How do you rate Disney Transportation?

[Guest]

Normally stay off-site in a villa, considering staying on-site for our next visit without a hire car.

How do those of you who’ve stayed on-site rate the Disney Transportation?

Easy to use? Realiable? Plentiful? Etc.

Thanks

[Andy0502]

We stayed onsite in April and didn’t have a car - this was. First for use as normally we had a villa somewhere and a car, so were apprehensive at first. But it was really easy and no problem at all. Bus timetable was frequent and we never had longer than 20mins to wait. We did go offsite to visit the Outlets once but just used Uber (another first for us too) and that was very easy and cheap too.

We also played the Disney Golf courses whilst there, but if staying onsite they also arrange and pay your transport to/from the golf courses (we even left the clubs with Disney and they transported them to the next course for us each time)

When onsite I doubt we’d book a car in future as Disney transport was excellent, when off-site then yes.

[nickimiz]

If staying onsite it is brilliant, buses, boat etc, we had. O problems whatsoever with any of it.

[Disney Jo]

We have never had a problem with onsite transportation, always efficient and so easy to use. 4th time this year and will be the first time we hire a car as staying in a villa.

[disney332]

No problems here, possibly a bit of a wait on occasions but generally fine.

Added bonus if you get a chatty driver* who entertains the crowd. Some do... I think it must relieve the boredom of the job.

*The boat captains are the best!

Disney332

[a11mark]

We've never had a problem and now MDE app will include when the next bus is available from your resort to which ever park you want.

[novocastrian]

only stayed onsite for 3 days so this is a limited view

we had a car but chose to use the bus, going to the park from all stars to MK, was fine , a bit of cavalier Qing and a 'family' with a granny in a mobility scooter who all boarded first with her... but coming back it was heaving, massive Q & then mobbed on the bus , think tokyo undergound, not something i would choose to do again for that reason but it works fine for the majority of visitors as above

[Mr Tom Morrow]

We don't use the buses but I must say they seem very good.

The boat transportation is excellent and we like a little potter about on them

The Monorail belongs in a museum!

The concept is awesome but they are too old, highly inefficient and well overdue to be replaced. Sadly they have kept the cars too long.
In the last 3 years doing 10 holidays to WDW we must have ridden it maybe 5 times! Always broken down first thing in the morning.
This April/May in 4 visits to the MK we never rode it once and jumped on the Resort one instead.

[Pookie3101]

The buses and the boats are great. Service is frequent and there are some great bus drivers who make the journey an attraction in itself.
At peak times they are very busy, but I’m used to travelling on the tube so it doesn’t bother me.
I’ve not used the monorail much and it’s more to say we’ve been on it, rather than using as regular transport.

[kaytronika]

We had mixed experiences with transport to Port Orleans Riverside... Generally OK, but be prepared for waits at peak times.
We also had a couple of occasions where we waited close to an hour for buses.

More often than not it was when we were at parks and trying to return that we had issues. We waited over an hour to get from Epcot to POR in mid-afternoon once. I ended up grumbling at the WDW twitter team.

Also worth remembering that boats don't run in lightning storms.. The POR/POFQ/OKW - Dis Springs boats for example stop when there's lightning in the area and you need to catch a bus.

There's a larger group of us going next year and I've said that I'm going to put aside some cash for backup... If we end up waiting >20 minutes I'll get a Minnie Van or cab.