Griswold Family Moments at Disney

Thanks for the map! Very informative. I didn't realize how close we were to the Poly.
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What you're describing is the TTC. From there you can take either the monorail or ferry.

You can walk from your car to the TTC (yes, you walk under a road bridge.)
You can walk from the TTC to your car.

You cannot walk from the TTC to the Magic Kingdom.
You cannot walk from the Magic Kingdom to the TTC.

Thanks for clarifying. I knew we walked some place, just couldn't remember exactly where. LOL
 
This is more of a going postal moment over a Griswold moment. A long time ago, youngest son(4 years old) and I, leaving Epcot to my older children and wife, departed to MK to catch the 3 PM parade. Got there early, had our popcorn/drink, got seats upper level train station with a good vantage point, etc. All set and hyped for the parade. Promptly at 3 the announcement came on telling us the parade was delayed due to weather please standby. At the time I had just gotten out of the military where my job involved following and knowing weather patterns. I had also been stationed not far away in Mayport FL so I knew there was going to be no weather. Just as I finished explaining this to my son the second announcement came on telling us the parade was cancelled. As I was looking for a good place to take my trusty Davy Crockett long rifle with orange cap to go postal, I noticed my son was very much enjoying his popcorn and didn't have a care in the world. So we had popcorn and enjoyed the MK.
 

This is more of a going postal moment over a Griswold moment. A long time ago, youngest son(4 years old) and I, leaving Epcot to my older children and wife, departed to MK to catch the 3 PM parade. Got there early, had our popcorn/drink, got seats upper level train station with a good vantage point, etc. All set and hyped for the parade. Promptly at 3 the announcement came on telling us the parade was delayed due to weather please standby. At the time I had just gotten out of the military where my job involved following and knowing weather patterns. I had also been stationed not far away in Mayport FL so I knew there was going to be no weather. Just as I finished explaining this to my son the second announcement came on telling us the parade was cancelled. As I was looking for a good place to take my trusty Davy Crockett long rifle with orange cap to go postal, I noticed my son was very much enjoying his popcorn and didn't have a care in the world. So we had popcorn and enjoyed the MK.
Our kids can certainly help us keep things in perspective, can't they? You could have gone all Clark Griswold on them, but you opted to sit back and enjoy watching your son have a great time. That's awesome.
 
Great post but now I am confused. I have an early morning breakfast at CP at 7:00 a.m. in MK. We are staying off site so I just assumed we would drive to TTC and pick up the monorail. So should we park at the Polynesian and valet our car? My kids would definitely not be happy getting up so early and not being able to get into the parks and neither would I.
 
Sounds like you might be able to walk to the Poly and ride the resort monorail, if it is running that early. Or the resort monorails might make a stop at the TTC, if they run early. Would be good to call Disney transport and find out exactly when monorail/buses run on that specific date.

Or just show up at the TTC and ask for the private shuttle.
 
Great advice! I appreciate it, that's why I love these boards. I didn't even know there was a private shuttle.
 
Great advice! I appreciate it, that's why I love these boards. I didn't even know there was a private shuttle.

I was just kidding about the private shuttle. But since they felt sorry for us and drove us to the gates of the MK, they might do the same for you. Probably your best bet is to find out precisely when each type of transportation begins running on the day of your early breakfast. I made an assumption of when they would start running and guessed wrong.
 
We bailed out a lady we met on the early bus to the Magic Kingdom for a pre park opening breakfast at the Crystal Palace.

We had reservations but she did not. She thought the park was opening early that day. When she realized she was an hour and a half early for the regular MK park opening she was bummed out. We asked he if she would like to come to breakfast with us and she said yes!

It was a magical moment for everybody because we made a new friend and we got to enjoy a lovely breakfast together as we chatted and chomped away. :banana:

~NM
 
Wait wait wait.
I'm seriously confused.
If I have an 8:05 ADR and I'm staying offsite how do we get from TTC to MK?
We haven't had a pre-park meal in a lot of years.
 
We took the kids to MK for a day when were visiting my parents in Orlando. We stayed until the fireworks and bought DD, who was 2 at the time, one of those spinner toys that light up. By the end of the night, she was beat. I put her on my back for the walk to the parking lot, spinner spinning the whole time. She held it up near my head and it got caught in my long hair. It wrapped around that thing and got tangled down to the root. I was trying to get free of it with DD on my back who wouldn't let go of the spinner. DH finally got her down and separated the spinner from her hand. It took me about an hour to get that thing out of my hair.
Oh my gosh, this is so funny (now that's it over with)!!! This reminded me of the time I bought one of those frozen strawberry pops for my DD when she was little and I noticed it was covered with ice so I attempted to lick some of it off so it wouldn't freeze to her tongue and it ended up becoming frozen to my lip! I was trying to pull it off while she started reaching and whining for it. I finally yanked it off but spent the next half hour with a tissue on my lip. Kids!!! :P
 
I was worried about being late to our 8am CP breakfast, so we were out at the bus stop at 6:30am. By 7am, we were the only people standing outside MK, it was cold, and the kids were not happy. Another time I insisted we go back into MK one evening specifically so we could eat at Tortuga Tavern, which was closed.
 
Last week we were running really late for our princess dinner in Norway. I was trying to see where Norway was on my phone, but it wasn't working and I didn't pick up a map because I "knew" where is was located. But I was so flustered that I couldn't remember. We started running through the World Showcase, the WRONG way. Final, I knew I was wrong and just asked a random park guest where Norway was, they pointed us in the right direction and started yelling, "Don't be late for the princesses, Norway is next to Mexico". We took off running with my kids hysterical laughing, saying those people are crazy Norway is no where near Mexico (in real life). FYI: we were 30 minutes late and they were super nice about it and sat us right away.
 
A few years back DH and I were on our first trip sans child and were walking around Future World in the AM. While DH made a restroom stop I sat on a bench to check my camera. So when DH came out and motioned for me to catch up with him I rose up from the bench and started walking, trailed by a long band of bubble gum from the seat of my shorts back to the bench. DH kept on walking leaving me yelling "Wait, I'm stuck...". Price for this entertainment: major embarrassment on my part and the cost of new shorts from MouseGears on his part.
 
You can walk from your car to the TTC (yes, you walk under a road bridge.)
You can walk from the TTC to your car.

You cannot walk from the TTC to the Magic Kingdom.
You cannot walk from the Magic Kingdom to the TTC.

Take it from someone who has actually done it... It's possible to walk from the Contemporary to the TTC. It's not a walk I'd want to do again. I did it at night, after the monorail closed down, which made it doubly dangerous. Thankfully, there was very little road traffic that night. It's a rather far distance. I don't remember exactly how long it took to walk, but I can recall being very thankful when I reached the TTC (and later, the Poly, where I was staying).
 
The resort monorail starts running around 7:00, but taking the bus from your resort is always the smarter choice.

That doesn't answer the question of how people DRIVING TO THE PARKS are supposed to get to MK. If you take a bus/monrail from your resort, you didn't drive to the parks. How does an off-site guest get to a pre-opening breakfast ADR? They have to park at the TTC, they can't take transportation from a resort.

This has me very confused.
 
That doesn't answer the question of how people DRIVING TO THE PARKS are supposed to get to MK. If you take a bus/monrail from your resort, you didn't drive to the parks. How does an off-site guest get to a pre-opening breakfast ADR? They have to park at the TTC, they can't take transportation from a resort.

This has me very confused.

Get aboard the Resort Monorail at TTC and ride to MK.
 





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