WDWScottieBoy
Well-Known Member
Alright, so I've read all the good things about Magical Express and the some bad things about them, but I can say right now I will never tell people to use it. I've discouraged quite a few already and heard many others while at the parks do the same. So let's get started on this BAD thing:
We arrived at Orlando Int'l Airport on Thursday, May 19 at 11:25 at night and went right to our "Magical Express" bus. There were two of the real Magical Express buses waiting outside and one of the old Mears buses. Of course, we got to be on the old one. They got us to our resort in a timely fashion, unfortunately our luggage didn't.
We figured we'd use ME since we had a late flight and not that many people would be coming in really late and our luggage wouldn't have to sit. So we checked in at Pop Century and asked if the bags were there yet. The CM told us we'd have to wait 2-3 hours max for them to get there. So we waited and called down to the front desk at 2am. They said the truck just arrived with our bags and they'd call us as soon as they were off. 3am came and still no call. I finally got sick of it since I couldn't sleep because of my contacts being in. We called the front desk again and they said that our bags had just arrived and they would bring them to us by 7am that day. PROBLEM: we were going to MK for early hours that day and we needed everything. So we walked down to the lobby at 3:30am to get our bags ourself.
There was the 4 of us in my party, along with one other couple and a younger gentleman. The gentleman had just gotten home from serving in the army in Iraq and was on vacation with his family and his 10 month old that he was seeing for the 2nd time. He was needing diapers (they landed at 7pm, so before us and still didn't have their bags) and they didn't have any his babies size. So we talked to him to pass time and felt so bad for him.
Finally, the security guy came over, got all of our names and went and got our bags personally from the truck to give to us. So by 4am we had our bags and were able to get in about an hour and a half sleep that night.
We arrived at Orlando Int'l Airport on Thursday, May 19 at 11:25 at night and went right to our "Magical Express" bus. There were two of the real Magical Express buses waiting outside and one of the old Mears buses. Of course, we got to be on the old one. They got us to our resort in a timely fashion, unfortunately our luggage didn't.
We figured we'd use ME since we had a late flight and not that many people would be coming in really late and our luggage wouldn't have to sit. So we checked in at Pop Century and asked if the bags were there yet. The CM told us we'd have to wait 2-3 hours max for them to get there. So we waited and called down to the front desk at 2am. They said the truck just arrived with our bags and they'd call us as soon as they were off. 3am came and still no call. I finally got sick of it since I couldn't sleep because of my contacts being in. We called the front desk again and they said that our bags had just arrived and they would bring them to us by 7am that day. PROBLEM: we were going to MK for early hours that day and we needed everything. So we walked down to the lobby at 3:30am to get our bags ourself.
There was the 4 of us in my party, along with one other couple and a younger gentleman. The gentleman had just gotten home from serving in the army in Iraq and was on vacation with his family and his 10 month old that he was seeing for the 2nd time. He was needing diapers (they landed at 7pm, so before us and still didn't have their bags) and they didn't have any his babies size. So we talked to him to pass time and felt so bad for him.
Finally, the security guy came over, got all of our names and went and got our bags personally from the truck to give to us. So by 4am we had our bags and were able to get in about an hour and a half sleep that night.
