Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom You are guarenteed to get into any of the parks provided that you have transportation that doesn't use any of the roads. For example walking from Swan, Dolphin BC BW hotels to MGM or Epcot and taking the monorail from there to TTC and taking the monorail on to MK. For those two days your going to have to be creative about getting around the World. All roads will be restored by sunday in the afternoon. I stayed at the WL and ended up going to MK for two days. ALL the rides at MK were walk ons as ONLY the hotels on the monorail loop and WL, Ft Wilderness could get to MK. Even the castmembers couldn't get to the parks.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom More than likely you will be able to ?Epcot or MGM. You want to keep in mind that the roads will be closed ( at various times as the marathon progresses through the World ). To get to MK your best bet ( while the roads are closed ) is to take a bus to Epcot, then take the monorail to TTC, then take the boat or monorail to MK. The half marathon is held on saturday and while the full marathon takes place on sunday. Both runs start early 6AM ? The roads were in pretty good shape by 11ish on saturday. On sunday Disney transportation wasn't fully restored until at least 1 pm. Although we had access to MK, we did not have any access to MGM or DAK. Epcot was only accessable via monorail.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom After that weekend you will see why I want an expanded monorail system at WDW.
Originally Posted By I_Heard_A_Tink Hey thanks so much for all of the info! Park hopping on those 2 days are pretty much out of the question....but that's okay! I'll be in WDW....no big deal if we can't park hop on those 2 days....besides we will be there from the 31st to the 16th....we'll have plenty of days to hop. Thanks again for your help....you're the best! I always said it would be awesome if every resort could be a part of the monorail system....maybe someday?!?!?
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom You will still be able to park hop. Your just going to have to wait till the afternoon for all the roads to reopen. I imagine that as the marathons progress the road openings will progress as well. I don't want you to think that the Kingdom will be shut down for two days it certainly won't. But with road closings and uncertain time frames of when they will reopen and Spotty onproperty Disney transportation; it makes for some disruptions in the parks you can get too for both those mornings.
