Here Now & Just Back WDW Reopening Experiences Including Park Hopping

[Crescent_Lake]

Much to report as I fly away....and will when i can collect my thoughts and recover some brain cells.. however I will start off by saying the typo in this ad which is in every disney bus bothered me the whole trip...ugh.
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It is often steaming hot at WDW so...

 

[Gary Stocker]

It is often steaming hot at WDW so...

..and it was..all week....not one drop of rain!

 

[gottalovepluto]

..and it was..all week....not one drop of rain!

That is because all of it dropped in a 90 minute period the previous week when I was trying to take the Skyliner from IG to RIV

 

[gottalovepluto]

Was at the parks 4/10 - 4/18. First couple days days parks were dead, it was glorious. 10/10 would do the week after the week after Easter again, wish we’d started the trip a bit earlier! Crowds surged somewhat over the weekend and dropped down some the following week- although it wasn’t as quiet as those first couple days. Didn’t feel crowds hit crazy level at anytime- but I took Sun 4/14 off as a resort day.

Pretty good weather with just one downpour for maybe 2 hours one day and the temps weren’t quite as hot as forecasted before we left home. …Of course that downpour was spent waiting at IG Skyliner station for them to send buses which we then were walked back to in a torrential downpour with a ponding area so bad the stick/twig filled water was up to my ankles.

The procedure at IG station was of interest. The Skyliner was not moving as we exited the park in the storm. There was a sign it wasn’t running and to take a bus from the front of Epcot. There was a person at the exit holding a sign saying the Skyliner was down. I asked him if they were running the buses and he said “you could see” in a way that screamed “I can’t actually answer that”. We walked past the station to go get a car from BC when we saw a bus and people loading. We raced over but were turned away and told to go to the station. There we saw people lined up and were told they were calling for another bus. They then said we’re running the Skyliner to charge it so don’t get excited.( Turns out “are the buckets running?” is NOT how one determines if the Skyliner is operational.) After almost an hour a bus finally showed and we were escorted down in groups with 2 ECVs first and then the first part of the line. The bus drivers stuffed that bus to the point they were yelling we have more and people were yelling back at them there was no more room. RIV was the first drop point. The bus did the entire route to DHS (Pop & AoA were mentioned as separate drops but I got off at RIV so can’t confirm).
If you try this route do NOT walk to where the buses load- the line is at the Skyliner station where it is then walked down to the bus. The entire experience was a mess. The forecast that day was for bad storms in the afternoon, Disney should have had extra drivers and buses ready to deploy as soon as it started for the front of the park and the back.

 

[kylenne]

The procedure at IG station was of interest. The Skyliner was not moving as we exited the park in the storm. There was a sign it wasn’t running and to take a bus from the front of Epcot. There was a person at the exit holding a sign saying the Skyliner was down. I asked him if they were running the buses and he said “you could see” in a way that screamed “I can’t actually answer that”. We walked past the station to go get a car from BC when we saw a bus and people loading. We raced over but were turned away and told to go to the station. There we saw people lined up and were told they were calling for another bus. They then said we’re running the Skyliner to charge it so don’t get excited.( Turns out “are the buckets running?” is NOT how one determines if the Skyliner is operational.) After almost an hour a bus finally showed and we were escorted down in groups with 2 ECVs first and then the first part of the line. The bus drivers stuffed that bus to the point they were yelling we have more and people were yelling back at them there was no more room. RIV was the first drop point. The bus did the entire route to DHS (Pop & AoA were mentioned as separate drops but I got off at RIV so can’t confirm).
If you try this route do NOT walk to where the buses load- the line is at the Skyliner station where it is then walked down to the bus. The entire experience was a mess. The forecast that day was for bad storms in the afternoon, Disney should have had extra drivers and buses ready to deploy as soon as it started for the front of the park and the back.

This right here is why Skyliner resorts are a no sell for me. Every single time I've been to Epcot in the Skyliner era I have witnessed a cluster like this at least once. I have no idea why they can't get it together at Epcot with their contingency procedures.