Yes, absolutely!You are welcome to board the Disney monorail at any stop and ride as long as you like. Of course, we recommend taking a look at the resorts along the monorail line to enjoy some extra Disney exploring.
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yes you can just ride for fun and go via the hotels or over to Epcot. Yes. Why not take the opportunity to visit the hotels on the monorail route and have a look around. We often do this on a non park day or to entertain little ones or to check out the different resort decorations at holidays.
But, if you take the official WDW transportation bus from a Disney resort of theme park, it will drop you off right between the Contemporary and MK, where you can walk right into the MK gates. You don't even need a ticket into the parks to ride the monorail! Catch a bus to EPCOT or Magic Kingdom and enjoy the ride.
All Guests have complimentary access to our network of monorails, buses and boats. If you would like to visit multiple parks, enjoy a nice dinner at one of the Disney Resort hotels or shop at Disney Springs, you can leave your car parked in the theme park lot and use our transportation network.
Absolutely! In fact, for guests going to the Magic Kingdom (so, basically everybody), the monorail will be your primary option for actually getting to the park from the Transportation & Ticket Center.
This is because each theme park monorail station is located just outside the park's main entrance. In other words, you won't need to enter Epcot or the Magic Kingdom in order to get on.
The EPCOT Monorail and the Express Monorail originate at the TTC and offer express round-trip service to EPCOT and Magic Kingdom park. The Resort Monorail and Express Monorail begin operating 30 minutes prior to when Magic Kingdom park opens and stop one hour after Magic Kingdom park closes.
The monorail station is located outside of the theme park entrance, so you don't need to worry about theme park tickets. If you would like to make a complete loop back to the Transportation and Ticket center, you aren't required to exit at the Epcot station and you can just stay on the monorail for your return trip.
Hollywood Studios is not directly accessible by the Walt Disney World Monorail. Conceivably, a guest could take the Monorail from the TTC to EPCOT, walk across the park to the International Gateway, then either walk or take a Friendship Boat to the Studios, though this would take a long time.
The Epcot Monorail will not get you any closer. If there is a park-to-park bus, that could work, but I don't see it being any faster. Park at the Magic Kingdom...you aren't saving yourself any time by going to EPCOT.
The monorail however does NOT shut during lightning so the closure would have been unrelated and coincidental. The monorail does stop running during lightning storms.
The entire set of the beam, the bogies, the wheels, etc. is more complex and expensive for a monorail. Monorail requires a lot of stuff around the beam, often made of expensive rare metals, with a lot more maintenance. Monorail beam itself must be built and maintained to high specifications.
The benefit of the Monorail is that it's a scenic, quiet ride around some of the attractions at Disney World. Riding the Resort or Express gives guests beautiful views of the Seven Seas Lagoon directly in front of the Magic Kingdom.
All Disney transportation to and from the theme parks is free and this includes the Walt Disney World monorail. Guests can use the free Disney monorail from the ticket and transportation center over to Magic Kingdom and also to EPCOT.
The Magic Kingdom doesn't actually have a parking lot. Instead, guests can park at the Transportation and Ticket Center. They can then take either the Walt Disney World Monorail or a ferry boat across the Seven Seas Lagoon to reach the Magic Kingdom. Take the Monorail to Magic Kingdom!