Prolonged monorail outage this morning. We boarded the monorail at VGF at 8:50 am (to head over to Steakhouse 71), but the gray monorail going the other way was stuck on the track. Fire trucks and emergency vehicles started pulling up. So they got us off, and we had to scurry to our rental car and drive over to the Contemporary, arriving about 8 minutes late for our 9:10 reservation.
Had a heck of a time getting back into the parking lot here. Just a ton of traffic coming from both directions. People weren't happy, but we eventually got in. We still wanted to go to Magic Kingdom, so we checked on the monorail....and nope, still out. The gray monorail is still just sitting there. What I don't get is: why not put out signs stating this, so we didn't have to go trooping up to the second floor, only to see that it's out?
Decided we'd walk, after seeing the enormous backup at the boat launch. Got to the walking path and discovered a blockade had been set up. The walkway is closed, due to the monorail issue.
Gave up and headed back to our room.
Not the end of the world, but definitely frustrating! Also, I think the Thanksgiving hoards are starting to descend. Everything is suddenly a whole lot busier this morning.