PirateSnowmen
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2007
Just back from our 11/6-11/12 trip. We were in Martinique. We enjoyed the location, but it was pretty far from the CBR Skyliner station. Reading everyone's posts helped me prepare for our stay, especially in regards to transportation, so I thought I'd share what we did while we were there!
Magic Kingdom: got to the Martinique bus stop just before 7:45am. We were the 5th or so party to arrive. First bus arrived at 8:08am. Everyone was very respectful and got on the bus in the order we arrived; no issues with anyone trying to cut in line. We made it onto the bus and pulled away at 8:14am. They did fill pretty much every seat on the bus. The bus driver tells you where to sit and there are plastic dividers between seats, so even if you are sitting next to a stranger, there's a plastic partition between you. The bus did briefly stop on the way to MK because the emergency hatch in the roof was open and it was raining, so people were getting rained on. Once the bus driver closed it, we were back on our way. We were walking through the front gate & down Main Street at 8:40am. We basically walked on BTMRR, Pirates, Splash, and Haunted Mansion by 10am.
Hollywood Studios: Got to the CBR Skyliner station at 8am. There were less than 10 parties ahead of us. Just before 8:30am several buses going to DHS pulled in, but I wasn't able to see if they were loading people on at that time. I can't remember what time they walked us up onto the Skyliner platform (it was maybe 8:35am or so), but the Skyliner started running right at 8:45am and we got on within a minute of it running. Once we got to DHS, they lined us up at temperature check. There were a bunch of lines and we were maybe 20-30 parties back in our line. They started letting us go through temperature check at 9:15am, we went straight through into the park & went straight for MMRR. We got onto our MMRR ride vehicle at 9:28am and by the time we got off they had the line closed due to capacity. At 7am I did manage to snag RotR boarding group 45 and our group was called at 12:35pm.
Epcot: We weren't rushing to make it to rope drop. We got to the Riviera Skyliner station around 10:50am and waited maybe 10-15 minutes to be loaded into a gondola. We walked right through security & into the park. It was after 11am at that point & we were hungry, so we decided to head around the World Showcase to eat at some F&W booths, so I can't say how the lines were at the rides at that time. The WS was fairly empty & we had no waits to get food.
Animal Kingdom: we drove & didn't make it for rope drop, so nothing special to report.
Hope this helps!
Magic Kingdom: got to the Martinique bus stop just before 7:45am. We were the 5th or so party to arrive. First bus arrived at 8:08am. Everyone was very respectful and got on the bus in the order we arrived; no issues with anyone trying to cut in line. We made it onto the bus and pulled away at 8:14am. They did fill pretty much every seat on the bus. The bus driver tells you where to sit and there are plastic dividers between seats, so even if you are sitting next to a stranger, there's a plastic partition between you. The bus did briefly stop on the way to MK because the emergency hatch in the roof was open and it was raining, so people were getting rained on. Once the bus driver closed it, we were back on our way. We were walking through the front gate & down Main Street at 8:40am. We basically walked on BTMRR, Pirates, Splash, and Haunted Mansion by 10am.
Hollywood Studios: Got to the CBR Skyliner station at 8am. There were less than 10 parties ahead of us. Just before 8:30am several buses going to DHS pulled in, but I wasn't able to see if they were loading people on at that time. I can't remember what time they walked us up onto the Skyliner platform (it was maybe 8:35am or so), but the Skyliner started running right at 8:45am and we got on within a minute of it running. Once we got to DHS, they lined us up at temperature check. There were a bunch of lines and we were maybe 20-30 parties back in our line. They started letting us go through temperature check at 9:15am, we went straight through into the park & went straight for MMRR. We got onto our MMRR ride vehicle at 9:28am and by the time we got off they had the line closed due to capacity. At 7am I did manage to snag RotR boarding group 45 and our group was called at 12:35pm.
Epcot: We weren't rushing to make it to rope drop. We got to the Riviera Skyliner station around 10:50am and waited maybe 10-15 minutes to be loaded into a gondola. We walked right through security & into the park. It was after 11am at that point & we were hungry, so we decided to head around the World Showcase to eat at some F&W booths, so I can't say how the lines were at the rides at that time. The WS was fairly empty & we had no waits to get food.
Animal Kingdom: we drove & didn't make it for rope drop, so nothing special to report.
Hope this helps!
