Getting to Trail's End with a wheelchair

[joanchris]

I have been to Trail's End once before, but not with my daughter who uses a wheelchair. We are here now (just visiting resorts, sadly no parks!) and thinking of Trails End for dinner tonight (can see the fireworks after dinner from the beach area there). But I was thinking that it was a royal pain to get to Trails End, drive all the way there, park, then take the internal bus to the restaurant.
Are all the busses wheelchair accessible, or just some? Just trying to figure if it will be worth the hassle of trying to get there. Considered parking at the TTC taking the monorail to MK, then the boat over to Ft Wilderness, not sure that would be a better option. I imagine it will be a pretty cold boat ride tonight!
Thanks for any help!

 

[disney david]

I have been to Trail's End once before, but not with my daughter who uses a wheelchair. We are here now (just visiting resorts, sadly no parks!) and thinking of Trails End for dinner tonight (can see the fireworks after dinner from the beach area there). But I was thinking that it was a royal pain to get to Trails End, drive all the way there, park, then take the internal bus to the restaurant.
Are all the busses wheelchair accessible, or just some? Just trying to figure if it will be worth the hassle of trying to get there. Considered parking at the TTC taking the monorail to MK, then the boat over to Ft Wilderness, not sure that would be a better option. I imagine it will be a pretty cold boat ride tonight!
Thanks for any help!

Every single bus disney owns and operates is wheelchair accessible. Every bus can take two wheelchairs or ecvs some can take three and a few can take four. The Internal ones shouldn't be such a pain as they just make stops at the resort.

If it for fireworks the poly beach is nice two and if you park at ttc you can walk over to poly and then via path way to grand. If it the restaurant you want to go then parking in their lot ad. Then using the bus that will be heated might be a better option but you still can take the monorail to mk then boat if that what you want to do.

 

[clanmcculloch]

If you're driving anyway then parking at FW then taking the internal bus is less steps and less hassle than parking at TTC, hopping the monorail, then taking the boat. Don't forget with the monorail you're also dealing with pushing a wheelchair up and down some pretty steep hills. As disney_david said, all buses have can take wheelchairs so don't let the fact that at FW you'll be taking a bus. There are 3 different internal bus routes and I believe they all go to Pioneer Hall where Trail's End is located so just hop on whichever of the internal buses comes first.

 

[joanchris]

Thank you both for the helpful replies! The last time we took a Disney bus anywhere with my daughter was our 2005 trip, I don't believe all buses were accessible at that time.
We ended up going and it was not at all the hassle I imagined it might be.
Fireworks were interesting from that perspective, but it was cloudy and some were list in the clouds. It kind of looked like it was raining fireworks.

 

[disney david]

Thank you both for the helpful replies! The last time we took a Disney bus anywhere with my daughter was our 2005 trip, I don't believe all buses were accessible at that time. We ended up going and it was not at all the hassle I imagined it might be. Fireworks were interesting from that perspective, but it was cloudy and some were list in the clouds. It kind of looked like it was raining fireworks.

In 2005 they had the older buses that had lifts not these new low floor buses that have ramps and are bigger and better for guest in wheelchairs and ECVs so they all should have been wheelchair accessible in 2005. Then they didn't have buses that could hold more then two are very few now these newer buses they can put more in and have more with three spots and a few that could take four. They still have a few that the drivers are holding onto but should be gone very soon then Disney will have one of the youngest fleet of buses. Their was also testing for a month last year a electric bus at fort wilderness internal routes not sure if they will get any but this be around the second time they tried to use a hybrid bus this time all electric so let hope it goes well. Glad you had a great time and didn't run into any hassles and got to see the fireworks even though their was clouds.