Wilderness Lodge and Monorail

[MAGICinMYHEART]

Tyler,

I was trying to remember years ago they would stop the monorail at TTC and just let the guest going to EPCOT walk across the platform and board the EPCOT Monorail without having to go down the ramp and then back up the other ramp...maybe GeekChic was able to do this.

 

[Toad]

How long a boatride is it from WL to MK? We are renting a car and my fellow travellers think getting to MK by car is easier than the boat (don't even get me started on that logic.....)

 

[Gary M]

The boat ride from WL to MK takes about 10 minutes (before 3:00pm) after 3:00 pm the boat goes from WL to FW and then MK.

There is no bus from WL to MK. The WL has a bus to TTC where you can catch either monorail.

 

[cigar95]

For the really trivia-oriented among us - it *is* possible to walk from Wilderness Lodge to the TTC. However, it requires using some backroads and going through areas not intended for guests. (No climbing over barbed wire or swimming gator-infested water required, though.)

For our original poster in this thread, I *really* wouldn't recommend it, but it is theoretically possible. (I can even give directions for those who want to try it some day.) I actually had a CM at the TTC recommend it to me once, back in 1994.

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

Originally posted by Toad
How long a boatride is it from WL to MK? We are renting a car and my fellow travellers think getting to MK by car is easier than the boat (don't even get me started on that logic.....) [

Toad,

If you drove to Magic Kingdom you would have to back down Timberline Drive to Seven Seas Drive back to World Drive making a u-turn to get back to the Magic Kingdom Toll Plaza to get to the MK guest parking lot...then ride a tram to TTC then ride the monorail back around to the Park...it could take up to 30 minutes or longer. I would tell your fellow travellers " See Ya."

 

[cigar95]

Originally posted by MAGICinMYHEART

Toad,

If you drove to Magic Kingdom you would have to back down Timberline Drive to Seven Seas Drive back to World Drive making a u-turn to get back to the Magic Kingdom Toll Plaza to get to the MK guest parking lot...then ride a tram to TTC then ride the monorail back around to the Park...it could take up to 30 minutes or longer. I would tell your fellow travellers " See Ya."

It's not *quite* that bad - coming down World Drive (or maybe it's still Floridian Way at that point) after passing the Car Care Center, just before you would pass the Toll Plaza heading south, there's a U-turn that takes you back into the MK parking lot. So you wouldn't have to go back through the toll plaza.

Of course, you'd still have to catch a parking lot shuttle, then wait for the monorail or boat, . . . . . . .

 

[GeekChic]

my apologies to the OP maybe I should've started a seperate thread on this, just wanted to answer this:

I was trying to remember years ago they would stop the monorail at TTC and just let the guest going to EPCOT walk across the platform and board the EPCOT Monorail without having to go down the ramp and then back up the other ramp...maybe GeekChic was able to do this.

maybe that was what we did. i just remember being able to get on an Epcot monorail without the dreaded down the ramp up the ramp again.

Hmm, curious, will have to start a thread on this soon as i figure out where LOL

Tyler, all i remember is that when we came up the escalator to the monorail tracks at CR the first time we ever went to Epcot, the line to the left took you to the MK and we boarded a train to the right for Epcot. There were little signs there that said "Epcot" might be that we had to change at TTC it has been 20 years! LOL but anyway, again my apologized to the OP and I will not take this off topic any further

On topic: getting around on Disney trans from the WL really isn't bad...in fact if my Dh didn't have his heart set on the CR we'd likely be staying there this trip and i'm disabled so getting around is tricky for us.

geek

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[zipDdoodah]

We always enjoy taking the Crockett bus to the TTC and then going to Epcot via monorail. IMO it may be a little quicker than waiting for the direct bus to Epcot from WL because the Crockett buses seem to come so frequently. Plus, when you get to Epcot it is a shorter walk to the gates than from the bus stop. I'm not sure if it's actually shorter or not, but it just seems like it to me (probably because the monorail is a lot more scenic than the bus). Anyway, I highly recommend taking this route to Epcot.

As for MK, the boat gets my vote!

 

[sotoalf]

Originally posted by GeekChic
Tyler, all i remember is that when we came up the escalator to the monorail tracks at CR the first time we ever went to Epcot, the line to the left took you to the MK and we boarded a train to the right for Epcot. There were little signs there that said "Epcot" might be that we had to change at TTC it has been 20 years! LOL but anyway, again my apologized to the OP and I will not take this off topic any further

I remember this too! No offense to Tyler, who certainly is the expert in transportation matters, but when the CR and Polynesian were the only MK resorts you would make two separate queues when waiting for the monorail: one for the MK, one for Epcot. This practice stopped when the GF opened in 1988.

Both of you, however, are right: the Epcot train would stop at the TTC, and you were then allowed to cross from one side of the platfom to the other w/out using the exit ramp.

 

[Chip 'n Dale Express]

That's all I'm saying -- is that it was a separate train. At one point in time, both exterior (express) and lagoon (resort) beams stopped at the resorts. But they still required transfer at the TTC to board the Epcot train.

 

[cigar95]

Originally posted by Chip 'n Dale Express
That's all I'm saying -- is that it was a separate train. At one point in time, both exterior (express) and lagoon (resort) beams stopped at the resorts. But they still required transfer at the TTC to board the Epcot train.

Now *that's* something I never knew! So back then, I guess there wasn't really a difference between "local" and "express". It was just "clockwise" and "counterclockwise".

My guess is that since the express became what it is now, the station at the Poly was reconfigured, since I can't recall a boarding platform next to the outer track. (Then again, I haven't really looked - something to do on my next trip!)

At the Contemporary, the "Epcot" train would have taken the long way around, via the MK and the Poly.

 

[justhat]

Sorry, I know this isn't related, but how did you get to the other monorail track at the CR? At the GF and the Poly, I think there are stairs , but how do you get there at the CR?

 

[cigar95]

Originally posted by justhat
Sorry, I know this isn't related, but how did you get to the other monorail track at the CR? At the GF and the Poly, I think there are stairs , but how do you get there at the CR?

If my memory is working today, the present monorail platform sits right in between the two tracks. So that would have been easy to manage.