Can you do this--Is it Disney legal?

[Bete]

I have a friend we are trying to meet up with for dinner at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. After dinner we will all be going together to the MNSSHP on September 30th.

Here's my dilemna. My friend will be dropped off at the resort. She will not have a car. We don't have a car but we are staying on-site at Disney. We want to catch the Disney resort bus to go to Magic Kingdom after dinner. Can my friend take the Disney bus with us even though she isn't staying on property? Does she have the right to use the Disney bus? She is paying for a Disney dinner and the Disney Halloween party. Is she entitled to use the resort bus?

In my last 5 trips I don't remember even once that the bus driver asked to see a Disney room card to use a resort bus. I would assume it should be ok to do what we want here. What do the Legal Eagles out there have to say about this?

 

[helenk]

She can use Disney transportation. In all my trips no bus driver has ever asked for any ID. The buses are not just for resort guests but to get from park to park as well.

 

[WillCAD]

Anyone with any kind of park-hopping admission is automatically entitled to use the WDW transportation system.

Your friend will have A) dinner ressie at AKL, and B) ticket to MNSSHP, so she is perfectly entitled to use the busses.

Don't worry, though, she won't be asked to prove it; nobody is ever asked to show park passes or anything else to get on a WDW bus, boat, or monorail.

 

[cigar95]

Don't worry, though, she won't be asked to prove it; nobody is ever asked to show park passes or anything else to get on a WDW bus, boat, or monorail.

The only exception I've ever experienced was being asked to show resort ID to use the small launches from MK to the Poly and GF. (Mine was accepted, even though it was at a resort other than those two.)

I've heard of cases where IDs were checked to use the resort monorail during a crunch time, but have never seen it myself.

And at least since 1992, I've never heard of anyone being checked before boarding a WDW *bus*, even at busy times.

As others have said, of course - using a WDW bus to get to a park where you hold a ticket is a completely acceptable use of the transportation system, so there's no need to feel like anyone in this scenario is skirting the system.

 

[bicker]

While Disney reserves the right to limit resort transportation to guests of the specific hotel, they only very rarely enforced that limitation, typically only when crowds were especially heavy. I've only been resort-ID'd once, getting on the resort (MK) monorail, and that was many years ago.