Reservation time is before park opens...is there a bus?

[Melrosgirl]

I have a 8:10 reservation at Cindy's Castle coming up. The park doesn't open until 9 a.m. though. I know buses run about an hour before, but that still doesn't help me. Are there buses just for early character breakfasts? I'm starting to get worried. Thanks.

 

[TillyMarigold]

The transportation people when I was there told us that the buses start running at least 1 hour before the first scheduled event in the park, whether that's dining reservations or a BBB appointment or whatever. So if Cindy's has reservations starting at 8, the buses will start running by 7 even though the park doesn't open until 9.

They also told us that they get really tired of the front desk telling people the busses don't start running until 1 hour before park opening, because it's not true.

 

[Melrosgirl]

that makes me feel better. thanks!

 

[dislaney]

We had an early breakfast reservation, 8:05 I believe and the buses were definitely running. The Park didn't open until 9:00 that morning. The driver actually asked us where we were going and said he would have dropped us off at the Contemporary, if we had been going to Chef Mickey's. We weren't going there but I thought that was nice of him to try and make it easier on us. Love those nice bus drivers!

 

[Chelley00]

We had an 8:15 am resservation at CRT, an 8:20 at Akershus. Both times we were at the bus stop around 7:10 or so and we didn't have to wait long for a bus at all. We saw busses for every park at that time in the morning

 

[ms_missy66]

When we stayed at the WL in August, we had an 8:10 ADR at CRT and the park opened at 9:00. We went down to the boat launch at 7:30 and we were told they didn't start running until 8:15, so we hustled over to the bus stop (I was hoping to get some good pictures in front of the castle). We waited and waited and waited. I phoned inside to the hotel and inquired. A bus came at 8:10 and we were pretty much running into the park. It stressed me out. I would say if you have an ADR near that hour-before mark, I would drive into the park.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

The buses to the parks start running at 6:30 AM from all the WDW Resorts.

 

[Melrosgirl]

thx everyone. I am not renting a car and am glad to know there will be a bus. I'll still stress, of course. When it's CRT though, you don't get much choice on time, LOL.

 

[Forever Fairy]

thx everyone. I am not renting a car and am glad to know there will be a bus. I'll still stress, of course. When it's CRT though, you don't get much choice on time, LOL.

Buses can run earlier but may not. Also, depending on how many other stops it has to make to pick others up, you could eat your hour up pretty quickly. Whenever I have had an early morning reservation, I normally take a cab. They are usually available from every resort and for the small fee it would cost, it may be worth it to save yourself the stress if you start to run late.