Hi, Lizzie!
Thanks so much for stopping back by and I'm just thrilled that you're finding helpful information right here on the Moms Panel!
Since you're planning on dining with The Big Cheese at
Chef Mickey's before the Parks open for the day, I'm going to suggest taking a taxi directly to Disney's Contemporary Resort as the very quickest mode of transportation. The charges will not typically run you more than $20 and time is money when you're on vacation! If that's not in the budget, what you can also do is take the next Park-bound bus that arrives at your Resort and change to a bus heading to the Contemporary. Ideally, it would be a bus heading to
Magic Kingdom Park, but you should also keep in mind that buses start running about an hour prior to the Park opening, so if the Magic Kingdom isn't open early enough that day, this won't work. If your reservation is on a day that the Magic Kingdom opens early, you can take a bus straight there and it's less than a 5-minute walk to the Contemporary.
I sure hope this helps, Lizzie! Please feel free to stop back by if you have any other questions we can help with!
Wishing you a Pixie Dusted vacation!
~Jackie