Magical Beginnings, route?

[tripletvan]

Is there a certain route that each magical beginning shuttle takes? Are DVC resorts seperate from WDWR? And what is this about goofy driving a red van?
I am so confused!

 

[tripletvan]

Is it so new that nobody has used it? I will be staying at BC and wouldn't like to be on a three hour tour!

 

[Deb & Bill]

I wonder if you have things confused. Do you mean Magical Express - bus service that picks you up at the airport and brings you to WDW? Or - Magical Beginnings, a sometime purchase option that DVC has had in the past where you could sell a portion of your first years points back to Disney and use that as your deposit on your points purchase?

Goofy with the red van is the new billboard advertising DVC located near the Bonnet Creek Resort. DVC has vans that pick people up to bring them over to the sales office at SSR and back to their resort after they are finished with the DVC spiel.

 

[tripletvan]

Sorry Magic express! What was I thinking or not?

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Is there a certain route that each magical beginning shuttle takes? Are DVC resorts seperate from WDWR? And what is this about goofy driving a red van?
I am so confused!

The complimentary transportation and luggage transfer service is Disney's Magical Express, and is often abbreviated DME (and sometimes ME) here on the DIS Boards. You'll find all sorts of information about this service on the Transportation board.

DME serves the on-site DVC resorts and other Disney-operated resorts at WDW. It's the same service for DVC and non-DVC. In fact, BWI & BWV are the same stop, as are BC & BCV and WL & VWL.

The motorcoaches do not have fixed routes or a fixed schedule. Typically, a motorcoach will serve 2, 3, or 4 resorts. The motorcoaches are dispatched as needed. For example, if several families are waiting for each of three different resorts in a similar part of WDW, they're loaded onto a motorcoach, and the driver picks the most efficient route. The folks who dispatch the DME motorcoaches try to make sure that nobody has to wait too long, but DME is a shared service, so some people are luckier than others when it comes to timing. DME motorcoaches do not need to be 100% full to be dispatched.

"Goofy driving a red van" is a billboard to build awareness of DVC. This billboard has nothing to do with DME.

 

[byoung]

ME saves you money.

 

[tripletvan]

Okay I am getting it! Silly me!