transportation

[henry lutz]

heading to dw in may.. transportation seems very complex as far as what to take where...any help?... especially like the monorail

 

[fivefordisney]

Believe it or not, it is not complicated at all! Where are you staying?

 

[henry lutz]

coronado springs

 

[eblack0409]

From Coronado Springs you can take the buses to any park....it's a beautiful resort....

From the Magic Kingdom you can take the Monorail to the Poly, Grand Floridian, and EPCOT....

From MGM, you can take the boat to EPCOT, Beach Club, Yacht Club, Boardwalk...

Once you get there you will get an idea of how the transportation works!

 

[henry lutz]

thanks for trans. info
I see you stay at the value resorts
I was kind of leary of staying there ..noise ..thin walls
however it must be ok if you have stayed there so much
planning is so complicating sometimes

 

[Robo]

heading to dw in may.. transportation seems very complex as far as what to take where...any help?... especially like the monorail

The following is a "Transportation Calculator"-

www.ourlaughingplace.com/asp/twiz.asp

Here's a list of Distances between WDW Resorts and Parks:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/Resorts/resort-distances.htm

 

[CleveRocks]

heading to dw in may.. transportation seems very complex as far as what to take where...any help?... especially like the monorail

As long as you are heading for the 4 theme parks, either of the water parks, and Down Town Disney (DTD), then using Disney Transport to and from Coronado Springs Resort (CSR) really couldn't be simpler!!! You will simply take a single bus directly to one of those destinations, and then a single bus directly back.

CSR has I think 4 bus stops. Go to whichever bus stop is most convenient for you. If you are going to, say, Magic Kingdom (MK), simply wait at the bus stop until you see a bus that says "Magic Kingdom" on the front and side display. The bus will stop at any remaining CSR stops within the resort, but then will head directly for MK. When you're done at MK and want to go back to CSR, you just go to the departing bus area and look for the sign for the CSR bus and wait there.

So just to clear this up, at CSR you just go to any bus stop you want. If you are headed for Epcot, wait for a bus that says Epcot. Buses will pass by every few minutes -- some will be for Animal Kingdom (AK), some for MGM, etc. If an Epcot bus stopped at that stop just before you got there, you won't wait more than 20 minutes for the next bus headed to Epcot (or at least that's how it's set up).

The buses do NOT run on a time table or schedule -- just loosely every 20 minutes or so.

Getting to other resorts can sound a little complicated, and that's where more options come in, and I won't go into specifics much. There is no direct transportation from one WDW resort to another. If you are headed to another resort from CSR, you'd need to take a bus to a theme park or DTD and then use that park as a "hub" where you would catch another mode of transportation. For example, if you had a dinner reservation at 'Ohana, a restaurant in the Polynesian, your best bet would be to take a bus from CSR to MK, and then catch the monorail from outside MK and take it to the Poly. If you had a dinner reservation at Boma, a restaurant in Animal Kingdom Lodge (AKL), you'd take a bus from CSR to AK, and then from AK catch a bus to AKL (you could use any other park, you wouldn't have to use AK, but it would be the most convenient).

Like I said, it only gets even slightly complex when you try to go from resort to resort. For straight transport from CSR to a theme park or water park or DTD, it's really simple!

 

[flortlebap]

At a moderate you should have no problems with transport. You just hop on a bus!

We've stayed at a value - POP, and in fact the walls there are said to be quieter than at POR where we're staying this time.

 

[CleveRocks]

heading to dw in may.. transportation seems very complex as far as what to take where...any help?... especially like the monorail

The monorail is pretty simple, really. There are only 2 monorail lines, and you can transfer from one to another.

One monorail line makes a loop around Seven Seas Lagoon. There is a station outside MK. If you got on the monorail there, the next stop is the Contemporary Resort (CR). This is the hotel that the monorail actually drives right through. It's also the site of Chef Mickey's restaurant.

After Contemporary, the monorail stops at the poorly-named Ticket and Transportation Center (TTC). You can get off here if you parked at car at the MK parking lot, or if you want to transfer to the monorail line that goes directly to Epcot.

After TTC, the next stop is the Polynesian Resort.

After Poly, the next stop is the Grand Floridian Resort (GF).

After Grand Floridian, the next stop is the MK stop. There's your loop around Seven Seas Lagoon.

If you got off at TTC and took the other monorail line to Epcot, there is one and only one stop: Epcot itself!

You can picture the monorail lines as kind of like the lower case letter "q." The top, round part of the "q" is the loop around Seven Seas Lagoon (MK to CR to TTC to Poly to GF to MK ...), and the straight line leading down and away from the top of the "q" is the direct route to Epcot.

 

[Robo]

The monorail is pretty simple, but there are THREE "lines" (loops), not two.

Express: TTC>MK>TTC loop (Travels CCW around the Lagoon.)

Resort: TTC>Poly>GndFlr>MK>Contep>TTC loop (Travels CW around the Lagoon.)

Epcot: TTC>Epcot>TTC loop

The currently "poorly named" TTC was not so poorly named when it was built.

WDW was basically "only" the MK and a couple of resorts (to most guests) back then.

TTC was THE place at WDW to buy Tickets and connect with the primary Transportation at the time, the monorails.

The name has "stuck" because, well, we old-timers KNOW what it means, and otherwise... what the heck ELSE would you CALL it?

Maybe we should have a "Rename the TTC" contest.

 

[henry lutz]

thanks for the info. on trans.
gotta see the monorail