Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[TISHLOVESDISNEY]

Were there any spots at 1? I just looked and nothing popped up

At home at 1: It let me get to my party, still missing 2 people, and had a JOIN button under my people. I didn't push that incase it really had me join.

 

[StephenM84]

Were there any spots at 1? I just looked and nothing popped up

I was able to click join boarding group but everyone but my wife's name showed on my list. I backed out and clicked join again and she showed up but when I clicked to join a group it said nothing was left. This all happened in under 30 seconds at 1 o'clock

 

[DGsAtBLT]

It should still get something.

I’m nervous, lol.

It’s a shame that all this cutting is due to something completely out of their control (unlike normal cuts, lol). It feels so much sadder, thinking back to when they announced all the plans for Epcot.

 

[wareagle57]

All 1:00 boarding groups gone in the first minute

try first second. Had the join button and party selected immediately. Actually got through unlike at 10:00. But just kept getting error. This is ridiculous.

 

[anthony2k7]

I guess it’s fair to say Disney had a moment of reflection...
https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/spac...poppins-attraction-cut-from-epcot-experience/

They can delay Mary Poppins forever if they want, but spaceship earth is still gonna need a refurb of some kind at some point soon.

 

[SarahC97]

I was thinking the same thing. It may have more attractions that it used to, but more than half of the experiences are out of service now and most of the day is spent waiting in a line. It's definitely making me rethink whether to even bother going to DHS next month.

I really want to try to ride Rise when we're there in a couple of weeks, but I definitely do not feel the need to be there at rope drop. I also have us scheduled for two days there, but if we can ride Rise the first day, I may skip the second. Or from the sounds of the drops for Rise VQ's today, I may just have to be OK with not riding it at all.

 

[anthony2k7]

I wonder how much higher park reservation capacity is today at DHS than the max throughput of ROTR is?

Seems quite likely many people will be disappointed at this point.

 

[Flamingeaux]

How did the 1 for RotR go???

 

[Ksims616]

try first second. Had the join button and party selected immediately. Actually got through unlike at 10:00. But just kept getting error. This is ridiculous.

exactly! We got told 10am groups were full at exactly 1:00. Backed out tried again and got the same error messsge from this morning. Very frustrating.

 

[LSUmiss]

Why is everyone so interested in DHS? Last time I checked there’s no ride called Carpets of Aladdin there

Happy to report we were able to walk on Carpets this morning!

 

[andyman8]

How did the 1 for RotR go???

Gone within a minute. Attraction also has experienced a number of delays today (what's new).

 

[Farro]

I guess it’s fair to say Disney had a moment of reflection...
https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/spac...poppins-attraction-cut-from-epcot-experience/

I'm selfishly thrilled about Spaceship Earth!!! I wanted to be able to ride it one last time before the big change. It's one of the rides that made the biggest impression on me as a child.

Hopefully it's open next year.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283433327190585345

 

[Marionnette]

Looks like a lot of people may have left DHS after failing to get a BP at 1:00. Wait times for other attractions are much more reasonable (with the exception of MMRR).

RotR just went down. Josh and Jen from ResortTV 1 are not having a good day.

 

[Arguetafamily]

I was thinking the same thing. It may have more attractions that it used to, but more than half of the experiences are out of service now and most of the day is spent waiting in a line. It's definitely making me rethink whether to even bother going to DHS next month.

Me too! If it weren't for my Brother and Sister in laws first time and hubby not experiencing Rise yet, and, the boys having a reservation at droid depot - guess allot of ands, but still

 

[wareagle57]

exactly! We got told 10am groups were full at exactly 1:00. Backed out tried again and got the same error messsge from this morning. Very frustrating.

Long long lines at every guest experience. I can’t imagine they’ll actually do anything for those people. But there was either a terrible problem with the app for lots of people or the capacity is just so low it’s unable to accomodate anywhere near the % of guests as before.

 

[kariyava]

Is Jedi Training open at DHS?

 

[MickeyWaffles]

I guess it’s fair to say Disney had a moment of reflection...
https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/spac...poppins-attraction-cut-from-epcot-experience/

I love SSE as-is, but I gave it a proper goodbye on our February visit and was ready for the refurb.

The bright side is that people who weren’t expecting to be able to say goodbye to it still have time to enjoy it!

 

[andyman8]

Looks like a lot of people may have left DHS after failing to get a BP at 1:00. Wait times for other attractions are much more reasonable (with the exception of MMRR).

I really think we have to wait a few more days to get firmer idea of what the regular Guest traffic patterns are going to be at DHS. Today you obviously had a large sum of people showing up well before park open, and I don't think that trend will continue to the extent we saw today. While actual attendance numbers likely will not change much in the coming weeks, I think crowd distribution might change quite a bit. That's already what we've seen with MK and DAK. Even at DHS, I think you're going to see waits drop quite a bit after 4pm in the coming days.

Also, for the record, Rise and MMRR are both down right now. Hopefully, they can at least get the kinks of MMRR ironed out in the coming days.

 

[karly05]

Bye Bye Mary Poppins, we hardly knew ye.

I still refuse to give up hope that Mary Poppins will eventually find her way to the U.K. It may be years and years (and years) and it may be quite different from the original plan, but I still believe someday there will be a MP attraction.