we just got back a few weeks ago and stayed at POP. I don't think it really took more than 10 minutes to actually get to the parks (from the time we left the hotel parking lot --unless traffic at the gate). We had a diamond parking pass, but we were also there at park opening everyday so the diamond parking helped sometimes, but other days we were there so early that the tram didn't even come to our section because we were so close to the front. If you plan to get there 10-12 it will be a little longer to wait for the trams. We never had to ride a tram as we would use diamond parking most of the time.