Park Hopping and driving

[RivaLJ]

If you park hop do you leave your car at the 1st park, and come back to get it?
Do you drive to your 2nd park?

 

[Cool-Beans]

I drive. I drive everywhere except the Hoop-Dee-Doo and that's only because I must take a bus.

 

[AJKMOM]

If we plan to park hop, we drive to the first park, then get the car and drive to the second. Some times we will go back to the resort, or go offsite for lunch in the middle. We never leave the car at the first park.

 

[M & M's Mom]

We always drive from one park to another. We usually go back to the resort after lunch to get some downtime/naptime for our kids. It just works out easier for us to always have our own transportation.

 

[aiken4mickey]

We drove when we hopped...used the car time to eat lunch..and to store dinner in our cooler...and take only a small cooler in the park we would be eating dinner....it was great!

 

[liz2d2]

We just drive too. It's a lot quicker than those buses!!

 

[Purseval]

If you are going to park hop, especially if you want to see 3 or more parks in a day, a car is the most efficient way by far to get around.

 

[Sleeping Becca]

We drive.

We drive just about everywhere except MK, we take Disney transportation to MK.

 

[imthatgirl]

we drive everywhere. we use our AAA diamomd parking pass. its the most efficient way around.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Often if I am planning to park hop I will park my car at the park where I expect to end the day. They I will use Disney transportation until the end of the day. It does tend to be faster than driving between the parks and I don't have to get to another park to get my car at the end of the day.

 

[wdwfanatic80]

We usually drive. One time we went to MK and parked the car and left it there to go to Epcot via the monorail and then we ended up wanting to go to Jelly rolls. Man was it a PITA to go back to MK parking to get the car and then go to BW. Oh well....we learned to move the car with us. Another time we left the car overnight at MK parking lot. We called to make sure it wouldn't be towed and they said as long as we were onsite (we were) it was fine.

 

[disreport]

we drive everywhere. we use our AAA diamomd parking pass. its the most efficient way around.

BTW, how did that AAA diamond parking pass work out for you? We were thinking of using it for DHS and AK in Sept.

Oh, and just drive, drive, drive. Forget the buses.

 

[imthatgirl]

BTW, how did that AAA diamond parking pass work out for you? We were thinking of using it for DHS and AK in Sept.

Oh, and just drive, drive, drive. Forget the buses.

those parks it works great! the lots are very close.the only park where it isnt so close is MK, but even then its a couple miute walk. not a big deal to me.
the only hting is, if its busy the lots can fill and you can be turned away, but thats never happened to us.

 

[Ariel1966]

We ALWAYS drive!

 

[jakeman999]

If you drive to the next park to hop instead of using disney transportation, will you have to pay another parking fee at each park you go to?

 

[cinnderly]

No, you pay once a day jakeman999.

 

[Cool-Beans]

If you drive to the next park to hop instead of using disney transportation, will you have to pay another parking fee at each park you go to?

No. If you paid, just keep your receipt and show it to them at the next park.

 

[exwdwcm]

I drive. I drive everywhere except the Hoop-Dee-Doo and that's only because I must take a bus.

same for me.

we are staying at WL next trip, so we might just bus it to HDD next time.

we usually drive to the morning park, back to resort for break, then back to the afternoon/evening park (usually go to 2 parks in one day). we also drive to DTD, although parking is a nightmare there lately. They really need a parking garage or something. We just prefer to drive, we know our way around very well and hate having to wait for a bus. does it save us time? probably not, but at least we don't feel like we are waiting around as much.