Updated list of Refurbs for 2014

[Tasia]

I currently have a reservation for blue bayou but POTC on the map has no hours. Does blue bayou still operate when POTC is down?

 

[HydroGuy]

I currently have a reservation for blue bayou but POTC on the map has no hours. Does blue bayou still operate when POTC is down?

Typically no.

 

[NiceOneSimba]

Blue32, the inconsistency between sources is driving me crazy. I'm hoping for a phone line update on Monday that will give some clarity.

 

[michellelovesthemous]

Does anybody have any idea how long it will be dark for? It shows thru March!

 

[Disney Dreams]

where are you guys seeing these refurbs listed? I look on the daily calendar for the days I am going in Feb and it only mentions Splash, Alice, and one other (can't remember), but not nemo, BTMR, PoC, or the railroad. Wouldn't the daily schedule be the most reliable source?

If you go to disneyland's web site, under attractions you can find the list of attractions closed for refurbishment based on the date you select. I see PotC down until February 14th and Nemo down until April 11 (the further the calendar goes). The Railroad is not as clear cut. I see it open through February 15th. However, then on the 16th only the NOS station shows up. The others show under "Schedule Unavailable." Not sure what to tell you there.

May I ask what are your dates?

Here's a few links to the lists I check:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/disneyland/plan.htm#rehab
and
http://touringplans.com/disneyland-resort/closures
and
http://*********************.com/disneylandrehab.pdf

FWIW, all of those are sites that are providing you (at best) second-hand information. The only site that is straight from the source is disneyland.com.

I have checked a one week time frame from the 16th to the 23rd of January and GRR is not listed as refurb on the Disney site. Is it operating now? Anyone there who can confirm.

If you trust wait time apps, yes, it's running today with a 10 minute wait at the moment.

POTC and Alice are now off the Daily Park Hours Schedule but are still listed as refurbs on the Park Map and the phone line. Anyone know which one of Disney's "sources" tends to have the correct and up to date info.?

I'm not sure what dates you are looking at, but I am showing PotC closed starting January 27, 2014 when looking under attractions at the refurbishments list. I see Alice on the refurbishment schedule starting February 3, 2014. I go off of the list under attractions.

Does anybody have any idea how long it will be dark for? It shows thru March!

Where are you seeing this? I am getting show times starting January 17th.

HTH,
Dreams

 

[Blue32]

I'm not sure what dates you are looking at, but I am showing PotC closed starting January 27, 2014 when looking under attractions at the refurbishments list. I see Alice on the refurbishment schedule starting February 3, 2014. I go off of the list under attractions.





HTH,
Dreams

I see that also, but I believe these refurbs were also listed on the Park Hours calendar at one point(at the bottom of the page when you click on a certain day) and now they are no longer there. Is Disney's own daily calendar not to be counted as reliable? I don't know. Their daily calendar does not match all the refurbs listed on the attractions page or the phone # for refurbs.

 

[Disney Dreams]

I see that also, but I believe these refurbs were also listed on the Park Hours calendar at one point(at the bottom of the page when you click on a certain day) and now they are no longer there. Is Disney's own daily calendar not to be counted as reliable? I don't know. Their daily calendar does not match all the refurbs listed on the attractions page or the phone # for refurbs.

I was just trying to help you....

They have changed where they are posting information.

- Dreams

 

[Blue32]

I was just trying to help you....

They have changed where they are posting information.

- Dreams

I understand. I am just wondering if anyone knows which one of Disney's sources for this type of info. is the most reliable because they don't always match. Maybe nobody knows.....

 

[dorchrislen]

May I ask what are your dates?
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We are going Feb. 14-16, Pres. Day weekend. But I'm sorry, Nemo WAS one of the three listed for rehab. That, Splash, and Alice. For DCA, it is just showing the Challenge Trail and the Aladdin show as closed. I think GRR will be open.

 

[Susie63]

I understand. I am just wondering if anyone knows which one of Disney's sources for this type of info. is the most reliable because they don't always match. Maybe nobody knows.....

Disney's idea of an IT department,is to gather their IT guys from all departments into a room....write some closure dates and attractions onto slips of paper and throw them into the air. The ones you gather off the floor are the ones you post on your page. Honestly, in this day and age....

I would go with the daily calendar. When your dates become available, check the refurbishments for that day.

 

[michellelovesthemous]

Where are you seeing this? I am getting show times starting January 17th.

HTH,
Dreams

I am going here: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/entertainment/disney-california-adventure/world-of-color/
Thank you for any advice!

