Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[jade1]

Just found this new wording saying Reservation Required when looking at AP blackout dates.

New wording at the top:


Admission Calendar
Select a pass to see which days you can visit with a park reservation. Our reservation system will be launching soon—please check back to see if your desired date and park are available.

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Sorry didn't you have the "After 4" selected before?

 

[Sandisw]

So...
I just went on MDE and I am able to purchase annual pass (out of state. Platinum or Platinum Plus).
I didn’t purchase them. Followed the prompt up until my credit card would be charged (maybe it’ll stop me there). I have reservations for July and August at FW Cabins. I do not have any tickets purchased or linked. And i have never had Annual passes.
Isn’t this contrary with what is currently being said by Disney? I haven’t seen any mention of new tix or passes being sold.

AP sales opened last week. Why? I don’t know. But i was able to purchase the Gold AP for my DD...we are DVC...and linked it yesterday.

Was going to upgrade her 6 day when we got there, but don’t want to have to stand in line for GS. I’ll save that for another time to use value for my next AP

 

[bernina]

Sorry didn't you have the "After 4" selected before?

I had the silver pass selected for the screenshot and also when I copied the wording. Reservation required is there for all passes on any non blackout days. So platinum for example is just solid green indicating reservation required all days.

 

[Carol Jackson]

Ah yes, the Pop Century peasants.

I totally get what you are saying, but it does crack me up that Pop is super frequently the example for these types of things. I've met just as many clueless people when staying deluxe (if not more, because then we get to add in the we paid xxxx bit), FWIW.

The same thing is going to happen with park reservations that frequently happened with FP+. There will be people who did no prior planning who don't understand why everything isn't in a just walk up and do it format. I feel for the CMs who have to deal with that.

I stay at Pop all the time and I’m a DisBoard Junkie.

 

[RWinNOLA]

Sorry didn't you have the "After 4" selected before?

I don’t have an AP so I’ve never really looked at that calendar until now.

Interesting to note:
- platinum plus and platinum show “Reservations Required” through June 2021.
- gold shows “Reservations Required” through mid December. Blocked out after that.
- silver shows blocked out through 1st week of August. Reservations Required through mid December and blocked out after that.

The EPCOT after 4 is also interesting. Is this something new? If so, it may suggest some limited park hopping to EPCOT on reservation basis only?

 

[AmberMV]

I don’t have an AP so I’ve never really looked at that calendar until now.

Interesting to note:
- platinum plus and platinum show “Reservations Required” through June 2021.
- gold shows “Reservations Required” through mid December. Blocked out after that.
- silver shows blocked out through 1st week of August. Reservations Required through mid December and blocked out after that.

The EPCOT after 4 is also interesting. Is this something new? If so, it may suggest some limited park hopping to EPCOT on reservation basis only?

Epcot after 4 is not new. That is basically for locals.

ETA: It's an annual pass and pretty much for locals going to Epcot for festivals and concerts. However the new restrictions pretty much make that pass obsolete for the foreseeable future.

 

[RWinNOLA]

Epcot after 4 is not new. That is basically for locals.

ETA: It's an annual pass and pretty much for locals going to Epcot for festivals and concerts. However the new restrictions pretty much make that pass obsolete for the foreseeable future.

Gotcha. Wishful thinking I guess!

 

[yulilin3]

the AP calendar is basically now showing the regular blockout dates and the green is the regular days we would be able to visit with a reservation now

 

[jsbowl16]

Has anyone heard if DS will be extending their closing time later to maybe 10pm or so once the parks open? We usually stay at BWV but I am seriously considering SSR this time if DS is open later and we could walk around and have more dining options at DS after we get out of an early close at AK or MK.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

I stay at Pop all the time and I’m a DisBoard Junkie.

I also stay at Pop all the time. I think a lot of frequent visitors do. I was jokingly referring to how Pop guests tend to (unfairly) be used as the bad example pretty frequently

 

[kylenne]

Clear as mud maybe. I don't really think it was clear at all.

Day guests, historically, has referred to locals and offsite guests. It has not referred to someone at the Grand being a "day guest" at Wilderness Lodge.

The verbiage also refers to visiting the WDW resort as a whole, it doesn't refer to individual resorts. It also does not specifically say "No resort hopping."

No one really knows, and maybe I am just being too hopeful, but for now, I am leaning on the side of them just re-establishing the same rule that they have always had.

It’s the exact same language they’ve been using for charging parking fees at the resorts. If you’re a guest at the Grand and you park your car there you get charged a fee. If you drive over to Boardwalk and park there they don’t charge you a second time.

 

[Devil13]

...
Interesting to note:
- platinum plus and platinum show “Reservations Required” through June 2021.

...

Hope this means that my platinum pass is extended until June 2022

 

[yulilin3]

Has anyone heard if DS will be extending their closing time later to maybe 10pm or so once the parks open? We usually stay at BWV but I am seriously considering SSR this time if DS is open later and we could walk around and have more dining options at DS after we get out of an early close at AK or MK.

DS was closing at 10pm. It's closing at 7pm now because of curfew

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

Can I book my vacation yet? Didn’t have reservations

 

[WonderlandisReality]

As far as resorts: if resort hopping is dependent upon a dining reservation would a mobile order count?

 

[AmberMV]

Can I book my vacation yet? Didn’t have reservations

A new resort reservation? They aren't allowing those yet.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

As far as resorts: if resort hopping is dependent upon a dining reservation would a mobile order count?

I'd think probably not, but we don't know that for sure

 

[AmberMV]

Can we start a new speculation? For those who confirmed their stays through the July 4 email that went out yesterday does anyone think those people will be upgraded to next tier rooms at all? Or what you booked is what you get?

 

[aroundtheriverbend]

I don’t have an AP so I’ve never really looked at that calendar until now.

Interesting to note:
- platinum plus and platinum show “Reservations Required” through June 2021.
- gold shows “Reservations Required” through mid December. Blocked out after that.
- silver shows blocked out through 1st week of August. Reservations Required through mid December and blocked out after that.

The EPCOT after 4 is also interesting. Is this something new? If so, it may suggest some limited park hopping to EPCOT on reservation basis only?

Makes you wonder if platinum will be able to make park reservations further in advance than other APs, similar to the (old, I guess!) FP window for club level guests who wanted to pay for it...

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

A new resort reservation? They aren't allowing those yet.

Well lets hurry that up