Magical Express

[seashoreCM]

Don't knock it until you have tried it.

By the way, how many more people would use Mears' regular shuttle (yes I have seen lines at their ticket booths and waiting for their buses) if Disney included it complimentarily with each resort reservation instead of offering Magical Express?

>>> You are not supposed to use Magical Express for baggage only.

WHat if some family, seeing the long line waiting for the buses, decides to "give up" and go get a town car? The baggages' whereabouts is now unknown and the baggage will end up being delivered to the resort via Magical Express.

>>> miss not having the grocery stop -- the extra cost of food purchased on-site outweighs ...

Magical Express and ordinary shuttles are not for you and never were for you.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/magicx.htm

To me a class A airport has subway or other ground transportation not affected by traffic congestion. A class B airport has public bus (read: cheap) service. A class C airport has only limos and taxis (read: expensive) for ground transportation. Yes you could argue that MCO to Disney is class B- because of the circuitous Lynx bus but anyway any transportation company who is bashing Magical Express for converting MCO from class C to class B is being mighty selfish.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Whether the poster is a troll or not, I cannot imagine there were/are not lines of some length at any given time. When you have 6,000 - 10,000 guests arriving in one day, what else would you expect. It will be like anything -- luck of the draw on line standing.
But it is FREE. And that I think does wonders for taking away irritations.
Guests still have the option of paying and having their prearranged stops and time they want pick up.
We all knew town car services would not be happy over ME. On the other hand maybe their service will improve too. We all have read many various issues guests have had with them too.
There will always be the guest who is never happy not matter what. Just as there is the guest who is happy even if they have bad service. Most of us fall inbetween.
When we all go to Disney, we don't want to stand in any line. But I think most guest know that Disney = lines.
ME had kinks in the beginning. But overall for how many guests are moved and for FREE transportation I think they did well.
I would not be surprised to see USO to do the same shortly.

 

[CarolA]

Let me think.... I have never posted on the DIS, but I think I will take my laptop on this vacation and post my ME experience! Or maybe I'll just pay the Disney fees (which are pretty high) to post.

Just seems strange to me.

 

[Disneymomofsix]

I know a lot of people have complained about Mears, but we used it one time when we flew (we usually drive) and we had no problems. We are flying this time and using ME. If it were Mears for free, we would do it. Free is free, in my opinion, and helped us to justify flying vs. driving (and the great SW rates that I read about on the DIS boards allowed us to do this).

 

[BuckNaked]

When I spoke with the ME office yesterday, they said they had 6000 people using ME the first day, and they are expecting 9000 today (Saturday). I have no doubt there will be some kinks to work out, but that's what happens with any new service.