The change will mean that visitors to the world's largest theme park will have their bag examined by Disney security and go through metal detectors before boarding the monorail or ferry across the Seven Seas Lagoon to the Magic Kingdom. Since that effectively puts the monorail circuit inside the Magic Kingdom's secure zone, guests at the three monorail resorts — the Contemporary, Polynesian, and Grand Floridian — will go through separate bag checks before boarding the monorail at their resort. Another bag check will screen visitors arriving at the Magic Kingdom by bus.
That should take a significant number of people out of the mix for the security check at the TTC when compared with the current checkpoint, which screens all Magic Kingdom guests. Spreading the load should help reduce wait times to clear security, especially for guests staying at one of the three high-priced monorail resorts.
The change recalls the recent move of the security checkpoints at the Disneyland Resort in California. There, Disney also moved the main checkpoint away from the front gate toward the main parking facility for the resort. That had the effect of putting the Downtown Disney shopping and dining district within the secure zone. So guests of the three on-site Disneyland Resort hotels also now are directed to other, less crowded checkpoints. And with people not having to back through security when they visit Downtown Disney, the overall load on the checkpoint is reduced.
Also, in both resorts, moving the checkpoints closer to the parking allows guests who are found with selfie sticks, costumes, or other stuff that they're not allowed to bring into the Disney parks to return them to their vehicles without having to take a couple extra tram, monorail or ferry rides in addition to going through the security line again.
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- Now that I've done a little Google Map investigation, I'm not sure how well that is going to work. There seems to be no way to get resort boat folks to the turnstiles without them mixing in with Monorail and or Ferry passengers. This will be fun to watch play out.
As for the walkway from Disney's Contemporary Resort, there's no chance that will be eliminated. They will either set up a mini checkpoint or loop people around the curve and process them at the new checkpoint for guests arriving on buses.
Regarding CA Downtown Disney Area could it be that the Word "go" is missing before the Word "back"? Then I would understand...
Rregrads Struffel
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