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A Day On Disney Skyliner & Riding Friendship Boats - Eating At Boardwalk Deli / Out Of The Park Fun

Date: November 07, 2025 Duration: 29m 55s
WDW Nov 2025
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0:02 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. As
0:02 the recording of this, it is Thursday,
0:04 November 6th, 2025. I'm wearing an
0:07 appropriate WDW shirt cuz I'm heading to
0:10 Walt Disney World to ride the Skyliner,
0:12 Friendship Boats, etc. Yesterday, going
0:15 on the Montreal kind of made me think
0:18 about maybe possibly doing some other
0:20 transportation devices from park to
0:21 park, resort to resort at Walt Disney
0:24 World. So, that's what I'm going to do
0:25 today. We'll just see where the day
0:26 leads. I'm inviting you, yes you, to
0:29 join me. It's good to have you here,
0:31 shall you? Current temperature at the
0:34 moment, a little afternoon 12:04 as I'm
0:37 showing the temp in celebration, 77°.
0:40 It's going to get up to 79, a slightly
0:42 overcast, and then it's going to
0:44 decrease down to 78, 76.
0:48 Not incredibly warm, but I wouldn't say
0:50 it's quite cool yet, but it will over
0:53 the next couple days. cuz the
0:54 temperature is going to dip down just a
0:56 little bit. Look at Monday and Tuesday.
0:58 Oh, that's a beautiful thing. That's a
1:01 beautiful thing. I leave the country in
1:03 a couple weeks from right now, give or
1:05 take a day. So, from now till then, a
1:08 lot of theme park stuff, a lot of
1:09 Central Florida stuff, a lot of
1:11 celebration stuff, and hopefully some
1:12 cool weather. Pulling up to the parking
1:14 area at Disney's Hollywood Studios. They
1:16 got these little little tiny speed
1:18 grates. Epcot has huge speed humps.
1:24 speed bumps, but here they just have
1:26 little teeny tiny speed grates. I guess
1:28 people try not to go as fast at Studios
1:30 as they do at Epcot. Liking this
1:33 overcast day.
1:35 So, I'm going to pop in. I got a
1:36 reservation, so I got to scan into
1:38 Studios, grab a coffee, maybe check out
1:40 the now demolished archway from my
1:43 youth. Have not seen it since it's been
1:45 removed, which is kind of sad. And then
1:47 I'll grab the Skyliner out. Small cones.
1:51 Very small cones. They were small cones,
1:54 big cones, big cones.
1:58 Large cones, big cones. Small cones,
2:00 large cones. Big cones, small cones,
2:03 large cones. Pulling in the parking
2:04 area.
2:07 parked not too far from the front. So,
2:09 going to opt
2:10 >> to not get on the parking tram.
2:24 >> Birds are squawking.
2:24 Other birds are chirping.
2:33 >> I just had a side note thought I was
2:33 driving over here.
2:36 how fast time goes. Time goes so fast
2:39 and you look back on changes and things
2:41 not only in your life but through the
2:43 terrain and places that you go and
2:45 things like that.
2:47 >> I am I really like doing daily videos
2:50 just as a good template to look back on
2:52 like a little video diary as I've stated
3:03 the es and flows of daily life.
3:03 Yeah, there was a long time there were
3:04 no trams running through here for a
3:06 couple years and now they're back and
3:08 it's all normal.
3:13 One day I'll go back and watch all those
3:13 old videos and no tram or you could just
3:15 walk across here and no one would yell
3:16 at you. But now you can't because it's a
3:18 tram crossing. And the transportation
3:20 device I'm about to get on shortly, the
3:23 Skyliner, that was just such a
3:25 commonplace thing that everyone knows
3:26 about. But when those pillars went in,
3:29 those big stansions wedged in the ground
3:31 and everyone was thinking, "What is that
3:32 going to be?" They were testing it.
3:34 Everyone had their opinions and thoughts
3:36 and whether it was going to be
3:37 successful or not. And the time before
3:39 they were even there, now they're there
3:42 and it's just a common thing.
3:45 Progress in time is an interesting
3:48 interesting thing. And it'll be fun to
3:50 look back on one day when I'm sitting
3:52 around when I'm an old man watching
3:54 these videos back. Assuming I make it
3:56 that long. And if I don't, at least
3:57 they'll be on for others to others to
3:59 watch. This is the trash can right here.
