Hotels with bus service to disney

[StuckInKS]

Does nayone have a list of hotels that offer their own bus service to the parks?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Most hotels that do participate in park-bound transportation contract with a shared service, i.e. one bus will stop at a number of hotels. Also, for the most part, there is no alteration in the schedule - if there are three buses in the morning and two in the afternoon/evening, but both return buses are full, they do NOT add additional buses. The guest is stuck finding their own transportation.

The Marriott properties at Little Lake Bryan provide transportation, but I don't know if it's one of these shared-routing things.

The six/seven Hotel Plaza Boulevard properties do provide regularly-scheduled, all-park transportation all day and evening during the hours the parks are open - every hour or half hour depending on the park and the time of day.

Generally, though, it's advisable for guests not staying onsite to have a rental car.

 

[Lewisc]

PP is correct. Disney hotels have the best bus service. Guests who aren't going to rent a car will do better booking a moderate or value hotel. The DTD hotels also have good bus service.

A point missed by the PP, some of the offsite hotels require a bus reservation the day before. Some of the offsite hotels charge for bus service. A couple of bus drivers post on DIS, at least one driver said some of the companies used by offsite hotels use older and potentially unsafe buses.

 

[clkelley]

I stayed at an offsite hotel 9n International drive once without a car and used their transportation and it was a nightmare!!

For one thing, it was only like 3 buses in the morning and two - three buses in the evening.

So on my arrival day I had to take a cab as there were no more buses for the day. (I was able to book a 1-way return on the bus.)

This trip was 11 years ago, so PI was still a big thing to do. In order to go to PI in the evenings I had to buy 1-way transportation to a park, then separate 1-way transportation back from PI.

On my last day, I had to take a cab to the World because if I took the bus, I wouldn't have a bus back to my hotel in time to collect my bags and take Mears. So I took a cab to the Contemporary and stored my bag at the Magic Kingdom lockers, then I walked back to the Contemporary with my bag and took Mears back to the airport from there.

Oh, and there is absolutely NO WAY to get to a park at rope drop using those shuttle services. The earliest bus never got to the parking lot of each park till 30 minutes after opening.