Disney will eliminate free transportation to hotel guests

One of the great benefits that Walt Disney World offers to hotel guests will end soon. The company announced through its blog that the transportation service, Disney’s Magical Express, will no longer be offered as of January 1, 2022. So far, all visitors with reservations at Disney hotels in Orlando, Florida, they had free transportation in buses waiting for them at the airport and taking them to their hotel. Also at the end of the holiday, they were taken directly to the airport.

Disney presented the news saying that the visitor experience continues to evolve with changing times and stressed that it assesses how needs and preferences change in the tourism industry, especially how you want to get to places faster. .

“Travelers now have more options than ever before, including time-saving shared services and more flexibility.”, they indicated in their publication. They also pointed out that transport between their hotels, by bus, monorail and gondola Skyliner, will continue for hotel guests.

However, the reactions did not take long to appear and, in the same post, his passengers reacted by asking for reconsideration before the measure. Magical Express has worked well and has delighted travelers since 2005, when it debuted, being a service not only efficient but valuable and representing a considerable saving for any traveler, especially for those traveling with the family. All bookings for 2021 will have transport included as usual.

It is not known if this measure is related to the opening of the Brightline station that will be in Disney Springs, which will serve to facilitate transportation to Disney for passengers using the express train from Orlando International Airport, where there will also be a station. The expansion of the route to the airport is expected to be completed in 2022 and this will also facilitate the arrival of passengers at Disney in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach and the planned stations in Aventura, Boca Raton and Port Miami.

The free magic bands and Extra Magic Hours are over

Disney has previously announced that it will not be offering free Magic Bands to its guests from January 1 this year., a bracelet that many keep as a souvenir of their visit. With the help of this, which served as the key to their hotel rooms, they could charge for meals at Disney and Disney Springs restaurants and stores, in addition to being used to save FastPast + reservations and register for PhotoPass photos, the service photos taken by Disney photos.

Magic Tapes have not been removed, may continue to be used; what ended up being to give it to the hotel guests, who will have another type of key for their rooms. Now they are still on sale at the park, store and Disney box office for $ 14.99, the regular and themed ones at higher prices, more taxation.

The company also removed “Extra Magic Hours”, a benefit that allowed you to enter one of the parks earlier or stay later on certain days and which was also exclusively for hotel guests. This option has not been available since the reopening after the pandemic stopped.

However, they have indicated that they will now offer an “early entry” later this year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration.. Although more details are expected for this, it has been said that it will be available to guests of its hotels and other “select hotels”. With this I can enter any of the parks half an hour before, every day.

Walt Disney World parks in Orlando continue to operate limited, due to the coronavirus pandemic. In order to visit them, in addition to the admission ticket, a daily reservation is required.