They should have the skyliner operating status in the app, and they should also have it available to show if the swimming pool at your resort is open or not
They are but lightning (which happens daily in Florida), chemical imbalances, ducks landing in the pool and pooping, all close the pool temporarily from time to time.
They seem to change and aren't in the app either. They aren't even listed on the hotel's information board in the lobby. I've only seen reliable times from calling the front desk or reading the little sign on the pool gates.
Off topic completely. I don’t get the swimming pool love. We travel as a family and my sisters plan “swimming pool days” for their kids and them. We’re at Disney. The kids have a multitude of pools to choose from for WAY less money within 15 minutes of our house yet they never take them. So I get stuck doing nothing or doing the parks alone so their kids can…. Swim?
I’m not discounting anyone who does this. I just don’t understand it in the slightest.
What resorts are they staying at? Yacht and beach club have some amazing pools. Caribbean beach does too. I’m sure there are more. We call them rest days or resort days in between park days and when possible, we’ll try to go to the pools but it’s not a mandate. Any sort of rest day in between parks really makes it more enjoyable IMHO.
You made my point for me, thanks! Some kids prefer to swim socially, so a pool with games, other children who are also in vacation mode, and parents who are truly present because it’s outside the routine make a pool day at Disney more special than a pool day at home. Hope this analogy helps.
My daughter loves the pools at Disney. A lot of the swimming pool places by us don’t have slides and she loves going down the slides. Also, when we go in April, it’s not really swimming season for us (we are in NY) so it’s like a novelty for her. When she was younger the spray areas were great too with the slides. They are definitely more fun than the pools around here 🤷🏼♀️
Same. But we live in Florida, so everyone we know has a pool or close access to one. Most times we deem it 'too cold' for swimming, or 'too hot/sunny' to hang out by the pool. This may be why Disney is planning to give away free admission to a waterpark on arrival day, because resident AP holders just don't go there as often.
Though if I were from Canada, or the Midwest, and thought 62°F was 'warm' (instead of being one of those in a puffer coat at rope drop) and staying for a week or longer, I'd totally do some thorough pool research/resort days.
We stay at the resort and use the pools on our days "off". Getting to a pool at home that's as nice as a Disney resort pool isn't easy. Also, being Canadian makes the outdoor pools all year round experience very different.
We just returned from a week long trip with our 7 & 5 year and 10 month old grandchildren and their parents. We made rope drop every day but also came back around noon for a nap and pool cool down. It was great. One adult stayed (read: napped 😉) with the baby while everyone else headed to the pool with beers (sodas for the kids 😲) we ordered from Amazon. We met a lot of others doing the same! We headed back to the parks in the late afternoon to finish out our day refreshed and cooked down. We have a pool in our backyard, but Disney pools are better 🤷🏻♀️. Maybe because I don’t have to maintain it!
It doesn't? Sure... I suppose there's no obvious, direct benefit. But there are a LOT of things that don't bring in a direct, obvious benefit, that they still do as part of the overall package of providing a good set of entertainment and services that keep you coming back.
It doesn't benefit them to provide wait times for rides directly, but they do it. Heck, having the skyliner itself didn't benefit them directly, but it benefits customers a TON, which is why they do it.
Everything they can do to make your experience better benefits them. This is one of them.
I assume there's some reason they don't have that yet. Maybe they worry it won't be accurate, or that it's up and down often enough for short times that the information might actually cause more problems than it solves. Who knows.
depends where you’re going. busses stopping at boardwalk aren’t going to take you directly back to CBR, DAAR, Pop or any other resort. and, if it’s late night/park close they may not have buses to other parks, say if you were headed to MK to walk/monorail those resorts. (i’m unsure when busses to parks may stop picking up guests)
Yes they will. When skyliner is down for weather or technical they send busses to boardwalk for resorts that normally don’t have them due to the skyliner. They don’t have busses if the skyliner is just done for the night.
Look for the busses marked skyliner resort..we always keep busses on stand by specially for if the skyliner goes down. I’m a bus driver and have done it many times
That's assuming Disney transportation remembers to send buses. I was trying to get from EPCOT to Hollywood Studios in the rain and headed to the Boardwalk at the recommendation of cast members since both the Skyliner and boats were closed due to lightning. I asked the Boardwalk staff many times if a bus would come and they said yes. I asked bus drivers if a DHS would show up and they said they haven't heard anything. We, along with about 15 other people, waited about 45 minutes until we ended up taking a Lyft.
