tinkandhook said:
okay thanks. i read on a different thread that the driver hadnt said a word and that they had already known which stop they would be after reading the boards. so i just thought i would ask to be safe.
tinkandhook
Well, it was probably just coincidence and luck. Before DME launched, someone posted what seemed to be an internal Disney memo identifying four zones (identified by color), four or so resorts in each zone, and the order of drop-off. I had this memorized (DON'T ASK!) so that I thought I "knew" which resorts I'd be grouped with and in what order I'd be dropped off.
I took DME on May 8, its 4th day of operations. I was very surprised to get down to the DME area and see 5 or 6 queues (I forget which) instead of the 4 previously identified on this board, and the groupings were "all wrong," at least as compared with that memo. In subsequent days and weeks, people posted their experiences and, collectively, we reasoned that since it never seemed to be the same way twice (an obvious exaggeration, but you know what I mean), Disney must have decided to dispatch buses based upon need and have it be a fluid, dynamic situation rather than a static situation which might lead to repeats of the old Mears days when people could wait around in a bus for an hour or more until it filled up.
According to at least one Mears driver who used to post here quite a lot, there are two guidelines. One is that for any given grouping of resorts, the resort closest to MCO gets dropped off first, etc. The second, one he said was not uniformly followed, was that GF and maybe Poly were dropped off first no matter the geography.
So as you can see, there's no way to know for sure what the drop-off order of YOUR bus will be until you get to MCO. If you know what other resorts you're grouped with as you wait in line, and if you know your WDW geography (all 47 square miles of it), you can figure it out.
ENJOY WDW!