4:02 That's the trash can sticker. Ah, all
4:04 the Christmas decorations are in full
4:06 effect down Hollywood Boulevard. And
4:08 down Hollywood Boulevard, I'm going to
4:09 stop inside the trolley car cafe where
4:12 today is the first official day of the
4:15 holiday new holiday season. And I'm
4:17 going to get the new holiday drink. All
4:18 right. Peppermint mocha latte with no
4:21 whip achieved. This is the first day
4:22 that they've had this for the season, so
4:24 figured I'd grab it. It is a bizarre
4:26 feeling knowing that the archway was
4:28 there for countless decades. All my
4:31 memories at the studios, the arch was
4:33 there leading over into the animation
4:35 courtyard and this whole area and then
4:38 eventually became launch bay and all
4:39 that. All that's closed up. Little
4:40 Mermaid Show just reopened. But
4:42 everything else over in the animation
4:43 courtyard is going to be completely
4:45 changed. And I will say getting rid of
4:47 the arch is definitely going to open up
4:49 the area and have a lot more room, but
4:51 it's just kind of weird seeing it
4:52 without all that. Also, Hollywood
4:54 Studios has really gone all in on their
4:57 retro style Christmas decor, which is
5:00 really nice to see. And this is not the
5:02 best interpretation and visual showing
5:04 of it because at it looks a lot better
5:06 at night. If you're over if you know
5:08 under the shroud of nightfall, it's much
5:11 better. But I'm sure at some point I'll
5:12 see it after dark with all the neon lit
5:15 up and all that. But for now, cutting
5:17 over outside of the park and going to
5:20 head over to the Skyliner station, which
5:22 is kind of cut this way through the
5:24 parking lot and back over and going to
5:26 get on the Skyliner now. All right.
5:28 Curious which one I'm going to get.
5:31 There's a Moana one right over there.
5:33 Nemo one right here.
5:41 Watch yourself.
5:41 >> And I am grateful to have my own pod.
5:44 Sometimes when it's really busy, you
5:46 have to share with a group or a family
5:47 or someone else.
5:52 Just cruising along here. Oh, there's
5:53 like a truck pulling through here. It's
5:55 a tow truck or something pulling down
5:57 here. You take a look right down there.
5:59 >> Ladies and gentlemen,
6:00 >> hello. Parking lot. Not too congested.
6:03 Not too busy of a day in there.
6:07 Oh, it feels so good. The vents open
6:10 right there. The nice little breeze
6:11 rolling through here.
6:13 I'm liking it. This is the way to spend
6:16 the day. No wait times. This is a ride
6:19 of its own.
6:21 >> A nice way to travel. I love the look of
6:23 the Montreal. Obviously, I'm a big
6:24 Montreal guy. love seeing it being on
6:28 the Montreal
6:30 isn't as smooth and as elegantly
6:34 fluid as the Skyliner. I think I prefer
6:37 riding on an empty Skyliner than I do on
6:40 the Montreal. I like seeing the Montreal
6:42 from the ground, but riding it
6:44 Skylliner. Also, I do not know if I will
6:46 get one of the peppermint mocha lattes
6:48 again. That was strong, very pepperminty
6:51 flavor. I went with the standard how
6:54 amount of pumps when you just say give
6:55 me the peppermint mocha latte without
6:57 whip. That's what I got. The peppermint
6:59 was so overbearing. I don't know if I'll
7:01 get it again. Skylliner station not too
7:04 incredibly busy right now.
7:07 Got Art of Animation Pop Century. I'll
7:10 go this way. I haven't been over to Pop
7:12 Century and Art of Animation via the
7:13 Skyliner in quite a while. I'm going to
7:16 guess judging by this line, I will have
7:18 my own pod. Also 291's got my name on
7:21 it. Well, not really, but it's a figure
7:23 of speech.
7:31 It's not going to be the clearest view
7:31 out the window cuz it does have a
7:33 animation wrap around it.
7:36 But going across the lake, the lagoon
7:38 here,
7:40 pop century and arc of animation on
7:42 either side running parallel. I think
7:45 this is called Hourglass Lake.
