Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[MoeJ]

Well, we are a family of non-locals and we would be driving, avoiding the airport. Also, we are not coming from a hot spot. We had to rebook for May 30th as our March trip was cancelled. Then we had to adjust that to June 1st not long afterwards. I have very little hope that we be able to keep this lastest booking and will be moving it again. We would be ok with an abbreviated experience if not all parks/attractions are open. We have two preschoolers that would be making their first trip. They have no big expectations like the rest of us do and it would be nice to have a trip where we could stretch out our activities over the course of a week.

I hear you. and you are totally justified in being bummed, especially because of having a couple of little ones.

We did similar... back when the closure were announced and I realized DD16 and I would be cancelled (we were originally March 21-24), I re-booked for June 2-6, adding an extra day because I have a little extra scratch from not going out and spending money.

TOTALLY prepared for it to be cancelled and DD and I will put on our big-girl pants, but it is still kind of sad. I haven't been since January 2010. DD has been here and there for class trips, band trips, choir trips, etc. but no overnights for her since she was 6. But honestly, because of the lack of expectations, it would probably be OK for us as well.

So... yay guinea pigs?

 

[OnceUponATime15]

I don’t know.. I have questions. Is opening WDW to just locals & not allowing out of state or international visitors really viable. Locals that include 73,000 who are employed by Disney & maybe just being called back off furlough.. Thousands of others who have not been able to access stimulus money or unemployment insurance and will be playing catch up with monthly bills for months to come... many more who are not like those of us on this forum that make disney a priority. Is that really a good way to restart? Do those who live within an hour or two stay on property at the resorts? Do they shop at DS which is a pretty high end collection of retailers.. Are they attending on discounted tickets that don’t add allot to the bottom line?

I guess I don’t see how it makes economic sense. It looks more like locals being used as guinea pigs to see how the steps being put in place work out before adding others to the mix. Also allowing CMs to adapt to the new constant sanitization practices or changes in operating procedures that will have to be put in place.

I’m a disney lifer, it is my happy place 100%. Nothing would make me happier then to see things go so well that I could start planning & make my annual birthday/christmas trip in December. My June trip is now a no go and I won’t book anything before a December trip - so I can get a solid handle on how things will change and what the virus is going to do. So much has happened in the last six weeks and there has been so much speculation without much real hard info, info which has to come from disney.. just bits & random pieces from media, almost all of it very open to interpretation.

It would be nice to have a few words from the lips of the Mouse.

 

[mshanson3121]

why not wait until there’s an actual announcement before concocting what-if scenarios?

LOL. You must be new to this thread

 

[Moliphino]

What resort are you booked for?

Pop.

 

[sun2shine]

I got the same email and I am at Pop too. 11th-17th

 

[Brett Wyman]

I respect whatever Disney feels is the best way to ease back into operations. BUT if they have several weeks or months with "Florida Residents" only allowed Im asking for a full refund on our out of state APs.

 

[Jfldis]

Since we are all speculating I’ll throw mine out there. And it will not be popular. WDW will remain closed all summer. Believe me I don’t want this. I want to make my trip at the end of August. Why do I think I wont
1) can you imagine the PR hit if they open the park and it becomes a hotspot? Taking your temp at the gates means nothing. You can have it and be asymptomatic.
2) Risk management. If they open the park they have to ramp up the expense to re-staff, clean, introduce new procedures and install safeguards etc. huge outlay. and they do all that and then have to close again. Huge expenditure for nothing
3) the airline principal. If they have to extend the current closure past June first they are going to be dealing with tons of po’d customers. Does anybody think June 1 is a real possibility? So they say August First. Then they have to move it again, and tick off more people. Just set a date far enough out that you tick off less customers. Like the airline keeps bumping already cancelled fliers rather than tick off new ones
4). If they open with limited experiences it will cost them n terms of customer satisfaction as well as people cancelling. Can you imagine having to deal with 50% capacity on rides/in restaurants? See the thread bout limited FP availability in June. People will be bailing in droves

hope I’m wrong. Really want to go. Think we will be lucky if they are open by Christmas. I will be following those states opening up soon to see what happens. And for reasons much greater than my vacation plans I wish all those people well in those statea

 

[jamescanuck2001]

Disney can only open when testing can separate out the infected from the non-infected at the property entrances. IMHO.

Or if and when the virus disappears, a viable treatment, or vaccine. Those things aren't likely anytime soon.

 

[marinejjh]

I'm still going with a January 2021 opening. With the CDC chief prediction another round later, I dont see Disney opening with a chance of closing again in the fall, they couldn't afford to do it twice, they would never recover. I follow Disney stock a little, that's not the one I would worry about as much as oil prices dropping, that impacts about everything. I still see Disney stock dropping much more, but don't think it will open until 2021.

