What do you consider an unreasonable walk?

[kdonnel]

I love watching YouTube videos on Las Vegas and came across one where someone timed the walk from every Las Vegas Monorail station to the casino floor center.

The Las Vegas Monorail has a bad reputation for being inconvenient because the stations are so far away.

In the video the average was 3-4 minutes with one being 1-2 minutes and the longest being 5 minutes from the station platform to the middle of the casino.

We always make great use of the monorail if staying at a hotel that has a stop but do avoid it otherwise as we have found it is easier to just make the 30 minute or longer walk rather than walking 25 minutes and riding the monorail, only saving 5 minutes.

Personally, I don't think of a walk that actually gets me to somewhere as being long until it approaches the 30 minute mark.

Maybe it is the many trips to Walk Disney World that have trained me to not think twice about walking as a means to get somewhere. All those years with fast passes criss crossing the parks, riding Big Thunder Mountain, then walking to Space Mountain to get the next fast pass, then back to Splash Mountain to wait in line until it is time for my Space Mountain fast pass, etc....

When do you start to internally grumble about a walk? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 15 minutes? More?

 

[Disneylover99]

When do you start to internally grumble about a walk? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 15 minutes? More?

It really depends on where I am. I’ll criss cross all over the parks at Disney World multiple times a day and think nothing of it. But if my resort room at DW is too far from the foodcourt, I’ll whine, moan, curse and complain. lol.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I am a walker and am fine with long walks, so we've always done a lot of long ones in Vegas. The actual Vegas monorail isn't the greatest but if they're still there, the one tied to what's now Park MGM as well as the one going from Excalibur to Mandalay Bay are both helpful. That being said, there was one trip where we walked all the way from TI/Mirage to the Strat. I don't love it but the bus is also an option and rideshare in Vegas isn't bad.

 

[Haygar2]

I don't complain too much about the walking when I am at Disney. However, I do miss the old FastPass system where I could plan my day around the area I was in. Instead of having to walk back and forth all day.

 

[LilyWDW]

I mean... I walk to just about everywhere I need to go at home since I live in the city. Greater then 30 minutes I start thinking about taking the bus instead or if the weather is rough (90+ degrees, humid, raining, less then 10 degrees...).

 

[BrianL]

I tend to consider "walking distance" pretty far. It sometimes amazes me when I am advised that something is a long walk or "too far" as I can go a good way. Wen I was in London we were taking the double-decker bus around, and using the trains. things may have seemed far away, but when I looked at a map later, we never really left about a 3 mile radius!

 

[Meriweather]

I don't mind walking......the thing that makes it or breaks it is how hot it is. I don't last long in that.
We have walked the whole length of the strip (when we were younger with no leg issues).
WDW and DLR are also fine walking. We have gone back and forth all the time across parks.

 

[soccerdad72]

This is definitely one of those 'it depends' questions. We tend to prefer to walk anywhere we can, especially on vacation. We'd rather walk from Epcot to Hollywood Studios, for example, rather than taking the boat or the skyliner. And the last time I was in Vegas, we walked pretty much up and down the whole Strip. Walking from casino to casino checking everything out (and gambling a little along the way) is part of the appeal of the Strip to me.

 

[disneychrista]

It really depends. I’m currently planning a Seattle trip. I’ve been looking at distances to figure out transportation. I think anything under 15 minutes is walkable. Once we start getting over 20 minutes I’m considering other means.

Las Vegas I did more walking because there was so much to look at en route. It didn’t feel like i am walking but exploring. Similar to how it feels at a Disney park.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I can’t use LV as a gauge as I’ve never been there but a radius of 1 to 2 miles was my neighborhood shopping norm until recently. Lots of window shopping and people watching made it easy to accomplish.
Never felt overly tired walking at WDW but do recall one year when we took one of my NC nephews with us. Lot of whining about being tired and I began to better understand this country’s love of cars. Amuses me that he now plays football in high school.

 

[china mom]

I think the answer depends a lot on where you live. I have hers Europeans remark about how Americans drive everywhere but that does not hold true for people who live in cities.

I am currently rural so unless walking for leisure, I don't walk (OK, I don't walk for leisure either). I would not be able to anything in less than an hour or more. Those who live in a city probably find walking less of a hassle that taking transportation.

In my current physical state, I would call the end of the hallway at work a long walk but just a few years ago, I would not call it a long walk unless it was more than about 20 minutes and would not call it an undoable walk if it was under 30-40 minutes.

 

[_19disnA]

Depends a lot on the weather and how crowded someplace is.

Casinos in Vegas are a LOT further apart than it would first appear. At certain times of the year when it is well over 100 degrees, feels like you stepped into an oven as soon as you walk outside. Walking for miles in that kind of weather is my definition of unreasonable. The air conditioned monorail gets you out of the Summer heat and connects several casinos on the east side of the Strip. Partly depends on where you are staying and which casino(s) you want to visit and where the available transportation goes. After going there a few times, you already know the places you most likely want to visit. We generally find renting a car is the best way to get around during the day in Vegas and also avoids all of the sketchy people hanging around outside. The casinos are an indoor activity, so it is more of a destination vs constantly needing to walk somewhere else.

Disney is largely an outdoor activity and involves MILES of walking, large crowds and long ride lines. We would never go in June/July/August since we find it too hot to do all of that walking and be enjoyable.

 

[Kae]

The LV Monorail is kinda way out at some places (mgm for sure)

 

[soccerdad72]

The LV Monorail is kinda way out at some places (mgm for sure)

Everything at the MGM Grand is way out there.

 

[TippyThomas]

I've never been there so I have no direct knowledge, but could the complaints be based more on the heat and wanting to escape it as soon as possible?

 

[longboard55]

The issue is the size of the casino, do a timer on the distance from the sidewalk

 

[jimmymc]

As a tourist in a city, 30 minutes is about the limit. 20 and under is totally fine, 30 is borderline depending on the other options, 40+ and I'm looking for a bus or cab.

 

[kdonnel]

The LV Monorail is kinda way out at some places (mgm for sure)

That is the one that is 5 minutes from platform to middle of casino.

To me 5 minutes is nothing. Is it just people feeling like it is much further or is 5 minutes just too far for many?

 

[Kae]

True

Everything at the MGM Grand is way out there.

. I have you ever tried to get to TopGolf? might be in AZ.

 

[tvguy]

Since we retired we routinely walk for an hour, about 3 miles without issue. I think the determining issue on a vacation would be IF we had the time available to walk. An hour would probably be the top end for walking for transportation. But walking while exploring, I think we walked four hours in San Francisco from the cruise ship dock to Ghirardelli Square and back, just under 3 miles in total. And last year on a Genealogy trip, we walked for five hours in one cemetery, more standing than walking, but still my wife's pedometer indicated we walked two miles (back and forth). My wife has over 50 relatives there, including her Grandmother.