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DLMAGICDARREN
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If you are asking about the official "Disneyland Hotel" you will not need transportation.
You can easily walk from your hotel through Downtown Disney and enter either Disneyland or DCA's main entrance.
If you are visiting Disneyland, it's an even shorter walk to the monorial station where you can (after showing valid park admission) board the monorail and ride directly inside Disneyland to the Tomorrowland station. There is no monorail stop in DCA, so to enter that park, you must walk through Downtown Disney to the park's main entrance.
There is a Downtown Disney bus available, but it's not really park transportation, but it will shuttle you to the Paradise Pier Hotel, and Downtown Disney, but from the Disneyland hotel, you are easily in walking distance.
The bus is valuable if you are at the Paradise Pier hotel and you wish to enter Disneyland (although considering all the walking you will do anyway, is still easily walkable). It will drop you off at Downtown Disney, but if you wish to enter DCA, there is a special exclusive Paradise Pier entrance right in DCA's Paradise Pier, so all you really have to do is cross Disneyland Drive at the crosswalk and you will be at that entrance.
You can easily walk from your hotel through Downtown Disney and enter either Disneyland or DCA's main entrance.
If you are visiting Disneyland, it's an even shorter walk to the monorial station where you can (after showing valid park admission) board the monorail and ride directly inside Disneyland to the Tomorrowland station. There is no monorail stop in DCA, so to enter that park, you must walk through Downtown Disney to the park's main entrance.
There is a Downtown Disney bus available, but it's not really park transportation, but it will shuttle you to the Paradise Pier Hotel, and Downtown Disney, but from the Disneyland hotel, you are easily in walking distance.
The bus is valuable if you are at the Paradise Pier hotel and you wish to enter Disneyland (although considering all the walking you will do anyway, is still easily walkable). It will drop you off at Downtown Disney, but if you wish to enter DCA, there is a special exclusive Paradise Pier entrance right in DCA's Paradise Pier, so all you really have to do is cross Disneyland Drive at the crosswalk and you will be at that entrance.
DLMAGICDARREN
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The bus I was refering to was the double Decker bus.
The stop is actually considered a Downtown Disney stop, since most Downtown Disney guests, or Paradise Pier hotel guests would not be parking at the structure. Although the Downtown Disney stop, is certainly near the Mickey and Friends parking structure. Dowtown Disney parking is right next to the structure, except the Pinocchio lot for oversided vehicles is between them.
The stop is actually considered a Downtown Disney stop, since most Downtown Disney guests, or Paradise Pier hotel guests would not be parking at the structure. Although the Downtown Disney stop, is certainly near the Mickey and Friends parking structure. Dowtown Disney parking is right next to the structure, except the Pinocchio lot for oversided vehicles is between them.
DLMAGICDARREN
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Mainly ticketing issues, as well as the cost to add another station.
The monorail is so unlike the one at WDW, where transportation is the goal. Remember they didn't put a monorail inside DCA, they built a park around an existing monorail.
Since the Disneyland monorail stops in Tomorrowland, they have already devised the system to check for valid park admission from the Dowtown Disney station. But imagine if they also had to police not only valid park admission, but watch that you only exit from park you purchased a ticket for. That would require them to move all the ticketing from the Downtown Disney station, and do it as you exit the monorail from Tomorrowland (which thewre would not be room to add), not to mention also at the station they would have had to build in DCA.
Stopping at the Grand Californian would have also been a tremendous project. Although it does ride through the Grand Californian building, it does not run through the lobby, so building a station would have been, not impossible, but difficult. And considering the Downtown Disney stop, is almost immidately after the monorail exits the Grand Californian, it would have been a bit silly. It would have been a neat site, but very unefficient, and therefore not worth the investment.
WDWspider
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Well, in that case, it sure makes the monorail a really great DL attraction.
1. Access to inside of park
2. Awesome overhead of DL
3. Ride by DCA
4. Go through GC
The EPCOT monorail should have let you of inside the park also, I guess future plans originally called for the giant station outside. I guess if they had known, they would have let you of inside.
DLMAGICDARREN
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Agreed, the Disneyland monorail is a very special attraction. Back in 1959 when the attraction was added Disney did not even own the Disneyland hotel. They were simply allowed to use that name.
You also get just as incredible of an overhead view of DCA, as well as Disneyland.
Starting in DCA's Hollywood backlot, you can easily see most of the district. You ride past Superstar LImo, and are only a few feet away from the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! Next you ride over the Golden Gate bridge, which is right inside the turnstiles, you get a good view of the Sunnshine Plaza, before contining on to the Soarin Over California attraction, and finally entering the Grand Caloifornian. It's fun for Disneyland guests, that don't purchase a ticket for DCA, to at least get a sneak peak.
I think the reason Epcot does not have a stop inside the park, even though you travel through the par,k has some of the same issues. Imagine the ticketing issues the TTC would have to deal with, if the monorial actually stopped inside the park. While the TTC easily supports purchasing tickets, it does not support collecting tickets before you board the monorail.
You also get just as incredible of an overhead view of DCA, as well as Disneyland.
Starting in DCA's Hollywood backlot, you can easily see most of the district. You ride past Superstar LImo, and are only a few feet away from the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! Next you ride over the Golden Gate bridge, which is right inside the turnstiles, you get a good view of the Sunnshine Plaza, before contining on to the Soarin Over California attraction, and finally entering the Grand Caloifornian. It's fun for Disneyland guests, that don't purchase a ticket for DCA, to at least get a sneak peak.
I think the reason Epcot does not have a stop inside the park, even though you travel through the par,k has some of the same issues. Imagine the ticketing issues the TTC would have to deal with, if the monorial actually stopped inside the park. While the TTC easily supports purchasing tickets, it does not support collecting tickets before you board the monorail.