How does the DL monorail work?

[Mickey_777]

Hi,

I was wondering how the Monorail runs at DL. So you get on inside DL and the next stop is Downtown Disney right? If you get off to eat lunch or something, can you get back on at Downtown Disney?

Also, is it safe to assume that when (and if) you get back on the Monorail at DTD, you have to show a DL park ticket and the next stop is the monorail station within DL?? Thanks for you help.

 

[nemofinder22]

Hi,

I was wondering how the Monorail runs at DL. So you get on inside DL and the next stop is Downtown Disney right? If you get off to eat lunch or something, can you get back on at Downtown Disney?

Also, is it safe to assume that when (and if) you get back on the Monorail at DTD, you have to show a DL park ticket and the next stop is the monorail station within DL?? Thanks for you help.

Correct! The DTD station is basically a small entrance to DL so be sure to have tour ticket admission ready.

 

[Mickey_777]

Correct! The DTD station is basically a small entrance to DL so be sure to have tour ticket admission ready.

Awesome, thanks! Do you know if this a popular to do (get on the monorail and head to DTD for lunch then come back)?? Are lines long?

 

[TP2000]

Awesome, thanks! Do you know if this a popular to do (get on the monorail and head to DTD for lunch then come back)?? Are lines long?

Usually at most there is a one-train wait, meaning that on busy days the next train that pulls in takes on everyone waiting ahead of you, and then you get on the second train to come in. It's rarely more than a 10 minute wait at most, and usually it's about a 5 minute wait.

The Disneyland monorail opened in 1959, and Walt had the extension of the track to the Disneyland Hotel built in 1961. FUN FACT!... Disneyland USA is the only Disneyland style park in the world that guests can enter from more than one entrance, via Main Street or monorail to Tomorrowland. All other Disneyland style parks only have park entrances/exits through Main Street USA.

The Downtown Disney station was built in 2000 on the original site of the old Disneyland Hotel station.

That means this station...

Was on the exact same spot that this station currently is...

What a difference half a century makes, huh?

.

 

[Mickey_777]

Usually at most there is a one-train wait, meaning that on busy days the next train that pulls in takes on everyone waiting ahead of you, and then you get on the second train to come in. It's rarely more than a 10 minute wait at most, and usually it's about a 5 minute wait.

The Disneyland monorail opened in 1959, and Walt had the extension of the track to the Disneyland Hotel built in 1961. FUN FACT!... Disneyland USA is the only Disneyland style park in the world that guests can enter from more than one entrance, via Main Street or monorail to Tomorrowland. All other Disneyland style parks only have park entrances/exits through Main Street USA.

The Downtown Disney station was built in 2000 on the original site of the old Disneyland Hotel station.

That means this station...

Was on the exact same spot that this station currently is...

What a difference half a century makes, huh?

.

Fastastic! Thanks...I haven't been to DL since I was 7 and I've beed doing WDW for a long time now...I'll be out to DL next month with my wife for a couple of days and I want all the 411 I can get to have an awesome trip

 

[worldfanatic]

The wife and I love taking the Monorail out of the park for food and drinks.
There's so many great options in Downtown Disney

Back in my college days, when I'd go to Disneyland with my buddies, we called the Monorail the "Boozerail", because we couldn't get our alcohol fixes within DL.
The Disneyland Hotel bar was our den of inequity:fork: