Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge’s Bus Schedule (With Stops)
Complimentary bus service to and from the parks is one of the perks of staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. As you may know, Animal Kingdom Lodge is a deluxe resort. However, due to its somewhat remote location, the resort only offers one form of transportation: Disney’s bus service. So for this article, we’ll focus specifically on the bus schedule, including average travel times, internal bus stops, and what to expect during your stay.
Unfortunately, this resort often gets mixed reviews because the resort only offers bus transportation. Guests tend to complain that the resort is “far away from everything” or that the bus service “takes forever.” That said, we’ve tracked the travel times from all the resorts and found no significant differences between Disney’s Animal Kingdom and anywhere else. Of course, if you stay at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, you can walk to the Magic Kingdom in about 10 minutes. You’re also likely to pay considerably more for that location, even though they are both deluxe resorts.
Now for those travel times. While we can’t estimate how long you’ll have to wait at the bus stop, we can provide an average travel time from Jambo House (the main lodge) to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and Disney Springs. We’ve tracked these routes (multiple times) to come up with a fair average.
For reference, the bus stop at Jambo House will be to your left when you exit the main lobby. You can also exit through Zawadi Marketplace, the hotel’s gift shop, to get to the bus stop. The bus stop is covered with benches and waiting areas for each destination. Animal Kingdom Lodge has two bus stops (Jambo House and Kidani Village). We cover the bus travel times from Kidani Village in a separate article.
When traveling to the theme parks, Jambo House is the last stop before the bus leaves the resort, which means it will be the second stop when you return. It’s important to remember where to exit when you return and listen for the bus driver to announce the stop. If it’s late and you’re riding a packed bus with a sleeping child in your lap, you wouldn’t want to exit at the wrong stop.
Updated: March 12, 2026
Note that our travel times do not include how long we waited for the bus. Wait times signs are posted at the resort bus stop, indicating when the next bus will arrive. The times below are how long it’s taken us to get from the Jambo House bus stop to the listed destination. For example, the 22 minutes to Disney Springs includes the time it took to stop at Kidani Village. (When you travel to Disney Springs, Kidani Village is the last stop when you leave the resort.) Again, these are the averages of several trips and do not consider extenuating circumstances like significant traffic.
| Buses From: | To: | Time: |
|---|---|---|
| Jambo House | Magic Kingdom | 17 minutes |
| Jambo House | EPCOT | 13 minutes |
| Jambo House | Disney’s Hollywood Studios | 12 minutes |
| Jambo House | Disney’s Animal Kingdom | 7 minutes |
| Jambo House | Disney Springs | 22 minutes |
We hope you enjoyed this overview of the resort’s bus schedule. For more on how transportation works at this resort, see our Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge Transportation Guide. For more about transportation in general, our guide to transportation at Disney World is a good place to start.
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