Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[junderwood99]

I don't understand this comment. If the WDW reservation system is open to book Pop and CBR for later 2020 dates, why shouldn't someone book it? There have already been other reports on these boards that people were able to modify into late 2020 and book non-DVC resorts.

The system should NOT be allowing CM's to make 2020 bookings for anything but DVC or FW. So, CM's are apparently NOT supposed to be rescheduling - yet they. What will happen to those reservations? Who knows.

 

[Lewisc]

Pure speculation but I would think that AoA would open before Pop; those thousand+ family suite guests (plus the ~200 from music) are going to be hard to reaccommodate into other spaces.

Also iPhone doesn’t think reaccommodate is a word (it is) and it’s hard to spell so I have to look it up every time; I’m taking suggestions for synonyms.

I think posters on Disney fan sites are way overestimating demand. Economic issues. Time off issues. Health concerns. Issues with modified experiences. The deluxe hotels might as well open since DVC section will be open. Light bookings suggest moderate and even value resort guests might get upgraded.

 

[Mit88]

Guys SDL guests had 4 days in advance to book their reservations.
No park CM has been recalled to the parks yet
They just started calling back CM for the DVCs
I honestly don't think we will see the system roll out until maybe 2 weeks from now at the earliest (I hope I'm wrong)

But didn’t they say, or hint that there would be a 30 day system for reservations, or am I mixing that up with the ADRs? I just think that because of the amount of hotels, and people involved in the process of filling the capacity, and because its not likely going to be mostly locals going like SDL that they’d want to give at least a good amount of time between reservations and their trip. Its creating a heck of a headache on the guest if they roll out reservations a week before, the guest flying down, staying at their hotel, renting a car etc misses out on reservations for most or all the days they’re paying to stay on Disney property and decide they don’t want to go any more.

 

[yulilin3]

But didn’t they say, or hint that there would be a 30 day system for reservations, or am I mixing that up with the ADRs? I just think that because of the amount of hotels, and people involved in the process of filling the capacity, and because its not likely going to be mostly locals going like SDL that they’d want to give at least a good amount of time between reservations and their trip. Its creating a heck of a headache on the guest if they roll out reservations a week before, the guest flying down, staying at their hotel, renting a car etc misses out on reservations for most or all the days they’re paying to stay on Disney property and decide they don’t want to go any more.

You're under the assumption that Disney decisions make sense
They don't
Im honestly not trying to be mean, but if you've dealt with them for long you know how they operate. They're costumer service has gone way down, they've relied on giving upset guest just extra fps or meal vouchers and people think that's great recovery, but if they did good from the start recovery wouldn't be necessary
Ands yes the 30 day wording is for adr

 

[MrsBooch]

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

 

[Farro]

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

Oh lord! Imagine if that's true, say you couldn't reserve a park for that day and you can only hang at pool for 2 hrs. Fun! At least you can shop at Disney Springs.

Yeesh, bless all of you going soon and please share all the details!

 

[Mit88]

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

I kind of expected reservations being needed for pool time. Gym’s with outdoor pools are requiring “lap pool reservations”. Theres simply just not enough room for 100s of people to sit by the pool for 6+ hours while being able to keep up with social distancing

 

[jenjersnap]

The evening pool reservations are going to be harder to land than a MK park reservation!

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

I have no idea if it's true, but enforcing would be easy if they choose to do it. Simply use colored wrist bands and switch out at the designated time.

 

[MrsBooch]

I kind of expected reservations being needed for pool time. Gym’s with outdoor pools are requiring “lap pool reservations”. Theres simply just not enough room for 100s of people to sit by the pool for 6+ hours while being able to keep up with social distancing

well here's the thing then -

I want more pool time than people with park reservations are getting. because I wont have park reservations because I didn't buy tickets so i will be at the pool for more time than other guests.

(hypothetical me - bc real me has tickets - but you get where i'm going with this)

 

[DGsAtBLT]

If they have enough people coming between June 22nd and July 11th I can see why they would need to have pool limitations, if that’s true.

