Rules to follow while on the bus:
1. Remain seated unless you are standing and then Hold onto the poles. A lot of the busses are 15 to 20 years old and what may seem like bad driving is actually just the bus itself.
2. No Eating, Drinking or Smoking. These are local health rules. If you have ever seen a bus infested with roaches you would understand why.
3. Strollers must be folded. Its a federal law that can cost a driver his job and or license if something were to happen. Sleeping Children are not a sufficient reason to not have to remove them and fold a stroller.
4. Don't allow you or your children to move around on a bus once it leaves a bus stop. To further clarify, a redlight is also not a time to have children move on the bus because it can resume motion at any time.
5. Do not talk to the driver or expect him to sing or tell jokes while the bus is in motion. This is also a federal law. If something were to happen like an accident and the investigators were to find out the driver was talking, he or she could end up losing their job and license and possibly end up in a lengthy and expensive court situation.
6 THE BACK DOOR - IT IS AN EXIT ONLY except for a guest using a mobility device and their family. The family is allowed to enter with the guest in the mobility device so that they may all stay together. If a driver chooses not to open the back door, it could be becasue of a mechanical issue with it. It also could be that there is a large crowd waiting outside to board and he knows that if he opens it people will begin to enter that way instead of waiting in line to come through the front. You would not believe how ugly it can get if a family does enter out of turn through the back door as the guest who have been waiting come through the front and find the family who snuck on the back took the last seats. That is why in some situations the driver will make the people who came in the back get back off the bus and wait in line as they were suppsoed to.
The drivers are there for one thing and thats to safely, courteously and efficiently move the guests from point A to point B. The entertainment portion of your stay at Disney lies within your resort and the parks. Disney World may not have a big city rush hour situation, but it does have a reasonable amount of traffic that is often unpredictable. Often times, half the cars on the road are lost and the other half know exactly where they are going and are exceeding the speedlimit by 15 to 20 mph to get there. Monitoring all of this activity while operating a 40 foot, 20 ton vehicle carrying up to 80 people (and monitoring them too) is not an easy job.
