Can you call the resort main desk and ask for a specific park bus ?

[pooh2001]

What if you are at a moderate resort - and no park bus comes for EPCOT, while 4 buses arrvie to go to MK....

Can you call the front desk if after 20 minutes, no bus for EPCOT (or the Park you want to go to) does not arrive at the moderate resort bus stop ?

Should you call a 'transportation' dept at WDW ?

Any suggestions ?

 

[vicki_c]

You need to go INTO the resort if that would happen. Calling on the phone from the bus stop will just get you the general Disney call center which will not help you out.

Sometimes there are CMs at the bus stops that you can just ask to have a bus called.

Personally I wouldn't be calling after 20 minutes but something longer than that - no matter how many buses that have come that weren't for your destination. 20 minutes is a totally average time to wait for the bus in many cases. I hate waiting 5 minutes for the bus (why we usually drive our car), but I still wouldn't be quite that impatient at 20 minutes.

 

[disney david]

If that happens you can just ask the driver of one of the mk buses to call dispatch and to let them know you been waiting a pong time. Lynette bus broke down and they aretrukngto get anouter bus to handle the route. You will just sane a step because if you go into the resort they have to call transportion then they will have to get baklck to them when the buses have radio that go to the bus dispatch. I seen it at contempry when people was waiting for the dtd bus for awhile and asked the ak driver abiut and he called dispatch and they told him it be a little longer to the bus showed up it got delayed. But if no bus show up then send one member of your party go in and I another bus show ask them they will know the best since they work in that department it can't hurt to have two people call about the problem.

 

[goofy4tink]

Believe me, the folks at the front desk have nothing whatsoever to do with the buses. As already mentioned, ask a bus driver when a bus to a particular park is coming.
I haven't had any issues like that before though. Usually, if multiple buses come for one park, it means that park has had EMHs and there is an increased need for more buses.

 

[vicki_c]

Sorry - I agree - asking another bus driver is a better idea! I was just thinking about what a bad idea calling on the phone would be!

However, I did think the staff in the lobby would be able to call regarding the buses, but I guess I'm wrong.

 

[bumbershoot]

During our December trip, we had some issues at the resorts and parks, and every time we called or talked to a driver, we were told that their new system disallows their calling for another bus, and we had to wait.

At the parks, there are videocameras, and when there's a crowd they'll dispatch a bus. When there isn't a crowd, even if they are waiting for 40 minutes at night in 40 degree temperature, they will NOT send a bus. Gotta be a crowd.

But then THAT fell apart when there was a big crowd at AKL one morning and we waited and waited and waited for a specific bus while bus after bus after multiple bus came by for the other resorts...

But nowhere in there at all did a single driver know the overall schedule, and all told us they could NOT call to get another bus, that we just had to wait.

 

[Magicbus]

and every time we called or talked to a driver, we were told that their new system disallows their calling for another bus, and we had to wait.

That's a totally ridiculous response and not true.

At the parks, there are videocameras, and when there's a crowd they'll dispatch a bus.

Really, I didn't know that.

But nowhere in there at all did a single driver know the overall schedule

There is no schedule.

and all told us they could NOT call to get another bus, that we just had to wait.

Sorry, but this is just too difficult to believe.

 

[goofy4tink]

Hey Magicbus...love that new avatar!!! Very cool.

 

[disney david]

me to magicbus but where buddy we going to get a new picture of buddy.

 

[Magicbus]

Hey Magicbus...love that new avatar!!! Very cool.

Thanks. And Mickey's wearing what CranBiz calls the Bolivian dictator's uniform.

 

[Magicbus]

new picture of buddy.

He's back.

 

[disney david]

He's back.

okay thanks another great picture of buddy

 

[goofy4tink]

Thanks. And Mickey's wearing what CranBiz calls the Bolivian dictator's uniform.

OH, that did NOT go un-noticed!!!!

 

[aubriee]

During our December trip, we had some issues at the resorts and parks, and every time we called or talked to a driver, we were told that their new system disallows their calling for another bus, and we had to wait.

At the parks, there are videocameras, and when there's a crowd they'll dispatch a bus. When there isn't a crowd, even if they are waiting for 40 minutes at night in 40 degree temperature, they will NOT send a bus. Gotta be a crowd.

But then THAT fell apart when there was a big crowd at AKL one morning and we waited and waited and waited for a specific bus while bus after bus after multiple bus came by for the other resorts...

But nowhere in there at all did a single driver know the overall schedule, and all told us they could NOT call to get another bus, that we just had to wait.

I did a split stay Dec 4th-12th at CSR and YC. The morning I was switching resorts I turned my luggage into luggage services to transport, then walked out to catch the first bus I saw, so I could make a connection over to the YC. It just so happened the first bus was to AK and due to being so early was almost empty. I sat right beside the front door and mentioned to the driver that I was going over to AK, just to catch a bus over to YC. He told me that buses don't usually pick up from the parks to go to the resorts that early, but he'd call and tell them I was going to be there waiting. I heard him call in and say he had "an upstreamer" that was going to be at the YC stop at AK. Almost as soon as he dropped me off, there was a YC bus there to take me to the YC. Right after we got out of the AK area, that driver called and started talking to someone and said, 'I have an upstreamer on my way to the YC". I started laughing and told him I was not a fish. He laughed and said 'maybe not, but this morning you are going against the stream of guests and so have your own personal bus'. Anyway, that first driver definitely called a bus for me.

 

[dudspizza]

I did a split stay Dec 4th-12th at CSR and YC. The morning I was switching resorts I turned my luggage into luggage services to transport, then walked out to catch the first bus I saw, so I could make a connection over to the YC. It just so happened the first bus was to AK and due to being so early was almost empty. I sat right beside the front door and mentioned to the driver that I was going over to AK, just to catch a bus over to YC. He told me that buses don't usually pick up from the parks to go to the resorts that early, but he'd call and tell them I was going to be there waiting. I heard him call in and say he had "an upstreamer" that was going to be at the YC stop at AK. Almost as soon as he dropped me off, there was a YC bus there to take me to the YC. Right after we got out of the AK area, that driver called and started talking to someone and said, 'I have an upstreamer on my way to the YC". I started laughing and told him I was not a fish. He laughed and said 'maybe not, but this morning you are going against the stream of guests and so have your own personal bus. Anyway, that first driver definitely called a bus for me.

As Dory and Marlin would say, "just keep swimming, just keep swimming"......

 

[Magicbus]

He told me that buses don't usually pick up from the parks to go to the resorts that early

That statement confuses me because buses do pick up at the parks in the AM for resorts on a regular basis. Drivers and transportation CMs at all the park bus stops look for upstreamers and call it in. Maybe the OP was at WDW before Disney started making a concerted effort to take care of upstreamers.

I heard him call in and say he had "an upstreamer" that was going to be at the YC stop at AK. Almost as soon as he dropped me off, there was a YC bus there to take me to the YC.

That's what you call service. See, some CMs do go above and beyond.

Anyway, that first driver definitely called a bus for me.

It's a different situation than what the OP was talking about, but the bottom line is that drivers will call for guests regarding buses. It's done many times every day.