The Magic Kingdom resort boats have traded places. If you’re heading back to Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa or Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, your launch now loads at the dock directly across from the Magic Kingdom entrance. Boats for Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground have moved over to Boat Dock 2, the spot the Grand Floridian and Polynesian boats used until now.
The resort pairings haven’t changed. The same four resorts still have boat service to the park, and each pair still shares a single dock. What’s different is which dock you walk to, and that’s the part that can trip up anyone running on muscle memory at the end of a long park day. BlogMickey spotted the swap on October 14 and photographed the new signs at both docks.
Where To Find Your Boat Now
Grand Floridian and Polynesian guests should look for the covered dock right across from the park entrance, with gates numbered Entrance 2 and Entrance 3. A hanging sign over the gates names both resorts, and a long pier runs out behind them to the water.
Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness guests now head to Boat Dock 2. A Resort Launches sign hangs under the numbered dock marker, with a smaller sign below it naming Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground. The Resort Monorail sign sits just past the dock entrance, which makes a handy landmark if you’re getting your bearings after the fireworks.
If you’re unsure, trust the signs over memory. The two stops sit close enough together that it’s easy to join the wrong line, and a wrong boat means a detour to the wrong resort before you finally get back to your room.
Why The Docks May Have Moved
There’s no word yet on why the boats switched places, or whether the change is permanent. The timing lines up with a busy stretch of construction along the Seven Seas Lagoon side of the park. Work on an expanded ferryboat dock started in June, and green construction walls and a barge have since appeared along the guest walkway near the entrance.
That dock work comes as Walt Disney World adds a fourth ferryboat between the Transportation and Ticket Center and the park, the first addition to the fleet since 1976. The new 120-foot ferry will be named the Meg Gilbert Crofton, after Walt Disney World’s fourth president, and it’s set to launch in 2027.
Construction is also reshaping the other side of Magic Kingdom, where the Frontierland boardwalk is already gone as Piston Peak work moves in. Until all of that work wraps up, read the dock signs on your way out rather than heading for the dock you used on your last trip, because more changes like this one could follow.
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