All Star Buses, how do they work?

[We-Luv-Disney]

Its been like 5 years since we have stayed at the all star resorts, and I cant remember the bus route there. do they stop at the fist resort first, do the each have there own buses? Or do they just have more buses to share? any help would be great, thanks.

 

[minnie61650]

Its been like 5 years since we have stayed at the all star resorts, and I cant remember the bus route there. do they stop at the fist resort first, do the each have there own buses? Or do they just have more buses to share? any help would be great, thanks.

If and/or when they stop at the other all Stars the order is Sports, Music then Movies.

The buses are wonderful.

Bus rides are quite short from the ALL Stars according to PassPorter.com

All Star Buses-CBR buses---POPbuses--PO buses--- Contemporary
MK 20 min---- 20 min-----25 min------10 min---20 min(mono)
Epcot 10 min-- 15 min-----20 min------10 min---15 min
MGM 10 min----12 min-----15 min------15 min---20min
AK 10 min------20min-------15 min----15 min---20 min
DTD 15 min----20 min------20 min-----15 min---35 min

It only takes 10 minutes to get to Epcot, MGM and AK from All Stars.
MK is 20 min away. That's the same amount of time it takes on the monorail from the Contemporary.

A WORD ABOUT BUS SHARING

To me Bus Sharing at the All Stars is really a non issue.

In the mornings during Park opening hours each All Star usually has a dedicated bus.
During mid day it is usually just our stop and maybe one more on the way to the parks. On the way back sometimes it is all 3 but often Sports and Music share and Movies has it's own bus back. Each of the All Stars usually has it's own dedicated bus back from the MK.
That is a big plus. It seems like the Music bus stop usually has the shortest of the three All Star bus lines.

I guess some people who stay at POP see all 3 All Star names on the return sign of our bus stop when they head to the POP bus stop and think All Stars also has 3 stops on the way to the park.
(Even when we stop at another AS resort to load up it has not taken more than 5 minutes and we are on our way!)

 

[kj2mom]

We stayed at ASMo and the bus service was fine. The only time I can remember sharing a bus with the other All Stars was on our return from AK. Otherwise we had a bus that went right from Movies to our final destination and vice versa. There were a couple times when we had to stand on the bus (park closings basically) but people were extremely nice and someone would always offer my children a seat (although they usually declined since they loved to stand).

Not sure exactly what else you might be looking for. The only bummer about the buses is if you happen to be walking out to the bus stop exactly when a bus to your destination is pulling away it can feel like forever until the next one comes, especially if it is hot and you are cooking in the sun but I don't believe it was ever more than 10-15 minutes before the next bus came along. It did seem like there were more AK buses than any other. I was thinking that would be because of the close proximity to the park so faster turn around time although minnie's post says MGM and Epcot are the same travel time .