Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Mit88]

 

[Mit88]

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The VOID at DTD shut down for good for breach of contract. Could affect Disney Springs location as well

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Interesting...and also dumb.

I am wondering if this affects if and when Citrico's would open. Also, Enchanted Rose was slated to open, and I am sure it would have vantage points of the players.

The bubble was supposed to be about safety. Well now, (coming from the NBA, I'm sure), they want it to be 100% completely private, and they don't even want to be seen or have people catch a glimpse of them? If they wanted things to be SO private that no mere human being could see them, they should have chosen different resorts. If they want nice resorts, they should be fine with, and understand that people are going to sometimes have a visual glimpse of them.

Geesh.

To be fair this is just coming from a server at the restaurant there and could be something false that she’s heard or her own interpretation. And like other resorts, we don’t know that GF would even have opened on the resort side if the NBA was not there.

If they really did need 100% privacy to the point nobody would get a glimpse of them, they would not have stuck them in a shared DVC resort with parts open (restaurants) to the general public. Also has the monorail going through providing views of the property. There are more isolated places they could have been (although less appealing in other ways).

 

[chicagoshannon]

Okay I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that kind of sounded like phone CM knowledge

yeah. I also think it's silly that they think so many people want to stalk the sportsball players. I'm sure there are a few but the majority of us just want to have a nice vacation after being locked up for months!

 

[RWinNOLA]

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Care to provide cliff notes? Reading on phone and can’t read any of that.

 

[Mit88]

Care to provide cliff notes? Reading on phone and can’t read any of that.

The VOID is shutting down forever at DTD and possibly Disney Springs after a breach of contract

 

[mmackeymouse]

@yulilin3 showed Enchanted Rose in her livestream yesterday and most of the windows were covered with a translucent film so you couldn’t see out them.

Oh how lovely.....grrrrrrrr.

I was actually thinking more about the patio, but I'm sure that won't be open. So basically a nice restaurant or lounge with a view is not gonna happen.

 

[chicagoshannon]

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The VOID at DTD shut down for good for breach of contract. Could affect Disney Springs location as well

I can't read any of that (old eyes again) What did they breach?

 

[Mit88]

I can't read any of that (old eyes again) What did they breach?

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I know we kinda laughed at the highest ranking teams getting the moderate resort, but I can see why GDT is far and away the most appealing especially for teams expected to stay a while. Locked completely down, and they get the entire Coronado Springs property right?

GF has the issues being discussed, staying at YC but the entire Crescent Lake walk being out of bounds for you would be sad. Disclaimer that I am not asking anyone to feel sorry for millionaires

 

[Runnsally]

I don’t think people fully grasp the effect the potential NBA deal will have on WDW opening to the public. It’s not like they’ll cram the entire league into Coronado Springs and call it a day. The NBA would likely take over the entire resort and push the public opening (at least on the resort side) back significantly. That being said, I think there are too many reasons for this not to happen...

This one aged pretty well!

 

[rteetz]

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[Tjddis]

It’s all because in March/April we couldn’t test, so we only know some states “weren’t bad” in retrospect.

I find myself in a somewhat unique position here as a person who is both extremely concerned about the rising case numbers (which I believe), and is still heading to WDW next week.

The way I see it (as a PhD molecular biologist) is we’ll be fortunate to have a safe, effective and readily available vaccine in two year’s time. For our physical and emotional health, our family will have to take some calculated risks during that period. That’s our situation.

Perhaps naive, but I do trust Disney to reduce the risks of transmission as well as anyone can (their years of data on crowd control alone puts them miles ahead of most travel destinations). We’re also currently in a travel “honeymoon” period where hotels, theme parks, airlines (go Delta!) still have the free cash to burn to make full-throated efforts at social distancing. That’s not going to be the case months from now, let alone a year.

So, knowing this could be our last opportunity for a trip for 1+ years, we’re going. But we’ll be taking just about every precaution we can for the next week until we leave, while we’re there and for at least two weeks after we get back.

Hope everyone here makes the best choices for themselves and their family and feels confident in those choices. That’s the best any of us can do right now, regardless of what those choices are.

I would not call you naive. You put in all your calculations and made what you feel is the best decision for you. It’s different than my decision but I don’t think it means you are incorrect. Best of luck and I hope it comes off without incident for you.
But I do remain struck by the irony that given the numbers it would seem they are opening in a worse situation, empirically, than when they closed.

 

[chicagoshannon]

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Thanks but could you make the background castle salmon instead? Seriously though that really helped!

 

[Dulcee]

It’s all because in March/April we couldn’t test, so we only know some states “weren’t bad” in retrospect.

I find myself in a somewhat unique position here as a person who is both extremely concerned about the rising case numbers (which I believe), and is still heading to WDW next week.

The way I see it (as a PhD molecular biologist) is we’ll be fortunate to have a safe, effective and readily available vaccine in two year’s time. For our physical and emotional health, our family will have to take some calculated risks during that period. That’s our situation.

Perhaps naive, but I do trust Disney to reduce the risks of transmission as well as anyone can (their years of data on crowd control alone puts them miles ahead of most travel destinations). We’re also currently in a travel “honeymoon” period where hotels, theme parks, airlines (go Delta!) still have the free cash to burn to make full-throated efforts at social distancing. That’s not going to be the case months from now, let alone a year.

So, knowing this could be our last opportunity for a trip for 1+ years, we’re going. But we’ll be taking just about every precaution we can for the next week until we leave, while we’re there and for at least two weeks after we get back.

Hope everyone here makes the best choices for themselves and their family and feels confident in those choices. That’s the best any of us can do right now, regardless of what those choices are.

I’m just going to say ditto to everything you said. Also a PhD biologist, concerned but still traveling with precautions and well aware this is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[LSUmiss]

Would you be concerned if someone in front of you on a ride removed their mask during the ride when you couldn’t move any farther away from them? I’m just pointing out that people may encounter some unavoidably risky situations.

No b/c I don’t think this will be a huge issue on small world or HM or rides like that. We don’t ride roller coasters since DS is 2.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I know this is somewhat old news, but do we know why that small handful of MLS players managed to test positive when they were already at Swolphin? I thought before entering the bubbles the players had to be cleared and quarantined beforehand as well, is that not the case? Just an NBA thing?

 

[1GoldenSun]

yeah. I also think it's silly that they think so many people want to stalk the sportsball players. I'm sure there are a few but the majority of us just want to have a nice vacation after being locked up for months!

I wouldn't even recognize a single one of them except for their height. I'd see a very tall guy and be like "Hey look, it's...a basketball player!"

 

[mmackeymouse]

I know this is somewhat old news, but do we know why that small handful of MLS players managed to test positive when they were already at Swolphin? I thought before entering the bubbles the players had to be cleared and quarantined beforehand as well, is that not the case? Just an NBA thing?

So, I have read so many different things. But, one article I read said that Swolphin IS the quarantine. That...when players arrive, they are taken to the hotel to do their quarantine.

But, assuming that's not the case....I am sure it's just like anything else.....you can be tested, tested, tested.....and maybe you had an unusually long incubation period....maybe some incidental contact happened. Who really knows.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I wouldn't even recognize a single one of them except for their height. I'd see a very tall guy and be like "Hey look, it's...a basketball player!"

If it was hockey players, I’d book a room with a view