MK Monorails Down

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Omi19

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Our last 2 stays at monorail resorts saw extended outages on the monorail twice. We were stuck on one between MK and CR, barely making an ADR. The grandmother with toddler in our car was just going back to BLT. After half an hour the driver received permission to reverse back to the MK. The other time the complete outage was for an entire day.
 
Brad Bishop

Brad Bishop

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I stayed at the CR back in 2008 and monorails worked great. I think that they started really having problems starting around 2010 or so. I wouldn't consider paying more to stay at a monorail resort now because you can't trust them. I haven't ridden them in about 5 years as they're just no reliable. I don't want to be stuck on one for hours while TWC decides what to do.

Sucks because they used to be one of my favorite things.

It's everything wrong with public transportation in the sky!.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Tony the Tigger said:
To clarify, I'm not the one who said anything about painting them to look like monorails.

I don't care if buses are themed or not. They're buses. They're slow, often late or at least unpredictable, and not very comfortable.
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I know you weren't the one who said anything about them being painted. If you read my post again you will see that I separated that pretty clearly. I did react to the buses because frankly I don't know what you expect for nothing. Those buses cost around 300K each, they are hardly pieces of junk. Their purpose is to get your butt to the parks, resorts or other locations in WDW. They would cost 500K each if they had the creature comforts that you seem to be looking for. Slow, late or unpredictable, well, probably, but, as we so much hate to acknowledge here they exist in the real world, with real world obstacles. Bring your Rolls Royce and you will have the comfort, but, they still won't get you there any quicker, but, they will be predictable which is exactly why automobiles are so popular. However, you wouldn't probably pay for a Rolls to just get you a couple of miles to a theme park where the actual fun is located.
 
TheGuyThatMakesSwords

TheGuyThatMakesSwords

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I've actually become very leery of the Monorails.... My wife and I would prefer being stuck on the side of the road in a bus, vs 40 feet in the air.
We won't fool with these things until the evacuation reports go down. Just us.... all personal opinion. Everyone else should do what they desire.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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TheGuyThatMakesSwords said:
I've actually become very leery of the Monorails.... My wife and I would prefer being stuck on the side of the road in a bus, vs 40 feet in the air.
We won't fool with these things until the evacuation reports go down. Just us.... all personal opinion. Everyone else should do what they desire.
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It is a concern of mine as well, but, not a huge one. They have a much better safety and reliability history then many of the posts on the boards would have you to believe. I do think that it is one of the reasons that Disney will never expand the line when other methods of transport are available. As a utility/attraction, it contributes all it needs to with the two MK loops and the Epcot connection. One gets to ride and experience it and it serves a purpose to move people from one spot to another so it is a win - win! All that most people use any of the transportation for is from resort to park or resort to DS. Other methods are available like boats or buses. The need really doesn't exist for anything more other then twice a day at opening and closing and no one would invest that kind of cash in a system that is only used heavily during those narrow time spans. Like it was mention before many of the alleged Monorail "breakdowns" are really nothing more the waiting for traffic clearance and spacing out the trains. I never understood that anyway. If you stop for a red light with your car is it reported as a breakdown? If you get held up in traffic, is that a breakdown or a temporary obstruction.
 
cheezbat

cheezbat

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TheGuyThatMakesSwords said:
I've actually become very leery of the Monorails.... My wife and I would prefer being stuck on the side of the road in a bus, vs 40 feet in the air.
We won't fool with these things until the evacuation reports go down. Just us.... all personal opinion. Everyone else should do what they desire.
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One of my last visits, I was stuck on one between Grand Floridian and Polynesian for almost an hour. I started getting claustrophobic really quickly, and being packed in there like sardines was awful.

My last two visits I've skipped them entirely and just used the ferry boats.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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cheezbat said:
And yet most of the time they only have two of those running...and when the monorails go down it's a nightmare.
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Man, your idea of a nightmare and mine are two completely different things. A little bit more crowded on the ferries, yes, but, nightmare? I have never been left behind unless I arrived a couple minutes to late and they had already lifted the ramp and untied the moorings. Not much different then having the doors close on the monorail right when you get there.
 
cheezbat

cheezbat

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Goofyernmost said:
Man, your idea of a nightmare and mine are two completely different things. A little bit more crowded on the ferries, yes, but, nightmare? I have never been left behind unless I arrived a couple minutes to late and they had already lifted the ramp and untied the moorings. Not much different then having the doors close on the monorail right when you get there.
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Try dealing with being stuck in the middle of the seven seas lagoon for nearly an hour with a packed ferry boat and you're not docking because the other two boats are currently static docked at the TTC and they don't tell you what's happening until about a half hour into just floating on a cold night in the middle of the lake...a medical emergency of some sort...and everyone is pushing and shoving and cursing and screaming and kids are crying.

It was hellish. I'd almost rather be stuck on Small World for an hour.
 
jt04

jt04

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cheezbat said:
Try dealing with being stuck in the middle of the seven seas lagoon for nearly an hour with a packed ferry boat and you're not docking because the other two boats are currently static docked at the TTC and they don't tell you what's happening until about a half hour into just floating on a cold night in the middle of the lake...a medical emergency of some sort...and everyone is pushing and shoving and cursing and screaming and kids are crying.

It was hellish. I'd almost rather be stuck on Small World for an hour.
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First world problems.
 
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COProgressFan

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cheezbat said:
Try dealing with being stuck in the middle of the seven seas lagoon for nearly an hour with a packed ferry boat and you're not docking because the other two boats are currently static docked at the TTC and they don't tell you what's happening until about a half hour into just floating on a cold night in the middle of the lake...a medical emergency of some sort...and everyone is pushing and shoving and cursing and screaming and kids are crying.

It was hellish. I'd almost rather be stuck on Small World for an hour.
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In situations like these, the best thing to do, in terms of customer service, is to provide regular updates of what's going on. I don't know what happened in your case, or what the policies are for these types of situations, but announcements every 5 minutes or so just updating guests can usually ease most of the tensions and anxiety. Even if the ferry pilot doesn't know all the details, something like "We're still awaiting details but there is a delay at the dock ahead, we're trying to get more information ASAP" can help. When people feel trapped on a boat/subway/airplane that isn't going anywhere, with no information or updates, it's a recipe for disaster that can usually be alleviated somewhat with good communication.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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Goofyernmost said:
It is a concern of mine as well, but, not a huge one. They have a much better safety and reliability history then many of the posts on the boards would have you to believe. I do think that it is one of the reasons that Disney will never expand the line when other methods of transport are available. As a utility/attraction, it contributes all it needs to with the two MK loops and the Epcot connection. One gets to ride and experience it and it serves a purpose to move people from one spot to another so it is a win - win! All that most people use any of the transportation for is from resort to park or resort to DS. Other methods are available like boats or buses. The need really doesn't exist for anything more other then twice a day at opening and closing and no one would invest that kind of cash in a system that is only used heavily during those narrow time spans. Like it was mention before many of the alleged Monorail "breakdowns" are really nothing more the waiting for traffic clearance and spacing out the trains. I never understood that anyway. If you stop for a red light with your car is it reported as a breakdown? If you get held up in traffic, is that a breakdown or a temporary obstruction.
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its not an alleged Monorail breakdown when WDW is running buses with Resort Monorail on the destination board on the bus
 

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