Offsites with shuttle service?

[seashoreCM]

Anyone have experience as to which if any shuttle services make an extra trip back to the hotels in the evening if there are more people waiting at the stop than the shuttles can hold?

 

[f7prez]

DTD hotels offer very good transportation. A lot of times you can find good deals at the few hotels worth staying at (Hilton, Hotel Royal Plaza and Buena Vista Palace). While they may be more expensive than Disney value resorts, they are better accomodations, I think they are in a better location. They are also full service hotels. The value resorts are motels with a bus stop, and they are tucked in the far reaches of the property, with the exception of POP.
I guess I just don't see whatever it is that draws people to the values.

 

[seashoreCM]

The value resorts are motels with a bus stop, and they are tucked in the far reaches of the property, with the exception of POP.
I guess I just don't see whatever it is that draws people to the values.

I spend the whole day at the park and don't need more than a motel with a bus stop. And I have stayed at the values oodles of times.

Other things that draw people to the values:

1. The wacky hokey humongous icons.

2. The room rate.

 

[Lewisc]

Some guests want a WDW resort experience at a budget price:
1)DME/good transportation is great for guests without a car.
2)EMH
3)purchases delivered back to your resort
4)meal plan and signing back to your room
5)easier to return back to your room for a mid-day break. All but impossible if you're relying on shuttle buses provided by offsite hotels.
6)cleaner and better maintained than some of the older offsite properties such as Days Inn.

You can't get a better deal than a value resort with free dining.

I guess I just don't see whatever it is that draws people to the values.

 

[Todd&Copper]

I stayed at the Comfort Suites Maingate East last August and they had a decent shuttle service. I wasn't traveling with kids and I can't stand driving when I am on vacation, and these suites offered more space than a similar priced room would have at the Values.
The shuttle ran to the TTC four times in the morning and had 4 return trips in the evening. There was another shuttle that ran to Sea World and Universal, so we didn't have to worry about how to get to Universal on the days we planned to tour there.

 

[Charleyann]

The Best Western Lakeside offers good shuttle service to all major parks in Orlando. The Disney times vary and give you choices. Also , because the hotel is so close to Disney, a cab ride back is about $13 if ever you needed to one. The lynx bus is also across the road from hotel and goes to Disney as well...

We got the room with Breakfast and kids eat free for just 49.00 Canadian which is probably 40.00 US.

Charleyann