Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[TheMaxRebo]

Ya think?

Yeah, but what about that sweet, sweet deposit money?!?!?

 

[Violetspider]

I received the “However, because you have valid Theme Park admission, you will have access to the Theme Park reservation system before new tickets are sold to other Guests.There’s nothing you need to do at this time. We’ll be contacting you soon with details on this new system.” email. We have a DVC reservation with linked tickets in MDE for the last week of September. We hadn’t made any dining reservations to this point.

So far, I can't see much of a difference between our reservation and yours. Ours is at the end of July. I did get the email fairly early on. Maybe they just revised the email as they moved forward on dates? IDK

 

[TheMaxRebo]

@Remy is Up or @rteetz I understand Disney is being cautious and totally am on board with their initial restrictions and on limiting their initial target audience. Any thoughts of those of use with resort stays already booked in 2021 and how long restrictions will be in play. In play till vaccine or treatment readily available, I imagine? Just not sure if I should plan on canceling our 2021 trip and wait till 2022-23 or still hope to be able to keep our trip, we will have a 2 year old in 2021 so we will likely postpone if no characters.

When in 2021? Just ask as I think January might still see restrictions that August 2021 won't. Also obviously very fluid so hard for anyone to know. I think their intentions are to be a full go by the 50th though

 

[MMSM]

For the people who are posting which version of the email they received, it would be helpful if you described your particular reservation. I received the earlier generic email about introducing a new Theme Park reservation system and that I would be provided with early access to book new dining and experiences. We have a DVC points reservation and have new linked APs that have not been initiated yet.

I too got the email that I would have access to reservation. I rented DVC points. However, won’t be going since I am from NY.

 

[Dis5150]

I'm still waiting for ANY email of any kind. I have two rooms booked under the fd bounceback offer at All-star music 9/12-9/19 and so far, only one of the guests in my room was sent the adr/dining plan cancellation email. Hopefully I will hear something at some point. I'm hoping I can switch my resort

This is me too. We are at ASSp on fd from January, 6/26-7/3 and my DD got the first email but not the second. And I haven’t received any. Booked in my name.

 

[charmed59]

If Disney doesn't fully paint the castle before re-opening, then interns must be making all these decisions.
Painting it now while everyone is away makes the most sense since everyone wants a picture with the castle.

I don’t know, I’m thinking a picture with everyone in Disney masks in front of a half painted castle could be iconic.

 

[mhautz]

Yeah, but what about that sweet, sweet deposit money?!?!?

Yeah, I know it's an interest free loan for them. But as they deal with this headache, maybe they're seeing the cost. I'm sure it will all work out.

And they get to create the narrative that people are fighting over the limited capacity, rather than we opened up with reduced capacity and still no one came.

 

[runningstitch]

My ADRs are still all showing EXCEPT Topolino's. I made two of those for two separate trips. Both are gone but nothing else. So curious as to how they are doing this! It seems either strangely inefficient, or purposely precise in an undecipherable way.

 

[cakebaker]

Yeah, but what about that sweet, sweet deposit money?!?!?

Bingo, we have a winner. They will put off cancelling anything they can for as long as they can to encourage ticket sales. It's free money to them. I have a feeling they know full well MNSSHP will not happen. In the meantime, fire up those ticket sales, don't ask for refunds, ya' never know! We can refund later.

 

[Brett Wyman]

My ADRs are still all showing EXCEPT Topolino's. I made two of those for two separate trips. Both are gone but nothing else. So curious as to how they are doing this! It seems either strangely inefficient, or purposely precise in an undecipherable way.

Our Topolino's for September 28th was cancelled. I think they are just taking care of things in batches and waves.

 

[Violetspider]

So far, I can't see much of a difference between our reservation and yours. Ours is at the end of July. I did get the email fairly early on. Maybe they just revised the email as they moved forward on dates? IDK

I might have just answered my own question. My nephew, who is the DVC owner on our trip, received the other email a day after I received mine. His indicates we will have access to the Theme Park reservation system before new tickets are sold to other Guests. No one in our party has received the AP Preview email though. Our APs are linked, but they are all new ( not yet validated). I haven't received AP emails in years though (only received them the first year I was an AP), so this doesn't surprise me. It's either my email address or because our APs have yet to be activated.

 

[mhautz]

Bingo, we have a winner. They will put off cancelling anything they can for as long as they can to encourage ticket sales. It's free money to them. I have a feeling they know full well MNSSHP will not happen. In the meantime, fire up those ticket sales, don't ask for refunds, ya' never know! We can refund later.

Better yet, we might refund to a Gift Card they threw out 7 months ago and they just don't notice.

 

[JPM4]

Most of my ADRs are disappearing as we speak. I think I’m down to 3-4 or left. California grille and le cellier for August are of course still there teasing me. I am curious what we think about AP holders whose passes expired during the closures. I know they said they would be extended during the closure but would we get first access like other pass holders or no? I called and cm didn’t have an answer and I sent an email which I’ll probably get a response sometime in November.

 

[cakebaker]

No one in our party has received the AP Preview email though. Our APs are linked, but they are all new ( not yet validated).

I have a feeling they're excluding vouchers. I didn't get an email with a voucher, both my kids have with activated AP's. I'm glad we're not going so I don't have to get ticked about yet another issue.

 

[mhautz]

I have a feeling they're excluding vouchers. I didn't get an email with a voucher, both my kids have with activated AP's. I'm glad we're not going so I don't have to get ticked about yet another issue.

I'm glad I'm out of state so I don't even think about getting my hopes up about getting into the previews

 

[cakebaker]

I'm glad I'm out of state so I don't even think about getting my hopes up about getting into the previews

We're out of state too, but I could've modified my reservations since we were staying DVC to include a few days before opening. Nope, had enough of it. It took an awful lot to do it, but Disney came through like champs.

 

[Violetspider]

I'm glad I'm out of state so I don't even think about getting my hopes up about getting into the previews

We're out of state as well, but our original reservation would have had us there a few days before opening and therefore might have be able to catch a preview day. Not sure I'd want to go back to our earlier reservation just for that though. I'm not into resort only days myself.

 

[DougLovesYou]

My feeble detective guess at this early stage regarding the similar, yet worded ever so slightly different, emails that folks have been receiving:

I have a (cash) resort package w/ 5 day tickets booked, am not DVC nor an APH. It is for 9/7-9/13 at POFQ, a resort that I cannot see avoiding the chopping block if certain resorts are to remain closed. My ticket dates have not been extended (still say valid thru 9/14/20). Holding hope that we'd just be relocated to an open resort, BUT if others are already at capacity, a reservation such as mine would be super easy for Disney to just cancel outright (simply refund the cash). Seems the hopeful sentence email of priority access to the park reservation system may be going out more to DVC/APHs? Because even some folks who don't have active trips booked that received it may fall into one of the 2 camps above? OR perhaps Disney is waiting to see who cancels around our dates to gauge capacity if we're unfortunate enough to be booked at a resort that will be closed? Or it's just a standard Disney IT kerfuffle...

 

[Brianstl]

Bingo, we have a winner. They will put off cancelling anything they can for as long as they can to encourage ticket sales. It's free money to them. I have a feeling they know full well MNSSHP will not happen. In the meantime, fire up those ticket sales, don't ask for refunds, ya' never know! We can refund later.

I think they are really going to try to make some form of MNSSHP actually happen. That is one way they can actually recover some lost park admission revenue.

 

[Dis5150]

A TA on another thread said there are 6 versions of the email going out.