in my 26 years of camping at Fort Wilderness, I've been lucky. I've always gotten in early or on time to my campsite.
1) Yes, lucky.
2) I would have thought you would have had to wait at least once.
3) Of course, it also depends upon the time of year you visit (busy or not)
If your site isn't ready, can you unhitch in overflow and drive to a park or does the tow truck need to stay with the trailer? Just trying to decide if we should try and check in and if the site's not ready, if we should take the camper to another park in the meantime or what to do.
As always Ed is spot on, I will add one thing you can also leave your truck and trailer hooked up in the overflow lot and take a bus to the parks from the main bus stop very close to the overflow lot. Just remember if you are going to the Magic Kingdom you would have to take a Fort Wilderness internal bus to the Settlement where you would then take a boat to the Magic Kingdom.
you are lucky. last time I was there they told us our site was close to being ready so we had a late lunch in the overflow lot still no call saying out sit was ready so off to the park we went we where leaving the park well past 8 pm when we got the text our site was readyI guess in my 26 years of camping at Fort Wilderness, I've been lucky. I've always gotten in early or on time to my campsite. We've checked in as early as 10am and were able to go to our site.
When I was younger, we went with a big group and sometimes took up the entire loop. We never had issues then.
We've never stayed at the cabins though. Always tent camped.