Skyliner Refurb 2025

[Lorana]

If it were me and this was causing worry and stress, I'd just go ahead and switch to a resort where it won't matter.
Why do that to yourself when there's an alternative.

Mostly because we're traveling with friends, and they wanted to stay at Riviera.
I still have a few weeks. If I get to 31 days out, that's the real dilemma -- do I assume I'm in the clear, or do we switch just to be safe?

 

[Dug720]

Mostly because we're traveling with friends, and they wanted to stay at Riviera.
I still have a few weeks. If I get to 31 days out, that's the real dilemma -- do I assume I'm in the clear, or do we switch just to be safe?

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.

 

[Lorana]

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.

I’m just hoping we hear soon and that it is not over MLK weekend.

 

[Chipapa]

I am going around this time. End of January and early February.
Staying at CBR and two days at POP. Both are on the skyliner path.

If they are down for refurb, I’ll just do a Lyft or Uber. Last time we went we decided to do just this at the end of night and it was a godsend.

There is always a way there and back, it just may not what is preferred, but the ride share sometimes gets the job done

 

[jesserina]

I am going around this time. End of January and early February.
Staying at CBR and two days at POP. Both are on the skyliner path.

If they are down for refurb, I’ll just do a Lyft or Uber. Last time we went we decided to do just this at the end of night and it was a godsend.

There is always a way there and back, it just may not what is preferred, but the ride share sometimes gets the job done

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!

 

[Laura's Dad]

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.