At Walt Disney World, the old transportation adage works a little differently. How about monorails and Magical Express? Or perhaps ridesharing and rental cars?
Shuttles and skyliners? Walt Disney World is a pretty enormous place. Transportation is an essential part of the Disney vacation experience. Most new visitors are completely overwhelmed by the choices and the learning curve. How can you best make use of Disney transportation with a minimum of waits and wasted time? From buses to rental cars to monorails and more, there is a myriad of choices.
Here is everything you need to know to master Disney World transportation and transit, both on and off-property. Trips With Tykes uses affiliate links which means I may earn a small commission if you purchase through links in this post. See our full disclosure policy linked in the menu at the top of this site. First things first — getting to Disney World! While for many travelers that is as simple as a road trip, many others need to fly to Orlando to start a Disney World vacation.
Disney offers the Magical Express for all guests staying in a Disney resort hotel. The Magical Express is a free motorcoach transfer from the airport to all official Disney hotels, whether you are staying in deluxe, moderate, or value accommodations.
In normal times, Disney also offers a free bag service that allows Magical Express guests to skip picking up their checked bags and go straight to the buses.
Disney delivers those bags directly to your Disney hotel room, usually several hours later. Check those airport codes! Taxis and shuttles are available, as are rental cars. Masks are required of everyone 2 years and up as is Disney policy everywhere on-property. Additionally, buses are operating at substantially reduced capacity. Your waits for the Magical Express may be longer.
Renting a car or taking a ridesharing service may save you time and present less risk. Once you are on Disney World property, Disney offers a number of different transportation options. The Disney transportation system covers over two dozen hotels, four theme parks, two water parks, the Disney Springs area, and more. The most common form of transportation is buses. Disneyland Disneyland Resort Overview. News Theme Parks Dining History.
Dining News Locations Menus. Disney Dream Dining Entertainment Shopping. Disney Fantasy Dining Navigators Shopping. Here's the Weather You Can Expect! Hide Your Wallet! Explore More. Close Main Menu. Follow us on Social! Trending Now. Thank the heavens, Disney does not have as many hills as San Francisco. Can you imagine those hills with a stroller? Disney World is very similar in that it also has many modes of transportation including boats, buses, the Monorail, the Skyliner, and walking.
In addition, it has many non-Disney transportation options like individual cars, taxis, Ubers, Lyft, and so on. Similar to a large city, Disney World needs many options for transportation because of the vastness of the property and the large population that visits. The Disney buses may just be the true villain of Walt Disney World. Like many parents, I have spent an hour plus waiting for a spot on the bus with hot, tired, and cranky children in the degree humid Florida heat.
The situation becomes more frustrating for all members of the family when our time to board a bus arrives and one of the children has fallen asleep in their stroller. For safety reasons, Disney forces you to collapse your stroller and hold your child. Best-case scenario, I may have to carry my sleeping child while standing in a packed bus. Sometimes a kind stranger will offer their seat, but this does not always happen.
Worst-case scenario, my child awakes because of the change in positions and transforms from a Sleeping Beauty to a Disney Villain. Other times we have waited 40 minutes just for a bus to arrive only for it to be full and have to wait until the next bus! Get the picture? The buses can be a really unpleasant experience. The buses can be very inefficient. Usually, I would recommend leaving your hotel room at least an hour or hour and a half before you need to be anywhere on property. Buses run from the resort to Disney Springs about an hour before Disney Springs opens.
However, buses only begin running between the theme parks and Disney Springs in the late afternoon. As a workaround, if you want to take a bus from a theme park to Disney Springs early in the day, take a bus to the Saratoga Springs resort and get off at the Congress Park stop.
There is a walking path around the lake from Congress Park to Disney Springs; most healthy adults can make the walk in less than ten minutes. The standard line is that Disney buses run about every 20 minutes. In practice, this could be as often as every five minutes or as infrequently as every 30 minutes, depending on the time of day and crowd levels at Walt Disney World.
If it seems like an inordinate amount of time is elapsing between buses, ask a cast member to inquire about problems on the route. There are electronic signs at resort bus stops that indicate when the next bus routed to each destination is supposed to arrive. We have found these to be highly inaccurate. The Disney transport buses are like standard city buses. They have hard, molded plastic seats. During crowded times, the buses fill to capacity and riders may be required to stand.
As with most city buses, car seats are neither required nor accepted on the Disney buses. Up to two wheelchairs or ECVs are allowed on board at any one time.
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