OK, is this ok by Disney? Getting dropped off at Contemp

[PajamaBagStitch]

to walk into MK? (Not parking a car, just being dropped off). If you're not saying there? If you are staying off site? What about if you get dropped dropped off at Wilderness area to visit petting zoo or rent water craft? Can you use the ferry?

Or is this like pool- hopping?

I am trying to search the site so I don't keep asking the same questions that have been answered thousands of times, but wow, this site is fast, huge and slow on my laptop.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Anyone can rent the watercraft so even though you are off site that will be fine. Same with using any of Disney's transportation.

You can drop someone off at CR. You will have to tell the guard what you are there for (I'd say dropping someone off for shopping or breakfast rather than saying they will be walking to MK.)

Will you have more than 1 vehicle? I'm thinking you'll go nuts if you are the only one driving and everyone wants to go different places. Yikes.

You'll most likely want to set up some sort of plan so they aren't pulling you in 12 different directions.
Good luck!

 

[skiingfast]

As far as going to MK, you can be dropper off near where the buses go. Just go past the CR entrance make a left at the light and stay right.

Anywhere else you wanted to go you can be dropped off as well. I'm sure if you tell the person at a gate into the resort that you are going to lunch renting a boat you won't have any problem.

 

[NotUrsula]

As far as going to MK, you can be dropped off near where the buses go. Just go past the CR entrance make a left at the light and stay right.

Just FYI, that isn't the MK's "official" guest drop-off area; I'm not really sure what it is, but it isn't a marked street, and I'm thinking it's for official/emergency vehicle use. There is a sign there that seems to restrict entry, too. (I don't remember what the sign says, and I can't zoom it enough on Google Streetview to read it, except for the final word, which is "only".)

The real MK guest drop-off is next to the kennels near the TTC (on the road to the Poly) and expects that the party will go to MK from the TTC. Dropping someone off near the CR would definitely get them into the park more quickly, though.

 

[msmayor]

I think it really depends on the attitude of the guard at the gate.

Two years ago when we stayed at Shades of Green, we'd walk to the Poly to get the monorail. My parents were with us, and it was too long of a walk for my Dad to make (he rented a scooter at the parks because of his health).

One day I said I'd drive my parents to Poly, bring the car back to Shades and then walk myself over to the station to save them the steps. The guard at the gate gave me a VERY hard time, saying that it wasn't allowed to drop people off to use the monorail like this. Even after I explained my Dad's mobility issue, he was still annoyed. He let me through, but told me "just this once" and if I wanted to drop my parents off for the monorail to take them to TTC.

 

[joelkfla]

As far as going to MK, you can be dropper off near where the buses go. Just go past the CR entrance make a left at the light and stay right.

No, this is not a guest drop-off area. Privately-owned vehicles are prohibited from Disney Transport bus loops.

 

[skiingfast]

No, this is not a guest drop-off area. Privately-owned vehicles are prohibited from Disney Transport bus loops.

It's not the bus loop it is just to the north of the bus loop, cabs and shuttles drop off there and I have seen regular cars in there as well.

 

[NotUrsula]

It's not the bus loop it is just to the north of the bus loop, cabs and shuttles drop off there and I have seen regular cars in there as well.

I believe that I just figured out why. I zoomed it up on an annotated WDW satellite map. That appears to be the driveway that leads to the MK's executive castmember parking. (This is the lot that you can see from the express monorail if you try. It is between the Galaxy Palace Theatre area and the back of the Exposition Hall.)

There is a guarded gate there with a turnback loop; if you don't have the proper credentials to enter they will force you to turn around. I guess some people may take advantage of that to manage an improvised close-in drop off, but I'm guessing that WDW does not like it when it happens. The satellite view shows no real provision for walking through that area. It looks like you have to duck through the landscaping to reach the sidewalk that comes in from the CR beside the bus loop.

 

[joelkfla]

It's not the bus loop it is just to the north of the bus loop, cabs and shuttles drop off there and I have seen regular cars in there as well.

There is nothing north of the bus loop, until the backstage gate mentioned by the PP. The driveway directly opposite the CR entrance is the bus entrance, which divides into 2 loops. The north loop does have an area that adjoins the CR walkway just east of the MK gate, which is used by security, DVC vans, and transportation support vehicles. Any taxis or outside shuttles that might drop off there are doing so without authorization; the authorized taxi and shuttle dropoff is at the TTC.

