Parking in other resorts

[SantiJB]

Hi,

In our next WDW vacation, we are planning to stay in a Disney resort and to rent a car. I know that Disney started to apply overnight parking fee in your resort but my question is related when using our rental car we will go to another resort to visit it or to dine in it.

I have read that it is supossed that in that case we are going to park for free in that another resort but only for 3 hours

What does it happen if we extent our stay at that resort more than 3 hours? Do you have any experience in it?

Do we need to pay for that parking? How much?

I have read that in deluxe resorts it is available a valet parking for a $33 Fee, but I understand that it is a different service.

Anyone who had planned for instance visit MK and parking in contemporary, opted to ask for valet parking in contemporary?

Kind regards

 

[GADisneyDad14]

@SantiJB - FYI, I moved your thread to the Resorts board. The folks here will be able to help with your questions.

 

[FCDub]

Short answer: Don’t. They could tow your car if you leave it while you go off and do other things.

If you want to leave your car somewhere like the Contemporary and go to a park, you need to pay to valet park. It’s only fair to people staying there, who might return to their resort to find all the spaces occupied by peopl using it as a close parking lot to MK.

 

[CAS239]

If you want to stay longer than 3 hours, you'll need to pay for valet parking. If you could just park for free and leave your car, everyone would do it and not pay to park.

If you don't, you risk having the car towed. While this has a very small chance, that's up to you if it's a risk you want to take.

Depending when you go, if it's a really busy time, you might not be allowed to enter a resort you're not staying at if you don't have a room or an ADR. For busy times they want to ensure there's enough parking for their true guests

 

[Polydweller]

The thing is the resort lots are fairly small and wouldn’t be able to handle the resorts own guests and everyone who would do this. It can and has happened that people returning to their own resort haven’t been able to find parking and that is horrible. The resort parking should only be used for activities like ADRs at the resort one is visiting and leave when they are done. It’s a courtesy we all would expect at our home resort and we should extend that courtesy when we visit another.

 

[msb578]

I was able to valet park at CR for a day at MK this past April. There was no issue.

There are weeks of the year that are restricted- between Christmas and New Year’s for example. I wouldn’t have been able to do it during one of those weeks. Major conventions at a resort like CR can also cause restrictions.

 

[Nancyg56]

Hi,

In our next WDW vacation, we are planning to stay in a Disney resort and to rent a car. I know that Disney started to apply overnight parking fee in your resort but my question is related when using our rental car we will go to another resort to visit it or to dine in it.

I have read that it is supossed that in that case we are going to park for free in that another resort but only for 3 hours

What does it happen if we extent our stay at that resort more than 3 hours? Do you have any experience in it?

Do we need to pay for that parking? How much?

I have read that in deluxe resorts it is available a valet parking for a $33 Fee, but I understand that it is a different service.

Anyone who had planned for instance visit MK and parking in contemporary, opted to ask for valet parking in contemporary?

Kind regards

Personally, I think it would be less expensive to just take a cab to visit the CR, walk to the MK, and then either return to the CR and cab home, or just hop on a resort bus to go back. I do not see any time or money saved by using valet.

We often use cabs or Uber to get to a resort for a meal. It is fast and inexpensive. Far less money then valet parking, IMO.

 

[kwdw]

This is simple - as you have three choices:

1) Have an ADR at the resort and stick to the 3 hour window.
2) Pay for valet and stay as long as you want that day.
3) Don't plan on parking at another resort.

There are times when I have had a car that I have parked at other resorts within the three hour window WITHOUT an ADR and had no problems. Typically this has been to shop, visit a lounge, be a walk-in at a restaurant, or just simply visit Poly for a Dole Whip. And as I am a horrible liar - I've been totally honest about my purpose with the guard. However - you CAN be told you aren't eligible to park there and be turned away - this is most common at the monorail resorts. I have arrived at a monorail resort on some days and been told ONLY if I had an ADR (luckily - I did) - and they actually checked the system to verify that I did.

Do people stay longer than 3 hours? Sure. Do they get caught? It happens. Do I personally hope they feel so guilty about it that it partially ruins their day? I hope so.

I do understand why some folks might chose to pay the valet parking fee in order to stay longer at a monorail resort. I've personally done it. Time, convenience, my plans for the day - have lead me to the conclusion is worth the cost to make my day better.

However - there's no way I'd risk the potential towing fee for violating the 3 hour limit. Towing is expensive as all get out and can really ruin your day - or even two.

 

[SantiJB]

Thank you very much for all your answers. I don’t want to infringe any rule. It was only a question in order to plan our first WDW trip.

We are considering either breakfast in any monorail resort following a MK day or MK day following a dinner in a monorail resort. In both cases I understand that it could be more useful to park in the resort parking than parking in MK park.

However it could be true that using Uber or lift could be cheaper than valet parking, couldn’t it?

 

[Nancyg56]

Thank you very much for all your answers. I don’t want to infringe any rule. It was only a question in order to plan our first WDW trip.

We are considering either breakfast in any monorail resort following a MK day or MK day following a dinner in a monorail resort. In both cases I understand that it could be more useful to park in the resort parking than parking in MK park.

However it could be true that using Uber or lift could be cheaper than valet parking, couldn’t it?

I have never paid more than 15 resort to resort.

 

[Deb & Bill]

I have been in the car ilne to enter the parking lot at the Contemporary for a breakfast ADR and heard the guard tell the car next to me that they could not valet park to go to the MK. They had to have an ADR or be a resort guest. It wasn't even a holiday time. The people in the other car got really angry, too, because they said someone told them they could pay to valet park.

You could park at the TTC and take the monorail to the resort to dine and then to the MK.

 

[Skippyboo]

Thank you very much for all your answers. I don’t want to infringe any rule. It was only a question in order to plan our first WDW trip.

We are considering either breakfast in any monorail resort following a MK day or MK day following a dinner in a monorail resort. In both cases I understand that it could be more useful to park in the resort parking than parking in MK park.

However it could be true that using Uber or lift could be cheaper than valet parking, couldn’t it?

Why don’t you just park at TTC and then monorail to breakfast at hotel. If you’re at the MK, then monorail it to dinner and monorail back to TTC. All that would be free. Since parking is free at parks for onsite guests

 

[Dug720]

Thank you very much for all your answers. I don’t want to infringe any rule. It was only a question in order to plan our first WDW trip.

We are considering either breakfast in any monorail resort following a MK day or MK day following a dinner in a monorail resort. In both cases I understand that it could be more useful to park in the resort parking than parking in MK park.

However it could be true that using Uber or lift could be cheaper than valet parking, couldn’t it?

Well, if you did breakfast and then MK and were going back to your resort after MK, you'd only be out the Lyft fare to the MK-area resort as you could take Disney transportation back to your resort at the end of the day. I want to say it was less than $10 for me to go from Sports to the Poly in February. Definitely less than valet parking would have been if I bothered with a car (which I don't...I haven't driven since moving to NYC 13 years ago and have no intention of doing it again in a rental car in an unfamiliar place - I stay on property partly because they offer transportation).