Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Brianstl]

It is early, but FOP is at 65 minutes right now.

 

[rpb718]

ah, so I'm back to being baffled by your doom and gloom outlook

Depends on what your definition of "doom and gloom" is. Frankly, the status of the parks including the reduced experiences and hours and mitigation methods implemented currently are well beyond what would have been derided as a "doom and gloom" negative outlook several months ago when posted to this thread.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302228687316750336

 

[brockash]

They could. They won’t

Look at Universal and SeaWorld. They’re laying employees off. You think Disney is going to bring more in? No chance. The employees on furlough are better off staying that way because theyre getting paid. If they come back for 1 busy weekend, theyre out of a job next weekend because they dont have seniority over the CMs currently working at the parks. Its sad, but its just the way it is

I don't think you understood my posts. I was talking about current employees that are already working...they could offer to give them more hrs.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302231757954199554

 

[MrsBooch]

Depends on what your definition of "doom and gloom" is. Frankly, the status of the parks including the reduced experiences and hours and mitigation methods implemented currently are well beyond what would have been derided as a "doom and gloom" negative outlook several months ago when posted to this thread.

confused - so are you saying they are far worse than we ever thought possible? Or better than the worst we thought it could be.

 

[Eric Smith]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/12579785/orlando-theme-parks-hotel-disney-universal-empty/
The Sun is one of the UKs most popular news papers/news websites. Almost all their readers will not be the hard core Disney fans who have been watching vloggers or reading here to get a more indepth view, but a significant amount will be the more average disney guest that disney desperately need to return.

Isn’t the Sun a tabloid?

 

[KBoopaloo]

confused - so are you saying they are far worse than we ever thought possible? Or better than the worst we thought it could be.

I believe the poster is saying that there were many posters on this thread who months ago said they expected reduced experiences, etc when the parks reopened including closed resorts and limited hours and at the time they were told they were full of doom and gloom but they turned out to be correct in some areas.

 

[rpb718]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302228687316750336

As park capacity increases slowly, at some point walking through MK will be impossible without hitting an extended queue for some ride.

 

[rpb718]

I believe the poster is saying that there were many posters on this thread who months ago said they expected reduced experiences, etc when the parks reopened including closed resorts and limited hours and at the time they were told they were full of doom and gloom but they turned out to be correct in some areas.

This is correct. The worse "doom and gloom" speculated from early in this thread (mostly around May) would be the possibility that WDW would stay closed for the rest of 2020. I never would have thought that, but the mandatory m-word debate here was long and hard. And then WDW went places that no one saw coming - like all ADRs being cancelled or FP+ going away and the park hours being reduced as much as they are and limited resorts with many parts still closed.

And here it is already September and DL is still not open.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Make a Patchwork quilt with them.

They are getting stuffed in a drawer hopefully never to be seen again. (Burning them at a non-socially distanced bonfire with tons of friends would be my preference but since I’m pandemic-scared I will not be able to convince myself to dispose of them. Just in case.)

 

[Mit88]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302228687316750336

This is how the queue was set up last Friday, or at least taped off in the same way.

Isn’t the Sun a tabloid?

The Sun is the newspaper that you find in grocery store lines that at least once a month has Nostradamus on the cover with a headline saying that a meteor is going to hit us this month and its been predicted for centuries

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302242550351368192

 

[gottalovepluto]

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[Farro]

I will read all reviews of this weekend and try to take with a grain of salt.

The extremely good, rosy, nothing was wrong, it was perfect - probably overkill. These may be people who think Disney should just open up everything, start the shows, get rid of masks...

The extremely bad, I touched someone walking past, now I have covid -probably overkill. These may be people who watched the EXTREMELY low crowd levels of the beginning days and are peeved they can't have them.

I'm sure there will be crowded situations, guests taking off masks. Hopefully Disney uses this as a learning experience so they know best how to handle the bigger crowds when they increase capacity. Which I assume we all want eventually...

 

[gottalovepluto]

It’s a little concerning that they are recommending private transportation. Does anyone know if this was sent out to all resort guests, or just specific resorts?

I’m concerned too but I can’t see a good fix honestly. There are no major holidays after this so no reason to bring on employees in a seasonal/part time matter. It would be a matter of training them, starting up more transportation that has been left idle and then shutting it all down after like a week because everyone isn’t coming back for a couple months when holidays hit.

That said I do think Disney should get its EP friendship boats running and those CMs wouldn’t be for a weekend. BCV/YC/BWV/Swolphin are enough to justify that. And the fact they had planned to open them means they have a COVID game plan. In this they’re just being cheap.

I would be legit concerned if we start seeing that warning again within the next couple months after this weekend is done.

 

[Brianstl]

I honestly expected far worse wait times than we are seeing so far today.

 

[osufeth24]

Arriving at Epcot now. Most packed I've seen epcot since reopen

 

[Mit88]

Navi river and Dinosaur being 60 and 45 minutes respectively kind of shows that crowds are up today. Has Dinosaur even reached above 20 minutes since the reopen?

 

[JM23457]

...And then WDW went places that no one saw coming - like all ADRs being cancelled or FP+ going away and the park hours being reduced as much as they are and limited resorts with many parts still closed.

FP+ going away has been a boon to the WDW experience imo.