There’s no parks distracting people. Resort dining is lessened. Resort hopping won’t be happened the same way. There’s just Disney Springs, and offsite attractions. People who are still going are probably counting on a lot of pool time.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I kind of expected reservations being needed for pool time. Gym’s with outdoor pools are requiring “lap pool reservations”. Theres simply just not enough room for 100s of people to sit by the pool for 6+ hours while being able to keep up with social distancing

I concur but 2 hours a day when there isn’t anything else to do but go to Disney Springs... I foresee a decent amount of, um, upset DVC folks who are picturing resort vacations if that’s the case...

However, Disney has said leisure pools are open 24/7. Could be feature pools with their new limited hours will have clocks on them while leisure pools are left up to guests to manage social distancing.

 

[Mit88]

well here's the thing then -

I want more pool time than people with park reservations are getting. because I wont have park reservations because I didn't buy tickets so i will be at the pool for more time than other guests.

(hypothetical me - bc real me has tickets - but you get where i'm going with this)

But there might be more hypothetical “you” than you might think. I think anyone that thinks park reservations are going to be a breeze is going to be in for a rude awakening. There will be many people staying at each resort that will “strike out” on park reservations on any given day. If by chance the pool reservations don’t fill up, I’m sure they’ll allow leniency. But if they have a set capacity, and there’s demand for pool usage, this gives many people the ability to have pool time. How you remember pool deck layouts will be much different. Far less loungers, tables and chairs.

 

[Mit88]

I concur but 2 hours a day when there isn’t anything else to do but go to Disney Springs... I foresee a decent amount of, um, upset DVC folks who are picturing resort vacations if that’s the case...

However, Disney has said leisure pools are open 24/7. Could be feature pools with their new limited hours will have clocks on them while leisure pools are left up to guests to manage social distancing.

Agreed. I think IF this turns out to be true, it should be 3-4 hours.

 

[MrsBooch]

I have no idea if it's true, but enforcing would be easy if they choose to do it. Simply use colored wrist bands and switch out at the designated time.

Our club pool is doing the same thing. We have four hour blocks of time that we reserve and we are assigned an area around the pool that is designated to our family - and we can remove masks in our area - but put them on to go to the bathroom etc. obviously off in the pool - that's four hours though. At the end of the time they go through and ask us to start packing up, and we head out. They clear it out TOTALLY, to clean, and then get ready for the next four hour block of people. Everyone leaves.

So are they going to clear it out totally after two hours - clean and then welcome the next batch of people?

Who knows - but I do know that this is going to agitate a lot of people.

 

[chicagoshannon]

The insanity continues.

 

[wareagle57]

Weird. I guess I’m never there in the summers but I’ve never seen the pools at crazy levels that wouldn’t allow for social distancing. Take out half the chairs or more and put an occupancy limit on the pool and call it a day. One CM can monitor people going in and coming out.

 

[Dsny4fun]

Pools operational RUMOR?: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but one of the DVC fb groups I belong to (remember, two DVC resorts are going to start getting guests IN THREE DAYS - Vero and Hilton Head) are saying that they are going to be giving everyone two hours a day at the pool max. So in answer to the question of capacity limits at the pool - it appears they are doing this by giving people allotted times to arrive and leave.
I can't WAIT to see how this will be enforced....

They are Disney properties, i would imagine that the rules will be the same throughout all Disney properties until further notice or until they change their minds or find a better way or whatever.

My goodness...this is supposed to be a vacation....Disney has more rules than my job does !!!

 

[chicagoshannon]

Wyndham is pulling the schedule your time at the pool stuff too. I'm watching it closely as we have reservations there the week before Disney. It's very frustrating.

 

[RangerPooh]

If there was scheduled pool times do you think it would be a reservation system like the parks or pre-assigned. I'd hate to be the family assigned an 8-10am pool time. I can just see it now, black market pool reservations.