Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mitsukoshi samurai]

A bit of info on park hoping
Along with what we already know
• Guests must have a Disney Park Pass reservation for the first park they want to visit.
• Guests must enter that first park before visiting another park.
• Guests may visit another park starting at 2 p.m.–park close.

This I believe is new news
Park-to-park bus transportation will be available each day shortly prior to the start of Park Hopper hours.
Cast Members will verify Guests have a ticket or pass with Park Hopper benefits before they board.

No epcot monorail Yet

 

[Oldnewfan]

I'm sure it does. It can't just be Josh doing that from time to time. Josh should be sending out his folks periodically as attendance hits closer to their targets to get a sense of the experience. It's a fine line wanting to gauge the guest experience without putting your corporate/salaried employees in harms way, so to speak.

I totally expect that from Josh. An old throwback to hands on customer focused Parks Manager that loves his job, the Parks and his people. That's what I hear. We need some of that to counter balance the bean counter.

 

[mattpeto]

No epcot monorail Yet

I thought there was a shot of it opening on 1/1. Guess that’s out now. Wonder how long they run with the bus from MK to Epcot and vise-versa.

 

[skeeter31]

I don’t think Disney is expecting too much hopping initially, especially the first 2 months or so as it will probably be a lower guest time. With a large portion of the guest population be local AP holders still, hopping isn’t a priority. And with the reduced park hours, people aren’t going to hop the way they used to. We would still hop when we go for our 2 night trips, but we use our own car and don’t use the busses or monorails.

It’s also a much longer trip in that confined monorail car going from TTC to EPCOT and people most likely wouldn’t want to share a car with another party so the capacity would be pretty low.

 

[figmentfinesse]

I am a serial park hopper but with such short hours for January I think we will forgo it this year.

 

[Heather07438]

We have 9 day hoppers and will probably only use them for Epcot at least 3 times, Walking over from BCV. I'd like to use them more but it's hard to work in with short park hours. I doubt many ppl will hop to AK w/5pm closing during the week.

The crazy thing is we'll use for food at EP, lol. It's like a $30 surcharge for the privilege to spend money on food per person each night.
In the big picture tho it affords us more time in the other parks. Yummm, kool-aid We only have 1 ropedrop planned for EP, 3 at MK, 3 at HS and 2 at AK. The 3rd HS is our last day... may change our reservation or hop.

 

[Khobbs18]

New “It’s a small world” facade revealed.

 

[Khobbs18]

also “themed” plexiglass barriers in the PP line now

 

[yulilin3]

No epcot monorail Yet

Not announced so far

 

[Wreckem]

The 32 degree wind chill has scared the people away from the parks this morning. 10 minutes after official park opening and FOP is still 15 minutes.

I myself am dragging. But headed that way.

 

[osufeth24]

Merry Christmas you filthy animals.

Not all of us may get along, but everyone here is amazing.

 

[Wreckem]

Arrived at AK 50 minutes after official opening(7:50) and FOP was still at 20 minutes.

Edit: Essentially two hours in and while it says 30 minutes actually going through it’s still essentially walk on.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

From what others have said in the past, actual Christmas morning can be pretty empty in then parks even in normal year, but will build during the day.

Have a great day everyone there!

 

[Wreckem]

From what others have said in the past, actual Christmas morning can be pretty empty in then parks even in normal year, but will build during the day.

Have a great day everyone there!

This is my third year in a row to be at Animal Kingdom on Christmas Day. Now that I think about it I have been at a Disney park the last five Christmas days. The other days were MK and Paris.

At AK in Xmas day it has never been this dead. You still had the rope drop crush that put FoP to 2hrs+ at park opening. This morning everything but Navi River journey has been walk-on all morning. Which for some of the rides is typical but not FoP. The only time I’ve ever been able to do FoP back to back to back in less than a hour would be during AK After Hours.

 

[rpb718]

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New “It’s a small world” facade revealed.

Nice facade, but doesn't compare with SW at DL - especially at night during Christmas time.

And while not intended, the father in the foreground carrying the kid that looks to be down for the count conjures up the ghost of Christmas past for many I suspect.

 

[CarolynFH]

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New “It’s a small world” facade revealed.

More like Disneyland! DH and I like it!

 

[yulilin3]

18k expected attendance at SW today (people with reservations) it'll probably be more like 25k. Park capacity is 40k pre covid
Im here 9am until 10:30pm. Send pixie dust
Feliz Navidad!!

 

[Spaghetti Cat]

Nice facade, but doesn't compare with SW at DL - especially at night during Christmas time.

The IASW entryway in California is really exceptional. The clock ticking us just so surreal, It's the kind of thing that I would never expect to be built nowadays.

 

[CarolynFH]

18k expected attendance at SW today (people with reservations) it'll probably be more like 25k. Park capacity is 40k pre covid
Im here 9am until 10:30pm. Send pixie dust
Feliz Navidad!!

 

[rteetz]

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