7:48 It's been a while since I I flew over it
7:51 on the gondilas, but yeah.
8:03 Rolling into the station. Oh, come in
8:03 and hop. Very abrupt.
8:07 I made it.
8:09 Made it to Pop Century.
8:12 Just confirmed with the cast member this
8:14 is in fact Hourglass Lake. Pretty
8:23 cool. I love how they just kind of I
8:23 don't say they skim across the water,
8:24 but they're pretty low to the water.
8:36 I love these things. They're so cool.
8:36 Such a nice addition to WDW. I wish
8:39 they'd add more to other resorts and
8:40 other parks
8:43 on the Walt Disney World property. And
8:45 they might. Who knows?
8:48 Nice batch of lily pads down there. I
8:50 think it's nice about these particular
8:51 hotels, I've stayed at both of them a
8:53 number of times a few years ago, is it
8:56 has perfect access to the Skyliner,
8:58 which can get you right over to Epcot,
8:59 right over to Studios. These are the
9:01 perfect value resorts to stay at if
9:03 you're going to either one of those two
9:04 parks in my opinion. Perfect. It's a
9:06 Skyliner access. It's just so nice to
9:09 pop into Studios and pop into Epcot
9:11 Center.
9:17 Now, if you're trying to go to Animal
9:18 Kingdom
9:19 or Magic Kingdom, that's a little bit
9:21 different scenario, but you can always
9:23 take a bus if you don't have a rental
9:25 car going under the sea.
9:33 The theming over here, the at these are
9:33 really great, too. Love the theming all
9:35 through here.
9:37 The fish
9:39 up on the side of the buildings. Check
9:42 out Dory up there. And Crush right here,
9:44 the turtle. Massive.
9:48 Massive. Crush and Dory in comparison.
9:52 You see people walking underneath.
9:54 That's the size. Big turtle right there.
9:58 The Dory.
10:04 I always like this area over here where
10:04 they have the cars area. Radiator
10:07 Springs. They have Radiator Springs
10:09 billboard there. A happy place with a
10:11 sheriff car out front. Cozy Cone Cafe,
10:15 Ornament Valley, Radiator Springside,
10:19 all the different cast of characters
10:22 from the Cars franchise. Love cars,
10:24 especially the first one. Love the whole
10:27 Route 66 thing. Have you ever done Route
10:29 66, which next year Route 66 celebrates
10:32 its 100th anniversary? 100 years of
10:35 Route 66. And that is basically the
10:37 basis of the movie Cars. Now, the
10:40 freeway,
10:41 you know, the interstate, I should say,
10:43 came came along and originally kind of
10:45 destroyed 66, but now it's thriving, not
10:49 based on the movie Cars, but just in
10:51 general, well, thriving to a degree
10:53 where, you know, people who
10:56 are really into Americana and history
10:58 and all that are really embracing it.
11:01 And at some point next year in 26, I'm
11:05 going to be doing a at least a month on
11:07 Route 66. That's my goal for the 100th
11:10 anniversary of 66. I'm looking forward
11:12 to it. So, it's kind of nice to kind of
11:15 wet my whistle, if you will, by walking
11:17 through this little section right here
11:18 and seeing all the car stuff. Love it.
11:22 It's kind of like a our own version of
11:25 Cars Land here on the East Coast.
11:29 All right, off up and over,
11:34 Hourglass Lake.
11:40 Head over to
11:40 Skyliner Station. Get off this one. Get
11:43 on another one. Go to Riviera.
11:44 >> Welcome aboard Skyliner.
11:48 >> Birds
11:54 like birds. An infestation of birds
11:54 directly below me. And these weeds right
11:57 here. Look
12:17 It's a nice relaxing day. Feels good
12:18 with the breeze coming through here.
12:19 Feels so good.
12:21 Cannot state that enough.
12:25 pulling into the station.
12:28 >> All right, over here at the Skyliner
12:29 station, the lines are so backed up of
12:32 people wanting to go to Epcot
12:34 that I'm pretty sure I would probably
12:36 share a gondola with five or six or
12:39 seven other people. So, I am just going
12:41 to walk the half mile to the Riviera
12:46 instead of being in a full full gondola.
