Walt Disney World transportation is a huge operation. Across 43 square miles, Disney gets visitors to and from four theme parks and over two dozen hotels via bus, monorail, boat, Disney Skyliner gondolas, and even a Lyft-powered service called Minnie Van. There’s a lot to coordinate, and a lot of guests moving from place to place. As such, Disney is often considering infrastructure improvements and expansions to ensure guests are getting where they need to be safely and efficiently.
A popular transportation method at Walt Disney World will soon be a smoother experience for guests as Disney expands its services. At Mickey Visit, we cover the latest Disney news, like the launch of a deluxe Disney Visa credit card and how Walt Disney World is preparing for Bluey’s arrival this summer.
Magic Kingdom Preparing for Transportation Expansion
Disney provides three modes of complimentary transportation outside the front gates of Magic Kingdom. Depending on where park visitors are staying overnight, they can arrive to and depart from Magic Kingdom via monorail, bus, or several types of boats. In that last category, Disney plans to make significant changes in the future.
Walt Disney World recently filed permits with local Florida government to expand the queue for Magic Kingdom’s ferry boat dock. This is the dock servicing the large boats that travel back and forth between Magic Kingdom and the Transportation and Ticket Center, the location of Magic Kingdom’s parking lot across Seven Seas Lagoon.
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More space in this area is positive news, and not just for guests who use the ferry boats’ services. Magic Kingdom is the most-visited theme park on the planet. Disney filing a permit to expand the ferry boats’ queue implies there is currently a problem with too many guests spilling out of the existing queue and into the nearby plaza. Reallocating the necessary space likely corrects a guest flow problem.
Impact on Nearby Areas
The permit not only calls for more space for the Magic Kingdom ferry boats’ queueing area. It also lays out an allocation for a floodplain compensation area nearby. Disney is committed to taking care of its Florida property, so often construction projects come with a duty to the natural area Walt Disney World resides in.
There are no plans in the permit for renovations of Magic Kingdom’s other docks nearby servicing smaller boats traveling to and from several Walt Disney World hotels in close proximity to the park. Far more guests use the ferry boats than these other vessels, so the queue space of these other docks may be suitable for the demand at the moment.
The expanded dock queue will likely also improve the general safety of other guests in the entire Magic Kingdom entrance plaza. If guests are currently spilling from the dock queue and into the plaza at large, they’re in the way of guests trying to walk to the monorail station, bus station, or park entrance. Especially during busy periods such as right after the fireworks, any improvement in operational efficiency and guest safety is more than welcome.
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