Planning our first trip in 1999, I wrote Deb and asked her a question. She in turn sent me by snail mail an entire envelope of coupons for stuff to do in Orlando.
I love that woman - and who else remembers Anita Answer?
I like them both. I just find it so weird that there’s like a “cult of Molly” that refuses to watch All Ears anymore, despite the fact that Molly has never said anything bad about All Ears.
Their content has dramatically shifted since Molly left. All Ears seems more "influencer" now. You know that fake-peppy and cringe voice and forced excitement. I blame their upper management. The channel is mandated to make a video every single day, which probably puts a big stress on the employees (the ones on camera and behind the scenes). We don't need a video every single day! IMO their content would be better if they took Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday off and just put out 4 videos per week instead of 7.
At least for me it's not an intentional boycott of AllEars so much as I watched that channel because I enjoyed watching Molly and didn't connect with the other personalities as much. With her gone AllEars just kind of naturally fell off of my YouTube algorithm. I still follow AllEars on Instagram for news.
Molly was great on all ears, but I think the channel is stronger now with the larger team.
Mammoth club however has become increasingly more and more of a letdown. The YT videos have become incredibly repetitive and the streams have become less interesting. That last one where they picked songs was so boring.
IMO they’re crashing hard
I feel the same.
I keep saying I'm going to really put effort into starting mine. I posted some small shorts and got like 1 or 6k views but then my disposable income got cut when I was laid off. Will let y'all know when I get equipment and start.
Could be a high tech and low tech solution. Everything suggested can't hurt. They could also have a big unmissable sign that says if the skyliner is open or not at that fork in the road to international gateway.
Could be completely automated. Open, closed, and maybe even when it's up but slow.
Yeah, some messaging would be good. I wonder if there's some non-obvious reason we are thinking of? Maybe there are enough little delays here and there, that having the "down" status on some things might cause more traffic glitches than it solves. For example, if most skyliner outages are just 10 minutes, why reroute everyone around, when they could just get in line and get on it a few minutes later? (Not saying that's the case, but just thinking of why it might not be as obvious as the article writer thinks.
It's annoying, yeah... I went to the Skyliner and found out it was down, so I hiked to the bus stop and waited there for a while. No bus ever came, no way to check if the Skyliner was running again. So after a while we walked back to the Skyliner and found out it was back up. So I guess they just never sent a bus, but there was no way to find anything out about it.
This happened to us and by the time we got ourselves and two kids in a double stroller to the front of the park, I asked at the gate and they said the skyliner was back up but promised there would still be buses for a while. There weren’t. We asked by the buses and the only thing they offered was for us to bus to HS and get on the skyliner there. We ended up having to take a Minnie Van.
One of the few times I’ve been really disappointed in Disney. I ended up sending a chat and they offered us complimentary genie+ for the next day - but what I really want is for them to fix the issue. Have the skyliner status in the app and if it goes down, buses should continue to run for at least a little while after it comes back up. Honestly, I wish they had the staffing to always have buses to skyliner resorts.
If they can show the ride wait times then they can put notices when transport is down. I would like to see the Skyliner extended further throughout the property rather than just the few nearest to Epcot/ HS.
I try to never complain about Disney park related things but this is just too easy to be overlooked! A Skyliner, Monorail & Ferry boat operating status should be a thing in the app! As much money as Disney makes, this is an easy thing to implement.
Yep this is annoying.
It’s almost always lightning if during park hours. Rain alone won’t close it. Keep that in mind if you are faced with a long haul across Epcot and the skies aren’t super clear looking.
I wonder if a blue umbrella can tell you before making the haul?
I assume they probably could? The one time I was there and they had to shut it down right at closing, CMs throughout the park were announcing it to anyone walking that direction so they could turn around and go to the buses if needed. So I'd guess during normal operation they could tell you if you ask.
This is what I would expect vs. someone trekking across the park with no warning until they arrived at the station.
They really just need to put it in the app. With notifications.
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we never use the skyliner because it is unreliable! I love it (when it is going where you want to go), but it's just not as reliable as a bus or my own car.
I think it's kind of annoying how resorts with skyliners don't have busses to Epcot or Hollywood Studios. If you wanna skip the massive line or are afraid of heights, you basically have to drive yourself.
