This needs to be posted. . .there's bus or monorail service between ALL 4 parks!

[Cdnmommy]

This is a great thread, I'm planning our first ever trip for this November and the more accurate information I can get the better!

 

[PrincessTiffany]

This is a great thread, I'm planning our first ever trip for this November and the more accurate information I can get the better!

Hope ya'll have magical trip!

 

[cwestbrook]

The page on the Disboard where you can plug in your starting and ending point STILL says you have to go to DTD then transfer to another bus to/from many parks.

I just spent 30 minutes going through it and writing down all the directions and then I saw this thread.

Which one do I trust? It sounds like a lot of people on this thread agree with the OP.

 

[maciec]

I have been going to WDW for the past 10 years and I never knew this! I guess it's because on our first trip (honeymoon) a CM told us that the only way to Hop was to take the bus from park to resort and do the transfer there. Since then that's the way we have always done things. Maybe that's why we don't hop that often! Now we will!

 

[Robo]

Which one do I trust? It sounds like a lot of people on this thread agree with the OP.

You can trust whomever you choose.

The bus stops are marked, the buses are marked.

If you are at a park, you can get on a bus marked for another park and get there directly.

Or you can ride to a resort first, if you want to waste a lot of time.

 

[Pencopenco_Friends]

Wow, that's pretty cool, I guess ....

 

[Tarabelle83]

Thanks for the information with photos! Every single other Disney tip site I've ventured onto NEVER mentioned the direct routes. Everything I read talked either about DTD or transferring at the resorts. The direct bus routes will make park hopping easier during the busier days.

 

[PrincessTiffany]

The page on the Disboard where you can plug in your starting and ending point STILL says you have to go to DTD then transfer to another bus to/from many parks.

I just spent 30 minutes going through it and writing down all the directions and then I saw this thread.

Which one do I trust? It sounds like a lot of people on this thread agree with the OP.

There is most certainly direct transportations between the parks. Just look at page 6 of this thread, post #87. It has actual photos of the park bus stops and shows the signs to the different parks. One of the mods posted that they, the mods) can't just change the info your referenced, it has to be changed by a WebMaster. Hopefully, they will change it soon. Hope this info helps!

 

[Poohbear123]

BUMP back to Page 1! There should be a Sticky for this thread!

 

[PrincessTiffany]

BUMP back to Page 1! There should be a Sticky for this thread!

BUMP!

 

[connie1042]

Last year I went to all 4 parks in one day. I guess I never even thought about not getting a bus from one park to the other. I just went to the bus stops and waited where it said to wait for each park. I started out at the Contemporary and went to Epcot by Monorail, then took a bus to AK, then a bus To HS and then a bus back to MK.

 

[Tarabelle83]

It seems sort of strange to me that this isn't just common sense. Why wouldn't Disney have direct buses between the parks? I do understand the buses from the parks to the various resorts but yeah...it only makes sense to offer direct transportation especially since so many patrons would want to do that.

Maybe I'm just giving away how much of a Disney newbie I am.

 

[M.I.C.]

I didn't read through every page so sorry if this has been mentioned already but where do the water parks tie into all this?

 

[ajleone]

I thought when my DS and I were there in September 2006, we took a bus directly from DAK to MK and were dropped off at the bus drop off, not T&T. Has this changed or has my memory failed again! We were hitting all four parks and EE was down at EMH so we jumped to MK.

Jerry

I have seen this once in awhile. It seems to depend on time of year/ how busy they are.

 

[Robo]

I have seen this once in awhile. It seems to depend on time of year/ how busy they are.

It can depend on if your BUS DRIVER remembers where (s)he is supposed to go.
(I'm not kidding.)

With the new GPS dispatch, it will likely be more consistent now.

 

[Harambe]

I haven't read everything here either, but I just want to say I do feel bad when people get the wrong info. On our very first trip, back in 1999, the bus system practically killed me! The first "hop" I tried to do was from MK to HS. A CM at the busses told me that there was no bus, you had to go to the TTC and switch. Well, I just figured you had to do that for all of the park-to-park transfers. But during that week, I kept seeing different busses and trying to get around as direct as possible. It became my mission!

Now I do a lot of planning around the easiest commute between parks! LOL! For example, I always plan on doing Epcot and HS on the same day so we can take the boat back and forth (so relaxing!). And I never plan on going from MK to Epcot because I hate taking those two monorails - up ramp, down ramp, up ramp, down ramp

Disney transportation (getting better and better in IMO) can really be a downer if you don't know what you're doing.

 

[Robo]

And I never plan on going from MK to Epcot because I hate taking those two monorails - up ramp, down ramp, up ramp, down ramp

You don't have to use any ramps at TTC between the MK-to-Epcot monorails, if you take the Express Monorail from MK to TTC.
The doors slide open (wait for them to slide open on your right, forward-facing) on your Express car, you take less than a dozen steps straight across the platform, and you are waiting for the Epcot Monorail.

You must use the down-ramp, up-ramp situation if you are riding the RESORT Monorail to TTC and on to Epcot.

 

[Harambe]

You don't have to use any ramps at TTC between the MK-to-Epcot monorails, if you take the Express Monorail from MK to TTC.
The doors slide open (wait for them to slide open on your right, forward-facing) on your Express car, you take less than a dozen steps straight across the platform, and you are waiting for the Epcot Monorail.

You must use the down-ramp, up-ramp situation if you are riding the RESORT Monorail to TTC and on to Epcot.

I never KNEW that! I've only done it the other way, and since it worked (got me to Epcot), I just thought that's how you did it.

See? That's what I was saying about the transportation. It'll kill you if you don't know how to use it.

 

[PrincessTiffany]

Isn't it great to find out little things that just make life at WDW better?!

 

[bytheblood]

Giving this very informative post a bump!!