Originally Posted By Anacon I always rent a car. Plus, you can go off site, stop at a market to purchase food and drink for the room. Well worth the price. I highly recommend it. Although it's frowned upon, I like to park at the Contemporary and take the 5 minute walk to MK. I only do it for a few hours, not all day.
Originally Posted By GrumpysWife So as I understand it, there's no parking for the MK exactly, you park at the TTC and take the monorail if you're going for the day? (I haven't been to WDW enough to quit asking dumb questions-sorry.)
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic1 You are correct Grumpy about the MK parking. Don't be silly about the questions. If you don't ask you won't know.
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ <<<"<It's actually 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" you were close Labuda.. LOL... : ) >> Sorry Labuda.. I missed the half part... you had it right... : )" In that case, please ignore post # 17. >>> I thought it was 1/4 of a 17" by 11" sheet of paper. Thanks for clearing that up!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>So as I understand it, there's no parking for the MK exactly, you park at the TTC and take the monorail if you're going for the day?<<< Well, kinda, sorta! MK does have it's own parking lot, labeled as such. You still have to take the monorail or ferry to the actual park but I always considered the monorail and ferry to be a part of MK. Epcot has it's own parking area, as does Disney MGM and Animal Kingdom. You can access all the parks either by monorail (Epcot) or bus for the rest of the parks without moving your car out of MK's parking lot. I usually use either Epcot's lot or MK lot if I am going to either one of those two because I just determine where I will be at the end of the day and park my car closest to that. Then I park hop between the two. I find that using my car to get to the other parks is just plain more convenient then trying to time alternate transportation to work with my schedule.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>So as I understand it, there's no parking for the MK exactly, you park at the TTC and take the monorail if you're going for the day?<< The parking lot is NOT attached to the MK's main entrance but next to the TTC. However, that is the intended parking lot for guests going to the MK. You park, take the parking tram (or walk) to TTC, and from TTC, you either take the monorail or Ferry Boat to get to the MK.
Originally Posted By beamerdog If you take a bus from your resort to the MK, you will not take the ferry or the monorail. It's faster from the bus station to the park, but I feel that you miss a lot by not experiencing the "pre-show" travel. imho
Originally Posted By trekkeruss "Back in the day," it used to be all buses went to the TTC and everyone not staying at a monorail resort took the ferry or the express monorail to the MK, preserving the "pre-show" build-up. But now that they have a gaillion rooms on-property, it's impossible for the ferry and monorail to accommodate the increase in guest traffic, so now they have buses going directly to the MK.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Lucky are those who get dropped off at the MK bus stops. Who the heck wants to wait for traffic clearance on that beam and listen to a thousand spiels about DVC and the rest of Disney's offerings?
Originally Posted By pixiedust1 <<The parking lot is NOT attached to the MK's main entrance but next to the TTC. However, that is the intended parking lot for guests going to the MK. You park, take the parking tram (or walk) to TTC, and from TTC, you either take the monorail or Ferry Boat to get to the MK.>> You can always plan a breakfast at the Poly, park there, and then take the monorail from there to MK... on your return trip from MK there is hardly any lines to the resorts from MK ... a nice option that we've been using for years...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Lucky are those who get dropped off at the MK bus stops. Who the heck wants to wait for traffic clearance on that beam and listen to a thousand spiels about DVC and the rest of Disney's offerings?>> Sshhhh...you're going to blow Disney's best-kept secret.