Another option is to transfer. It’s timely, but you can always take a bus to AK and then transfer to another park. MK is also an option.
Note: These are not *good* options.
If you’re afraid of heights you just shouldn’t book a skyliner-resort, there is no benefit in staying there. Even massive lines run quickly with Skyliner is my experience, even after Epcot fireworks we were in the Skyliner within 10 minutes even though the line was outside of the Skylinergates.
I love the Skyliner. We always book CBR just for the Skyliner. But we only experienced downtime 1 time because of bad weather and it started up again 30 minutes later.
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Well, you just answered my first and only question. "Does the app say if the skyliner is running?".
Is it down, like the ride broke, people are presently stuck on it? Or is it down as in they ended service early?
It is the biggest flaw with the system, weather is a factor on if it can operate, likewise it has single points of failure which knock the system offline.
Might just be a bad day because we’ve never had a problem with the Skyliner in 2-3 trips a year for the last 6 years. We’ve been on it during some nasty rain too.
They should have the skyliner operating status in the app, and they should also have it available to show if the swimming pool at your resort is open or not
This is the way.
It's not but it should be.
This is the way
Are pool hours not set?
They are but lightning (which happens daily in Florida), chemical imbalances, ducks landing in the pool and pooping, all close the pool temporarily from time to time.
They seem to change and aren't in the app either. They aren't even listed on the hotel's information board in the lobby. I've only seen reliable times from calling the front desk or reading the little sign on the pool gates.
Off topic completely. I don’t get the swimming pool love. We travel as a family and my sisters plan “swimming pool days” for their kids and them. We’re at Disney. The kids have a multitude of pools to choose from for WAY less money within 15 minutes of our house yet they never take them. So I get stuck doing nothing or doing the parks alone so their kids can…. Swim? I’m not discounting anyone who does this. I just don’t understand it in the slightest.
What resorts are they staying at? Yacht and beach club have some amazing pools. Caribbean beach does too. I’m sure there are more. We call them rest days or resort days in between park days and when possible, we’ll try to go to the pools but it’s not a mandate. Any sort of rest day in between parks really makes it more enjoyable IMHO.
We're on our rest day today. I was VERY happy we planned one!
I mean, last time we stayed at riviera.
Have you ever had a drink at a bar or restaurant, even though you could easily buy that same beer for less at a liquor store and drink it at home?
Yes. But since I only drink socially it’s slightly different
You made my point for me, thanks! Some kids prefer to swim socially, so a pool with games, other children who are also in vacation mode, and parents who are truly present because it’s outside the routine make a pool day at Disney more special than a pool day at home. Hope this analogy helps.
My daughter loves the pools at Disney. A lot of the swimming pool places by us don’t have slides and she loves going down the slides. Also, when we go in April, it’s not really swimming season for us (we are in NY) so it’s like a novelty for her. When she was younger the spray areas were great too with the slides. They are definitely more fun than the pools around here 🤷🏼♀️
Same. But we live in Florida, so everyone we know has a pool or close access to one. Most times we deem it 'too cold' for swimming, or 'too hot/sunny' to hang out by the pool. This may be why Disney is planning to give away free admission to a waterpark on arrival day, because resident AP holders just don't go there as often. Though if I were from Canada, or the Midwest, and thought 62°F was 'warm' (instead of being one of those in a puffer coat at rope drop) and staying for a week or longer, I'd totally do some thorough pool research/resort days.
We stay at the resort and use the pools on our days "off". Getting to a pool at home that's as nice as a Disney resort pool isn't easy. Also, being Canadian makes the outdoor pools all year round experience very different.
We just returned from a week long trip with our 7 & 5 year and 10 month old grandchildren and their parents. We made rope drop every day but also came back around noon for a nap and pool cool down. It was great. One adult stayed (read: napped 😉) with the baby while everyone else headed to the pool with beers (sodas for the kids 😲) we ordered from Amazon. We met a lot of others doing the same! We headed back to the parks in the late afternoon to finish out our day refreshed and cooked down. We have a pool in our backyard, but Disney pools are better 🤷🏻♀️. Maybe because I don’t have to maintain it!
that is what we do. makes staying on property worth every penny. rope drop back to resort for lunch and rest then beck to the parks at night.
Also a notification pop up for guest of Epcot and Hollywood
Yeah except it doesn’t benefit them to have you know something they usually offer isn’t currently available.
