Can I still get Disney’s Magical Express service if I don’t buy the plane tickets while creating a package at the WDW website? Or do I have to buy tickets with the package to get the ground transportation service? Thanks in advance. Best answer gets 10 points instantly. Please don’t say simple things, be as descriptive as possible. Thanks
Can you give me the link? I can’t seem to find it online. Would LAX (Los Angeles Airport) have it?

Yes, you can!

You can add Disney’s Magical Express service anytime. As soon as you know your flight information, contact Disney Reservations at (407) W-DISNEY and tell them you’d like to add Disney’s Magical Express service to your reservation. There’s absolutely no charge for this, and it’s not required that you buy your air travel through the Disney web site.

I did this with my family’s trip to Walt Disney World last spring. I booked my own air because I had a voucher with the airline so I got a better deal by booking my own air travel.

One of the best benefits of the service is that they send you bag tags for your checked luggage, and once you check it in at your originating airport, you don’t see (or touch) your bags again until you get to your hotel room. Disney picks your tagged bags up at the Orlando airport before they even come out on the belt, and whisks them to your resort so that they’re there by the time you arrive (or shortly thereafter).

Likewise, you can also check your bags at the resort on your day of departure and then get on the bus, and your bags will be checked for you (there’s a nominal fee for this service in addition to what you must pay the airline for your checked bags, but I found it to be quite worth it — not having to touch the bags.)

Have a magical trip!

EDIT: The person who corrected me is most likely correct, and I was most likely wrong. I remember having to call a toll-free number and providing my credit card number, but it is entirely possible that I was paying only my checked baggage fees, and not any additional fee. I stand (or more accurately, sit) corrected. Thanks, Amy.

EDIT #2: See below for the corresponding web site. I’m a little concerned that you mentioned LAX. Did you mean Disneyland? or Disney World? Since you mentioned Disney WORLD specifically, I’m including that link. Currently, Disneyland in Anaheim does not have such a service available.

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