AKL & SSR - current wait times for buses listed here

[HayGan]

Thanks for the updates. I hope you are having a great trip & Happy Belated Birthday!

 

[Laneychris]

Thanks fopr sharing, hope you are having a great time!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We are having a blast!

Today - 9:30 AM - SSR to MK - When we went to the bus stop there was a "purple pants" guy out there. Within maybe 3 minutes a bus for AK, Epcot, MK and then MGM all showed up one after the other. Interesting.

Tonight - 8:04 PM - MK to SSR - waited 16 minutes.

 

[tgj]

I wish more people would do what you're doing -- actuallty look at their watch and jot down the time they got to the bus stop and the time their bus actually arrived. I have no proof, but I'll bet the buses come more quickly than people think. I've often heard people say (myself included) "Where's that bus? We must have been waiting here for half an hour," when it's really only been 15 minutes.

I think this is a good thread and a nice eye-opener for some.

 

[JustSayin]

Looks like the bus service at SSR is not quite as bad as you might be led to believe by reading some reports. Your experience pretty much mirrors what ours was over the 10 days of our last visit.

We had 1 acceptable bus wait at SSR (20 minutes), 1 bad wait at the Poly (45 minutes), 1 terrible wait at DD going to AKL (60 minutes), and 1 terrible wait at the Yacht and Beach Club (60 minutes).

Thanks so much for the info, and hope you continue to have a great trip.

 

[stba2006]

I don't suppose any-one else could share their times? This has been really interesting.

We are staying at AKL in Oct and after reading some threads i was starting to worry about the resort transportation as we are not driving. After reading this though i am feeling a bit better

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We are actually still here, but I have stopped the super-precise bus monitoring because we just haven't had any issues since our first night at SSR. We checked out of SSR on 8/11 and moved to the Poly (where we never used a bus) and yesterday we moved to AKV. We went to MK yesterday around 4 PM, waited about 20 minutes for a bus. Came back last night about 10:45 PM (in the pouring rain) and waited maybe 10 minutes for a bus. It was probably less than 10, but I was soaking wet so it felt like longer.

This morning we went to MGM (got to the bus stop around 8:20 AM) and while all of the other buses came first, we still easily made it before 9 AM. We didn't wait more than 10-15 minutes. The bus goes to Blizzard Beach first, so the transport time is a little longer. We came back to AKV around 1 PM, and again, the wait for a bus wasn't too bad.

 

[Brave teacher]

Keep it up! I am enjoying seeing these times. I was also getting uneasy with staying at SSR in Feb. and seeing people reporting problems with the waits. Thanks!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

This morning we had an 8:05 ADR for Crystal Palace. We were at the bus stop at 7:15 AM. A bus came about 7:20 or so. We got on with 2 other families. One family was going to the Poly so they essentially hijacked our bus and got the driver to take them directly to the Poly. It made me mad for a couple of reasons. First, there is NO resort to resort transport and we spent a LOT of money on taxi fare this trip to make sure we got to our ADRs on time. We never attempted to hijack a bus. IF that family going to the Poly was the only family on the bus that would have been a different story, but we were trying to go to MK, and so was the third family. I think the driver should have told them to get off at MK and take the monorail. We did get to MK by 7:45 AM but I wasn't very happy about the detour.