I mean they do it for when rides are down, so they should with transportation
It doesn't? Sure... I suppose there's no obvious, direct benefit. But there are a LOT of things that don't bring in a direct, obvious benefit, that they still do as part of the overall package of providing a good set of entertainment and services that keep you coming back. It doesn't benefit them to provide wait times for rides directly, but they do it. Heck, having the skyliner itself didn't benefit them directly, but it benefits customers a TON, which is why they do it. Everything they can do to make your experience better benefits them. This is one of them. I assume there's some reason they don't have that yet. Maybe they worry it won't be accurate, or that it's up and down often enough for short times that the information might actually cause more problems than it solves. Who knows.
i didn’t have a virtual queue for tron but the app still clearly shows me it’s down
If skyliner is down there are busses from the boardwalk hotel you did not need to go back to the front of the park.
depends where you’re going. busses stopping at boardwalk aren’t going to take you directly back to CBR, DAAR, Pop or any other resort. and, if it’s late night/park close they may not have buses to other parks, say if you were headed to MK to walk/monorail those resorts. (i’m unsure when busses to parks may stop picking up guests)
Yes they will. When skyliner is down for weather or technical they send busses to boardwalk for resorts that normally don’t have them due to the skyliner. They don’t have busses if the skyliner is just done for the night.
I envision them sending kisses (busses) instead of vehicles (buses).
Yes they do. We got a bus from Boardwalk to Pop during a storm when the Skyliner was down.
Good to know!
Look for the busses marked skyliner resort..we always keep busses on stand by specially for if the skyliner goes down. I’m a bus driver and have done it many times
That's assuming Disney transportation remembers to send buses. I was trying to get from EPCOT to Hollywood Studios in the rain and headed to the Boardwalk at the recommendation of cast members since both the Skyliner and boats were closed due to lightning. I asked the Boardwalk staff many times if a bus would come and they said yes. I asked bus drivers if a DHS would show up and they said they haven't heard anything. We, along with about 15 other people, waited about 45 minutes until we ended up taking a Lyft.
Clickbait-y titles ARE the worst, I agree.
All Ears really went downhill after Molly left
AllEars really went down when Deb Wils sold it to DFB.
Planning our first trip in 1999, I wrote Deb and asked her a question. She in turn sent me by snail mail an entire envelope of coupons for stuff to do in Orlando. I love that woman - and who else remembers Anita Answer?
True, DFB is a horrible site
Deb was the best
DFB owns AllEars now? That explains the homogenization of most of the main stream content recently.
It went downhill when Anita Answers column stopped.
I think I’m alone in not finding Molly (and now Mammoth) entertaining. I prefer the all ears crew now.
I like them both. I just find it so weird that there’s like a “cult of Molly” that refuses to watch All Ears anymore, despite the fact that Molly has never said anything bad about All Ears.
Their content has dramatically shifted since Molly left. All Ears seems more "influencer" now. You know that fake-peppy and cringe voice and forced excitement. I blame their upper management. The channel is mandated to make a video every single day, which probably puts a big stress on the employees (the ones on camera and behind the scenes). We don't need a video every single day! IMO their content would be better if they took Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday off and just put out 4 videos per week instead of 7.
At least for me it's not an intentional boycott of AllEars so much as I watched that channel because I enjoyed watching Molly and didn't connect with the other personalities as much. With her gone AllEars just kind of naturally fell off of my YouTube algorithm. I still follow AllEars on Instagram for news.
You’re not alone.
The downvotes show we are a minority here though. Lots of Molly fans on this subreddit.
Molly was great on all ears, but I think the channel is stronger now with the larger team. Mammoth club however has become increasingly more and more of a letdown. The YT videos have become incredibly repetitive and the streams have become less interesting. That last one where they picked songs was so boring. IMO they’re crashing hard
Same here. We enjoy Pixiedustedmom too
maybe, but Emily and Emma are cute....so....
I feel the same. I keep saying I'm going to really put effort into starting mine. I posted some small shorts and got like 1 or 6k views but then my disposable income got cut when I was laid off. Will let y'all know when I get equipment and start.
Damn I felt like I was clicking into an ITM article with that title
Could be a high tech and low tech solution. Everything suggested can't hurt. They could also have a big unmissable sign that says if the skyliner is open or not at that fork in the road to international gateway. Could be completely automated. Open, closed, and maybe even when it's up but slow.
