Friendship Boat Service to Epcot temporarily unavailable due to Skyliner construction

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Monday November 26, 2018 10:23am ET · "Friendship Cruisers"

Friendship boat service to and from Epcot will be unavailable for a few weeks this fall.

Beginning November 28 2018, construction for Disney Skyliner around the International Gateway area, will mean that the boat service will not be available. The work is expected to last through to early December 2018. Bus transportation will be available for resort hotel guests, and the pedestrian walkways will remain available, as will the International Gateway entrance to Epcot.

During the work, Friendship boats will still be available from the Epcot area resort hotels to Disney's Hollywood Studios.

The Disney Skyliner transportation system will open in late 2019.

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I literally almost booked that hotel specifically for that purpose. Wow saved me a but ton of money! Coronado Springs it is!
queue the outrage in 3...2....1
↩ replying to DznyGrlSD
OUTRAGE!!!!

Well, except this was known to be coming. :)
Knowing it's coming doesn't stop the Disney Lovers, I mean naysayers, I mean those that claim to love Disnet but cant find anything right....you get the point
They really waited until the last minute to announce this. Swan and Dolphin announced this weeks ago.
I swear I dislike the Skyliner more and more every single day.
↩ replying to DznyGrlSD
I'm outraged that people actually take the boat from Yacht/Beach to Epcot.

From Boardwark, if it's there and loading right when you're walking by, then sure. But, otherwise, outraged at the thought of waiting for a boat to Epcot. :eek:

Presumably because it's just a little bit farther from them. Not "far", but a little longer.

I'm not sure the exact distances, but walking to DHS always feels worse than the boat to me. While taking the boat to Epcot instead of walking always feels like the wrong decision.
↩ replying to mmascari
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Think because it's a shorter walk to epcot
↩ replying to sgtmgd
Is that where Skynet goes for vacation?
I am OUTRAGED!!! My family was BORN ON THE FRIENDSHIP BOATS and we always ride them every trip!! But now they're CLOSED FOREVER!!! We'll never get to ride them AGAIN!!!!

DECLINING BY DEGREES!!!!! UGH!

(do i need to put a wink here or is it obvious already?)
We are Swan and Dolphin people. We usually take the boat to DHS (well, always now that the construction makes you walk an extra mile it seems). For Epcot, we usually walk, unless we are super tired/boat is there. Even then, we only take it to Yacht and Beach, since it would take longer to take it the whole way to IG.

Long story short, this shouldn't be an inconvenience at all, unless you're handicapped.
The outrage is that they are blaming this clear money saving budget cut, on construction. When will Disney stop lying to us about all of the cuts? #BlameFox

I mean really, they just need to pull the cables, can't they do it at night, why does it take weeks to complete? They are going slow, dragging their feet, so that they can save money by not running the boats. They didn't close the parking lot at DHS to put up the cables... because they make money on the parking lots, that's why. If they charged for the boats they wouldn't close them, they would have found a way!

Sarcasm
↩ replying to AJH219
I ROTFL at the second sentence
Is it a shorter walk from the Boardwalk to DHS or from the bus stops to DHS :cool:
↩ replying to vj81995
My children were conceived on the Friendship boats and I can NEVER ride them again, I'm outraged!!!!! DISNEY HAS RUINED MY LIFE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

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