Excitement mounting, I'm betting.
Have you tried calling Disney? Something like "I booked Pop with the understanding that the Skyliner would be operating. I've learned that it now isn't. Can you do anything for us?"
You never know, you might get upgraded to a nice mod or better at a reasonable price. Doesn't hurt to ask. If they say no, or offer you something that isn't to your liking, you've not lost anything.
Exactly, I tell people that all the time. Always ask, you never know.
The only part I’m not familiar with anymore is the use of a travel agent. I used one one time, he was a fellow dad and was just starting out, so I figured I’d help him out. I didn’t want to bother him and wanted to change something on my reservation so I called directly. They wouldn’t talk to me, they told me I had to talk to my TA. I’m not sure if it’s still the same way, but, never hurts to try. A TA is good to use, they do all the work, keeps you from doing all the leg work and making reservations etc. I just always did it myself, I always enjoyed doing it. We have been DVC members for almost 25 years and AP holders longer than that so I really only had to make dining reservations. I think it was just a few day trip because we came down to Florida to visit my in-laws. Can’t drive by the mouse and not stop. ( now I do it all the time. Lol)
The Skyliner goes down every January for maintenance. This year they are taking the lines down one at a time instead of all of them at the same time.
They change tires, belts, motors, switches etc. in the stations. They actually will take all the cabins off the lines, drop the line on the ground and cut a section out of the cable. The cable stretches with use. They come in and reconnect the cut ends. There is only two people in the world that make that connection and they are related to each other. If you ever notice, there is no ”coupling” or mechanical connection on the cable. They don’t tell you exactly how they do it but the way it was explained to me was it reminds you of those Chinese finger cuff things, put your fingers in either end the the harder you pull, the tighter it gets.
They work on things they can’t do overnight through the year.
I always have to smile, someone on here was saying they should add more lines to other resorts and the cost to build it is an unbelievable one million a mile, they just couldn’t figure how it could cost that much. The Skyliner covers approximately three miles of distance, the back up generators cost more than three million. Lol. The one is the size of a small ranch house.
I always tell people when they get to the Caribean Beach station, look up, a lot of what makes it work is not covered up. What you never see is all the infrastructure that goes into it.
That’s the way attractions, everything, the infrastructure is incredible. You only see a fraction of what it takes. The part you see only takes up a small fraction of the building. I’ve seen alot of Test Track, Im in awe every time I get a chance to be able to see behind the curtain in the buildings.