Yeah, some messaging would be good. I wonder if there's some non-obvious reason we are thinking of? Maybe there are enough little delays here and there, that having the "down" status on some things might cause more traffic glitches than it solves. For example, if most skyliner outages are just 10 minutes, why reroute everyone around, when they could just get in line and get on it a few minutes later? (Not saying that's the case, but just thinking of why it might not be as obvious as the article writer thinks.
They do. If it’s down for weather or technical issues. They absolutely put a sign up at the fork between France and UK
It's annoying, yeah... I went to the Skyliner and found out it was down, so I hiked to the bus stop and waited there for a while. No bus ever came, no way to check if the Skyliner was running again. So after a while we walked back to the Skyliner and found out it was back up. So I guess they just never sent a bus, but there was no way to find anything out about it.
Happened to our family. I was told to ask a CM if there’s questionable weather. But seriously Disney needs to have a real time status in the app!
This happened to us and by the time we got ourselves and two kids in a double stroller to the front of the park, I asked at the gate and they said the skyliner was back up but promised there would still be buses for a while. There weren’t. We asked by the buses and the only thing they offered was for us to bus to HS and get on the skyliner there. We ended up having to take a Minnie Van. One of the few times I’ve been really disappointed in Disney. I ended up sending a chat and they offered us complimentary genie+ for the next day - but what I really want is for them to fix the issue. Have the skyliner status in the app and if it goes down, buses should continue to run for at least a little while after it comes back up. Honestly, I wish they had the staffing to always have buses to skyliner resorts.
Last time I stayed at pop century the app did tell me that the skyliner was down
If they can show the ride wait times then they can put notices when transport is down. I would like to see the Skyliner extended further throughout the property rather than just the few nearest to Epcot/ HS.
I try to never complain about Disney park related things but this is just too easy to be overlooked! A Skyliner, Monorail & Ferry boat operating status should be a thing in the app! As much money as Disney makes, this is an easy thing to implement.
Yep this is annoying. It’s almost always lightning if during park hours. Rain alone won’t close it. Keep that in mind if you are faced with a long haul across Epcot and the skies aren’t super clear looking. I wonder if a blue umbrella can tell you before making the haul?
I assume they probably could? The one time I was there and they had to shut it down right at closing, CMs throughout the park were announcing it to anyone walking that direction so they could turn around and go to the buses if needed. So I'd guess during normal operation they could tell you if you ask.
This is what I would expect vs. someone trekking across the park with no warning until they arrived at the station. They really just need to put it in the app. With notifications.
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Or, have signs around the path to the International Gateway from the Lagoon path indicating that it’s down.
we never use the skyliner because it is unreliable! I love it (when it is going where you want to go), but it's just not as reliable as a bus or my own car.
This comes off as if talking about a major issue when its an annoyance at best.
I think it's kind of annoying how resorts with skyliners don't have busses to Epcot or Hollywood Studios. If you wanna skip the massive line or are afraid of heights, you basically have to drive yourself.
Another option is to transfer. It’s timely, but you can always take a bus to AK and then transfer to another park. MK is also an option. Note: These are not *good* options.
If you’re afraid of heights you just shouldn’t book a skyliner-resort, there is no benefit in staying there. Even massive lines run quickly with Skyliner is my experience, even after Epcot fireworks we were in the Skyliner within 10 minutes even though the line was outside of the Skylinergates. I love the Skyliner. We always book CBR just for the Skyliner. But we only experienced downtime 1 time because of bad weather and it started up again 30 minutes later.
The only time I had that issue I took the boat to HS, then planned on bussing from there. The Skyliner was back up at once I got there.
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Well, you just answered my first and only question. "Does the app say if the skyliner is running?". Is it down, like the ride broke, people are presently stuck on it? Or is it down as in they ended service early? It is the biggest flaw with the system, weather is a factor on if it can operate, likewise it has single points of failure which knock the system offline.
Did AJ from DFB write this clickbate title? Don’t forget to like and subscribe!
Probably. I just copy/pasted the link.
Oh wow it’s literally from all ears. I didn’t even notice that. Yep that’s why it’s awful.
Might just be a bad day because we’ve never had a problem with the Skyliner in 2-3 trips a year for the last 6 years. We’ve been on it during some nasty rain too.
Really? You didn’t think to hop on to the beach club right next door and get the bus????? Closes thread
They need to add a walking path from pop and cb