believe that no buses were running to any resorts for that long...just doesn't happen. Even if one bus route had an issue, it would include maybe 3, possibly 4, resorts, which would not make up a 4 hr long line. It's just impossible.
Just about the only way it could happen is if there were a shutdown of MCO...no traffic allowed in or out. And it would have to remain that way for quite awhile. A 4 hr long line for DME would mean a line that kept cutting back and forth on itself many times.

 

[clanmcculloch]

THey said they stayed at both YC and HRH...so one was over at US/IoA. THey would need a car service to get to HRH.
I am also going to assume that the 'door' mentioned was the elevator door. I had your exact same thought but then kept rereading the post...yes, it is hard to understand with no punctuation. So, if you get off the elevator, that is right across from baggage claim on level 2, on level 1, you would be able to see a very long DME line as you got off the elevator. BUT....I have had this happen to me....on my arrival on the first day of PopWarner....hugely long line, that stretched about half way to the elevator. But even that line only took 25 mins to get through.
So, yes, there are some inaccuracies here.

OK, that does help me understand a bit better. Thanks! My head was spinning try to decipher.

 

[goofy4tink]

OK, that does help me understand a bit better. Thanks! My head was spinning try to decipher.

Welcome to my life.....

 

[jenrose66]

just got back yesterday from a great nine day trip at yc and hrh arrived 9/24 saturday at noon on continental from cleveland since we do a split say stay we use a car service not me after being met by the driver near baggage claim we took the elevator down one floor there was a couple with four young kids on with us the lady saw the card with our name on it and asked if they were going to be met by a driver using me our driver said no then the doors opened to reveal a line for me that snaked all the way through the airport our driver said the wait just to get on a bus was 4 HOURS lost the couples jaws dropped no lunch no dinner ressies no first day at the parks what a nightmare towncar driver said this happens more than people realize just thought i would share this and hope it does not happen to you not anyway to start a trip

I don't believe this. It would be impossible for that line to snake all the way thru the airport. I have used ME 5 times and never waited more than 10 minutes for a bus to my hotel. I had a bad experience getting back to the airport but there is no way there would ever be a 4 hour wait to get to your hotel.

 

[maxiesmom]

Arriving on a Thursday, even during PW time, shouldn't give you a two hour wait for a bus. Everyone is aleady at WDW by Thursday, and if it was the Thurs prior to PW, then there just aren't that many PW people arriving then. They almost all arrive on that first Sat, with some arriving on Friday.

My dad and I arrived on Thursday during Pop Warner, and we walked right onto our Magical Express bus. This was at about 6pm.

I ususally make it to WDW once a year. I've been during Halloween, Pop Warner, and Spring Break. Never have I had to wait for more than 30 minutes for my ME bus. The limo driver was handing the OP a line.

 

[Missytara]

No kidding. I don't think it's too much to expect for people to make an effort to write clearly if they want to vent or are asking for advice. I don't read the posts of people who don't.

I tend to do that as well, but this one really intrigued me.

I almost re-typed it with the punctuation and capital letters just to see what it really said.

I even checked this person's other posts; and they are all the same. Just one big run-on sentence.....

 

[CarrieR]

I was in that line, on the 24th, I think we got in it at 11:45AM. I just about rented a car as I saw the miles and miles and miles of people. Never seen ME *anything* like that, it was positively insane!

Pretty shortly, I was glad we stuck it out in the line instead of going to the car rental counters -- we were on the bus in 20 minutes.

Sorry that you got hoodwinked with the premise of a 4-hour line; although we expected it to be about that long based on looks (lol) it really, truly wasn't.

 

[laughinplace199]

Holy lack of punctuation, Batman!

 

[MHSweb79]

The OP's post reminds me of the time an acquaintance was ribbing me about my CR-V. Basically calling me a sucker for buying it. Turns out she looked at both the Honda CRV and the Toyota RAV4, and boy was she relieved she visited Toyota first because the salesman pointed out that the rear window of the CRV was designed poorly and wouldn't open unless the spare tire were removed.

I took her outside and popped up my rear window - which easily cleared the spare tire. Who's the sucker now?

The moral: Don't believe everything you hear, especially when the speaker has an agenda.