Disney is considering Uber-like guest-paid transportation service around Walt Disney World

Aug 19, 2016 in "Walt Disney World Resorts"

Posted: Friday August 19, 2016 9:11am EDT by WDWMAGIC Staff

According to recent surveys sent to guests staying at Walt Disney World Resort hotels, Disney is considering guest-paid transportation services.

Responding to the popularity of services such as Uber and Lyft, Disney's survey describes its service as:

"Disney's Direct Transportation service would be a Guest-paid, car/van service designed to provide on-property Guests with a direct route to/from their home resort to/from another resort on property, during the length of their vacation."

It then goes on to ask questions about offering the service to parks, Disney Springs and the airport.

Disney conducts many surveys about various plans and concepts, many of which never see the light of day. However, it is interesting to see that Disney is exploring this type of service, giving guests another option in place of the busy complimentary transportation.

Walt Disney World articulated bus

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gmajewJun 18, 2019

I tend to agree with you especially when I use them in Chicago but Lyft cars were spotless each one we used over the week. I was amazed at how clean they were... Car seats I agree if you need them they are not the option.

MisterPenguinJun 18, 2019

Access to MK's gate bypassing the lagoon barriers, buses, and the walk from the Contemporary may be worth the extra money, especially if you have people with mobility issues with you (children, elderly, infirm).

CaptainAmericaJun 18, 2019

Lyft and Uber are basically the same price if you need one car seat, and they're impossible to get with two car seats. Also they're gross.

ThatMouseJun 18, 2019

How do you find your Lyft driver when there is 100 of them out there at the end of the night?

tissandtullyJun 18, 2019

Minnie Van is great because of the car seats and the training the CMs receive on it, I only use it when we have the kids with us, adult trips it’s Lyft or Uber.

tissandtullyJun 18, 2019

The typo head was a great mental image.

gmajewJun 18, 2019

Minnie Van is almost $23 more a ride for this service. Only thing you get is drop of at bus station and to ride in a cool looking car. We did Lyft all week last week but I could not justify the extra money per ride for the Minnie car. Did it a year ago not again.

wdwmagicJun 18, 2019

Disney Minnie Van Service reaches 1 million guest milestone https://www.wdwmagic.com/transportation/minnie-van/news/18jun2019-disney-minnie-van-service-reaches-1-million-guest-milestone.htm

mikejs78Feb 11, 2019

I've found Uber and Lyft to be both more reliable and drivers to be more careful in general than what I've seen in cabs. Also a cab driver is just as much a complete stranger as an Uber/Lyft driver.

SirwalterraleighFeb 11, 2019

No...but it had mears. It’s actually a weird phenomenon that people have a compete disdain for cabs...but now ard Comfy with complete strangers in private cars...isn’t it? I blame Danny devito

Tony the TiggerFeb 11, 2019

A transport system decades ago did not anticipate Lyft or Uber, which they are simply mimicking and rebranding.

SirwalterraleighFeb 11, 2019

If you’re point is “people love overspending at Disney”...yes, I’m fully aware. Life in the bubble. Doesn’t really Translate to the vanity of the Minnie van though...a good planned transport system - 2 Decades ago - would have made them unnecessary. “People will pay it” is not an end all explanation. Capitalism need not be listed in Roget’s next to “silliness”

Tony the TiggerFeb 11, 2019

And Victoria & Albert's is also extremely overpriced. However, on a special occasion trip, we enjoyed it and didn't regret it at all. We could have eaten at Jiko or Ci-Ci's pizza (offsite) and been just as full, and paid less. On that same trip, we took a Minnie-van one time, in the same context: special occasion splurge, knowing it was overpriced, fun, and they were cheaper when they first started. It's not something I would do on a regular basis (we usually have our own car) but it was a fun little extra that one time. We also pay for a beer what we could pay for a 12 pack on sale.