I wondered how they thought they might control shore stop COVID exposure... “rule against guests disembarking at ports unless they’re participating in a guided, MSC-organized shore excursion and remain with the group at all times”
Thank you for the info!!
That’s not how it works at all.
So at MK for example...all rides go down at 11, 1, 3, and 5?
I don't think there's a chance they'll all open this year...I don't even think they'll all be open right away next yr.
And it's important to keep in mind that it's not only tourists who fill Disney Resort rooms. The All-Star Resorts, for example, heavily dependent on large youth groups, sport groups, cheer competition participants, etc... to fill most of their rooms during many times of the year. Those types of events will be some of the last things to come back, given both the nature of the events (large gatherings) and the time required to plan the events. Even if conditions were deemed safe enough for them to occur in March, they still require months of planning, booking, and prep that wouldn't likely begin until conditions are deemed safe. All that is to say it will be a while until all of the Disney Resorts are back open.
Attendance would have to be absolutely abysmal for WDW to cancel the reopenings of GF and CSR since they're essentially already open, just not to the general public. A good chunk of both of the hotels' staff has already been called back and the facilities are being maintained and are in operation. That's why when they rejiggered the resort reopening schedule, these two and YC were the only resorts whose dates stayed firm. Obviously, anything could happen and Disney could call them off, but I'd bet they'd first look to change dates for Polynesian and AoA. I've been told that a lot of it will depend on late September attendance, October bookings, and October attendance. While WDW is prepared for a pretty brutal September, October will likely determine a lot of the immediate plans for the rest of the year and into early 2021.
They may end up filling the All Stars in November and December with college basketball programs. They are working on plans to create a non-conference bubble at WDW that revolves around the early season tournamentS Disney/ESPN runs. Not close to being done yet, but there is movement headed that way.
It definitely wasn't all rides at once, but that was around the time for cleaning cycles. I'm guessing they staggered the cleaning, maybe 15 minutes before/after those hours... because I seem to remember hitting cleaning cycles for multiple rides within those times... luckily some rides are quicker to clean than others, so they're not all down for 20 minutes. Also for rides like small world (loading 2 boats at same time) they were still loading half the boats while cleaning the others, so the ride isn't completely down...just capacity has been limited even more.
Similarly, apparently a family refused to wear masks on a France TGV rail service recently, so they stopped the train and off boarded them in the middle of no where in France
Similarly, apparently a family refused to wear masks on a France TGV rail service recently, so they stopped the train and off boarded them in the middle of no where in France
