Early Entry Monorail?

[DisneyBurghMama]

Hi! We are planning our first big trip! Three nights, two to three park days and LL. Our kids are 9 and 6. After a day in DCA, we are thinking they would do better taking the monorail in from DLH to DLP on day 2.

Thoughts on early entry to Tomorrowland via the monorail? Any input is super helpful! Thanks!

 

[maleficent55]

It's generally not recommended to use the monorail for early entry since you will for sure enter the park sooner by using the main turnstiles
additionally, the monorail isn't always running for early entry and can't be counted on

 

[Girimama33]

If your goal is to be in the park for rope drop...taking the monorail in will put you behind the pack.

 

[LKing]

At WDW, the monorail is a mode of transportation. At DLR, it is an attraction. As an attraction, it is not open from park opening to park closing. Additionally, it doesn't have A/C so it shuts down if it is too warm outside.

 

[DisneyBurghMama]

Thanks, everyone, for the information and recommendations! Does anyone know if we were to book a hotel + ticket package now, and summer discounts did end up coming out, would the resort honor/adjust for us?

 

[maleficent55]

Thanks, everyone, for the information and recommendations! Does anyone know if we were to book a hotel + ticket package now, and summer discounts did end up coming out, would the resort honor/adjust for us?

Yes, you could call Disney and they will probably adjust

 

[Pluto468]

My family has used the Monorail at opening before, but not early entry. We like it because that end of the park is so empty and you avoid the huge crowds at the front gate. We don't use it every time because I love walking down Main Street, but it was really nice on the days we did use it.

There's a resort hotel discount right now for the 70th celebration. 30% off, which is a great deal.

 

[JulesR1212]

I've done it. The day it worked for us we stayed at DLH and were lined up at security by 6:45 am. We were the 7th in line for the first monorail train. That got us ahead of a lot if people at the gate.

Other times we were not up as early and the lines just ended up being too long to be any advantage. I guess that's true of the whole early entry system. You need to be up really early to make it through security and be near the front of the pack for gate entry so you're not fighting the non-hotel guests for entry.

 

[DisneyBurghMama]

Thanks so much! We are east coasters with little early risers so we should have no problems being up and out super early!

 

[Obi-J Kenobi]

Thanks so much! We are east coasters with little early risers so we should have no problems being up and out super early!

Don't be too discouraged if there are some lines from the Grand Californian ahead of you because the hotel is closer to the front gate. In my experience with being an early riser family we were able to get close enough to the front of the tapstiles to get in and hit the major headliners in FL and TL. My kids went to SM and my DW and I hit PPF, Alice, MTWR, and Dumbo in 30 minutes (+/-). I think SM may be the best bang for the buck, sort of speak, with how long the queue gets there. But, from the standpoint of walking distance between rides, FL is the best because you are only few steps away from one attraction to the next.