 

[PajamaBagStitch]

TTC? The ....Comtemporary? LOL Is there a sticky? I am not getting all of them...

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

The taxi's are parked just before you would drive towards the Polynesian and I remember seeing a sign that said taxi stand or something like that. Anyway what I do know is you can walk to that area from the TTC.

 

[goofy4tink]

As far as going to MK, you can be dropper off near where the buses go. Just go past the CR entrance make a left at the light and stay right.

Anywhere else you wanted to go you can be dropped off as well. I'm sure if you tell the person at a gate into the resort that you are going to lunch renting a boat you won't have any problem.

I think it really depends on the attitude of the guard at the gate.

Two years ago when we stayed at Shades of Green, we'd walk to the Poly to get the monorail. My parents were with us, and it was too long of a walk for my Dad to make (he rented a scooter at the parks because of his health).

One day I said I'd drive my parents to Poly, bring the car back to Shades and then walk myself over to the station to save them the steps. The guard at the gate gave me a VERY hard time, saying that it wasn't allowed to drop people off to use the monorail like this. Even after I explained my Dad's mobility issue, he was still annoyed. He let me through, but told me "just this once" and if I wanted to drop my parents off for the monorail to take them to TTC.

It's not the bus loop it is just to the north of the bus loop, cabs and shuttles drop off there and I have seen regular cars in there as well.

Cars are not allowed into the bus area....I have seen CMs go nuts when guests tried to follow a bus in there. Other than that, there really is no other place to drop someone off close to MK.
You are best served by dropping them off at the CR.

TTC? The ....Comtemporary? LOL Is there a sticky? I am not getting all of them...

TTC..Transportation and Ticket Center, which is the main parking lot for the MK. When parking there, you can then take either the monorail or ferry to MK. There is a guest drop off area there as well..if I remember correctly.

In any case. As long as you have park passes, you are entitled to use any and all of the various modes of transportation in WDW. The only time this may not be the case is if it gets very busy and Disney allows only resort guests to use the resort monorail or onto the specific resort buses. But...that doesn't happen very often.

 

[Brian Noble]

You don't even need to have park passes anymore---that was dropped some years ago. As long as you have legitimate business wherever you are headed (and that includes "just looking around") you can visit any publicly-accessible location in the Resort, and you can use Disney transportation to get there, subject to that capacity caveat.

The only exception: you cannot self-park at Downtown Disney or a resort at which you are not a registered guest and then visit the theme parks. Every thing else is fair game.

 

[amw]

TTC..Transportation and Ticket Center, which is the main parking lot for the MK. When parking there, you can then take either the monorail or ferry to MK. There is a guest drop off area there as well..if I remember correctly.

Sorry to hijack and bring up an older thread ... ... are there official "guest drop-offs" for each of the parks, or just the TTC? How to you by-pass the parking gate to get to them?

We will be staying offsite with a car rental, but my DH doesn't do the parks with us. He'll drop us off, go golfing, and return for us in the evening.

Last time we stayed onsite so he could access the parking lots for free and park to pick us up.

Trying to see what the best options are.

 

[grimley1968]

To get to any of the MK area resorts, or the TTC, will require driving through the parking gates south of MK. If you want to get to any of these areas, you'll have to tell the parking attendants you have some kind of business at one of the resorts (checking in, restaurant ADR, shopping, etc.) or that you are dropping people off at the TTC only (not sure how this would fly).

The easiest thing (IMVHO) would be to say you wish to visit Grand Floridian and do some shopping. The attendant would wave you through, allowing you to drive on to GF. When you get there, the driver drops people off and drives away. The dropped off people get on the GF monorail stop and it's a quick trip to MK from there.

The process would be similar at other MK area resorts, but I think it's quicker to get from GF to MK than the others.

 

[amw]

I was just wondering though if there are official drop off points for Epcot and DHS as well, besides the TTC.

Our local attractions have drop off circles for buses, taxis, and cars separate from parking areas. I just wondered if the same applied for WDW. I've been many times but have never seen them. A previous poster mentioned an official drop off at TTC.

 

[clkelley]

The Studios, AK, and Epcot all have dropoff locations. You do have to go through the toll booths, but tell the toll booth attendant that you are dropping off. I don't "think" they charge in that case.