Joel
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Is it safe to assume that for someone from Portofino to get back from Volcano Bay has to board a bus back to South Garage, then walk back through security and City Walk to take a boat back to the resort?
Based on an office resource, UO Twitter, yes. However I hope that will be changed because the resorts all had free transportation directly to WnW, I imagine that should continue to VB.
Seems that way. Could always walk to Sapphire and take a boat to City Walk and then boat hop from there
I can also see Universal barring entry from the Cabana Bay gate if a guest isn't staying at that specific resort. Looks like guests complaints will be flowing in even before parkgoers hit the turnstiles. They really should have offered more pedestrian friendly access points, and had the foresight to think of these things all the way back when they designed and built Cabana Bay & Sapphire Falls. Masterplanning 101.
Or you can just hop on the bus back to your Resort from the main transportation center in CityWalk, which isn't past any security checkpoint.Is it safe to assume that for someone from Portofino to get back from Volcano Bay has to board a bus back to South Garage, then walk back through security and City Walk to take a boat back to the resort?
Lazy river is filled!
And so is the wave pool!
I never stayed on site. Didn't know the resorts has busses that went to the city Walk bus loop. Thought it was only Sapphire and Cabana since they were further away.Or you can just hop on the bus back to your Resort from the main transportation center in CityWalk, which isn't past any security checkpoint.
They built an entire road from the south garage. The busses will follow that road and be able to loop around back into the garage with out ever interacting with street traffic except for the railroad crossing at the south garage.
After building Sapphire- its a little less about the number of boats for half of the resorts, unfortunately. They now have the traffic light that is the main bottle neck. So for the RPR/SF side, they're pretty maxed out on boats already- I dont see how adding a boat to either resort would save any time whatsoever. Portofino/HR could take a couple extra though.I was thinking the water transit is going to be crazy busy. I hope they have added the necessary boats to accommodate the extra traffic of people.
As the original poster of "breathe" I can say that this is enough to have me email Universal about it. It's not about music choices- it's a significant, and unnecessary inconvenience to their best customers. Hell- charge us more to stay on-site and run busses, thats fine. This isn't.I guess someone hit the freakout button again. I wouldn't worry about it. It will all workout ok. Breathe.
dark- I love you, but this wasn't designed in a day and it's inexcusable. They have enough PR nightmare to deal with. You think they wants Loews to have to hear it from their guests and to have on-site hotel guest's first and last experience to VB be an absolute ass-whipping? Its the first thing they have to experience on the way to the new park and the last thing they experience after coming back. It'll start them on the wrong foot and if theyve had a subpar experience at VB- it will amplify that. Again- they should have had the foresight to not have this happen- we all know its a bad idea- and we don't need a survey- and we're huge universal apologists, if nothing else.The last thing Universal is worried about this week is bus loops from Portifino bay. If it's an issue, which it will be, it will change. I promise. How many pages are we going to spend on this today? Do you think Universal isn't adaptable to guests needs? That they aren't going to survey every on site family that comes out of there for the next month to make improvements? Because they are and they will.
Ya- I had to use it one time to get back to portofino during lightning when the boats were down. I wouldve just walked, but a 3 and 7 year old in the rain alters plans sometimes Its the size of the shuttle in the front of this pic. It also provides transportation within the resorts after 5pm (I think) for dinner reservations.I never stayed on site. Didn't know the resorts has busses that went to the city Walk bus loop. Thought it was only Sapphire and Cabana since they were further away.
And it's the worst transportation that Disney offers to any of their parks, agreed?Oh please. Try to get to Typhoon or Blizzard Beach from any of the Deluxe Resorts at Disney using their transportation. It's the same amount of time.
I go back to my original comment. For the next month, it's Test and Adjust.And it's the worst transportation that Disney offers to any of their parks, agreed?
And I could also Uber from Animal Kingdom if I wanted to and bypass that, could I not?
If you're ok with comparing Universal's transportation to their brand new theme park with Disney's absolute worst transportation method they offer- by all means, do.
Me? I'll hold Universal to their incredible standards they have now as being the easiest and most convenient resort in Florida.
How do they service these busses? How do they add new ones? Lift them with cranes over buildings?What you guys fail to realize is that you can't make roadsgo through buildings and there is only 1 bus loop at city walk which is already beyond full with taxis and all the other busses going to other destinations. This is the best they could do right now