We have received interesting news related to one of the add-on services available at Walt Disney World. Â One of the more recent services, Express Transportation, looks to be getting officially cancelled by Walt Disney World. Â The last day to purchase the add-on will be August 16th. Â In the event that guests have purchases multi-day tickets for the service, the service will continue to operate through August 23rd. Â It will be completely gone after that.
This add-on service first started in December of 2016 and allowed guests to be catch one of the Disney buses from a backstage area within the park and be dropped off at another backstage area within a different park of their choice. Â This allowed them to greatly reduce the amount of walk time to get to the rest of the buses, plus gave them a more direct trip. Â The guests on this service also didn’t have to go through multiple bag checks since they weren’t actually exiting and re-entering the parks through the park entry points. Â This in itself could save a lot of time and hassle.
It appears that the service must have never really taken off or seen the numbers that Disney hoped for, since the service is ending. Â With an additional cost of $15 per person for single day or $24 per person for multi-day, this could get quite costly for larger groups or families on a budget. Â It is quite possible that families had a hard time justifying the cost or seeing that much value for the cost. Â Disney has now added the Minnie-Vans that serve a paid transportation service to give guests more direct transportation, so that could be another reason for the end to Express Transportation.
What do you all think of this add-on ending? Â Did anyone ever try out the service?