 

[sherilaine]

From my very limited experience, you can check their website, you can wait until the calendar is posted for the days you will be there, but you can also show up to the park gates and see something is down unexpectedly or something is now up and running that you had not planned for compared to what was on the schedule.

I also noticed that now when you click on the star for the attraction on the map, they no longer show refurbishment information - perhaps they have removed it as they do not want people relying on it until the 6 week out mark.

We are going to wait and see when our dates are on the calendar before we even begin to believe what will be running or not running when we are there - to try to find this information elsewhere might bring some peace of mind but I would take it with a whole lot of salt as even when Disney posts their refurbs on the daily calendar, they are still always subject to change.

Frustrating but that is the cold, hard reality.

 

[awdsmama]

We are going to wait and see when our dates are on the calendar before we even begin to believe what will be running or not running when we are there

I have been checking multiple resources daily for almost a week hoping that because one is off of one list it'll fall off the others soon etc.

It's enough to drive a person bonkers LOL.

I've finally decided - our trip is 9wks 3 days away. We don't even have PARK HOURS yet. So I'm going to stop looking until we've got published hours. And like you said - even at that point things can change.

Who am I kidding, I'll still look.

 

[Blue32]

I also noticed that now when you click on the star for the attraction on the map, they no longer show refurbishment information - perhaps they have removed it as they do not want people relying on it until the 6 week out mark.

Nope. This is not true. If you access the map via the attractions page, you don't see any refurb info. BUT if you access the map via the Disneyland home page and go to the bottom of the screen and click on the map and zoom in, you still see that Pirates is scheduled to start a refurb on Jan. 27 and Alice is scheduled to start on Feb. 3rd. Neither of these show up on the park hours calendar though. I guess I just keep checking.....

 

[sherilaine]

Nope. This is not true. If you access the map via the attractions page, you don't see any refurb info. BUT if you access the map via the Disneyland home page and go to the bottom of the screen and click on the map and zoom in, you still see that Pirates is scheduled to start a refurb on Jan. 27 and Alice is scheduled to start on Feb. 3rd. Neither of these show up on the park hours calendar though. I guess I just keep checking.....

You are right - depending on how you access the map determines whether the refurb information displays...

 

[awdsmama]

Nope. This is not true. If you access the map via the attractions page, you don't see any refurb info.

You do if you put your date in, in the calendar box on the right side of screen. I believe it's loaded thru mid-April.

 

[GrandBob]

I've finally decided - our trip is 9wks 3 days away.

Please stop making yourself crazy. The earliest that park hours are posted is 6 weeks out. Sometimes it's as short as 4 weeks out.

-Bob

 

[awdsmama]

Please stop making yourself crazy. The earliest that park hours are posted is 6 weeks out. Sometimes it's as short as 4 weeks out.

-Bob

That was the exact point of my post lol

 

[kellietony]

We have been planning our first, and possibly only, family trip to Southern CA and Disneyland for the past 15 months. We usually do WDW due to the lower cost, but figured with our sons being 11 and 8 that Cars Land will lose a bit of magic if we don't go soon. So we are splurging and spending 11 nights to celebrate a milestone birthday for me. 5 of those nights are to be in Anaheim from 4/21-4/26. Prices are outrageous for any Disney hotel that week. The Good Neighbor hotels are pricier than other weeks. And crowds are expected to be rather high.

So to find out that some of the biggest rides for us will be down is a massive disappointment. We ride Space Mountain in MK as much as possible. Nothing like closing down the park riding that ride! We were so excited to try the DL version. Indiana Jones - it's one of the big draws for our boys - they couldn't give a darn about anything princess. Soarin has a ridiculous wait and FP are gone in the morning at EPCOT, so we've ridden it exactly once each time we've been in WDW. I really love it! Would have been nice to get a couple rides in. Alice - don't really know much about the ride, but some things just aren't as relevant to the younger set due to how long ago they were released. This is one of the "old-time" stories that my kids are familiar with and sounds like fun from the description. NEMO would have been fun too, but everyone in 2014 will have to deal with that.

Seriously, I understand that rehabs have to happen, but all these large ones at once over a busy time, are a bit much to swallow. Going at slower times to WDW and DL, it would be expected. Part of the draw is the lower prices for resorts and low crowds, and I've enjoyed some of those perks. But never would I have expected this many closings during Spring Break season. Shifting people from those wait lines to the rest of the operating rides is going to clog the open rides lines up even more. It's no different than taking an 8 lane highway down to 5 lanes - there is going to be a lot of bottle-necking.

