Stroller Rentals at Parks - Sleeping, Renting, and Returning?

[ArRzrbk]

Can children sleep in the strollers that you rent in the parks? I am counting on them getting at least some of their naps that way. Also, are the strollers a pain to rent and return? I hadn't planned on bringning my own - worried about it getting taken. Any advice is much appreciated.

 

[rt2dz]

If your kids can sleep sitting straight up on hard plastic (not to mention over the age of 2), they can sleep in the Disney strollers. Otherwise, I'd bring your own. It's highly unlikely anything will happen to your stroller, just mark it in some unique way (tie a scarf to the handle) as surely someone else might have your stroller, or one similiar. And that is just to help you find it faster.

How difficult it is to rent will depend on what time of year you are going and at what time you are trying to get a stroller.. You can rent for multiple days at one time, speeding up the process, but you will have to go through the process each day. Several times if you park hop. You can forgo returning the stroller if you don't care about getting your deposit back. Renting a stroller every day can get expensive, even with the multi-day rental price break (10%?). In which case, you may want to to just buy a less expensive stroller for the trip. Or rent from a baby item rental place. I think there are a few different links on the disboards. Plus there is no storage on the rental strollers.

Rentals are for the parks only. Walking to and from hotels/trams/cars, you are on your own. Depending on your child(ren)'s age(s) & size, you might want to consider that. And if flying, either way, do you want to have a stroller with you? Some people don't want to drag a stroller through an airport, others don't want to end up without it.

 

[crisi]

The strollers do not recline. That didn't stop our kids from cat napping in them, but they slept on each other "sitting" up. They don't sit high (like a chair), they sit low, so the kids legs sort of stick straight out - maybe with their butts raised four inches from where their feet are. We've never found them at all difficult to rent or return.

 

[KerriMc]

I guess it depends on your kids and whether they will sleep anywhere. The strollers don't recline so some little ones find that tough to sleep in, unless they are so beat they'd crash anywhere This year we just had our 4 yr old dd as our 20 mos old dd was to ill, so we didn't bring along our one stroller as we had planned to. We just rented one for our oldest as we knew it was too much walking. It didn't take any length of time to rent one. I walked right up to the podium and went around the corner and they pushed a stroller out to me. It was almost 9pm when we left the park and I just left it up with all of the other strollers on our way out of the park.

If you have a stroller that your child really likes I would take it. There are so many strollers all over the place and it is highly unlikely that your stroller would be taken. We had no problems last year when we had two of our own strollers along.

Have fun!
Kerri

 

[ArRzrbk]

Thanks so much for all the advice. I will take our stroller with us, and perhaps the first day we'll try at least one in the parks to see how we like it. I love options