And the coffee shop and Bar Riva!*Riviera. I don't think any of us have a problem acknowledging that BWV has the superior location. Nothing beats walking distance. Period. I own RIV because we like the rooms, tower style of the resort and additional 28 years on the contract
Might as well throw Primo and Topolinos in there too while we're at it
I’m curious as to how long it takes to restart the skyliner once weather clears. Since Florida gets random showers, if it takes an hour to restart it it can be a big deal but if they’re able to get it up and running like <10 mins after rain/lightning clears it’s not nearly as bad. We haven’t had to take the bus back except for once near the skyliner path. I’ve actually stayed at BWV more times than I have at RIV. I do recall walking by the skyliner line near the end of the night and thinking that looks crazy when walking back to BW. Fortunately we don’t really like to stay for nighttime spectaculars generally and more often watch fireworks from a restaurant if we do watch them but I’d say thats the bigger issue with RIV not being walkable. That and during rope drop when the cabins are already filled from people staying at AoA, Pop and etc. Again I don’t rope drop either but those are more legitimate reasons why I could see someone despising the skyliner but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Didn’t mean to derail the conversation but we’ve tried to take skyliner to Riviera twice (total, one way trips) and one of the two times (early Mar) it was down for thunderstorms…we took the boat to BWV instead and got an Uber from there. If the Skyliner is down, that means you have to walk back to the front gate of EPCOT in the rain for a bus, right?
Someone posted a couple weeks back…they said a bus picked them up at the gate near the skyliner. They had a photo included. It was a back door gate to the road.
Coooooool. Wish I’d known that was an option. I guess I didn’t specifically ask the CM who was at the bottom of the Skyliner ramp.
We've stayed Riviera December 2x, February, April, July, August, and September. Just anecdotally here, Skyliner only went down once -- epic pouring rain that came on super fast. We immediately nixed going to the front of the park looking for the bus and walked to BC and called an Uber. $5 and 5 minutes later we were back home at Riviera.
I’ve been on it a few times in the rain. I don’t think it stops for rain alone. There has to be lightening in the area specifically, I believe. And the wait for the skyliner at the end of the day looks long but usually is 20 minutes or so since it’s constantly moving. I find the bus from MK back to Riviera I’m always waiting at least 20 minutes, can’t seem to time that one right, ever lol
It’s been down twice…maybe three times…in all my stays…we have been there every month except November at one time or the other.
I can’t imagine being on the Skyliner while raining…when we were there a few weeks back there was no rain but heavy wind gusts and I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest (meanwhile my kiddo was loving every minute of the ‘extra fun ride’)
And it's not even unsafe in lightning. Other places running this exact system only stop it due to very high winds. Disney is just extra conservative I guess, which I get
The “death buckets” are a hard no for me … we do Riviera as a resort stay, and drive over to Disney Springs for dinner, but that’s about it.
Perfectly safe in lightning, but I bet there would be a shockwave. I think I read somewhere that they are fine even up to 50 mph winds
come on - I would pass out from fear!It's not that bad. The highest risk from a storm is an object being blown against the mechanism that links the gondola to the cable. Wind by itself won't do much.Perfectly safe in lightning, but I bet there would be a shockwave. I think I read somewhere that they are fine even up to 50 mph winds
My wife has said she wouldn’t go on it unless we had empty Gatorade bottles because she would be freaking out the whole time that we would be stuck.
