The Bus Transport to Busch

[seadd67]

We are going to be In orlando On our secound half of our trip(we are at WDW the 24th of March to the 2nd of April) and we are doing the US,Sea world and Busch garden thing. We are going with out a car and Staying at the Rodeaway Inn on I-Drive. We are going to use the Bus Transport to Bush Gardens. My questions, should we connect at pre-aranged Hotel pick up point,or at Sea world? I thought the Sea world web site said It was part of the package we bought but had to be pick up at Sea world?. How long Is the ride there I know It says Its a Hour Is that right? and when do you genrealy arrive,before park opening or after. When Is the departure times leaving the park? It did not have a listing for It.

 

[Lizzy Lemon]

Go onto the Busch Gardens site, you can book the transport from that site. You enter where you are staying and it gives you a list of options for pick up points and times. I've read even though you book a place on the bus it can still be a free for all on the day!

 

[disneyohbear]

I can't answer all your questions but when I spoke to a rep at Discovery Cove about the transportation to Busch Gardens she said it was 1 1\2 hours to the park and that if we used the shuttle from Sea World to Busch we would arrive at 11am. She said the bus left Sea World at 9. I got the impression the bus might make other stops to pick up more people thus turning the trip into 2 hours. I didn't really ask much more as we were talking about the upgrade on the Discovery Cove package to include Aquatica, Busch and SeaWorld instead of the option for just one park. Based on the 11 am arrival and 2 hours in a bus we decided it would be better to drive ourselves to arrive at opening. Also I wasn't sure about that long of a bus ride. We don't like the bus transportation at Disney so I wasn't sure we would like this bus transportation. We just like the control of driving ourselves and not depending on schedules of buses and how much seating room there may be on the bus.

 

[RabFlmom]

I can't answer all your questions but when I spoke to a rep at Discovery Cove about the transportation to Busch Gardens she said it was 1 1\2 hours to the park and that if we used the shuttle from Sea World to Busch we would arrive at 11am. She said the bus left Sea World at 9. I got the impression the bus might make other stops to pick up more people thus turning the trip into 2 hours. I didn't really ask much more as we were talking about the upgrade on the Discovery Cove package to include Aquatica, Busch and SeaWorld instead of the option for just one park. Based on the 11 am arrival and 2 hours in a bus we decided it would be better to drive ourselves to arrive at opening. Also I wasn't sure about that long of a bus ride. We don't like the bus transportation at Disney so I wasn't sure we would like this bus transportation. We just like the control of driving ourselves and not depending on schedules of buses and how much seating room there may be on the bus.

Return trip from BG is early. too. I think it leaves the park by 6PM or something like that so you do not have enough time to see that big park-especially on busy days. If you are going in the summer the park is open till 10 PM so you lose a lot of time to see shows and ride coasters. I would ret a car so I could get there at opening and stay till closing. They have a couple of great places to eat so we always take a long lunch and just enjoy the park at our leisure. Wouldn't want to have to rush around trying to do stuff before the bus leaves.

 

[seadd67]

So I called and that they told me there current departure times being at 6pm but thats along with the park closeing at 6pm currently. So we will be there when the Bus Is closeing at 7:30/8pm(The frist week of April) so does that mean that the buses leave at that time to?. The Gal that I talk to was pretty vauge(to say It light ly and nice) she did not have a current closeing time for the Month of April(although Its on there web site?) so she says she can only go by there current departure times. Please tell me they do not leave at 6pm when the park closes at 8pm

 

[tink too]

We've used this service in the past and have had no problems with it.

The bus journey has anything between 1 - 2 hours (depending on traffic) and from what I can remember, we left the park to return to Orlando at either 6 or 7pm.