kaytieedid
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- Aug 13, 2009
I know there is Disney transportation provided between the Swan/Dolphin and the parks, but is magical express included too? Or do we have to use another carrier and pay a fee?
thanks!
thanks!
I know there is Disney transportation provided between the Swan/Dolphin and the parks, but is magical express included too? Or do we have to use another carrier and pay a fee?
thanks!
It is not included. You can contact Mears and pay for transportation, they may put you on a ME bus since they operate those. You would not be able to use the luggage service.
Doesn't seem to happen very often anymore. When I took the Mears bus to the Dolphin, I jokingly asked if they were going to put me on the YC/BC DME bus. The Mears lady looked at me, as if I had said something blasphemous, and said...'DME buses are for Disney owned resorts..not for the Swan or Dolphin or any other regular hotel!!!'
It is pretty reasonable to take the Mears shuttle if there are only two-three people...it's something like $32 pp, r/t. But if you have more than that, it's going to be cheaper to have a car service transport you....as well as much nicer.
Doesn't seem to happen very often anymore. When I took the Mears bus to the Dolphin, I jokingly asked if they were going to put me on the YC/BC DME bus. The Mears lady looked at me, as if I had said something blasphemous, and said...'DME buses are for Disney owned resorts..not for the Swan or Dolphin or any other regular hotel!!!'
It's this attitude that really grinds my gears.
The S and D are on Disney property, are nestled among very popular Disney resorts, (BWI, BC, YC), are very posh, very beautiful and frequently run much cheaper than Disney deluxe resorts. There seems to be this attitude of treating the S and D like some b-----d child that no one wants to admit exists. I don't quite know how else to put it into words, but it's like Disney really hates that the 2 resorts are sitting there, and wants the world to ignore them. Correct me if I'm wrong...but isn't Disney getting a cut of the revenue? Isn't Disney getting moolah from those guests buying park tickets, and souvenirs, and expensive breakfasts and CRT and fancy dinners and V&A's?
This year, we booked a week at the Boardwalk, which we're over-the-moon excited about, but we were even more excited to find a great rate for the Swan on Priceline and because of this, and because of the great price (insanely cheaper than BWI), we were able to come down to Disney 2 days early and...well...that's just magical! What wasn't so magical was finding out that we were denied ME service because of this change to our schedule. We really look forward to it and were very disappointed in the "NO MAGICAL EXPRESS FOR THE SWAN AND DOLPHIN!" policy. I even called and tried to say that since we've booked a week at the Boardwalk, we'd be willing to be dropped off at the Boardwalk, and we'd schlep our own luggage over to the Swan. The CM I spoke to was polite, but curt and emphatic about this being an absolute "No!" When I pointed out that my package at the BWI included Magical Express service, she suggested that after I was done at the Swan..I could taxi back to MCO and ME would be glad to bring me to the BWI from there.
As Charlie Brown would say...."Sheesh!"
I have priced the Swan/Dolphin because I can get the teacher rate but it really irritates me that they have the resort fee, water bottle fee, parking fee when I don't even have a car Adding all that in on top on no Magic Express makes it not such a great deal after all