The buses can be slow sometimes, and bus stops are usually a good walk from your hotel room, but the are free, and they will get you anywhere on Disney property.
There are 2 monorails loops. One that goes around The Seven Seas Lagoon with stops at MK, Grand Floridian, Contemporary, Polynesian, and the Ticket and Transportation Center. And the other that goes between Epcot and the Ticket and Transportation Center. So by staying at a Monorail Resort, you can get to MK via one monorail ride, or Epcot via 2 monorail rides.
The Monorail does breakdown occasionally, and this has happened to us a few times. If you are exiting MK after the fireworks are over and the monorail breaks down, everyone in line will make a mad dash for either the boats or the buses. You can take a boat to Grand Floridian, or Polynesian, or Wilderness lodge and then cab it from there, I prefer the GF boat, it's a shorter ride. Or you could walk to the Contemporary from MK, about 5-10 minutes, and cab it from there. To escape MK at night, we've done everything but swim across the Seven Seas Lagoon.
We've also frequently used cabs for getting around the parks. When running late for a rope drop, a cab ride to DHS or Epcot from a nearby hotel is only $5 and 5 minutes. Whereas the boat is 30 minutes and free. A cab to MK on the other hand, could run $20. Cabs are always available at the hotels, and theme park cab stands. They are also great for when you just left the kids with a Kids Nite Out babysitter and need to get to your dinner reservation in a hurry.
If you are staying in the Epcot resorts area group of hotels, then you have a boat launch that will take you to BOTH Epcot AND Disney Hollywood Studios (DHS), stopping around the Dolphin/Swan and Boardwalk areas in between. The Epcot entrance in the rear of the park is known as the International Gateway, it's in between France and England on The World Showcase Lagoon.
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