Minnie Van

I have planned a post with all Disney Transportation to be covered, but thought it would be fun to do a little more detail in to all of them individually. Today we’re going to cover the Minnie Van service.

The Minnie Van vehicles can be summoned via the Lyft app. You can also start in the My Disney Experience app and it will take you to either use the Lyft app or have you download it. Unlike normal Lyft vehicles you can not schedule a Minnie Van, but I believe they have plenty of vehicles to use for demand. We waited about 15 minutes beyond our initial estimated arrival time due to the fact that the main road used to get to our resort was shut down due to a bus fire, so our driver had to find a safe way to turn around and go a different route.

Minnie Vans have 2 complementary car seats to use. They seat 6 passengers (with the exception of the ECV accessible ones; I’ve heard those are only 4 passengers). Some are bigger than others. There are a few sizes of vehicles such as the ECV accessible van, Chevrolet Suburban, and Chevrolet Traverse. They don’t ask for how many people are traveling, so other than the EVC vans it can be a toss up as to witch vehicle you’ll get. The one time we used the service there were two of us and we got a Suburban.

Minnie Vans are equipped with phone chargers. Some drivers might have different “magic” to spread in their car since they are Disney cast members (employees), but it wasn’t really sometime we had. Our driver was great. We would take another ride in a heart beat if need be.

Minnie Vans do cost a significantly higher amount than a standard Lyft vehicle. It cost us about $40 (including a tip) for what would cost about $12 for a standard Lyft vehicle. You can also get a Minnie Van for trips to Orlando International Airport for $150 each way.

Overall I would consider a Minnie Van a splurge during Disney trips, but if you can do it, go for it! It is most useful when going from resort to resort since there is no direct bus. If we used Disney transportation for our Yacht Club dinner we would’ve had to take a monorail (that would make 3 stops before we would get off) *we also could have walked over to where we would’ve got off*. If we took the monorail we would’ve had to get off and get on a different monorail to go to EPCOT. We would then have to go through security for a second time. Then we would have to walk to the International Gateway entrance/exit of EPCOT to then either walk to the Yacht Club or take a boat over there. $40 to save over an hour of travel and so many more steps, I’ll gladly take it!