I don't know where I've been but I just discovered this little nugget on Sunday. We are DVC and booked at BLT for next week...specifically for the convenience of getting to Epcot for F&W. We booked it 5 months ago (well, we booked SSR and wait listed BWV and BLT...got BLT). It's not something we can change...not even back to SSR at this point (everything is booked). I'd rather not switch anyway as I am still anxious to try out BLT, so it's not all that huge of an issue...but I get where it's upsetting to some folks. At least I discovered this before we got there. We had plans to go to AK one morning and bus over to Poly for lunch at Kona and then monorail (around 2:30-3:00) back to BLT to rest before going to MK for
MNSSHP. So, Sunday night, I cancelled Kona (and tweaked some of our other plans which led me to needing a dinner ADR for 1 night at HS, Epcot, BW or CR). I had trouble, being this late in the game, finding a dinner ADR and ended up going for a place that wasn't the top of my list (though DH seems to be pretty happy with it...and I was the one wanting to try BLT so we are even-steven now
). We'll be fine avoiding the 11am-6pm closing of the monorail.
Edit to add: I guess this didn't happen until Sat so me finding out on Sun wasn't too far off.