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You will be able to catch an early bus from the Wilderness Lodge that will get you to the Animal Kingdom in time for your priority seating. We had an 8:00 A.M. P.S. at Donald's last August and had no problem getting there from the Wilderness Lodge. Just check with the front desk at the W.L. for what time you can catch the A.K. breakfast bus.
It's really neat to see AK empty in the am. There will be a bunch of CM's right at the entrance (immediately after the turnstiles) waiting to take your name, and then you wait. They put you in bigger groups for the walk to Donald's and once there, your CM seats you and gets your beverages. I highly recommend this breakfast!! The food was yummy!
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I'm pretty sure the buses to the parks start running at 7AM.
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I agree! We've never had problems getting an early morning bus...in fact you will quite often find...you're not the only one from your resort with PS that early!
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Just check with the front desk at the W.L. for what time you can catch the A.K. breakfast bus.
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And if the CM tells you there isn't a bus, ask them to check with another CM or ask for a supv. When we checked into WL May 03, I asked about a bus from WL to MK for our early 8:10am PS for CRT and I was told that the buses don't run that early and we'd have to take a cab (or drive as we had our car). I wasn't hoping that this was wrong and I called down to the desk later in the day and the CM I spoke to told me that I had been misinformed and of course there was a bus that we get me there on time!
Is this just for character breakfasts? If I want to do Boma, could I use this bus? You know, this is really interesting, I had wanted to do 1900 Park Fare at 7:30am, and when I called to book, they told me I'd have to get a cab (which would be hard because I need carseats). So I didn't book, they said I couldn't make ressie until 8:30 if relying on busses. Now I'm kind of mad.
Ok, now I just called back and scheduled a breakfast at 1900 Park Fare for 8:30. The CM again said I could not schedule anything before 9:00. I asked her about the Character Breakfast Bus and she said that "she's heard rumors about a bus, but she's confused about that"??? So, even though I wanted 8am, I booked for 8:30. Let me ask you all this. Since AK has EMH on the day we're doing this, could we get a bus to AK, then take a bus from AK to GF. Would they have busses back to the resorts that early, or would they figure that noone would be going in that direction so early. Do you think I could make it for 8:00?
Happymommy, I have a link for you to read from the PSCalculator site (I also received the same info in his email newsletter recently and I just went crazy trying to remember where I read it LOL):
It appears that you should be able to get where you have to go early. Now he does say "character breakfast" but I would think this would be for any PS. You may want to email Scott and see what he says.
When I mentioned in my above post about getting misinformation I was referring to the front desk staff at the WL. I'm surprised (and not so surprised) to hear that the CMs at WDW Dining don't know any better either.
I needed to get from PO-R to CSR at 7:00 a.m. to meet my sister and her family. We took the first park bus that came along. When we got to the park we then went to the CSR bus stop and took that bus. It took about 25 minutes.
Gooy'sGal, thanks for that info about buses for breakfasts!
Thanks everyone for your help. Actually for our first night we don't know where we're staying. We werent supposed to arrive until 8:30 the next morning (we're staying at WL), but our 6:20am flight was cancelled, and they told us we could switch to a flight the night before. Which I was actually happy about, but WL doesn't have availability that night, so we may have to stay at ASMo for our 1st night (the night before 1900 Park Fare). Hope that wasn't confusing... I've been up since 3am this morning and am pretty tired (but I really want to figure this out and change this ressie to 8am since my kids are up and hungry so early). Have a great weekend everybody, and thanks!!
If WL availability opens up, then you can just take the boat over to the Contemporary (it starts at 7 am), then take the resort monorail over to the Grand Floridian.
If you are at All-Stars, you will need to take a bus over to MK, then hop on the resort monorail to the Grand Floridian. If the Epcot bus came earlier, you could take it, and then the Epcot monorail to TTC, and then resort monorail to the GF.
If anyone else needs an answer to this, I just wanted to second what's been said already. I called WDW-Ride, and at first was told the Character Bus was cancelled a long time ago. She then double checked with her supervisor who told her, no there is a "Breakfast Bus." It stops periodically at all resorts. Be at the bus stop 45 minutes before the PS. And, as others have said, tell the bus driver where you are going, and he'll stop there for you.
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