I’ve read it’s a hike from the lot to the BWV rooms. Any experience with this?
It’s about break even for me to rent a car vs my anticipated cost of Ubers (MCO, AKL, Disney springs twice where we are headed to parks afterwards), so I was considering renting for max flexibility.
However, the complaints about parking at BWV gave me pause.
I relied on Ubers at DLR years ago and boy was that a mistake (Ubers were so busy / backed up I couldn’t get traction, Ubers would cancel and I’d have to start over). It was the trip where we waited for Ubers.
O know I can do the bus but I know that I’m not going to want to take a bus to AK then take another bus to Kidani. Or take a bus to Disney springs then one to BLT and then walk to MK.
When we talked about how little we used our rental last week - just for a trip to DS and a trip to AK - about 13 miles total - we wondered if it had been worth it.
But, since it was a break-even, we decided it was worth it to be in control of our own destinies, particularly on departure day.
Being at BW we walked/ferried/skylinered to EP and HS, and - because nobody should drive to MK - we bussed to MK. The location negates need for a car. But, if it’s the same as using ride share it may be worth it for convenience.
It is a decent walk, but not horrible…and if you go out the side door on the first floor of the BWV wing, it isn’t too bad, depending on where your room is. The walk to the bus stop is about halfway to the parking lot already anyhow. But BWV is just a hike no matter where you go.
If you want to go to Kidani from BWV, you can walk to HS and take the bus directly from there. (If you don’t mind the walk.)
If you go to Disney Springs by bus, and you want to go to MK, you could walk over to SSR and take the Congress Park bus. If you drive, you have to walk back to the parking garage.
Basically, I think driving doesn’t necessarily save you WALKING distance (at least not much)…BUT, it can save you TIME because you don’t have to factor in the time it takes to wait for the buses to show up.
It isn’t technically a walkway. It is for CM vehicle access, and there is a gate. You can walk around it, but you aren’t technically “allowed” on that “path”.
Perhaps. But I wouldn’t recommend it to individuals because it is NOT technically allowed still. (We have had CMs “reprimand” us for accidentally walking on that path instead of the walkway for example…and by “reprimand”, I mean in a polite Disney-esque way.)
It is a bit a safety issue, since that is a motor vehicle path.
On the map above, we were in the area “Walkway to Swan/Dolphin” and it was a looooooong hike. (Coming back from Hollywood, I got off the boat at the Swolphin, it was way faster)
Definitely the case for some. Or maybe almost everyone
The captain of the boat mentioned this before docking at Swolphin on our HS night, but we thought about where our room was (really close to the BWV dock!) and decided to stay on. We ended up the only people on the ferry after YC
Yup! I walked all the way to that end to stay in the AC as long as possible as I made my way over to YC one afternoon, and when I exited I was right there at the bridge to Swolphin!
