Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mitsukoshi samurai]

what about f&w

 

[shanes17]

Parks in Florida will open by July.

Tide is turning.

Tag me and bookmark it.

It’ll be magical

 

[hereforthechurros]

This will definitely be a challenge. Crops that would normally be on the way to processors to be forwarded on to restaurants and places like Disney are sitting the fields rotting or are being diverted to charitable organizations because the farmers have nowhere to send it to process/stage sending out to their normal customers. I'm not a farmer but I assume they cycle crops where they can to have something they can sell as close to year round as possible but they would have to wait for those other crops to be ready to harvest and have somewhere to send them.
Disney can certainly tweak their menus for some missing items or source them somewhere else but it takes time to get those things done. I would assume they are probably planning for this already to some extent.

There’s a large farm/institute near me that supplies WDW with produce. One of many I’m sure. They’re growing their crops as usual and doing a CSA/produce delivery type situation with what they have until restaurants are ordering again. Hope that if I see a reduction in their advertising of that service that it means they’re receiving orders again.

 

[whodatdare]

I know some have been mentioning that WDW could start by opening just for resort guests. How hard would it be to get a room if that happened? Do you think they'd get swamped or would it be pretty easy? Considering rebooking our trip for July.

 

[gottalovepluto]

There’s a large farm/institute near me that supplies WDW with produce. One of many I’m sure. They’re growing their crops as usual and doing a CSA/produce delivery type situation with what they have until restaurants are ordering again. Hope that if I see a reduction in their advertising of that service that it means they’re receiving orders again.

Ouch. In the produce world that stuff doesn’t keep

 

[Aurora0427]

I understand things have changed but it’s interesting that when California first announced their gathering ban they exempted Disneyland. Disney then voluntarily closed the parks of course. But it could provide some insight into where Disney parks will rank when things slowly start to reopen as perhaps they aren’t deemed as risky as say a movie theater where people are all in one room for hours. Just a thought...

edit: just saw this was already mentioned!

Disneyland didn’t voluntarily close. They had to close due to the order issued by the City of Anaheim. They probably would’ve closed anyway, but it wasn’t just this voluntary thing Disney did.

 

[Searc]

From what I’ve seen of the planning process from much smaller enterprises, we will see the opening process unfold weeks in advance. Awakening an operation the size of WDW will be a Herculean effort. The volume of food and supply orders alone will sound the opening bell weeks in advance—never mind allowing for the problems we are having with supply chains. If anything is going to be open in June, news reports of them “firing up the boilers” will surface soon.

They won't furlough 70,000 employees only to call them back 10 days later.

 

[juice0358]

There’s a large farm/institute near me that supplies WDW with produce. One of many I’m sure. They’re growing their crops as usual and doing a CSA/produce delivery type situation with what they have until restaurants are ordering again. Hope that if I see a reduction in their advertising of that service that it means they’re receiving orders again.

This is good info. Keep us updated.

 

[juice0358]

Like I mentioned earlier, sports will be announcing starts this week, PGA is announcing they will start June 11th, first tournament will have no crowds.

Things are in motion
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/sources-pga-tour-to-announce-june-restart-to-2020-season

I admire your enthusiasm/optimism, but Golf starting without crowds in mid June only reassures me that Disney will not open before July.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Disneyland didn’t voluntarily close. They had to close due to the order issued by the City of Anaheim. They probably would’ve closed anyway, but it wasn’t just this voluntary thing Disney did.

I must have missed that. I still can’t find it. Can you link the City of Anaheim’s closure/stay at home notice from before DLR closed please?

 

[CAQDaddy]

If Disney can survive the US post 9/11, they can survive post COVID-19

My family of 5 went in early November 2001 and it was FANTASTIC!
The security seemed strange to us, but it went pretty smoothly.
The crowds were so low. It was the best trip we ever had.

 

[hereforthechurros]

I must have missed that. I still can’t find it. Can you link the City of Anaheim’s closure/stay at home notice from before DLR closed please?

Same. Both CA and Anaheim banned large gatherings but I can’t find anything saying an order was issued for Disneyland to close. Only that Disneyland was exempt from that ruling. Perhaps Anaheim was set to ask them to close but I can’t find any documentation of that.

 

[xuxa777]

I admire your enthusiasm/optimism, but Golf starting without crowds in mid June only reassures me that Disney will not open before July.

My guess Is still parks in July , Disney Springs mid May

 

[Josh125]

I will be surprised if they open prior to a therapeutic drug being approved. Potentially not before a vaccine. I hope I am wrong.

 

[Aurora0427]

I must have missed that. I still can’t find it. Can you link the City of Anaheim’s closure/stay at home notice from before DLR closed please?

@DLgal ???? I think you told me this on another post???? Am I getting the information incorrect?? I may be! Apologies if I misunderstood something. She is local to OC and is more knowledgeable than I.

 

[Aurora0427]

Same. Both CA and Anaheim banned large gatherings but I can’t find anything saying an order was issued for Disneyland to close. Only that Disneyland was exempt from that ruling. Perhaps Anaheim was set to ask them to close but I can’t find any documentation of that.

I asked the poster who is local to OC and very knowledgeable. I may be misunderstanding. Apologies if I am!

 

[rteetz]

Roughly 800 Equity Actors from Walt Disney World Will Join Thousands of Cast Members to be Furloughed April 19th

 

[hereforthechurros]

I asked the poster who is local to OC and very knowledgeable. I may be misunderstanding. Apologies if I am!

No apologies needed! If they closed by order it’s news to me, but doesn’t mean it’s not true.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

If Disney can survive the US post 9/11, they can survive post COVID-19

We are currently having a greater than 9/11 fatality level in the US every 48 hours. This is many orders of magnitude worse than 9/11.

 

[midnight star]

@DLgal ???? I think you told me this on another post???? Am I getting the information incorrect?? I may be! Apologies if I misunderstood something. She is local to OC and is more knowledgeable than I.

No apologies needed! If they closed by order it’s news to me, but doesn’t mean it’s not true.

https://thekingdominsider.com/calif...t-exempt-from-recent-ban-on-large-gatherings/
There was an article by the OC Register but I can't find it. But here is an article stating places like DL, casinos, and theaters were exempt from the initial ban.