Note on Multiple Stops with Magical Express

[clkelley]

Many folks worry about Magical Express taking a long time, and worry that there resort will be the last stop. Well looking at a post I made in December, the multiple stops inside WDW property are the shortest amount of time of the whole thing. I was staying at Ft. Wilderness, and was the third stop. My Magical Express bus had about 15 passengers.

11:55 pm depart MCO

12:27 am, arrived OKW
12:29 am, departed OKW

12:31 am, arrived Port Orleans Riverside
12:33 am, departed Port Orleans Riverside

12:37 am, arrived Ft. Wilderness Campground

So even if Ft. Wilderness had been the first stop, I would have only arrived at Ft. Wilderness say 8-10 minutes earlier.

The key to making Magical Express as quick as possible is to:

1) Use those yellow tags!!!
2) Divide and conquer at the airport. Once you arrive, if stops inside the airport are necessary (such as restroom, waiting on gate-checked items, diaper change, etc, or if one member of your party needs wheelchair assistance), send one person ahead with the transportation vouchers of the whole group and that one person waits in the first line. By the time the rest of you arrive, that is one line out of the way. Then you all get into the bus line and off you go.

 

[Chip 'n Dale Express]

Thank you for posting this.

It just goes to show that they stops are VERY VERY quick, and really don't add a significant amount of time.

 

[tmt martins]

Carol that is so true .

We did a split on our last trip . I went and checked the 3 females on ME and put them in line . Walked right up to Dollar EX line and out to get van with DsF.

I know Orlando very good and we both hit the resort within minutes of each other.

If I would have done baggage just the loading and unloading of 5 peoples bags would have taken that extra 10 to 15 minutes and that doesn't include waiting for the bags and dragging them along.

We've used ME twice now and it's been 50min and 1hr5 min from walking off plane to resort lobby and thats not bad at all.SSR ( June ) and POP (Oct).early morning.

And your not doing the driving.

Our DEC trip I renting from either the Dolphin or a DTD hotel location and using the ease of ME.