Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[yulilin3]

Flamingo Crossing has 10,000 New Dorms being built and its not finished yet they are being built for Free thru a partnership with ACC and Disney will manage and Staff

and do you know how many dorms do Vista Way and the others have?

 

[Chris Ehlers]

and do you know how many dorms do Vista Way and the others have?

currently they have 1580 units on the four complexes. Flamingo Crossing will have a total of 2600 units and 4 CP per unit

 

[gottalovepluto]

Fun to speculate (what else do we have to do? )

In my opinion, demand may perk up sooner than later .. the sheer amount of people going to local tourist destinations (beaches) and the massive amount of people protesting (in close quarters) shows that MOST people are not afraid of the virus anymore.

Just after the "normalcy" of the last few weeks (here locally), my family feels like we could safely head down to Orlando like we originally intended in mid-June, except find a different hotel and go to LegoLand, SeaWorld and Universal instead of Disney .. since those are open .. and probably going to be not very crowded for the next month or so. But I don't think we will yet. Too many restrictions (for the same price) at this point. The restrictions (not the virus) are going to keep me away this summer.

But .. if Disney (and the other parks) decides to keep the masks and social distancing restrictions in place into the Fall? Then I think Disney could see low demand from people just deferring their vacations until things are "normal" (i've heard from several families that plan a "once every few years" trip that they are just going to hold off for now. .. but I still doubt Disney would offer discounts since they wouldn't want to hit those max capacity limits.

Only time will tell unfortunately.

I had come around to the idea demand might pick up sooner rather than later as well assuming restrictions loosened a bit but then I saw a post this post on the Resorts Board which has me thinking maybe those initial thoughts that Full-Price-Half-The-Experience Disney is indeed going to be a hard sell to the general public. (Poster's wife is in a couple Disney Facebook groups and everyone is cancelling their trips and they should cancel their end of Sept trip too because it will be awful. Poster concludes those folks might be a better representation of the casual Disney fan's reaction to all this than we see around here.)

 

[LSUmiss]

A certain travel agency is already offering agency exclusive discounts for CSR and Pop for bookings later this year.

Yep and they’re able to still book rooms even with things frozen.

 

[Melodious]

Fun to speculate (what else do we have to do? )

In my opinion, demand may perk up sooner than later .. the sheer amount of people going to local tourist destinations (beaches) and the massive amount of people protesting (in close quarters) shows that MOST people are not afraid of the virus anymore.

I think your logic is quite flawed. Beaches are low risk activities, not inherently expensive, and don't have a lot of restrictions. So not at all like Disney. And the idea that people choosing to protest have no fear of the virus is ridiculous. It certainly has zero relation to the public willingness to go to Disney World. I think we really should leave the protests out of this conversation

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1269979914868002818

 

[gottalovepluto]

Trying to decide if we should pull the plug on a Labor Day weekend trip. Planned to do mostly out of Park stuff like resort hop visiting some of our favorites. We have rented DVC points (with insurance) so I have to pull the plug by 7/20 if we don't go. Since WDW won't have been open long by then to be able to gauge if our trip is worth it do you think we will even be allowed to resort hop? Currently looks like you can't get into a resort unless you have a dining or room reservation. Understand transportation will be severely limited so that may be a deal breaker too. Sorry if this is a repeat I couldn't find a similar question elsewhere.

By 7/20 you will know if resort hopping is something initially being restricted and will be better able to make a determination I think.

Transportation has not been reported to be severely limited, just that you may experience delays due to social distancing. They will have transport from all hotels to DS and to parks once parks reopen.

 

[yulilin3]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1269979914868002818

I'm going again this week. Universal continues to treat their AP better than Disney. There's no doubt about it
Meanwhile I've been trying since 10am to get into the reservation system for Sea World

 

[Brianstl]

Flamingo Crossing has 10,000 New Dorms being built and its not finished yet they are being built for Free thru a partnership with ACC and Disney will manage and Staff

It is 10,432 beds not dorms or units. 2,608 units, four beds per unit, two beds per bedroom. How do you think shared bedrooms are going to go over right now?

 

[Vern60]

On the topic of demand, I'm of the mind set that it will be low for quite some time.
I'm thinking that people who might enjoy Disney but aren't necessarily keeping up on DIS boards might start looking for a summer vacation. One look at Disney web site, seeing they can't even make a reservation right now might be enough to prompt them to look for their vacation elsewhere.

 

[cakebaker]

I'm going again this week. Universal continues to treat their AP better than Disney. There's no doubt about it
Meanwhile I've been trying since 10am to get into the reservation system for Sea World

I am impressed with just how well UO is treating their passholders. Do you think it's because they need to local market more? I'm guessing yes. I've been looking into Universal and while I just won't enjoy it for myself as much, I know others in my family will love it and I can just live vicariously through them. I'm very impressed with the incentives and we may well just make the jump to AP's- seems to be too many good deals offered not to.

 

[A2DisneyMom]

So are you thinking once they turn on this new system, other resorts can come online too?

I think it would have to depend on how the data migration goes. If a lot of reservations are lost in the process, this interim DVC solution would have to apply to another week, IMO. But they don’t have too much time to get it straight, both from park reservation and hotel reservation standpoints! So fingers crossed this works and we get positive news on both of those!

 

[yulilin3]

I am impressed with just how well UO is treating their passholders. Do you think it's because they need to local market more? I'm guessing yes. I've been looking into Universal and while I just won't enjoy it for myself as much, I know others in my family will love it and I can just live vicariously through them. I'm very impressed with the incentives and we may well just make the jump to AP's- seems to be too many good deals offered not to.

It's been years now since Universal is treating their AP better than Disney. We used to have so many great perks as WDW AP and they have all been taken away, replaced by the magnets. Not to derail the thread, I am still a WDW AP because financially it makes sense to me, but if I were new the whole thing I would see better value in UOR

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

Today was the first day of my 60 day window and I noticed two things.

1. When I looked to make ADRs (as most know, several DS restaurants are open) I could only make reservations for the first day, not for my length of stay.

2. I have a split stay, 1 week at each resort. Only the 1st week was highlighted, the second week remained grayed out, which is not what typically happened in the past both with ADRs and FPs.

I have no idea if this means anything at all or if it's just temporary in the midst of the system changing, but I thought that I would pass it along.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Yep and they’re able to still book rooms even with things frozen.

That's because they are essentially booked already by being blocked off for them.

 

[chicagoshannon]

I'm going again this week. Universal continues to treat their AP better than Disney. There's no doubt about it
Meanwhile I've been trying since 10am to get into the reservation system for Sea World

try the app. I had major issues until I used the app. Went right through.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270032605744898048

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270032605744898048

Oh now that is interesting... especially since people here were reporting really high rates a few days ago so it doesn't seem like it was a lack of occupancy situation. I wonder what the motive here is!

 

[chicagoshannon]

Today was the first day of my 60 day window and I noticed two things.

1. When I looked to make ADRs (as most know, several DS restaurants are open) I could only make reservations for the first day, not for my length of stay.

2. I have a split stay, 1 week at each resort. Only the 1st week was highlighted, the second week remained grayed out, which is not what typically happened in the past both with ADRs and FPs.

I have no idea if this means anything at all or if it's just temporary in the midst of the system changing, but I thought that I would pass it along.

thanks for reporting on that. I"ll be watching as we have a split stay also.

 

[Brianstl]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270032605744898048

Well you could fit everyone from the MLS at those two resorts.