Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Broncho52]

The buffets are gross. Too many parents let their kids grab whatever they want without proper hygiene.

FIFY

 

[wombat_5606]

There was a CDC/Cruise meeting this week I thought? I forgot to follow up on it, does anyone know what came of it?

I didn't see anything either, but I did see where this question was asked on Cruise Critic. The answer posted said the only information to come out of the meeting concerned crew disembarkation. They also talked about a red, yellow and green cruise ship classification for illness onboard.

There was evidently nothing about when passengers could begin cruising or any accommodations that would need to be made for that to happen anytime in the future.

 

[Clockwork]

The buffets on cruise ships are gross. Too many parents let their kids grab whatever they want without proper hygiene.

All buffets are pretty gross, those parents are doing the same on land as they do at sea.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

That's never been my experience. So long as I've had a continuous stay onsite, I have had one online check-in, one dining ADR date, one fast pass date, and one magic band to take me thru both stays. I just had the same exact scenario as recently as my June split stay reservation, although that did ultimately go "poof" of course.

A couple trips ago in 2018 we had a separate first night from the rest of the trip (but same resort and room), we had 2 sets of magic bands, 2 ADR dates (I may have even posted asking because I could only make the first day 180 days out and woke up for nothing lol), I think FP we could make all on the first date due to the ticket length, but yeah in my experience Disney treating them completely separate is not new.

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

That’s interesting. We usually stay at multiple resorts on our vacations, sometimes switching daily to experience different resorts, and we’ve always had to online check in for each resort, had options for magic bands for each stay (even though we have way too many magic bands at this point and have to turn them down), etc.

Honestly, up until this last scheduled trip I don't remember how the magic bands or the onsite stay were handled, but it definitely happened for the June trip. Those two components wouldn't be something that I would necessarily care about, so it may have happened differently in the past. I do remember the dining and fastpasses opening up from the first day of the total onsite stay previously. Maybe it's just a POFQ vs. POR thing. In June I had one week at each, and it absolutely carried over the online check-in info and the magic bands to the second stay.....or it could just be that it was destined for cancellation at that point so it did something funky.


Edited to add: I think that my interpretation of the ADR thing is because my split stays were probably booked at 180 days or less, so that's why the timing of the ADR date didn't click with me. When I'm staying long enough to do a split stay, I'm usually not up at the butt crack of dawn to make ADRs anyway, LOL! Sorry for the confustion.

 

[Disneysoule]

Is it SOON yet? It feels like it’s SOON

 

[CastAStone]

Is it SOON yet? It feels like it’s SOON

It’s not NOT soon.

But is it soon enough?

We’ll know soon.

 

[Gabrielle Broughton]

 

[figmentfinesse]

I know I’m throwing it back to yesterday’s news, but does the gondola testing indicate they are going to open the Skyliner?

 

[MrsSmith07]

Is it SOON yet? It feels like it’s SOON

SOON needs to hustle up. 35 days until check in over here.

 

[Gabrielle Broughton]

I know I’m throwing it back to yesterday’s news, but does the gondola testing indicate they are going to open the Skyliner?

I read that they were only testing the CBR station ones yesterday and only about half of them. Don't know if they will do the others.

 

[Disneysoule]

SOON needs to hustle up. 35 days until check in over here.

44 here

 

[SaintsManiac]

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I’m just trying to hold it together until they open bookings back up. Ughhhhh

 

[hertamaniac]

Agree on this.

Lost of rumblings going around about cruises starting again in Aug with limited capacity on ships and max 4 day cruises. To start at least......

America Cruise line is targeted to start cruising, in the USA, a week from today (https://www.travelandleisure.com/cruises/american-cruise-lines-will-start-sailing-again). They fall under the 250 passenger cap for the CDC no sail order.

I can envision the CDC to increase the passenger cap.

 

[AmberMV]

44 here

21 here

 

[Gabrielle Broughton]

I’m just trying to hold it together until they open bookings back up. Ughhhhh

I hear ya! We are "patiently" waiting to find out if our resort will be open and if not where we are staying. I hate not having answers!!

 

[TakesFaithTrust&PixieDust]

I know I’m throwing it back to yesterday’s news, but does the gondola testing indicate they are going to open the Skyliner?

The gondolas were already off the line this morning. Disney maintenance posted to cast that they put them on there to do a maintenance motor repair and needed them out of the way to get at the building where the motor was. It really wasn’t a test

 

[figmentfinesse]

The gondolas were already off the line this morning. Disney maintenance posted to cast that they put them on there to do a maintenance motor repair and needed them out of the way to get at the building where the motor was. It really wasn’t a test

Not the answer I wanted, but happy to have an answer!! I have stayed CBR the past two Augusts, watching them be built/test....I really want to ride! 59 days to check in!!

 

[EEva]

The gondolas were already off the line this morning. Disney maintenance posted to cast that they put them on there to do a maintenance motor repair and needed them out of the way to get at the building where the motor was. It really wasn’t a test

That is disappointing to hear. I have POP booked in mid to late August.

I feel like the skyliner would provide more opportunity for social distancing than a bus or the monorail. Even from the point of the line moving constantly, and not a bunch of folks gathering to wait for transportation to arrive. BUT I've not actually ridden it yet, so I may be missing something in the loading process.

 

[one_cat]

This is the first time ever that I wish my countdown wouldn’t go quite so quickly. We are getting closer and closer to the point we will need to make a go/cancel decision. We are 105 days away from checkin.