FoxwithEars
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2009
Does anyone know why they dont run the monorails in late EMH anymore? Now they just shut down after one hour regular closing time. Why is that??
Disney has already announced this change as permanent, which in my mind negates their attempt to label it a maintenance issue. I can certainly understand them needing more time to maintain the monorails than a 3 AM EMH close gives them. But then why are they still considering a FAR earlier end time for the monorail on hard ticketed party nights?
Sorry folks, in my mind this is a cost saving issue for Disney.
This was debated ad nauseum in a very lengthy thread this summer.
We were in Disney 8/19 through 8/28 and having the monorail only run one hour after park closing was horrible! We paid a considerable amount of money to stay at a monorail resort and we ended up having to walk home at 2am on more than one occasion. The walkway was always deserted and one night we were scared silly by an armadillo that decided to walk in the bushes and jump out in front of us near the parking lot. My 73 year old mom who has bad knees and asthma couldn't even enjoy the extra magic hours because she could never make the walk. On the late openings the cast members told us not to even bother waiting for a bus - we'd be there all night and there was no boat to our hotel. We had to rush to eat when we went to Konas at the Polynesian so we could make the last monorail and not get stuck on the endless bus ride from hell. I ended up driving to Epcot each time we went for fear of missing the last monorail. Getting from monorail hotel to another monorail hotel by bus after the monorail shut down was pure craziness. There was no rhyme or reason to any of it! I was very disappointed in the monorail this trip - it almost wasn't worth paying the money we paid to stay at a monorail resort. It isn't that much of a draw anymore to me after this experience!
You really need to send a letter or email to Disney and outline your experience. ...... and the fact that you might not spend the money on a monorail resort in the future if that is indeed the case.