I always do my homework before I head on my vacation so that I know where to go and when, and it won't be any different this time when we enter DL and DCA for the first time ever. But it does make it more difficult to plan and plants some very scary seeds of longer lines than expected in my brain. We know how to use FP as much as possible, but that will be more limited during these high crowds as they will surely run out faster and have longer return times, maxing out the 2 hour wait more often. We are not rope-drop people, but may have to be here.

Perhaps I should stay in the cheapest hotel I can find rather than spending bigger bucks for a room we'll barely be in as we wait in ridiculous lines for the far fewer rides that are running. Come on Disney, some more realistic room rates might take some of the sting out - then we could feel the "magic" during our entire stay by staying in one of the resorts.

 

[HydroGuy]

We have been planning our first, and possibly only, family trip to Southern CA and Disneyland for the past 15 months. We usually do WDW due to the lower cost, but figured with our sons being 11 and 8 that Cars Land will lose a bit of magic if we don't go soon. So we are splurging and spending 11 nights to celebrate a milestone birthday for me. 5 of those nights are to be in Anaheim from 4/21-4/26. Prices are outrageous for any Disney hotel that week. The Good Neighbor hotels are pricier than other weeks. And crowds are expected to be rather high.

So to find out that some of the biggest rides for us will be down is a massive disappointment. We ride Space Mountain in MK as much as possible. Nothing like closing down the park riding that ride! We were so excited to try the DL version. Indiana Jones - it's one of the big draws for our boys - they couldn't give a darn about anything princess. Soarin has a ridiculous wait and FP are gone in the morning at EPCOT, so we've ridden it exactly once each time we've been in WDW. I really love it! Would have been nice to get a couple rides in. Alice - don't really know much about the ride, but some things just aren't as relevant to the younger set due to how long ago they were released. This is one of the "old-time" stories that my kids are familiar with and sounds like fun from the description. NEMO would have been fun too, but everyone in 2014 will have to deal with that.

Seriously, I understand that rehabs have to happen, but all these large ones at once over a busy time, are a bit much to swallow. Going at slower times to WDW and DL, it would be expected. Part of the draw is the lower prices for resorts and low crowds, and I've enjoyed some of those perks. But never would I have expected this many closings during Spring Break season. Shifting people from those wait lines to the rest of the operating rides is going to clog the open rides lines up even more. It's no different than taking an 8 lane highway down to 5 lanes - there is going to be a lot of bottle-necking.

I always do my homework before I head on my vacation so that I know where to go and when, and it won't be any different this time when we enter DL and DCA for the first time ever. But it does make it more difficult to plan and plants some very scary seeds of longer lines than expected in my brain. We know how to use FP as much as possible, but that will be more limited during these high crowds as they will surely run out faster and have longer return times, maxing out the 2 hour wait more often. We are not rope-drop people, but may have to be here.

Perhaps I should stay in the cheapest hotel I can find rather than spending bigger bucks for a room we'll barely be in as we wait in ridiculous lines for the far fewer rides that are running. Come on Disney, some more realistic room rates might take some of the sting out - then we could feel the "magic" during our entire stay by staying in one of the resorts.

I am not convinced that all the refurbs that are being discussed are going to happen in the time frames being discussed. I think Tom's list here on DIS is as good as it gets http://www.wdwinfo.com/disneyland/plan.htm#rehab.

With that said I think you have every right to complain. Having three headliner attractions down over any Spring Break period is unacceptable. This should be at most one.

The Space Mtn refurb is as I understand related to OSHA-type issues and not a true refurb. Soarin has needed a refurb for a long time (as has the one at Epcot). The screens look terrible. Also, apparently new equipment is being installed ahead of a whole new video coming in 2015.

The current schedule has Indy opening on your last day so I hope that works out for you.

Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite Fantasyland rides and this refurb is also related to OSHA-type issues and has been put off repeatedly.

I think the refurb schedule got impacted by the BTMRR year long refurb. It was supposed to re-open back in November but with some OSHA-type issues got extended into 2014. It seems like having BTMRR down in January may delayed some other refurbs to Feb or March.

DLR is also doing things to get ready for their 60th anniversary in 2015 so some of these (like maybe Soarin) is planned as part of that.

I hope the refurb schedule changes to bring up at least one of the headliners over Spring Break. Having two headliners down for a high season period is not right and having three is unconscionable.