Walt Disney World Resort offers guests transportation
options to get to and from the parks and other resorts for FREE! The Disney Transportation System contains
fleets of boats, buses, and, of course, monorails. The system shuttles guests from resorts to
parks and park to park. Navigating the
system is easy, but can be overwhelming if a guest is not sure how the system
works.
There’s a great web-site called Our Laughing Place (a
reference to Splash
Mountain ) Walt Disney
World Transportation Wizard. Visitors to
the site put in where they are and where they would like to go and the
transportation wizard determines the best route using the Disney Transportation
System. Click here to get to the OLP WDW Transportation Wizard.
I’ll never forget the time an adult female guest was getting
on the Magic Kingdom bus to go to breakfast at Cape
May Café at the Beach Club. We were at
the bus stop at Port Orleans French Quarter and were getting on the Magic Kingdom
bus. She was asking the driver if this
was the early bus for character dining and if the bus would get her to Cape May
Café.
I intervened. While
the Magic Kingdom
bus could get her to the Magic Kingdom and then she could take a Beach Club bus to
the Beach Club, the bus to Magic
Kingdom wasn’t her best
bet. I asked what time her Advanced
Dining Reservation was for. While I don’t
remember the exact time, I do remember that she had given herself plenty of
time to make the reservation. Good for
her! I then suggested that she wait for
the Hollywood Studios bus and then take Friendship Boat to the Beach Club. I told her where to go at Studios to catch
the boat—as she wouldn’t actually have to enter the park the get to the
boat. (This is different than at EPCOT,
as guests would have to enter the main entrance of the park—using their
admission ticket—and traverse to the International Gateway to get to a
Friendship Boat launch to get to the Beach Club.) Going to Studios would be easier.
The lady I was helping asked if I was one of those “moms.” I replied, “Do you mean a Disney mom?”
“Yeah.”
“No, but I have applied to be a Disney mom.” I wished her and her family a good day and a
great trip. I’m sure they made it!
When I made the little yellow cards for the husband for our
most recent trip—click here to read more—I included information about Disney
transportation on the card. For example,
the evening we were having dinner at Garden Grill in EPCOT, I had listed on one
card to take Magic Kingdom Ferry to TTC then EPCOT Monorail if Express Monorail
from the Magic Kingdom is not running. At the time of our visit, the Magic Kingdom
monorail line was experiencing interruptions due to construction at the Grand
Floridian. So, we had plan A and B to
use the Disney Transportation System to get from Magic Kingdom
to EPCOT for dinner. This also meant
that we knew which park we were going to be in on which day, etc. Turns out that the monorails were running—I asked
a Cast Member when we exited the park to be sure—and we took the Express Monorail from the
Magic Kingdom
to the Ticket and Transportation
Center and switched to
the EPCOT monorail—we didn’t get to ride the Ferry this time.
Guests’ views on the Disney Transportation System are as
varied as the guests themselves and opinions vastly vary. For us, using the Disney Transportation
System, including Free Magical Express from Orlando International
Airport to our resort, is
all a part of the Disney experience. I
can’t wait to hear the music on the bus when it turns the corner at the Magic Kingdom
announcing our arrival. I love to hear
the themed music on the various buses for different resorts. All of us enjoy
visiting with other guests during the commute to and from the parks. I like to sit back, relax, and let Disney do
the driving!
Be sure to check out the Transportation Wizard and let me
know what you think.
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