Getting back to your Magic Kingdom-area resort by bus looks a little different these days. Following the permanent closure of the Seven Seas Drive and Floridian Way intersection in July and the opening of a redesigned Floridian Way last week, Walt Disney World has reorganized how buses group the nearby resorts together.
At Disney's Hollywood Studios bus depot — where the change was first spotted — Disney's Polynesian Village Resort and Disney's Contemporary Resort now share a single bus departing from gate 4, with the Contemporary as the first stop. Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Disney's Wilderness Lodge are also paired together at gate 8. Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa gets its own dedicated bus from gate 6.
That's a shuffle from the previous arrangement, where the Grand Floridian and Polynesian typically rode together, and the Contemporary was more often paired with the Wilderness Lodge. Cast Members at guest relations confirmed to WDW News Today that the new pairings better suit traffic flow on the updated roadway.
The revised combinations aren't limited to Hollywood Studios — Cast Members confirmed the same routing applies across all four Walt Disney World theme parks. So no matter which park you're leaving from, expect the same resort groupings at every bus depot.
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This story was first reported by WDW News Today.
