stroller insight

[SWTexasBelle]

While sorting through stuff for a garage sale, I found the boys old side by side double stroller! It'll work just fine, so we'll be taking that in May, rather than spending close to $200 to rent. As a bonus, it will be much easier to spot our stroller in the sea of blue park strollers.

[Randy B]

While sorting through stuff for a garage sale, I found the boys old side by side double stroller! It'll work just fine, so we'll be taking that in May, rather than spending close to $200 to rent. As a bonus, it will be much easier to spot our stroller in the sea of blue park strollers.

Just remember to have all the adult members of the family practice folding the stroller. The stroller has to be folded before you can get on busses, trams or the train. It's amazing how often I have watched a family get to the front door of a bus and when the driver informs them of the rule, the wife takes the kids, then the husband makes several trips to haul the additional supplies into the bus, and then generally beats the stroller into submission until it resembles a folded stroller because he has no idea where the release lever is to allow folding.

Also if you absolutely must use the stroller as a shopping cart and to haul enough additional supplies to fill a semi trailer, make sure the supplies are packaged in bags that you can just detach and carry onto a bus, and that you have at least one empty bag for any purchases. Nothing is more frustrating than being behind the person who has to haul armloads of stuff into a bus while their stroller blocks the bus entrance, and then the stuff is piled onto a dozen seats and fills the aisle so anyone entering after has to find a way to fight their way over and through the blockage to get one of the few remaining seats. :mad:

Maybe if more people bringing their own strollers would conduct "security search" and "load bus" drills at home they would find a way to reduce the amount of stuff to be hauled and find how to efficently transfer the necessities that are left. (I know, wishful thinking.)

Randy

[SWTexasBelle]

All of the above is why I drive my van to all the parks. Even though I'm staying on the property, I'd rather not have the pressure of getting the stupid stroller folded, finding a place on the bus where people won't have to trip over it, and doing all of the above while trying to corral the boys! It's just much easier to walk on out to the parking lot.

But it's good advice - thanks!

[Sarah Magdalene]

You mean like this one? ;)



This was about an hour after Illuminations. The park was virtually empty and we were walking from the back of World Showcase.
My friends found an abandoned stroller along the walkway and commandeered it for a little while.
(We were nice and brought it back near the front of the park and left it with a bunch of other abandoned strollers)

-Rob

OMG, I KNEW someone knew the people I were talking about! j/k You guys did more of a favor than anything SG-ish. Leaving Mexico at World Showcase we saw this lady (a rather big bodied one) crammed into a double stroller sleeping. I also saw a family with like 3 strollers and an EVC making a train as they went though AK. It went like this: EVC, person in stroller holding onto the back of it, person in stroller behind that hanging on to the one before, so on and so forth. Oh, and the ONE stroller aged kid was riding on the lap of the EVC driver.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

See its stuff like that, that gets people hot under the collar at the SG's doing it. They would probably be the first people to sue WDW if one of the strollers tipped over and someone got hurt!