pogopossum
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We are staying at Grand Floridian right now. In addition to monorails starting late in the morning and shutting down earlier at night. Which makes it inconvenient for EMH.
This morning monorails were not ready to run by normal time. We knew that something was up when we got on and didn't take off right away. Announcement was made to indicate that we had to wait as "routine" maintenence was being performed on the train ahead of us. Second clue was at MK station where express monorail was stopped and no passengers were on it. We finally left and then we stopped again before CR. When we finally got to TTC, now the final warning sign monorails were stopped and empty on the express and epcot tracks. Everyone was told that they would have to use busses to MK and epcot. They thought that trains would have been running on time and were very sorry. MK seemed to have plenty of busses waiting to handle crowd, which I get, because most traffic there is to the MK. But at the queue for epcot, there were no busses and it seemed to take longer than necessary to get them routed over. Seems like a contingency plan should already have been in place and ready to be implemented. I know they are doing all they can.
It looks like they are back on schedule now, but we should have used the bus straight from the resort and will the rest of the stay. Everyone should know that in the morning it may not be a short hop to the MK or epcot on the monorail, and be prepared for the alternative.
This morning monorails were not ready to run by normal time. We knew that something was up when we got on and didn't take off right away. Announcement was made to indicate that we had to wait as "routine" maintenence was being performed on the train ahead of us. Second clue was at MK station where express monorail was stopped and no passengers were on it. We finally left and then we stopped again before CR. When we finally got to TTC, now the final warning sign monorails were stopped and empty on the express and epcot tracks. Everyone was told that they would have to use busses to MK and epcot. They thought that trains would have been running on time and were very sorry. MK seemed to have plenty of busses waiting to handle crowd, which I get, because most traffic there is to the MK. But at the queue for epcot, there were no busses and it seemed to take longer than necessary to get them routed over. Seems like a contingency plan should already have been in place and ready to be implemented. I know they are doing all they can.
It looks like they are back on schedule now, but we should have used the bus straight from the resort and will the rest of the stay. Everyone should know that in the morning it may not be a short hop to the MK or epcot on the monorail, and be prepared for the alternative.
