Transportation advice needed!

[Miss Kuzco]

Hello Everyone,

I am a long time lurker and have found the information soo helpful in planning our wedding. We are getting married at SBP on the 4th of June 2012, then having our reception at the LSS and then onto UK lower for our DP. We have 27 guests including us plus three under 3's. I am trying to do everything for the minimum $12,000 or as close as i can with an upper limit of $13,000 plus tax and everything.

So now onto the problem. I have Lurky Loos book and have researched our transportation options but our planner doesnt seem to want to play ball. She has suggested we hire the big motorcoach for the whole day . I sad no because it is not within our budget to do that and we wouldnt need it all that much. She then added that if we used vans etc then we would need a transportation coordinator because it would get too complicated and then it would work out more costly than a motorcoach. It was also added that we had to charter transportation to take us from the LSS to UK lower for our DP?! Really? Has anyone else been told this? If so i am going to need to change something because I am not chartering a motorcoach for 10 hours as suggested. I was told the smaller motorcoach is not available to book and its the same price anyway as the larger one?!

To be honest I was not that happy after talking to my planner as I felt I was constantly being upsold and she really wasn't listening to me in regards to budget.

Okay so if i set the picture someone may be able to help!

Everyone from the Uk is staying at the Sarratoga Springs, 21 guests plus 3 under 3's. The only other guests we have are 6 staying at the Boardwalk. I need to get everyone over to SBP and then to the LSS. I will get a town car with my dad from the Sarratoga to SBP and will leave in one at the end of the night. It seems simple right?!!!

It would be great to hear some of your ideas

 

[DisBride011]

Hello Everyone,

It was also added that we had to charter transportation to take us from the LSS to UK lower for our DP?! Really? Has anyone else been told this? If so i am going to need to change something because I am not chartering a motorcoach for 10 hours as suggested. I was told the smaller motorcoach is not available to book and its the same price anyway as the larger one?!

We are getting married at WP, reception at LSS, and DP at UK Lower. We have the motor coach to transport from WP to LSS, and then at the end of the night to bring back to WP. They do just a "round trip" motor coach which will bring guests from the ceremony to reception and back to one location. It won't be there to charter people through out the night if they decide they want to leave early on it will not go to different resorts to pick up/drop off. To get from LSS to UK we were told that we walk. Not sure why they would say you need transportation.

 

[Miss Kuzco]

Thanks DisBride! I hadn't even thought of just having the motorcoach do a round trip. For some reason I had charter in my head...And for walking, thats what we want to do I am wondering whether anyone else has had to charter transportation to transfer from LSS to Uk in the past?