Buses, Monorail...Oh my

[kkevcamsmom]

We will be staying at the ASMu in Jan. Is there any 'set in stone' route the buses take? I thought on our way to MK, if they stopped at Epcot first we could just get off there and hop on the monorail, is that really any faster? But then if it goes from AK to MGM to MK we might as well just stay on....

Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks!

Lori

 

[Lets go to disney]

You will board a bus directly from your hotel to the MK. It makes noother stops at any other themem park. Now I do believe that the All star busses do stop at all three all star resorts before heading to the designated park. But I know for sure that if you board a MK bus you will stop only at the magic kingdom.

I think the one bus that stops two places is Animal Kingdom is with one of the water parks, but I'm not positive because our kids are still little and we choose not to do the water parks with them yet.

Once you start using the transportation it is easy to figure out. Hope this helps! What we like to do if the kids want to ride the monorail is we just get on at MK and ride around through the whole circle it is a nice break and it is air conditioned.

 

[CleveRocks]

Disney Transport is a remarkably easy system to understand. You'll have NO TROUBLE. There's no confusing stuff to worry about, for your average transportation needs.

At your resort, get on the bus labeled for the destination you want. It's really that simple. If you see a bus that says "Magic Kingdom" on it and you want to go to Epcot, don't get on that bus. But if you want to go to Epcot, ALL ABOARD!.

There are no "routes." The MK bus goes only to MK, and so on. There are also no schedules or time tables. Buses to/from each destination run about every 15-20 minutes. So in other words, you'll never say to the kids, "Hurry up, we have to catch the 9:30 a.m. Disney-MGM Studios bus," because there's no such thing. You simply wait for the bus you want, confident in the knowledge that one will be there soon.

When you exit each theme park, there will be a large area set aside just for buses going back to the resorts. Each resort will have its own area, and each will be well-signed. You just get on the bus going back to your resort, and that's it.

The only way it can possibly get confusing is if you want to go from resort to resort ("resort" is Disney-speak for "hotel"). There are no buses that go from resort to resort (except of course for resorts that already share buses with each other, such as the All Stars sharing with each other). Since there are no buses from resort to resort, if you need to get to another resort you have to take a bus to a theme park, and then from there take a bus to that target resort. In other words, let's say you have dinner reservations at a restaurant in Animal Kingdom Lodge (AKL). You could get on an AK bus at All Stars, ride to AK, and once at AK go the area for departing buses and then go to the stop with the sign that says AKL, and get on that bus. You'd have to do the same for the way home. From AKL, you could take a bus to any park you want (as long as it's still open), and then from that park catch a bus back to your resort.

 

[ztbz]

The Magic Kingdom route is usally only has one stop, as each All Star resort gets its own bus, however sometimes if one route is slow and another has alot of people waiting then Disney might have the buses do more than one stop at the All Stars.

For the other parks, ie Epcot, Mgm, DAK, and Downtown Disney routes share the bus with the other Resorts, most of the time the bus stops at the All Star Sports, then Music, then Movies.

 

[kkevcamsmom]

Thanks a ton! That makes it so much easier

I have to be able to explain it 20 different ways to DH who is an mechanical engineer and can't just have one explanation...lol

Sounds pretty simple though.

Lori

 

[TDC Nala]

Also note that if you want to go to Downtown Disney on the bus, you must do so from a resort. There is no bus route between Downtown Disney and the theme parks. You'd have to take some sort of transportation between the park and a resort and switch at the resort to the Downtown Disney bus.

 

[manning]

If you want to ride the monorail you will have to take the bus to EPCOT then get the monorail to the TTC. From there you will have two ways to go to MK. 1. transfer to the MK monorail or 2. take the water ferry. That may be fun for the kids, three forms of transportation.