Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

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Trying to reign it in a bit with some news.

Disney will be opening Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend registration on May 12th, 2020. This race weekend takes place in January but its something to note as the registration was moved due to COVID-19.

Was registration moved ahead or back? Do you think this means they are planning on the race?
 
Was registration moved ahead or back? Do you think this means they are planning on the race?
Moved back. It was originally April 7th I believe.

To note as well: Star Wars Rival Run Weekend would be this weekend and was canceled. Disneyland Paris Princess Run Weekend would have been in early May and was also canceled. The next race on the calendar is Paris Half Marathon Weekend in September and then Wine and Dine in WDW in November.
 

In regards to WDW opening, I don't know whether it's a national decision or a Florida one.

In Florida, cases per day have been declining since March 30. In Orange and Osceola Counties, the same. Hospitals are at about 40 percent capacity. So if it's strictly a Florida decision, there doesn't seem to be much reason to wait past May 1 other than waiting is apparently good in this thing.

Nationally, Bill gates hasn't released today's data, so I don't know what it's going to show. But New York -- where more than half the hospitalizations and deaths are occurring -- apparently is flattening or declining.

I think the reason Disney is taking June reservations is that they fully expect to be open in a serious way June 1. I imagine parts of the company -- like DSS or other ancillaries that have shut down -- to be back in action mid May. As for opening to guests, I don't know if that's limited capacity, or resorts only, or Katie-Bar-the-Door, but I'm confident they'll be open in some way. I know a lot of people think that is a bad decision, but the actual numbers I'm seeing suggest that's the decision they've made.
They have not made a decision and just because numbers are declining slightly doesn't mean you just open everything up like a theme park. The reason numbers are declining are the sacrifices we made quarantining. Florida had 1100 new cases on Monday while under quarantine. If you open a theme park up, I can guarantee you the cases will start to increases again within 14 days.
 
Trying to reign it in a bit with some news.

Disney will be opening Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend registration on May 12th, 2020. This race weekend takes place in January but its something to note as the registration was moved due to COVID-19.

Definitely some good news in all this that they think they can have the arace.
 
I think so! At least it feels like a positive, which is just nice on it's own. :)

When you consider last year registration was in June/July I was expecting them to do that again and wait a bit. So only pushing it a month really does seem positive.. or art least I want it to be a positive. Which I need since my phone just taunted me with a reminder of a POP century checkin tomorrow. :-(
 
Again, you need to stop with this.

By this I mean passing off your opinion as fact. You do not know if that will happen, people aren’t going to hide forever and you’re not helping the situation by posting these types of hypotheticals. You cannot post one piece of factual data that says “this will happen if we do that”.

This virus was in circulation well before we started all this and outside of a few highly populated metros, no hospital was overrun. They are actually laying off workers.

Average age of death outside of NY = over 80 years old.

Stop with the nonsense please
So you're saying open up everything and let what happens happens. Money talks that's all the matters. 🙄. Good thing you don't live in Canada. They plan on keeping some sort of social distancing til we have vaccine or a cure. Restaurants bars and stores will open first with limited capacity and they will go from there. Disney will reopen at some point but with limited capacity, virtual ques and anything that involves large groups in one place will be gone. Disney is going to be on the safe side for awhile @shanes17
 
Trying to reign it in a bit with some news.

Disney will be opening Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend registration on May 12th, 2020. This race weekend takes place in January but its something to note as the registration was moved due to COVID-19.
Agh, that’s a bit earlier than i would have liked, would have preferred to have more time to see what the virus situation was.
 
At the Presidential briefing today, it was said some states will be opening before the end of the month. He will announce more tomorrow. From the actions of the Florida governor closely in line with the President, I would imagine Florida likely to be one of them. If so Disney Springs being open by mid-May at the latest.
 
At the Presidential briefing today, it was said some states will be opening before the end of the month. He will announce more tomorrow. From the actions of the governor closely in line with the President, I would imagine Florida likely to be one of them. If so Disney Springs being open by mid-May at the latest.

I think there will be a significant lag in between when Disney is legally allowed to open and when they do open.
 
I don't know what thread to post this or how this affects WDW, so @rteetz if you need to move or delete that's fine
Today I started working for the Florida Dpt of Health through a staffing agency. I'm at the airport right now, along with nurses and national guard, my job is basically waiting for flights from the hot zones (ny,nj,la,etc) and handing them a pamphlet once they get off the airplane explaining covid symptoms and what to do if they experience them and retrieving from them personal information, address, number of people in group, ages, where they are staying that they filled out during thr flight and telling them they need to isolate for 14 days.
My shift is 6:30am to 3:30pm and the first flight coming from a hot zone is at 1:40pm and only 13 people in it
I asked my supervisor if they have an idea on how long they'll be collecting people's info and she said the government told them about 6 months to maybe a year.
They could obviously drop the quarantine requirement but the gathering of info i believe will continue.
Any questions lmk, I'm bored :D
Which to me is ridiculous as FL has its own hotspots. So with this nonsense, if things continue to calm down here as they have & wdw opens, we can’t go??!
 
Agh, that’s a bit earlier than i would have liked, would have preferred to have more time to see what the virus situation was.
I'd be curious to see if Disney directly addresses this concern in some sort of change in the terms to give piece of mind. It was gracious of them to refund the Star Wars Run fees, but that was hardly necessary. I had a half marathon canceled for May and they made it clear they were not able to offer refunds as it would destroy the underlying non-profit (which is probably true and why I personally am not mad about it).
 
I think there will be a significant lag in between when Disney is legally allowed to open and when they do open.

I agree. The optics/PR nightmare if they open too early ... they are going to need to tread carefully. If Disney opens too early and causes a spike/is the source of massive spread to guests and CMs, they will be viewed as villains putting profits over lives.

They need to be very careful.
 
At the Presidential briefing today, it was said some states will be opening before the end of the month. He will announce more tomorrow. From the actions of the Florida governor closely in line with the President, I would imagine Florida likely to be one of them. If so Disney Springs being open by mid-May at the latest.

I'd be shocked if Florida was one of them. He mentioned 20 States that are in relatively good condition and Florida has the 8th highest total in the Country.
 
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