Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[KrissyD715]

I'm curious about water parks and park hopping.

 

[SarahC97]

I missed it -- can someone tell me what was said about resorts?

 

[Krandor]

His exact wording was "plenty of hotels that will not reopen" - so if we're really getting into semantics, plenty would mean just enough to house the NBA/MLS - could be 1 or 3 or 10 (I know, I'm sure it won't be 10)

Plenty is no all the NBA at CSR or at CSR at one more. That directly sounds like hotel consolidation which most on here expected. If you want to control capacity at the parks, lower capacity at resorts helps.

 

[jlwhitney]

Chapek expects to see the same demand at WDW as Shanghai with the masks and restrictions. I am thinking that is very optimistic as mask are very common in Asia as opposed to here in the US. It will be much more of a determent to demand here as opposed to Shanghai.

Yup he has lost his mind.

 

[LSUmiss]

I am not surprised by the reservation system. I mentioned on here I thought they might put it in after I heard 6 flags was doing it. I know it stinks as a guest but the truth is for the theme park it is a good move. It will be much easier to control capacity. I was actually surprised that universal and sea world are not. I think it will be very difficult trying to navigate telling people they can't get in that day.

I know we don't have any answers on resorts yet but I have a feeling resorts might open a little later. I honestly think this is a way for them to open up to locals first. This will help with capacity for experimentation. I agree I think they were going to open later but Universal threw them off.

Then they need to stop taking reservations!

 

[e_yerger]

I would hope they start shuffling guests around if their resort is affected before they accept new reservations. Perhaps that's what is happening now with people seeing resorts unavailable for booking?

We are throwing around the idea of extending our trip by 2 nights. In fear of losing the ability to book, I just scrambled and booked those two nights.

We made a 2 night reservations at POP for July 28 - 30th

 

[tinkerhon]

Chapek speaks, but doesn’t actually say much. lol!

ooooooooo. He just said

plenty of hotels that will not open

Ok, now I better get a full refund for my (no parkage) park tickets

 

[Krandor]

Then they need to stop taking reservations!

I think you are going to see that in the next few days. Tomorrow may be brutal on cancellations/moves.

 

[woody337]

I missed it -- can someone tell me what was said about resorts?

Sadly....nothing worth hearing.

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

Where did someone see that Chapek was going to be in Bloomberg soon?

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

What annoyed me about what he said was he implied that since nobody is canceling their reservations, that he expects the demand to be there. That was a very arrogant thing to say, considering the reason nobody has canceled is because they haven't given details and final measures they are taking. They literally haven't told us much until today, and that still leaves much to be desired. I don't know. I don't like him

 

[TakesFaithTrust&PixieDust]

I’m pleased all four parks will reopen. It gives guests less to complain about and puts more cast members to work. DS was at capacity earlier today but now letting cars in the Orange garage. I think for some masks won’t be an issue and others it will. The solution is not to go to WDW or UO if it’s a problem for you.

 

[LSUmiss]

Would not be surprised one bit if masks are only recommended by July opening.

That’s what I’m thinking. That’s a long way away. We’ll have to see the consensus & data by then.

 

[OnceUponATime15]

My August reservation is at BLT and BRV... What about those?

At this moment I can see BWV; GF, CR & CSR with no availabilityug 1-14

GF, CR & CSR from 15-28 unavailable

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

At this moment I can see BWV; GF, CR & CSR with no availabilityug 1-14

GF, CR & CSR from 15-28 unavailable

What makes you think that they aren't simply sold out?

 

[DGsAtBLT]

There was an article somewhere online about the NBA proposal to play at WDW. The GF is one of the onsite hotels mentioned that the NBA would take over and use. I don't remember them all, but two of the hotels mentioned were the Gaylord and the Four Seasons.

That would be a difficult one.

I can’t imagine they get away with shutting VGF down until the NBA is done, and the GF is multiple buildings with almost everything in the main building. That would be really difficult to keep NBA players in their bubble.

 

[jerry557]

I'm thinking Disney has sent out a significant amount of surveys that have provided them with data that would state otherwise. Disney has access to a lot more information than we do about what people will put up with.

Saying you will wear a mask to WDW on a emailed survey because you hope your vacation won't get cancelled is a lot different than actually going to WDW in July and doing it. With the heat and humidity. It's not going to work and people are underestimating the difficulty of it. Going into a grocery store wearing a mask for 30 minutes is nothing compared to wearing it for hours and hours outside in the sun and sweating. They want kids as young as 3 years old to do this? They will be pulling them off, screaming, etc.. People will be walking around with drinks as an excuse to have it pulled down. etc..

If DS is any indication, they are going to have problems. And all its going to do is cause people to give each other dirty looks and perhaps even cause arguments.

 

[sromanello815]

Im DVC already booked for 8/16-8/22 and I just checked DW website for our dates to see and not a single hotel is showing availibility. Im officially nervous

 

[rteetz]

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...-theme-parks-resort-hotels-and-disney-stores/

 

[Remy is Up]

as I've been saying. Mid July. The only surprise was an agreement to open epcot earlier than planned but that was due to a compromise. There is still a lot of details working. Reservations, more virtual queues, modified fps.