on-site or off-site

[Mommy2001]

New to boards! yay so glad I found them! I was hooked on cruisecritic, before my cruise this past May and it helped so much! I knwo this board will do the same. I have gone to WDW 4 times as a child wiht my mother. This trip will be the first for boyfrind of 7 yrs, and 4 yr old daughter. To make this trip amazing i assume a onsite hotel would be my best guess. We can get a time share for 500 for the week but then have to rent a car , so i am not to sure if it is worth it. SO basically my options are time share 10 mins outside of park or Coranodo Springs ?!? any input appreciated

 

[Okiemom]

Never stay offsite, but both times we have gone we stayed onsite and loved it! It seemed like a real vacation, not driving a car for a few days, and not having to park the car and re-find it, so I loved someone else doing the driving.

 

[safetymom]

Welcome to the DIS. If you do a search for this topic you will find many posts about it. If you ask on the Orlando hotels board you will get lots of great info about staying off site.

 

[bicker]

Many recent threads point out a strong direction for Disney is strenthening the service it offers to its on-site hotel guests, not only in terms of what they provide at the hotels but also what they provide to those guests in the parks and now in the restaurants. While I'm confident that off-site guests will always still be able to drive to WDW each day and have a good time, there is little question in my mind that Disney hotels will continue to enhance their offerings, in terms of valuable advantages at the parks and in the restaurants to on-site guests.

 

[mpbs]

My vote is on-site. The themeing and the convenience you cannot compare with an off-site hotel.

 

[pennyplanner]

My family chose on-site (WL) the first time and my non-loving DH has said we are not ever doing our Disney stay any other way. We average a visit about every 3 years.

(And I sneak in a solo stay whenever I can! )

A good friend traveled to WDW and Universal during April. They stayed offsite and she said if she were the planner and financer of the trip, they would have booked a room onsite at Disney and then ventured out to stay offsite.

I'm sure you will have a wonderful time whatever you decide!

--penny

 

[LBAK]

I say definitely on-site. We've done both but I will never do off site again. I feel you lose some of the Disney magic. On-site it's all around you 24/7. No traffic or parking worries, no stress. I just love being on Disney property.