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    Reusing Old Magic Bands

    We also just used our 2018 MagicBands on a 2023 "Food and Wine" 3-day trip. As the previous post said, we used them for room key, Lightning Lane, and park admission tapstiles. We also used them to pay at all the Food and Wine booths as well as shopping purchases. Also mentioned earlier, they...
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    DoubleTree Suites - Downtown Disney - Lake Buena Vista

    The buses take you directly to the parks with no stop at DTD. There is a separate bus that goes from the DoubleTree to DTD but we did not ride it. We chose to drive our car to both DTD and Crossroads and it is extremely slow going due to construction and traffic in the evenings. Both...
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    DoubleTree Suites - Downtown Disney - Lake Buena Vista

    The only caution that I would give about the DTD bus system is that the buses leaving the parks run VERY much on time. We were a minute late getting to the bus stop and were running down the sidewalk waving our arms and the bus would not let us on. They actually stopped to "mouth" through the...
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    DoubleTree Suites - Downtown Disney - Lake Buena Vista

    We had such a great experience here in August 2014 that I had to come and post. We are a family of six so we can not fit into a standard on-site room. We have always stayed on-site but our youngest turned four so she finally "counted". In order to save money we headed off-site. The rooms...
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    Best (and cheapest) offsite hotel without renting a car

    I would second the vote for Downtown Disney and put a plug in for the DoubleTree. My family of 6 just stayed there in August. Rooms were recently updated and very clean. We used MouseSavers and got the free breakfast (with a buffet and made-to-order omelets) for $109/night. To get a suite...




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