Monorail question

[Eander3]

Does Disney have someone who checks tickets or anything like that at the various monorail stops???
The family and I are heading to Disney, we are staying off property and plan to spend two days. We are going the end of Jan. Question: do you need to show a park ticket or hotel ticket in order to ride the monorail???
We plan to eat dinner at the Contemporary the first night the day before we go to the MK. Is it possible, as a dinner guest at the Contemporary, to take the monorail to, say, the Grand Floridian just to check it out???

 

[Eander3]

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[DMRick]

No one checks your tickets..they haven't for years.
I assume you also have Park hopper tickets. If you look on the Disney on line site, you'll see that those tickets also include all of Disney's transportation.

Your biggest problem might be, you will only have 3 hours to eat and then go around on the monoral. Non guests often try to use the MK area hotels for free parking, so they will check that you have a PS, and will give you a 3 hour pass.

 

[princessmomma]

Welcome to the disboards! Please ask any questions you like, there are great people on this board and we will share millions of ways to save time, money and have a great vacation.

To answer your question, if you are staying off site and driving to the parks, then after you park your car, either take the monorail or the ferryboat to Magic Kingdom. There is someone at the gate just "looking" at tickets, not scanning them, like they do at the park gates. But once you are inside, there is no problem dining at the Contemporary and then jumping on the Monorail to check out the GF. (I personally liked Poly better!)

 

[DMRick]

There is someone at the gate just "looking" at tickets, not scanning them, like they do at the park gates.

We go four times a year, and I've never had a ticket scanned or even glanced at, at the monorails. We don't even take them out of our wallets until we go into the parks. In fact, if we are just going from resort ot resort, we leave our tickets in teh safe in teh hotel room. Only if we have gone for ee (early entry) have we had to show tickets.

I also assumed you are parking at the Contemporary, since you have dinner arrangements there?

 

[AKASnowWhite]

The only time we've been *checked* at the TTC when heading to the monorail was early in the morning, before MK was *officially* opened. Actually at that point they were checking for resort id's for EE, or to see if we had a PS at one of the restaurants.....never had to show a ticket......

 

[princessmomma]

Yes, Snow White, it was at the TTC at 8:50 a.m. on December 20th. MK was opening at 9:00 that morning and everyone was asked to "present" at park ticket. The CM just glanced at them and waved us through.

We are also checked last Easter, again a very busy day at the parks.

 

[da disney fans]

The only time our tickets were checked was on Christmas morning, because SO MANY people were trying to board the monorails.

 

[DMRick]

MK was opening at 9:00 that morning and everyone was asked to "present" at park ticket. The CM just glanced at them and waved us through.

As I mentioned earlier before the park is open, you need to have a resort id for ee. However, unless they are closing the parks and only resort guests are allowed, they generally have no reason to check before you get on the monorail. Certainly, if you are already at TTC, they assume you should be there, and you paid to park, or took a bus. Sometimes they let people in a little earlier, but generally before the opening time, you have to show your resort id for ee, or as someone else said, prove you had a PS.
However, the OP was asking about using the transportation to go from resort to resort. I have not seen them ask for tickets or resort ID's in years going between resorts..why would they? Some people wouldn't even be going to the parks, and Disney wants you to check out the resorts, and maybe plan for your next stay, at a Dis resort..

 

[SUZENW]

Just back, they do not look at tickets. When you park at a hotel. We were not given any time limit to be back and all we had to do was show a drivers licence. The guard checked it to make sure it was us and in we went. We just said we were eatting dinner and sometimes said just looking around.

 

[DMRick]

We were not given any time limit to be back

Were you parking at any of the monorail resorts? Because they generally do give you three hours at the Contemporary and Poly. I would not count on them giving you all the time you want at those hotels. Many people try to park there, instead of paying at TTC. Even at off times, they have told us 3 hours and given us a paper for the dashboard. The other hotels (we didn't go to the Grand Floridian) were no problems...we could stay as long as we wished. This has been on each trip the past few years.

 

[sk8ingmom]

You could also park at Downtown Disney, then take the Contemporary bus to the resort, or to the TTC then get on the monorail.

I always think it's a pain that you can't take a bus from the parks to DTD and vise versa, but I'm sure they do it so people don't park for free, then head to the parks for the day.

 

[sdamico71]

Just curious....
Did you take the picture of Main Street yourself, or did you purchase it?
If you took it, what time of the day was the picture taken. It is a beautiful picture.