Davy Crockett Ranch

[Perladal]

Hi,

I'm in the very early stages of planning a short 2 night stay at DLP in July. We've been twice previously, but not since 2014, and both times we stayed off site. I've been looking on the various dlp booking sites and found a package for 2 nights/3 days park tickets and half board for 2ad 2 ch for less than £900. Has anyone stayed at Davy Crockett before? Do you still feel you're in disney bubble? Any trip reports involving DCR anyone could direct me to?

Thanks!

[Willeve]

We e stayed at Davy Crockett twice, really liked it. I do think you need the ‘whole day in the park’ strategy if you stay there, we never wanted to return to the park once we got back as it’s not as convenient as the walkable resorts, but that’s our park plan anyway so it suited us.

[Guest]

This report (from day 9 onwards) is a good one similar time of year to your plans too and the park hours are likely to be the same.

https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/rep...php?userid=332

[Lostbrain]

We weren't keen on it. For breakfast you pick up food from kiosks nearby, take back, eat, clear away, then get in your car and drive to the park. It didn't feel like being in the bubble. We thought we'd appreciate the space, but we were so tired when we got back we all collapsed into bed.
It was nice enough, and we had a good trip, but we didn't feel like we were on site. We thought we'd want the pool, but again we struggled to find time to go because we were so tired after the Parks.

[Perladal]

Originally Posted by Lostbrain

We weren't keen on it. For breakfast you pick up food from kiosks nearby, take back, eat, clear away, then get in your car and drive to the park. It didn't feel like being in the bubble. We thought we'd appreciate the space, but we were so tired when we got back we all collapsed into bed.
It was nice enough, and we had a good trip, but we didn't feel like we were on site. We thought we'd want the pool, but again we struggled to find time to go because we were so tired after the Parks.

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That's what I'm thinking, we won't have time to use the facilities like pool etc so might price up the cheaper hotels that we can walk from.

Thsnks for all replies! Will read that trippy before we make final decision! As it's only 2 nights s hotel room might work out ok and we won't need extra space if we're out in the parks all day.

[David]

Depends if you have young children then it can be an extremely long day in the parks it nice to have more than 1 room. We like the extra space and the ability to do your own breakfast. It depends on your own circumstances we are combining it with a few nights at center parcs in germany and a few at Berny riviere and its great to have the space to take the bikes off if the back of the car and leave them chained up. Its great to have different accomadation options. I don't feel its any more or less disney than staying in walking distance if you go to Florida with the exception of the contemporary resort nothing is in walking distance.

[thefourDs]

We went last August and absolutely loved it. I’d definitely recommend it and if we go back I wouldn’t look at any other accommodation as we liked the space and comfort of the cabins at Davy Crockett Ranch. We enjoyed the pool, the facilities are all lovely and we found the staff to be super friendly.

I didn’t feel that I was out of the bubble. We’d previously stayed at Cheyenne which was fine but having the extra space and a fully equipped kitchen suited us a lot better.

We loved the breakfast baskets too and made up packed lunches to take to the park with the baguettes included.

[blusteryday]

Originally Posted by Stubbs86

This report (from day 9 onwards) is a good one similar time of year to your plans too and the park hours are likely to be the same.

https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/rep...php?userid=332

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Thanks for the recommendation . OP, if you have any DCR questions, let me know.

[Lisa123wm]

We loved DCR when we stayed last August. It was our first time there and was pleasantly surprised.
We’re going back at Easter, looking forward to it.

[Perladal]

Originally Posted by blusteryday

Thanks for the recommendation . OP, if you have any DCR questions, let me know.

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Enjoyed reading your trip report!