Updates to the Disney Bus routes at Port Orleans
Posted: December 9th, 2015, 5:00 pm
Disney has recently made a few tweaks and adjustments to the free bus system which transports guests from the Port Orleans resorts to the theme parks. The route changes actually make a lot of sense, and should make the service generally more consistent and predicable for guests when visiting the different parks - and hopefully reduce some of the confusion that has been reported over the years.
The bus information page at portorleans.org/buses.php is now fully up-to-date with the new details, but the main points to take away are:
The bus information page at portorleans.org/buses.php is now fully up-to-date with the new details, but the main points to take away are:
- Buses now start running at 7am (whereas the first buses used to be around 6:45am).
- The first few buses of the day all run as shared services from French Quarter and Riverside (apart from the Animal Kingdom buses for some reason).
- For the rest of the day, more of the routes now operate as independent services rather than having so many shared French Quarter/Riverside routes. Both the Magic Kingdom and Disney's Hollywood Studios now appear to have their own separate services running to and from Riverside and French Quarter all day for example.
- Whenever bus routes do happen to be shared, the first call is now always French Quarter rather than one of the Riverside stops (which used to vary park-by-park).
- The Riverside pickup order for all of the theme parks now consistently has the West Depot as the first call, then North, East and South.
- The Disney Springs buses continue to also act as an Internal Resort Shuttle service, with stops at French Quarter, Riverside South/West/North/East and then back to French Quarter again before heading onward to Disney Springs.