Beach Club to Parks - Advice on transportation

[martyn]

If I want to make Rope Drop each day, what is my best bet for each of the 6 parks from BC. Assume that in each case I might need to make EMH (holiday begins May 26th).

Here is my best guess, what do you think?
Epcot - walk / do forward rolls
MK - Bus
AK - Taxi? or could i chance a bus??
DHS - Walk / Boat accoding to how we feel
BB - Bus
TL - Bus

Actually the last 2 won't be RD, so i am prepared for a leisurely trip, unless it is a truly painful experience.

Thanks

[josh]

Epcot - Walk. It's short. Five-ish minutes depending on location.

Mk - Bus. No other option unless you're driving.

AK - You could pay extra for the cab, otherwise it's the bus.

DHS - Walk there, maybe take the boat back. It's a hike. 20 minutes.

Water Parks - Bus or taxi. That may be a very long bus ride. I haven't done Beach Club to a Water Park recently. But if they stop at multiple other resorts and then another theme park/Downtown Disney before, it's going to be a trek.

[pfalcioni]

If you really hate playing bus roulette, why not check rental car prices?

[stevenmilz]

The walk from BC to DHS isn't bad. We've done it about half-a-dozen times now, pushing a double stroller with 80 pounds of kids in it, uphill, both ways, in the snow -- wait, not really... It took us between 20 and 25 minutes. We typically leave BC at 8:00 and make it there by 8:20 ish for the 8:45 turnstile openings. From the boat situation we've seen while walking, we'd never rely on a boat to get us there for RD. They seem really hit-and-miss. One time we were passed by zero boats on our walk to DHS.

[cookie21]

I haven't stayed at BC, but was just at CSR last week and did buses everywhere. For the water parks I think it works the same at most resorts: usually BB is combined with the AK bus (drops at BB, then AK, picks up AK then BB). Note that if you're going to AK early for RD your bus won't go to BB, since that doesn't open until 10, so it won't extend your ride.
TL was a nightmare for us, it is combined with the Downtown Disney bus, so going there is stopped at 2 downtown stops before TL. Coming back (around 4pm, closing is 5), they weren't running individual resort buses from TL (crowd level was low), they just bused people en masse to Downtown Disney, and then we had to wait for a resort bus. It ended up taking us about an hour to get from TL back to CSR--worst experience of the trip.

[martyn]

Thanks to all for your replies

I am trying to avoid car hire, as i plan on having the odd beer at the parks on some days.

EP, MK and DHS look simple enough. I will try a cab for TL, and chance the bus for BB & AK

[bblanch]

Sorry to tag along on your thread but would any of this change if you do have a car?

We'll be driving to the Beach Club in a few weeks and was wondering the best method to each park. I know it won't change EPCOT, but what about the other parks?

A bus will take me to the MK entrance whereas my car can only take me to the TTC right? What about HS and AK?

[stevenmilz]

Yes, bus from BC takes you to the MK entrance versus going to TTC if you drive and park. It's boat or walk from BC to DHS, bus is not an option.

[Yippee]

To go from MK (or even Ohana) to BC, could you take the monorail to Epcot and then walk? would you have to actually enter the Epcot park to do that? just wondering.

[pfalcioni]

You would need to enter Epcot if you used the Monorail. To get to BC from MK, you would just take the BC bus. From Ohana you'd need to get back to MK, then take the bus from there.