 

[wallawallakids]

I'm still going with a January 2021 opening. With the CDC chief prediction another round later, I dont see Disney opening with a chance of closing again in the fall, they couldn't afford to do it twice, they would never recover. I follow Disney stock a little, that's not the one I would worry about as much as oil prices dropping, that impacts about everything. I still see Disney stock dropping much more, but don't think it will open until 2021.

I saw that today and I actually thought this exact same thing. I don’t want this to happen, but with some colleges already talking about canceling fall, with the conversations about moving college football to spring.....I have been worried that Disney might say the same thing. I do wish they would say something about some sort of timeline. I mean if they know for sure they aren’t opening in the summer, I wish they would just say so. Or they could say they would like to open in July and are working hard to do so, but they might not be able to. I get that might get people’s hopes up and maybe people would complain more, but it is really hard to have a reservation that has already been moved because of the closure and to feel so conflicted about it. I don’t see how we can go in July, but I have everything tied up in DVC points which have to be used by October now. I would like to move on if we aren’t able to go. Do something locally or have some other plan. The not knowing is really, really hard for those of us who have already pushed our plans out and sort of know in the back of our heads that this can happen again. I wish I could have scheduled it later, but again, I am stuck with the points.

 

[Spridell]

I respect whatever Disney feels is the best way to ease back into operations. BUT if they have several weeks or months with "Florida Residents" only allowed Im asking for a full refund on our out of state APs.

If Florida decides to do what was said in the conference call this morning (20% -30% occupancy at first in hotels and then 2 weeks later increase if all is well) and Disney decides to open to locals only at first, I don't think it would be more than 2-4 weeks.

 

[Kadorto]

I'm still going with a January 2021 opening. With the CDC chief prediction another round later, I dont see Disney opening with a chance of closing again in the fall, they couldn't afford to do it twice, they would never recover. I follow Disney stock a little, that's not the one I would worry about as much as oil prices dropping, that impacts about everything. I still see Disney stock dropping much more, but don't think it will open until 2021.

Let's hope you're wrong.. the economic damage which has already been done is terrible. The damage from a prolonged closure into 2021 would be devastating. At that point, I don't think any of us will be taking Disney vacations.

 

[mshanson3121]

I saw that today and I actually thought this exact same thing. I don’t want this to happen, but with some colleges already talking about canceling fall, with the conversations about moving college football to spring.....I have been worried that Disney might say the same thing. I do wish they would say something about some sort of timeline. I mean if they know for sure they aren’t opening in the summer, I wish they would just say so. Or they could say they would like to open in July and are working hard to do so, but they might not be able to. I get that might get people’s hopes up and maybe people would complain more, but it is really hard to have a reservation that has already been moved because of the closure and to feel so conflicted about it. I don’t see how we can go in July, but I have everything tied up in DVC points which have to be used by October now. I would like to move on if we aren’t able to go. Do something locally or have some other plan. The not knowing is really, really hard for those of us who have already pushed our plans out and sort of know in the back of our heads that this can happen again. I wish I could have scheduled it later, but again, I am stuck with the points.

Honestly, I don't see it getting people's hopes up any more than they already are! I mean right now, many people literally think they're going to be in the parks in June, because after all - Disney is allowing bookings for June 1st. They actually think there will be a Halloween party, a Christmas party, Food & Wine etc... because "Disney hasn't said otherwise". So they're tying up money in tickets, hotels, planes etc... What Disney should have done was shut down all bookings until further notice. That would have been the honorable thing to do, since they've known since March they would have absolutely zero assurance of a June 1st opening. But they didn't, and we all know why, and honestly, IMO it's pretty crappy of them.... but, I do "get it", too.

 

[rteetz]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/04/walt-disney-world-reopening-could-let-florida-residents-return-first/

 

[Jroceagles]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/04/walt-disney-world-reopening-could-let-florida-residents-return-first/

I wonder what will be leaked from the meeting?

 

[rteetz]

I wonder what will be leaked from the meeting?

There was a public call this morning but Josh D'Amaro was not on the call today. Universal did have an exec on the call. Details on what was discussed by them is in the other thread but they did mention employee health screenings, masks, virtual queues, outdoor queues, ride cleaning/distancing, and more.

 

[WinnieAndMinnie17]

I would 100% agree with this kind of re-opening. The tricky part is probably going to be the international phase of letting guests in. Let all FL residents in and start testing what the new procedures will be and then possibly every 30 days or so to go to the next phase. Going to be interesting to see what comes out of this meeting.

 

[yulilin3]

I wonder what will be leaked from the meeting?

You can listen to the call, it's not closed door, they have live streamed every one so far

 

[WinnieAndMinnie17]

You can listen to the call, it's not closed door, they have live streamed every one so far

Do you know where and a time?

 

[yulilin3]

Do you know where and a time?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2942708629148118