pe Perego duette in WDW

[gabbysmom04]

Has anyone taken a duette stroller to WDW? We will be driving so buses won't be a problem the only worry we have is the monorail.
Is there anything else that I am not thinking of?

 

[DisneyPhD]

Do you mean this stroller?
http://www.strollers.com/asp/show_detail.asp?sku=PGR1199&refid=FR67-PGR1199

I have a story about that stroller.

I once saw a couple get on a WDW bus with this stroller. (or at least one that looked like it, it was maybe 2 years ago.)

They argued with the driver for 5 min about how it would not fold down, and insisted the driver "tip the bus" like for a wheel chair. They then made people who were sitting in the handy cap seats get up so they could strap the stroller in and then take the kids out (not handi cap kids) and hold them to sit in seats on a mostly busy bus. If was an afternoon. The kids looked around a year old. It did take a least 10 min longer then it should of.

I have no problem at all waiting for a person in need of a wheel chair while on a bus. But a stroller?

I asked the father why they didn't fold it up. He said it would not. I then asked "how did you get it to the resort?" He did then hem and haw and say you could take it apart, but it wasn't easy. The whole bus was glaring at them. The father tried to be friendly, the mother just sat there looking, well on Disney like. I felt bad for the dad.

Then he looked at my peg pergo aira twin and said "we thought about that one, but it looked too hard to get through doors." That about floored me because it folds up small and weights 14 lbs. It is rather easy as far as doubles on WDW busses go. It is the same size a wheel chair so it fits through doors fine, as long as you "hit them right."


I forget to add,
I think it should be fine on the monorail. They often direct us to the HC car and ours fits fine there. If someone else needs it, (who really is HC) we wait for the next one or fold down. So far it has never been an issue.

If it doesn't fold up you might have an issue on the trains. You will just have to leave it and come back for it, like the rented strollers at the parks. Other then that you should be fine in the parks.

 

[gabbysmom04]

it is the same!

I would never try to do that on a bus! We use won't be taking the bus anyway. We have the aria twin also but our kids always fight in it. We are going to WDW for 16 nights and a 4 night disney cruise, so I want to avoid as much fighting as possible

 

[DisneyPhD]

Ours do well side by side, but they are 3 years apart so it isn't too bad.

We took the Aria on the cruise earlier this month. We had the stroller with us in the parks, so we had to take it on boat since we didn't have a car. It was really tight on the ship. We folded it up and left it in the room unless we left the boat. It was too hard to move around on that tight ship (the elevators are small.)

In all my years of going to WDW that was the only time I ever witnessed that. I could see if the kids were bigger and really in need of a wheel chair, but were using stroller because it was easier. Can you imagine if every person with a stroller did that? Half the people there have strollers.

I have heard of some bus drivers letting people keep big strollers under the busses when it is busy. I don't think most busses can do that now a days though.

I don't really worry too much about stroller getting stolen, but that one would set you back. Of course if it doesn't fold up I wouldn't worry too much about it, they couldn't make off with it.

So does it really not fold up? How do you get it in the car?

Really comfort is the most important thing, and if you have a car, then I would go with what you have. On vacation the stroller is the kids home base.