12:49 And I haven't strolled
12:51 to the Caribbean Beach Resort in a
12:53 while. So that's what I'm going to do.
12:56 It's not that far.
12:58 Nice little stroll through Caribbean
12:59 Caribbean Beach Resort.
13:27 I see the Skyliner going over right up
13:27 above there.
13:38 This is one thing nice about living
13:38 close to WDW.
13:40 You just pop over.
13:43 You wanted to utilize that hammock, you
13:44 could.
13:45 You want to sit right here on the beach,
13:47 you could. And there's that little
13:49 island over there.
13:52 Little vestibules
13:57 you could sit at. Or if you just want to
13:57 ride the Skyliner around all day or the
13:59 Montreal or the Friendship Boats,
14:14 >> I think the addition of the Skyliner has
14:14 really been helpful. not only to me, but
14:15 I'm sure to others as well to really
14:18 understand the layout of the land and
14:20 how some of the resorts are placed
14:24 in correlation to the others because you
14:25 get a bird's eye perspective. Obviously,
14:28 now you can go on satellite view and
14:29 Google Earth and all that stuff. But
14:32 back in the day, you really didn't
14:33 really understand the layout of some of
14:35 these resorts. At least I didn't. And
14:38 once you're once you're like up in the
14:40 Skyliner, you're like, "Oh, that's where
14:42 that is. All
15:05 right. You're going to jump in this
15:05 platform here
15:12 and head to Epcot.
15:12 And then from Epcot,
15:15 which launches from right over there,
15:26 I'll take a friendship boat back to
15:26 Studios.
16:06 >> How are you? Just one.
16:06 >> Going to Yes. Thank you.
16:26 Thank you. Oh man, I lucked out. Look at
16:26 this.
16:29 All right. All right.
16:37 last Skyliner station which goes from
16:37 there to here and then over to Epcot
16:39 doesn't deboard. I mean there was like
16:42 200 people in line so they were stuffing
16:44 those things full but evidently
16:47 they leave an occasional one open for
16:49 those who are getting on here at
16:51 Riviera. Little hack,
16:55 little ride alone hack.
16:59 I equate riding in one of these with a
17:01 group of people kind of like being in an
17:03 elevator for an extended amount of time.
17:06 So that's kind of the
17:08 the vibe you'll have. It's interesting
17:10 from this angle also. So World Showcase
17:13 is I don't know maybe 4 or 500 yd that
17:16 way and you see how much space there is
17:19 behind the pavilions around World
17:21 Showcase the countries over here to this
17:24 road that the Skyliner runs parallel to.
17:27 There's a lot of empty space, parking
17:29 area, storage area that they could move
17:32 World Showcase back and build build more
17:35 behind it, but it's just a lot of empty
17:37 space and you don't really notice until
17:40 you're up here in the Skyliner right
17:41 over there, World Showcase. But there's
17:43 a massive massive gap of like a quarter
17:46 of a mile.
17:49 Not exact, but close. Lot of space.
17:51 There's Swan and Dolphin over there.
17:53 Boardwalk. See a little bit more of that
17:55 on the friendship boats. Going back to
17:57 studios
17:59 going by both of those. Wedged in
18:02 between both of those buildings.
18:15 >> There's the Eiffel Tower, but it's
18:15 silhouetted out there with the scrim
18:17 around.
18:18 >> You are planning World Showcase today.
18:21 Be a good time to practice.
18:32 Good old trusty Skyliner. Well, trusty
18:32 until there's a storm or if the wind's
18:34 blowing really hard and there's
18:36 lightning, but other than that, pretty
18:38 trusty.
18:39 Doesn't work well in the wind. It
18:40 usually shuts down in the storms and
18:43 there's a lot of those in Florida. So,
18:45 that happens. You got to find another
18:47 mode of transportation like a bus.
19:00 I don't even know if I'm going to pop in
19:00 World Showcase. In fact, I'm not. I'll
19:04 take the Friendship Six from this point,
19:07 the base of the Skyliner.
19:10 Couple stops, eventually get over to
19:53 I got to be honest, I've never taken the
19:53 friendship boat from this port. I would
19:55 always walk over to the boardwalk, which
19:58 is just over the bridge, just around the
20:00 bridge, not far. And then I would grab
20:02 grab the next stop, but taking it from
20:05 me.
