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I did the Animal Kingdom Lodge for a few years on the trot, and used the disney bus every day, but also used the car most nights for driving to a restaurant, going to the malls, universal or seaworld.
People don't always realise that WDW is the same size as San Francisco, International Drive is eleven miles long so unless you're happy to stay in the hotel the whole time, or have got a restaurant right next door, walking isn't really an option. Get a Villa, and it's even worse, most of them are miles away from disney, I'm talking Cardiff to Newport.
We went back in 2015 without a car and stayed on International Drive. Used Uber to transfer between hotel and park (though often walked to Universal). As a guide, think an Uber is about $12-$14 between Universal and Disney.
We go back first week of June and whilst we are staying onsite at Universal for the fortnight, will again use Uber for 99% of our transport.
If a group of 8 and all adults, look at signing up for an Uber account and then use the affiliate links, to link together, and you should be able get a load of free rides to start you off. We've got about 16 free $15 rides to use when we get over there.
Out of interest if you go with uber to park what happens with payment going into the parks?
Uber has got so popular that Disney now just wave them through to access the drop off areas outside each park. Universal has a drop-off area (same place as coaches etc go from). I've had a look a few times in the evenings around the parks closing and there's been minimal surge pricing and loads of cars always available.
some nice hotel 2 bedroom suites at LBV ( lake buena vista ) opposite disney springs ( old downtown disney ) some are disney partner hotels, so while they do not have disney bus's, they have very similar and are more frequent
which is why a hotel or suite always appeals to me more and in with my " disney planning hat " on, is what i recommend
Officially, The driver is s.posed to pay ( which thay ask you for ) but many CM's at the booths just wave you in
The seaworld waterpark is called Aquatica its a personal choice, my fav is Typhoon lagoon
While i dont mind Idrive, i think the better place in the past few years has turned into LBV, idrive seems to have lost the sparkle and just looks run down now
Officially the driver ( then you ) have to pay and people have reported they have had to, it depends on the CM