We went last year and was there for the entire 10 days. But we stayed at american campground down town, we had the bus package. So drove 10 miles to the mall, parked walked 100 yards got on the school bus which took 20 minutes to the field, and it dropped us off right next to the balloon field. Set up great and when we go back will be the same thing we do again. On the days we didn't do the balloon thing we didn't have to fight the traffic getting in and out of the balloon field area. We used this for both morning and evening activities. I think the bus was $8 a day.