WDW Ride Share or Rental Car? - Summer 2021 Trip

[MLJHLT]

Hi! We're heading to WDW soon and will be staying on site! I'd love to hear from people who have recently been to WDW. When traveling from park to park, would your recommend that we use a Ride Share (Uber, Minnie Van/Lyft) or a Rental Car? We know that WDW has buses, boats, etc, but we'd like to also have another way to travel quickly. Thank you so much!

 

[GoingSince1990]

We’ve been twice in the last few months and found Uber to be great both times.

 

[StageTek]

When traveling from park to park, would your recommend that we use a Ride Share (Uber, Minnie Van/Lyft) or a Rental Car?

It seems you are asking specifically about traveling from park to park quickly. Am I reading correctly?

Then ride share is what I would recommend.

 

[Best Aunt]

MInnie Vans have not returned since the pandemic started.

 

[Ross Kratter]

If you're staying on property, the best way to go park-to-park is probably Disney transportation, especially for Magic Kingdom, since only Disney buses can drop off and pick up right at the entrance to the park. Rideshare pickup/dropoff for MK is at the TTC, a monorail or ferry ride away.

 

[Jerseybrew]

Based on our trip in March, plus and minus:

Rental Car Plus:
- Freedom to drive where you want when you want. After 10pm getting an uber or lyft from places farther out like AKL will mean 30-60 mins (happened 3x and 2 of them were people that just bailed). There are less available drivers and more people looking for rideshares since march so it likely will take longer no matter where. Need that gideons cookie at their off property location, no problem and it wont cost $70 in rideshare

Rental Car Minus:
- Definitely more expensive - rates are generally $40ish from the airport to disney resorts and from one resort to a park is $7-10. Rental cars are $85-130 a day currently with discounts. Thats a lot of UBER
- Resort parking fees - started in 2018 its $18-25 (i believe) per day even if staying at a Disney resort. Thats a round trip for any hotel to park

Rideshare Plus:
- Less expensive (see above)
- Generally you get dropped off as near as possible to the entrance of where you are going. MK you still need to get on TTL. No more traversing the pavement desert in AKL, EPCOT, HS, etc
- You dont have to drive, you can check on wait times and sit back as someone else does the work

Rideshare Minus:
- Drivers for us were not that knowledgeable of the roads. Several times in the middle of nowhere within disney. They also have a hard time finding you unless you are at the main lobby of your hotel although the app lets you pick a spot.
- Late night after 10 its a ghost town finding drivers
- Crowded places mean its tough to get a driver. Springs at peak times is a long wait but so is most other transportation

Hope that helps!