If you booked a Disneyland trip this summer and you are staying at a Good Neighbor Hotel, Disneyland Resort just made getting to the park a little cheaper. A new partnership with Lyft is offering discounted rides between off-property hotels and the resort area through early September, and depending on your Lyft history, the savings can be meaningful.
But the reason this partnership exists at all is the more important story. Because a few months ago, the system that millions of Disneyland-area guests relied on for exactly this purpose quietly shut down for good, and nothing has fully replaced it yet.
The Lyft Deal First, Because That Is Why You Are Here
Two promo codes are available starting May 28 and running through September 8, 2026. New Lyft users get 50 percent off two rides with code 50MAGIC. Existing Lyft users get 10 percent off one XL ride with code XL10. Both are valid for rides between Disneyland Resort Good Neighbor Hotels and the resort area.
Check your Lyft status before you get to Anaheim. The discount gap between new and existing users is large enough that it is worth knowing which code applies to your account before you need a ride.
The partnership is framed as an on-demand transportation option for guests who want an alternative to parking or other ground transportation. That framing is accurate but understated. The fuller picture involves what happened to the option most guests were using before.
The ART Shutdown Left a Real Gap
The Anaheim Resort Transportation system closed on March 31, 2026. It served more than 8 million riders per year, connecting Disneyland Resort, the Toy Story Parking Area, and dozens of nearby hotels with around-the-clock bus service. For guests without rental cars, for families traveling from out of the country, for anyone arriving at a Good Neighbor Hotel and needing a reliable way to reach the parks each day, ART was not optional. It was the solution.
The Anaheim Transportation Network, which operated ART, shut down after prolonged financial instability. The City of Anaheim began looking for a replacement in February 2026, but as of the summer season, no comprehensive successor system is operating.
The scale of what disappeared is worth sitting with for a moment. About 83 percent of ART's ridership, nearly 7 million people this fiscal year, came from the single Toy Story Parking Area shuttle route to Disneyland's main entrance. That one route moved an enormous volume of guests every single day, and those guests are now navigating a patchwork of alternatives.
Disney confirmed to the OC Register that shuttle service for its guests would continue, without offering specifics. Garden Grove launched a shuttle connecting the resort transit hub to around 10 hotels in its tourism district. OC Bus has routes that parallel some of what ART covered. A coalition of major hotels is developing an independent shuttle network, though those same hotels have acknowledged that replicating ART's service structure will cost significantly more than what ATN was charging.
The longer-term solution is tangled up in DisneylandForward, Disney's expansion plan that includes a new 6,000-space parking structure and a dedicated transportation hub on the east side of the resort. A demolition permit filed recently suggests the early groundwork on that structure has started. But future infrastructure does not solve a summer 2026 problem, and guests arriving at Good Neighbor Hotels without a car are working with what exists today.
The Lyft partnership is a genuine option in that environment. It is not a transit system. It is not a replacement for what ART provided to 8 million annual riders. But for a family needing a dependable ride each morning and a way back at the end of a long day, promo codes that reduce the cost of that rideshare are worth knowing about and using.
Planning Your Disney Trip Transportation This Summer
The through line across both coasts is that transportation requires more deliberate planning than it did a year ago, and guests who treat it as an afterthought are more likely to run into friction.
For Disneyland visitors at Good Neighbor Hotels, use the Lyft codes. 50MAGIC if you are new, XL10 if you are not. Both expire September 8. Factor rideshare costs into your daily budget if you are making multiple trips between the hotel and the resort, and look at what Garden Grove and OC Bus offer as lower-cost alternatives if your hotel falls in a covered zone.
Transportation planning used to be the part of a Disney vacation that mostly took care of itself. That is less true right now than it has been in a while, and the guests who plan for it ahead of time will have a noticeably smoother experience than those who figure it out on arrival.
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