buses for resort guests only?

[hellokitty]

on another post someone wants to know if they can use the buses even if they stay off property??
they have hopper passes, i thought they could use monorail, but not buses is this true or not?
i thought buses were for resort guests only??

[TracyK]

If you have a hopper pass this states that you can use Disney transportation, that includes monorails, boats and buses.

[cbrfan]

Yes, you can use the Disney busses. If you were limited solely to the monorail you couldn't hop to AKL or MGM, but you could between MK and Epcot. I have tickets that clearly state they include use of all Disney transportation.

[DebbieB]

In 11 trips to WDW, I can only recall being asked for resort ID or tickets on transporation once. That was to the old Discovery Island.

[GEM]

It certainly would be hard to "park hop" if you couldn't use the busses!

[Miranda]

In all my Disney trips, I have never been asked for a resort ID, although on this last trip they did tell us at DD that they do check resort IDs at the PI stop after midnight.

[seashoreCM]

According to Corey Sandler, author of the "Econoguide" book for Disney World, Disney has sold a "transportation pass", in 1997 it cost USD 2.50. I have never had my ID checked on board a bus, I would suspect ther would be no problem riding to a resort and having lunch or dinner there. If you had only a one day one park pass, no sense riding the bus to another park, you couldn't get in.

I have not seen any instances but I suppose that even resorts like All Star may issue 3 hour parking passes during peak times to keep day guests from parking there free and spending the entire day in a park.

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