Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[jlwhitney]

Agree. But we all know that's not reality. Many employees more or less force their sick employees to work. And many others can't afford to take time off without pay.

schools do it also, the our parents/kids in situations that make it less than ideal to stay home so off they go sick.

 

[RamblingMad]

Agree. But we all know that's not reality. Many employees more or less force their sick employees to work. And many others can't afford to take time off without pay.

It’s an American work ethic thing. You suck it up and don’t let anyone down. I know folks that have been going into the office this whole time. Now, this mentality is finally going away at least for a bit. But it’s a huge cultural change. Imagine the Disney employees in the future sent home with a fever during flu season. It’s going to take some time to adjust to this change.

 

[birostick]

 

[Dave006]

and that was all that was announced.. Phase 1...

Now on to Q & A.

The full report will be available later tonight or early in the morning, Phase 1, 2, 3.

Dave

 

[HuskieJohn]

So in terms of WDW parks... SWGE Cantina and BBB cannot reopen...right?

 

[jerry557]

It’s an American work ethic thing. You suck it up and don’t let anyone down. I know folks that have been going into the office this whole time. Now, this mentality is finally going away at least for a bit. But it’s a huge cultural change. Imagine the Disney employees in the future sent home with a fever during flu season. It’s going to take some time to adjust to this change.

Some of that is because of financials. Some people don't have sick pay and cant afford to miss work (especially part-time employees). But also it is because many companies tend to run on basically skeleton crews for their staffing. So there is tremendous pressure for employees not to miss work.

 

[jlwhitney]

and that was all that was announced.. Phase 1...

Now on to Q & A.

The full report will be available later tonight or early in the morning, Phase 1, 2, 3.

Dave

How much time do they need to get this done? Should have had the whole report ready for the press conference.

 

[rteetz]

So in terms of WDW parks... SWGE Cantina and BBB cannot reopen...right?

Theme parks likely won’t be opening in Phase 1 anyways.

 

[Dave006]

So in terms of WDW parks... SWGE Cantina and BBB cannot reopen...right?

Not in Phase 1 as of now but the metrics in the "Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step Plan for Florida's Recovery Plan" will be continuously evaluated as we go forward.

Dave

 

[yulilin3]

Theme parks likely won’t be opening in Phase 1 anyways.

100% Phase 1 starts Monday, the theme parks are not opening then. I believe we are still looking at June for parks reopening, with their own guidelines

 

[cakebaker]

I’m surprised he didn’t address tourism or theme parks specifically at all. What you see on the screenshot above is all the information we have.

 

[Pickle Rick]

Theme parks likely won’t be opening in Phase 1 anyways.

if gyms and salons aren’t, definitely not theme parks. Probably phase 3 for them.

 

[Dave006]

How much time do they need to get this done? Should have had the whole report ready for the press conference.

The report is done just not available to the public at this moment. Appears to be a distributed process to allow all invested parties to have the information first.

Dave

 

[cakebaker]

if gyms and salons aren’t, definitely not theme parks. Probably phase 3 for them.

There’s no way to know what phase will allow them to open, but he did say he hoped a matter of weeks between phases. If that’s true, phase 3 could easily be reached within a month - still setting WDW to open by June. Maybe the report will shed more light.

 

[Krandor]

if gyms and salons aren’t, definitely not theme parks. Probably phase 3 for them.

Yeah phase 3 had always been the time for theme parks. Until concerts and theaters and the like can open theme parks are going to be a tough sale. and I'l love to see them open but only when it's safe which is likely june/july IF all this reopening doesn't spike cases. The next 2 weeks in many states the numbers are going to be interesting to watch.

 

[jerry557]

DeSantis says he sees this progressing in "weeks, not months." So we will likely be phase two by mid to late May.

 

[wdw_dine_junkie]

Was hoping to hear about FL state parks system but nothing yet. Perhaps Phase 2.

 

[Pickle Rick]

There’s no way to know what phase will allow them to open, but he did say he hoped a matter of weeks between phases. If that’s true, phase 3 could easily be reached within a month - still setting WDW to open by June. Maybe the report will shed more light.

the phases will go by the actual data. And i said probably phrase 3. And Disney will open when they feel it’s safe to do so.

 

[jlwhitney]

DeSantis says he sees this progressing in "weeks, not months." So we will likely be phase two by mid to late May.

I bet 2 weeks for phase1, so little is changing so will make it easy for numbers to go up

 

[jerry557]

if gyms and salons aren’t, definitely not theme parks. Probably phase 3 for them.

It's not really being done necessarily by business type but by whether or not a business can abide by the guidelines of the phase. In other words, like DeSantis said, a hair salon can stay open even right now and sell their hair products. But because of the social distancing issue, they can't cut the hair.

Basically, Disney can open whenever it wants as long as they are ready to do so and they can hold to the guidelines of that phase. Theme parks likely are not going to open in Phase 1. Phase 2 they could possibly depending on the guidelines they develop and are approved by the governor.