Friendship boats at HS

[hsmamato2]

Is there a schedule for the boats between Epcot/HS (and hotel stops) at night after park close? Do they run till a certain time? thanks

 

[tkd lisa]

30 minutes after park close is the standard. But they'll run as long as people are lined up.

 

[CarolynFH]

When we were there last week and rode the boats multiple times, the captain announced routinely that the last boat leaves the DHS dock one hour after posted park closing time.

Disney won’t leave resort guests stranded. If you miss the last boat, there will be a bus. The bus will drop off at all 5 resorts that are on the Friendship Boat route - Swan & Dolphin, Yacht & Beach, and BW. I’m not sure about Swan Reserve; I don’t know whether the bus will drop off there, or if Swan Reserve guests need to get off at the Swan and walk across the street to SR, which is what they’d have to do when riding the boat.

During the day the boats run about every 20 minutes. At some point in the afternoon they begin coming roughly every 15 minutes.

 

[hsmamato2]

Thank you!

 

[Lewisc]

Numerous times the captain has said when the boats stop running for the night you can walk or wait until the next morning.

I don't have first hand experience with buses that late. Do they load from the front entrance at EPCOT? Walk may be almost as long, maybe longer than walking to your resort

 

[CarolynFH]

Numerous times the captain has said when the boats stop running for the night you can walk or wait until the next morning.

I don't have first hand experience with buses that late. Do they load from the front entrance at EPCOT? Walk may be almost as long, maybe longer than walking to your resort

Well, I was referring to the route from DHS to the Crescent Lake resorts, with the DHS bus stop easily accessible after the boat stops running from DHS.

For someone leaving Epcot after the boat stops running, it’s a somewhat shorter (and more brightly lit) walk from the IG to those resorts, so I wouldn’t expect that buses would be running from the front of Epcot to those resorts. And I think most guests staying at the Crescent Lake resorts consider the IG to be their Epcot entrance/exit, and if they miss the last boat they’d expect to walk home.