Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

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I really hope everyone with tickets through the end of the year doesn’t have to log online at 7am on Monday to book their park reservations. There’s no way their site can handle it. I am going in July and got an email telling me to log on and reserve them. I would have hoped they would do this on a 60 or 90 day rolling window.
 
I really hope everyone with tickets through the end of the year doesn’t have to log online at 7am on Monday to book their park reservations. There’s no way their site can handle it. I am going in July and got an email telling me to log on and reserve them. I would have hoped they would do this on a 60 or 90 day rolling window.

You'd think they'd do that, but Disney isn't known for their exceptional IT. Good luck.
 
I assume they open the system at once to give all those that have resort reservations and/or tickets the first choice of parks. First they serve their costumers who have already put some money down.
After those costumers have their parks locked in, and their rooms, then they start selling new reservations, if there is availability left.

It makes sense to me, to keep the existing costumers happy and at a later time worry about future costumers.
The “if there is availability left” clause is what is giving so many people heartburn. There are a lot of people, especially DVC owners who have a room but no park tickets.
 

I really hope everyone with tickets through the end of the year doesn’t have to log online at 7am on Monday to book their park reservations. There’s no way their site can handle it. I am going in July and got an email telling me to log on and reserve them. I would have hoped they would do this on a 60 or 90 day rolling window.
I just confirmed with a cast member that it will be anyone with a park ticket and hotel thru 9/26/21 but they do not have a starting time. Anytime after 7am est
 
I just confirmed with a cast member that it will be anyone with a park ticket and hotel thru 9/26/21 but they do not have a starting time. Anytime after 7am est
Unfortunately people have been told both ways by phone and chat CMs over the past 2 days. We won’t know for certain until Monday morning.
 
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I really hope everyone with tickets through the end of the year doesn’t have to log online at 7am on Monday to book their park reservations. There’s no way their site can handle it. I am going in July and got an email telling me to log on and reserve them. I would have hoped they would do this on a 60 or 90 day rolling window.
If I was in charge I would have started with two weeks just to exercise the system and make sure those with the very earliest reservations were taken care of. At work we call this a pilot flag. It makes me think IT didn’t build one of these in and now it is too late. So they are going to turn it on for everybody and cross their fingers. The cynic in me says they have limited their communication to limit the load as well. I hope that is not true. This whole thing has the feel of an IT effort in trouble and out of control.
 
Any idea how many days you can book if you're not staying in a disney hotel?
When you’re able to access the park reservation system, you will be able to book as many park days as you have on your tickets. If you are an AP holder, the maximum that you can book at one time is only 3 if you are not staying in a Disney hotel or one of the preferred offsite hotels.
 
Do you think you many be able to get any concrete info on Monday and if only 2020 reservations will be open to book Parks or is it wide open through 2021?
I've been asking about this, because there communication has been somewhat ambiguous to say the least. The "official" answer seems to be that park reservations will be available Monday for days through 9/26/21, but neither I nor anyone else I've talked to can nail that down for certain. Unless Disney comes out with more communication tomorrow, I think the only way we'll know will be folks checking on Monday morning.
 
Park reservations are only available online, correct? Not via phone call? What about the app?

Trying Monday but fully expecting to see Stitch. I actually have Tuesday off so if all else fails, at least I can click refresh all day Tuesday.
This is my plan as well. I will check Monday morning, but if it's the Stitch-Donald-Orbit-Goofy-and-who-knows-what-else-show, I will take time from the beach vacation (sorry, kids, no surfing today!) and get it done.
 
Being optimistic about Monday Morning, in IT there is a "Load" test that is performed on systems before going live to know if the system would be able to handle large capacities. It is interesting to note that as of now with all of the announcements that are trickling in from Disney in the last couple of days, there has not been any outages or lag times on the system.
 
With all the back and forth over which resorts one would qualify as "acceptable", I have to say, I'm good with any WDW resort, especially in these trying times. For those who can't be happy if they are not in a certain resort, I see cancellations as a reasonable alternative.
But see, normally we wouldn’t have to cancel. We could have our “acceptable” resort ( and at 500.00+ a room, I think we should be allowed to say “acceptable ”) As frequent DW travelers, we have our preferences and for certain reasons. If I’m paying 500.00 plus bucks a night for a room because I chose a certain thing about thst specific resort, I think I can look for an “acceptable” alternative. If I would have wanted a value or moderate, I would have selected it originally. And yeah, I will cancel. Because I’m not that “desperate” to go, especially if it’s not the vacation I originally chose. I will just wait for it to open up again.
 
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