Can someone explain this: When the park is crowded, the Monorail provides one-way service only. To Disneyland Hotel guests and others visiting the DH, this makes the wait in line shorter. To everyone else, the Monorail becomes a big hassle to ride (two waits in line) so use of the Monorail drops and the crowds move to other attractions and to the sidewalks, increasing at least the perception of crowding. This says to me that Disney prefers to make life easier for DH guests than to improve the park for everyone. Is this smart? What about DH guests who decide not to repeat their stay because the park is too "crowded"? What about DH guests that walk through Downtown Disney and avoid the Monorail anyway? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if they issued Monorail FastPasses exclusively to DH guests?

This says to me that Disney prefers to make life easier for DH guests than to improve the park for everyone. Is this smart? What about DH guests who decide not to repeat their stay because the park is too "crowded"?

Disney has a history of doing things for the benefit of it's hotel property guests that is a detriment to other guests. The old "Magic Mornings" allowed hotel guests to enter the park before other guests, which meant if I showed up at the published opening time, there was still a wait for many attractions. They want people to stay on property and give little benefits to induce that.

As far as the Disneyland Hotel guests not coming back because of the crowded feeling. I don't know the number of people who wouldn't wait in line for the monorail who might otherwise do so, but I can't imagine it makes the park that much more crowded. Also, it seems that if the monorail is running at capacity (that they send it full, on each one way trip) it's still carrying as many people as possible, and those people aren't in the parks crowding stuff up. The only way the monorail could help crowding would seem to be to increase the number of trains, thereby pulling more people out of the park.