Klayfish
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 19, 2016
Wasn't sure where to post this, so I'll stick it here. I'll preface this by saying it's truly being tongue in cheek and making fun of myself, so don't read it any other way.
People who read my posts know I'm a huge WDW supporter, even an "apologist" if you will. At the same time, I've always said how I never would want to use WDW buses to get around the parks and how it would be a deal breaker. It's just something I see as a huge negative, not a positive. DD12 and I were in Apopka for the past few days attending a tournament for her. She was done playing on Saturday at 2pm and we had all evening to kill. Our plan all along had been to go to Disney and hang around. No plans to buy park tickets, but we were planning to ride the Skyliner, go to DS, maybe tour a few resorts, etc... Our first stop was the Skyliner. We parked at Caribbean Beach and hopped on the one with the shortest line, which was going to Pop Century and AoA. Neat ride, really like the Skyliner. We walked around Pop, as we had never toured it before, then went back to return to the Skyliner. It was down. Cars had gotten "too close together" and they were trying to reset it. Fine. 10 minutes pass and they start moving again, then immediately stop. Still not working right we were told and they're shutting them down longer term to fix the problem. Uhhh....we're now at Pop and our car is at Caribbean. Lovely. CM said there's no direct bus from one to the other. So to the bus line we go and wait for a bus to Epcot. The line is already quite long and we waited a solid 20 minutes for it to arrive. Get onto the bus packed like sardines for the ride to Epcot. Then we have to wait for the bus from Epcot to Caribbean. That was another 15 or so minutes. This bus, thankfully, was empty, just one other couple on it with us. The bus goes to Caribbean, but goes all the way to the back of the property, makes a u-turn then starts making its' stops. We're the last one, so that took another 5-10 minutes. All told, we lost a solid 60-90 minutes of time between the Skyliner going down and having to deal with the buses just to get from one spot to another.
It didn't dampen our spirits, we were there just for fun and were simply happy to be there. We really didn't miss out on anything we really had to do. The entire time I was laughing to myself and thinking "this must be karma for all the negative things I say about using buses." May I learn my lesson and keep my yap shut....instant karma is going to get ya'
People who read my posts know I'm a huge WDW supporter, even an "apologist" if you will. At the same time, I've always said how I never would want to use WDW buses to get around the parks and how it would be a deal breaker. It's just something I see as a huge negative, not a positive. DD12 and I were in Apopka for the past few days attending a tournament for her. She was done playing on Saturday at 2pm and we had all evening to kill. Our plan all along had been to go to Disney and hang around. No plans to buy park tickets, but we were planning to ride the Skyliner, go to DS, maybe tour a few resorts, etc... Our first stop was the Skyliner. We parked at Caribbean Beach and hopped on the one with the shortest line, which was going to Pop Century and AoA. Neat ride, really like the Skyliner. We walked around Pop, as we had never toured it before, then went back to return to the Skyliner. It was down. Cars had gotten "too close together" and they were trying to reset it. Fine. 10 minutes pass and they start moving again, then immediately stop. Still not working right we were told and they're shutting them down longer term to fix the problem. Uhhh....we're now at Pop and our car is at Caribbean. Lovely. CM said there's no direct bus from one to the other. So to the bus line we go and wait for a bus to Epcot. The line is already quite long and we waited a solid 20 minutes for it to arrive. Get onto the bus packed like sardines for the ride to Epcot. Then we have to wait for the bus from Epcot to Caribbean. That was another 15 or so minutes. This bus, thankfully, was empty, just one other couple on it with us. The bus goes to Caribbean, but goes all the way to the back of the property, makes a u-turn then starts making its' stops. We're the last one, so that took another 5-10 minutes. All told, we lost a solid 60-90 minutes of time between the Skyliner going down and having to deal with the buses just to get from one spot to another.
It didn't dampen our spirits, we were there just for fun and were simply happy to be there. We really didn't miss out on anything we really had to do. The entire time I was laughing to myself and thinking "this must be karma for all the negative things I say about using buses." May I learn my lesson and keep my yap shut....instant karma is going to get ya'