GrnMtnMan
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2008
So I just got back from our family trip to the BCVs. You can’t count on boat transportation in the afternoon in the summer! If there’s lightning somewhere in the vicinity of the Epcot-Boardwalk-DHS boat route, all the boats shut down. And they don’t necessarily let guests know.
One day at 4 pm or so we went out to take the boat to DHS from the YC/BC boat dock. Stormalong Bay at the YC/BC was open (and the skies were cloudy but there didn’t appear to be an imminent storm), but there weren’t any boats at the dock. There were two boats parked at the Boardwalk dock, but they weren’t moving. We waited for a bit with 20-30 other people, while the boats just sat there across the lake.
Me and a few other folks got on the phone to find out what was up….took 5+ minutes on hold to find out boats were shut down and we had to head for a bus. I suggested to the BC front desk that somebody should come out to the dock to tell the people waiting there what’s going on, and basically got the response that nobody has that in their job description. To add insult to injury, as I was leaving the dock, the staff at the YC marina watched us all leave to head to the bus. None of them realized ‘oh, we better tell those guests what’s going on’?
If they’d closed the pool for lightning, it would have been easier to understand what was going on, but there was a long line of people waiting to go down the slide on the shipwreck.
It wasn’t that much of a big deal, but it is making us think twice about staying at the BCVs in the summer. I think we encountered a shut down every time we went DHS, either coming or going.
One day at 4 pm or so we went out to take the boat to DHS from the YC/BC boat dock. Stormalong Bay at the YC/BC was open (and the skies were cloudy but there didn’t appear to be an imminent storm), but there weren’t any boats at the dock. There were two boats parked at the Boardwalk dock, but they weren’t moving. We waited for a bit with 20-30 other people, while the boats just sat there across the lake.
Me and a few other folks got on the phone to find out what was up….took 5+ minutes on hold to find out boats were shut down and we had to head for a bus. I suggested to the BC front desk that somebody should come out to the dock to tell the people waiting there what’s going on, and basically got the response that nobody has that in their job description. To add insult to injury, as I was leaving the dock, the staff at the YC marina watched us all leave to head to the bus. None of them realized ‘oh, we better tell those guests what’s going on’?
If they’d closed the pool for lightning, it would have been easier to understand what was going on, but there was a long line of people waiting to go down the slide on the shipwreck.
It wasn’t that much of a big deal, but it is making us think twice about staying at the BCVs in the summer. I think we encountered a shut down every time we went DHS, either coming or going.
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