Wow, that's not good. We're gonna have 3 kids (3-9), so I would NOT look forward to having to wait for a shuttle that may or may not be there when it's supposed to.
I hate being tempted by the lower cost of staying at the HGV (it belongs to SIL's family, and they're letting us use it if we pay the annual fees which I think are around $1000)...so that would be only $500 for our part for an entire week. Yeah, rental car seems like a requirement. I was hoping you'd tell me their shuttle was A-OK, lol!
How was the pool area at your HGV? From the website it looks like both HGV's have a rather plain pool area, no slides or anything, right? My daughter's a bit bummed about not being able to try Port Orleans' dragon slide, lol. I think I may try to add 2 nights at Port Orleans at the end of our stay just so we can really experience some Disney magic, hehe.