monorail service

[mcigloo]

From all the reviews I've read it seems like it's a big benefit to stay at one of the WDW properties that offer monorail service to the park(s). Could someone please reply and let me know which hotels offer the monorail service and which of the park(s) the monorail takes you to?

Thanks

 

[CleveRocks]

From all the reviews I've read it seems like it's a big benefit to stay at one of the WDW properties that offer monorail service to the park(s). Could someone please reply and let me know which hotels offer the monorail service and which of the park(s) the monorail takes you to?

Thanks

The resort monorail serves the 3 resorts on Seven Seas Lagoon, in the immediate area of Magic Kingdom. These are Contemporary Resort, Polynesian, and Grand Floridian.

There are no other resorts served directly by the monorail.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

From all the reviews I've read it seems like it's a big benefit to stay at one of the WDW properties that offer monorail service to the park(s). Could someone please reply and let me know which hotels offer the monorail service and which of the park(s) the monorail takes you to?

Thanks

We stay at the Polynesian. We can take the monorial directly to the Magic Kingdom, The Grand Floridian resort or the Contemporary Resort. We can also walk to the TTC and take the monorail directly to Epcot.
We have a son who has special needs so this quick access is very important to the success of our vacation. However you do pay a price for the convience...but for our family...as they say...it is priceless.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Something else to know is when leaving the Magic Kingdom by the Resort Monorail the order of stops is the Contemporary, TTC, Polynesian and Grand Floridian. So if your staying at the Contemporary you can get back there in one minute, to the Polynesian takes about 10 minutes and to the Grand Floridian takes about 15 minutes.

 

[Skippy24]

How were the morning crowds to get on the monorail?

 

[pepe of ohio]

Though it is a great service is comes at a higher price and only serves one park and a monorail change to one other. We're stayed and used then in the past and their existence does not make our choice of resorts. We've seen the lines leaving at closing times huge and opted for a boat or ferry to return to our resort. Others have posted on the routes but where you stay is close going and last stop leaving or vice versa, GF, first stop going, last stop leaving MK, CR last stop going, first stop leaving. We've stood alot on monorails too, not bad but I have stood less on buses. To make a monorail resort my choice solely on the monorail, we have to have a super discount to justify the room cost. We stay WL, last 10 trips, cheaper of the deluxes, boat to MK is quick, return is the same, we can boat to CR and gain access to monorail to either the MK or EPCOT and have options of boating to FW, and buses to everywhere. Bottom dollar, price for convenience or convenience for price, WL smaller rooms but the savings to us means longer stays.

 

[bytheblood]

Though it is a great service is comes at a higher price and only serves one park and a monorail change to one other.

So technically, it serves two. You change monorails and can be taken to EPCOT.

I do not see this as a negative. You either have to take a bus to all 4 parks, possibly a boat to one (Unless you are at an EPCOT resort) and a bus to the other three or you can take a monoral to 2 and a bus to the other two.

I guess it all comes down to how much you are willing to pay for monorail service.

 

[LadyZolt]

One other thing -- sometimes the monorail train gets delayed. My DD and I were waiting for a friend to meet us at MK (before cell phones were common) and we waited for her for over an hour. When they finally arrived, they explained that the monorail had had a problem and they were stuck on it for more than an hour.

This past December, we were going from the Poly to MK on the monorail and there was a problem with the monorail train that was ahead of ours. One train cannot go if the one on the same track ahead of it isn't moving. So we ended up sitting there on the tracks for 20-25 minutes. It didn't really bother us because we weren't in that big of a hurry, but still, it can and does happen, so you need to keep that in mind when you board one, too.

-Dorothy (LadyZolt)

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Though it is a great service is comes at a higher price and only serves one park and a monorail change to one other.

Not if you are at the Poly. You can walk directly to the TTC and get the Epcot monorail there. No transfer and the walk is pretty short, depending on which longhouse at the poly you are staying in.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

99% Of the times if the Monorail stops on the track it's because there is another one in front of it at the station it's going into, so it should be no more then a 1 minute wait. However there is the 1% chance when it could be a longer wait because something happened to one of the Monorails.