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A crane has popped up at the construction site

Construction is a fact of life at Disney World. Whether we’re talking about ride refurbishments, hotel enhancements, or even a brand-spanking-new expansion, it’s hard to find a time when there isn’t some kind of work happening at Disney World. So, when will it end? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

The Disney company often likes to channel Walt Disney’s well-known quote about Disneyland “never being finished” when announcing construction projects, and it certainly applies to Disney World right now. Currently, there are several major projects happening at the resort including:

• Some rooms at the Port Orleans Resort — French Quarter will be under refurbishment from May until November 2024. 
• EPCOT’s Test Track has been closed since June as the ride is being reimagined into a new experience that will take some inspiration from World of Motion (the EPCOT original that Test Track replaced in the 1990s). This is scheduled to reopen in 2025. 

Test Track under construction

• Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort is set to undergo a lengthy refurbishment from September 2024 to September 2025. While the resort will still be available to book during these times, rooms may be limited.
• Massive work is ongoing at the Polynesian Village Resort including construction of a new Disney Vacation Club Tower, Villas, restaurants, and even new recreation offerings! One effect of this construction is that the walkway between the Polynesian and Grand Floridian is currently closed — so you’ll need to take the Monorail in the meantime.

Polynesian Tower construction

• The Cake Bake Shop at the BoardWalk Resort is STILL under construction, with its promised 2024 opening beginning to look tenuous. 
• The Fantasia Pool at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort will be closed from January 2025 to April 2025. While it’s closed, you can still swim in the Duck Pond Pool (as well as the feature pools at the neighboring All-Star Resort hotels).

Cake Bake Shop construction

• Work is ongoing in Adventureland at Magic Kingdom.
• Also, while this one hasn’t started yet, definitely keep this in mind for 2025 trip-planning purposes: from January to June 2025, Stormalong Bay and Shipwreck Pool – – arguably the BEST pool complex at Disney World – – will be CLOSED at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resort for routine maintenance.

Stormalong Bay at Disney’s Yacht Club Hotel

So, after all that’s done construction will be done right?

Wrong. 

In the next several years, Disney World will see massive construction projects at Magic Kingdom (Cars Land, Villains Land), Hollywood Studios (Monsters, Inc. Land), and Animal Kingdom (Tropical Americas), as well as surely countless other refurbishment projects around the resort. 

©Disney

So in other words, our initial query was admittedly a bit of a trick question: There is NO end to Disney World construction, as work is always ongoing. Even after those recently announced expansions, Disney will start another big project to continue changing and improving the resort.

Stay tuned to DFB for further updates on Disney World construction. 

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