WishingMom
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- May 18, 2008
The first bus to the resorts departs at 9:00. It takes about an hour to WDW, and, depending on which stop your resort is, you could be there by 10:30 to 11:00.if you use DCL Transfer, how quickly can you disembark and be at Disney World? How frequently do the shuttles run?
Tks,
That's great to hear that there is a bus that leaves earlier. From personal experience, I have been off the ship by 8am, collected luggage, went through customs and once on the bus, sat and waited close to an hour before it departed. There were people who had been on the bus prior to us as well.
I think that maybe there are 2 departures, 1 after the first breakfast people get off and then the 2nd seating. It could also depend on what resort your are heading to as well as you tell then which resort and then they tell you which bus # to get on.
TBH I do not think there is an exact timetable, for every cruise, as it's depends on resort bookings and what resorts, and these change up and down cruise by cruise. Of course when used the Wonder and Nagic have less people.
If there are high resort bookings there will be more buses, if low, less. They may change and amend routes depending on numbers, i.e. Low resort bookings one bus will drop off at many resorts. If on the other hand one bus has lots going to one place it will be off.
Certainly not waiting until 9 am if the ship is cleared one and a half hours earlier.
We were on after the ship was cleared at 7.30 and there is a rolling service, they certainly do not start at 9 am that's incorrect.
We were at the Polynesian by 8.35 checked in and in the park by 9 am.
Similar to beach club post cruise we were in Epcot by 9.15 am.
By 9 am everyone's us typically off the ship, and there would be massive queues if they only started at 9 am.
It's a rolling service from when the ship is cleared for customs, as a bus fills it goes, then another etc.
I found a copy of a letter on the Mom's panel (dated May 2017) stating that busses from port to resorts depart at around 9:00 am.When were these trips? People have been reporting in the last year that the resort buses do not start running until 9am.