Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[MickeyWaffles]

I kind of feel like I am the only one annoyed about Food and Wine.

How is it that they have the manpower to throw a festival with multiple booths, but they don't have the manpower to staff some of the best locations in the World Showcase? Like Les Halles, etc.

I think ordering at Les Halles could be pretty difficult with social distancing, tucked back there in France. I think they want to have more outdoor booth options when they open to reduce the amount of non-mask time indoors.

They’d have to remove a lot of tables to distance them too. There would hardly be any tables left.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

No MNSSHP may be the deal breaker for me. I go to be able to dress up and celebrate Halloween. And considering the part is 10/31, seems a bit jumping to gun to cancel all parties and not just the early ones.

There are probably a lot of people who feel the same as you. It’s such a popular event and a big draw. Better to make it known now it isn’t happening and people can change their plans accordingly IMO.

 

[Mit88]

No one tell Alex Morgan that the Food and Wine is still happening

 

[OnceUponATime15]

Do you think 2021 bookings will be released with the new reservation system?

With everything else going on right now, I’d think they hold off a bit longer. The new reservation system is going to be challenged as it is without adding thousands of new 2021 reservations as well.

 

[xuxa777]

Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is going to be a nightmare for CM's trying to police mask wearing, most people will be strolling/eating drinking with mask down or off.

 

[mmackeymouse]

I think ordering at Les Halles could be pretty difficult with social distancing, tucked back there in France. I think they want to have more outdoor booth options when they open to reduce the amount of non-mask time indoors.

Yes, I know...yet with the reduced capacity, I think they could make it work.

Heck, maybe even a simple old-fashioned "take a number" system to allow so many people in at any one time.

 

[Sandisw]

Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is going to be a nightmare for CM's trying to police mask wearing, most people will be strolling/eating drinking with mask down or off.

But, there will be Park capacity in place like never before so at least with social distancing it may be easier.

 

[rteetz]

No MNSSHP may be the deal breaker for me. I go to be able to dress up and celebrate Halloween. And considering the part is 10/31, seems a bit jumping to gun to cancel all parties and not just the early ones.

Disney had already started selling those tickets. Halloween night is one of the most popular days. It’s possible they are already over their projected capacity for that time.

 

[OnceUponATime15]

Just read on another thread that a guest just opened her MDE to find her resort has been changed.. no call from guest services prior. Just a change.

YC to Poly. EDIT... BC. to Poly.

 

[1GoldenSun]

maybe - this note even mentions that you will get a taste of Flower and Garden so they aren't afraid of mixing festivals

Maybe they should just go ahead and throw up the Halloween, Christmas, and Easter decorations, put out some topiaries and some artwork, and have a socially distanced Santa Claus reaching into his Easter basket to grab handfuls of Halloween candy to toss to the kiddies while their parents guzzle craft beers. Do the whole year in one shebang.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

Just read on another thread that a guest just opened her MDE to find her resort has been changed.. no call from guest services prior. Just a change.

YC to Poly.

That is crazy but exciting. I actually would not mind them handling it like this... but I'm sure many would! When was her stay?

 

[mshanson3121]

Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is going to be a nightmare for CM's trying to police mask wearing, most people will be strolling/eating drinking with mask down or off.

The way things are going in Florida, and the new "mask required in all public spaces" requirement from the mayor, I wouldn't be surprised if the F&W festival ends up cancelled yet, for this reason... After all, only a week or two ago, they said MNSSHP tickets were still valid...

 

[figmentfinesse]

If you were a Betting man would you assume pop century is opening by mid July or later?

If I had to bet I guess I'd say no, because of the lack of housekeeping recall.

 

[yulilin3]

The way things are going in Florida, and the new "mask required in all public spaces" requirement from the mayor, I wouldn't be surprised if the F&W festival ends up cancelled yet, for this reason... After all, only a week or two ago, they said MNSSHP tickets were still valid...

with it opening July 15 along with the park, I doubt that they would announce today just to cancel next week

 

[Broncho52]

Do you think 2021 bookings will be released with the new reservation system?

No

 

[mshanson3121]

with it opening July 15 along with the park, I doubt that they would announce today just to cancel next week

You have more faith in them than I do. After all, they advertised for deals and reservations, and took people's money for things they knew were never going to happen. How they've handled this whole thing has been less than stellar. And let's face it, if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that things change in split seconds, and anything is possible.

Also, who announced what first - did they announce the extension first, or did the new mask rule come out first?

 

[gottalovepluto]

Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is going to be a nightmare for CM's trying to police mask wearing, most people will be strolling/eating drinking with mask down or off.

I don’t see them trying around the festival area with anyone with food or beverage. That would be a ridiculous waste of manpower. Anyone not ok walking WS with non-masked people should probably plan on avoiding it...

 

[rteetz]

If I had to bet I guess I'd say no, because of the lack of housekeeping recall.

That doesn’t mean anything. As noted in this thread a recall doesn’t mean they are going back to that exact location. Water park CMs are being called back but water parks aren’t supposed to be opening right away.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Just read on another thread that a guest just opened her MDE to find her resort has been changed.. no call from guest services prior. Just a change.

YC to Poly. EDIT... BC. to Poly.

it wasn’t to Poly DVC?

 

[rteetz]

with it opening July 15 along with the park, I doubt that they would announce today just to cancel next week

They wouldn’t have announced it if they weren’t certain on this.