Disney Skyliner Refurbishment Scheduled for Late January 2026

9 days ago in "Disney Skyliner"

Posted: Monday April 14, 2025 2:10pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced that the Disney Skyliner will be closed for refurbishment from January 25 through January 31, 2026. During this time, the gondola system will be unavailable across all routes.

Disney Skyliner overview
Disney Skyliner overview

Guests staying at affected resorts—Disney’s Riviera Resort, Caribbean Beach Resort, Art of Animation Resort, and Pop Century Resort—will have access to complimentary bus transportation to EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

This continues the pattern of annual January maintenance for the Skyliner, following breaks in 2025 and closures in January of 2024, 2023, and 2022. The work typically includes routine inspections and maintenance on the system to support long-term operations.

The Skyliner is expected to resume normal service on February 1, 2026. View all current and upcoming Walt Disney World refurbishments.

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    larryz8 days ago

    Must be time to stretch the cables again...

    Nubs709 days ago

    This would be the case if WDW was located Phoenix as is is a dry heat. However, the humidity simply causes corpses to smolder leaving a bit of residue.

    Centauri Space Station9 days ago

    The transportation, food and rooms are all worthwhile

    HauntedPirate9 days ago

    I thought they fed what wasn't turned to ash by the incinerating heat inside the gondolas to the gators every night?

    mergatroid9 days ago

    I suppose they need to remove all those bodies of all the folks that died in them due to no air conditioning that we were warned about 🤔

    Jambo Dad9 days ago

    The Riviera is definitely the low point when it comes to resort theme and attention to detail. The new Ft. Wilderness cabins are a worse concept to be sure - but it’s so bad I don’t even count it.

    bmr15919 days ago

    I guess this year's experiment wasn't very successful in Disney's mind.

    Splashin' Ryan9 days ago

    folks staying at Riviera have bigger issues (like taste in hotels)

    MikeyK729 days ago

    I wish they'd rotate the maintenance schedule because it's almost always this same week in January each year which I guess is both good and bad. Good because I guess you can somewhat plan around it. Bad because if that week is a special time of year for folks then they'd pretty much never be able to spend that time at Riv with a working Skyliner.

    Disone9 days ago

    Your hair looks great. I really like your shirt. Your Mickey ears are the best. It's all about the buses, they're complimentary 🙂
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