Mostly because we're traveling with friends, and they wanted to stay at Riviera.
If your friends are cool with staying there even if you have to take busses everywhere, then you figure out what's most important to you: staying in the location with your friends or YOU change to another resort you'll be happy with and just meet up with your friends at the parks, restaurants, etc.
I appreciate the advice, but this is a trip together and we wish to stay with them, and honestly our plans were predicated on being at Riviera and the World Showcase entrance to Epcot especially (we’re mostly doing the Festival of Arts). Obviously we can make it work, but it’s not as ideal a location for our plans — unless of course the Skyliner is down. The other thing is that Poly would cost us significantly more points to stay there, and while I do have the points, we have some big family trips planned next fall (we do Thanksgiving in WDW with my husbands family every other year), so I’d rather bank the points to use then borrow in.
The busses at Pop are ran like a machine. I was there last week and we did a lot of MK and AK days. I was shocked at the frequency and speed. One MK bus was pulling away and then another pulled right up. So I’m thinking if the skyliner is down, they will have a similar bus system in place for all parks!
We stayed one time at Art of Animation and were also very impressed with the efficiency of loading the buses. The cast members at the bus stops were very good about loading the buses. We love our PO resorts for the theming, but the buses at the spread out resorts with multiple stops can be a bit of a hassle due to the fact that there are not cast members monitoring each stop.
Sadly, I think so too
I’m slow…. What do you mean by this?
Probably waiting till people can't cancel without a fee or something. Who knows for sure.
Disney has some of the most lax cancellation policies in the industry- and if you reschedule they don’t even hit you for those.
Conspiracy theories.
Reschedule, ok. Cancel, they most likely will hit you. It is just really odd with thier timing this year for the announcement.
It is very easy to reschedule far enough out (more than 30 days), and then cancel with no penalty. Guests have been doing this for decades and decades. This is not a vast conspiracy and I am not sure why you keep implying that Disney is trying to pull a fast one on a large number of guests.
They may not be, but I'm skeptical. It could be something else, but it does seem odd.
I totally agree, we had to cancel twice, once under 30 days and once a week out, and never was charged any fee, and this is from someone that has no problem pointing out the MANY WDW flaws, but this is not one of them. There was even a time when we had car troubles and did not arrive until a day after check-in and they did not charge us for the 1st night
Im booked January 22-26 and will not switch, closure or not. Busses are fine at Pop. It’s just so strange the announcement hasn’t happened yet.I totally agree, we had to cancel twice, once under 30 days and once a week out, and never was charged any fee, and this is from someone that has no problem pointing out the MANY WDW flaws, but this is not one of them. There was even a time when we had car troubles and did not arrive until a day after check-in and they did not charge us for the 1st night
Not to mention that if you know there is a chance it may be down and you do not change and gamble, to me, that's on you. WDW offers a lot of resorts, so it's not like you are stuck with that one.
