we did not have a reservation. we were there to shop and eat at contempo cafe for lunch one day.
...We stayed at the Poly last week and were always able to find a parking spot, but most of the time, it was way far away. Magically, when we came back to our car in the mornings, the parking lot was a ghost town!...
That's ridiculous! It sounds like Disney World needs to implement a resort wide take-a-ticket type system. Like Disneyland has. Take it beyond verifying if the ADR exists. If a car is there after X amount of hours, charges start to incur up to a daily max of $50 or something. Lose your ticket? $50. Resort guest who paid for parking? Just scan your magic band. (Also, that's like Disneyland. Scan the room key on exit instead of dealing with a ticket. The hotel can see at what times your room key scanned in and out for your car.)...Personally, I wish they would enforce it more at BWV - can't tell you the number of times I have seen the parking lot full during the day but empty out after Illuminations...
No. They will scan your band and see that you are DVC with a reservation at another resort and there should not be an issue.
I agree, if the real issue is people parking who don't belong there, charging a fee won't resolve that. Why not just increase the room price and do aware with extra 'fees'? Last time we were in LasVegas noticed all major casinos now charge daily parking fees (about $20..used to be free) and added a daily $40 'resort fee', so even if you think your room is being comped, you still pay $60 in extra fees that didn't use to exist.
The OP's article being quoted is from another disney 'related' website. I often find those type of sites are posting opinions and not really official disney information. If people want to use resort parking to go to a park, that is the issue to resolve. I agree as mentioned above, the magic band seems like a more effective way to do this.
Increase the room price to cover parking fees? I don't think so. A lot of people fly and use Disney transportation and never park. Why should their room price go up?
They do get free transport from the airport to the resort and back. Why are people being charged to park while those that fly get free transportation?
They do get free transport from the airport to the resort and back. Why are people being charged to park while those that fly get free transportation?
Because you are parking a car in their lot?They do get free transport from the airport to the resort and back. Why are people being charged to park while those that fly get free transportation?
Because you are parking a car in their lot?
Because Disney likes it when you are trapped in the bubble and wants to discourage you from keeping a car around that enables you to leave the bubble...
Just a guess...
Nope, it isn't. And a bottle of water that costs maybe a dollar in most places costs $4 inside Disney borders. They decide on their prices and charge accordingly, and can obviously start charging for things that were previously free. Perhaps charging for DME is coming soon as well. Who knows? I'm sure Disney knew in advance that charging for parking wasn't going to be a popular decision, and did it anyway. The bottom line will tell if all of those people fed up with being nickeled and dimed actually stay away from Disney. I doubt it.Parking a car in their lot was free for over 40 years. Why does it suddenly cost money? And why does it cost more at deluxes than at Values? Pretty sure the value of the concrete isn’t different at the different resorts.
I really don't think they thought through (seems to happen often) how complicated it could be to track since so many visitors arrive at their resorts for so many different reasons and diff modes of transportation.Disney wants to collect parking fees, but it doesn't want to work too hard to do it. Hiring a bunch of parking monitors is just a waste of money -- cuts into your profits.
Disney also doesn't want to miss out on revenue from people visiting the resorts and eating.
What will likely happen is that every now and then, Disney will "crack down" on parking to generate some publicity and attempt to dissuade people from pulling the wool over their eyes to avoid the fees.