21:47 Please remain seated
21:47 short and watch.
21:49 Once again, welcome to next time
22:07 from the friendship boat. I saw the
22:07 boardwalk deli over here at the
22:09 boardwalk. Well, Boardwalk Deli is
22:12 naturally at the boardwalk and I
22:14 thought, you know what? I'll pop in here
22:16 and maybe get a sandwich of some sort.
22:19 Kind of in the mood for a little little
22:21 deli. They're rolling in the dough. Come
22:24 on in. And these are the items I've
22:26 never eaten in here. Veggie crunch,
22:29 Italian sub, roasted turkey, chicken
22:34 salad wrap,
22:36 meatball sub. Maybe like the one they
22:37 used to have at Rizzo's Studios. RIP ham
22:41 and cheese croissant.
22:43 Okay, these are not like what I was
22:45 thinking like freshly made. These are
22:46 probably already pre-made Italian subs,
22:49 but I might get the Italian. All right,
22:51 grabbed a seat right over here. You
22:53 know, I've never eaten at this deli.
22:54 Comes with some Miss Vicki sea salt
22:56 chips. And this is the sandwich. I put a
22:58 little mustard on it also, but this is
23:00 uh this is what we're dealing [music]
23:01 with. The bread is like a baguette.
23:04 That wasn't bad for a nice little quick
23:06 service sandwich
23:16 >> Kind of remind me of the kind of
23:16 sandwiches I would get from Pa Manger or
23:19 Predanger
23:20 in London.
23:23 It's unparalleled.
23:25 >> There's no better.
23:27 >> I'm going to take this over to the other
23:28 side of this lagoon and then to Studios
23:32 or maybe I'll get off at Swan of
23:33 Dolphin. The options are endless.
23:36 Possibilities
23:38 are endless. I think that's the saying,
23:39 but options are endless also. I mean,
23:42 it's not necessarily one thing that's
23:44 endless.
23:51 >> Turn ready.
23:51 It was
24:19 Here we go.
24:19 Imagine
24:21 today
24:43 for dinner.
24:43 Welcome aboard our next stop.
24:46 Please remain seated till we come to a
24:48 complete stop and the academy will be
24:50 off there. No smoking, no vaping.
24:53 >> No smoking or vaping.
25:52 and from
25:52 studio Please seated until we come to a
25:55 complete stop in the guest
25:58 and no smoking. Thank you for
26:28 But I'll go through the doctor this
26:28 morning.
26:52 Same guy that designed the Swan and
26:52 Dolphin also designed the Celebration
26:54 Florida, where I live, post office.
26:58 Fun fact.
27:25 next and final stop is going to be
27:25 Hollywood Studios.
27:27 Once again, thanks for being seated till
27:29 we come to our complete stop for the cat
27:31 out there. Hollywood Studios will close
27:34 at uh
28:42 while I'm on a little bit of a
28:42 transportation kick.
28:45 I rarely take the tram.
28:48 I think I'm going to take the tram. I'm
28:50 not going that far, but why not take the
28:53 tram, right?
29:05 looking for trans driver up in the burn
29:05 myself here in the very back. We hope
29:07 you guys enjoy your day here at this at
29:08 Disney's Hollywood Studio City. As a
29:11 reminder, the speed limit park is going
29:12 to be 15 miles per hour. That's a slow
29:14 five, not a fast 95. This may be a
29:16 highway, but this may be a parking lot.
29:18 Upon exiting, you can follow those white
29:19 arrows to our one and only exit. And if
29:22 you're having any car trouble or you
29:23 need help finding it, you can come back
29:25 up to the red poles and fly down the
29:26 nearest cast member. We'll do our best
29:27 to further assist you. We're coming up
29:29 on our first stop between Mickey and
29:30 Winnie.
29:42 >> All right, there is that full stop. You
29:42 can pull up on the handle, push down the
29:43 door, lower your head, and watch your
29:45 step. If you're looking for Jesse or
29:47 Bud, that will be our next stop. So, you
29:48 may remain seated again. This is Mickey
29:50 and Minnie. I'm Mickey to the driver's
29:51 right hand side with Minnie to the
29:52 driver's left hand side.