Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[TXAKDisneyFan]

No...Poly walk is longer...but I wonder if this announcement means that Poly hotel doesn’t open soon either? This way, they are only dealing with DVC rooms...

So, I can see now GF, Poly, and YC/BC no longer opening soon to regular guests.

What fitness centers will the NBA use?
Don't the poly and GF share a gym? The blogmickey post "Full List of Shops, Activities, and Dining Available at Disney World Resorts Opening Next Week" says the GF fitness center will be open.

 

[shoegal9]

The convention center at Yacht Club was just remodeled & expanded last year. I’m sure that would be a great place for them. And the walkway there from the hotel is private.


So how many teams make the first round? Sorry, I don’t know anything about basketball!

22 teams start in July. Down to 16 for first round of playoffs. By September 1, only 8 left.

 

[CastAStone]

Thats a new one for me even.

It's not intuitive! But Polynesian rooms with microwaves and mostly vacant bungalows doesn't roll off the tounge.

 

[wendow]

Thats a new one for me even.

Yep.

Yeah I had to go google. I was sitting here racking my brain trying to figure it out and was getting nothing. Lol

Sorry, y'all! Didn't mean to be so confusing!

 

[rteetz]

Contemporary will have practice space.

 

[Nightmarefandom]

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Contemporary will have practice space.

Would that mean people at blt would be moved?

 

[rteetz]

What fitness centers will the NBA use?
Don't the poly and GF share a gym? The blogmickey post "Full List of Shops, Activities, and Dining Available at Disney World Resorts Opening Next Week" says the GF fitness center will be open.

NBA will have space at ESPN and in convention centers. They won't be using the hotel fitness centers as far as I know.

 

[rteetz]

Would that mean people at blt would be moved?

No

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

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Contemporary will have practice space.

In the convention center? Where?

 

[Krandor]

But why should we, as Disney guests, care about what any other guests (even NBA) pay or get??

Welcome to the dark side, “Disney is doing the best they can and have been straight-forward with us” friends. I can feel your anger, fulfill your destiny...

I don't Care anymore then I do when I stay at pop and care about what people at GF are getting which is none.

 

[rteetz]

In the convention center? Where?

Outdoors courts mainly

 

[jenjersnap]

Sorry, y'all! Didn't mean to be so confusing!

I knew what you meant. It is in my signature.

 

[mmackeymouse]

Honestly, this is what my fear is and what it's starting to feel like: it feels very much like a "Inmates are running the asylum" situation.

And that, my friends, is my second Dark Knight quote/reference on this thread.

Yes, I know the NBA is paying for it. But, at the same time, Disney should be like, "These are the rules that you must abide by in order to use our property/facilities."

Instead, they are very much passing the buck. They are leaving it up to the NBA, so basically, it's up to NBA owners to hold that line against player demands, and if the NBA owners fold, then the NBA players will be able to do have Disney at their beck and call.

Which is essentially what it sounds like right now. Disney should be the one policing this situation.....not bending over backwards to kiss booty, and letting the NBA regulate themselves.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

Never in my life have I had more "first world problems" than in 2020 I do have to kind of laugh at myself a little for being so irritated that my stay at the GF is being disrupted. That just sounds like such a fancy problem to me.

This was totally going to be my year, and oh boy has that not turned out as planned! All I can do is laugh at this point. I finished grad school, got to keep my job offer, and I get to go to Disney (on wildly flexible increasingly mysterious trips). So the rest life will work itself out. Being in the class of 2020 has been a particularly wild ride these last few months. Lots of putting things into perspective!

Still kind of a bummer that I should have had graduation and been to 6 countries by now this year though

Seriously. We were at wdw right before they closed (we were at Ohana when news about school, park, etc closures started popping up fast and furious. I think I was eating potstickers when the world found out Tom Hanks tested positive) - DD and I had to cut 4 days off the end of our trip (the UO portion). The mood around the BW CL lounge was certainly strange. Then we were supposed to have a trip in April thats been postponed until July/Aug (assuming that goes off without further hitches), and 2 more trips in Nov. Plus two separate trips to Paris. Having 5 out of 6 vacations this year disrupted is a very first world problem to have.

 

[skeeter31]

Outdoors courts mainly

Yeah, I was thinking those tennis courts off to the side could easily be used for basketball courts.

 

[rteetz]

Yeah, I was thinking those tennis courts off to the side could easily be used for basketball courts.

Bingo

 

[shoegal9]

It's not intuitive! But Polynesian rooms with microwaves and mostly vacant bungalows doesn't roll off the tounge.

Funny, but the DVC studios at Poly are WAY nicer than the hotel side. And they have 2 bathrooms. Love it

 

[jenjersnap]

Bingo

Surprising they aren’t doing the same with the YC tennis courts. ETA: if they still exist, haven’t laid eyes on them since 2016.

 

[wendow]

Funny, but the DVC studios at Poly are WAY nicer than the hotel side. And they have 2 bathrooms. Love it

But only one toilet lol! Sure wish they had put toilets in BOTH bathrooms!!! I do love those studios though

 

[AmberMV]

Honestly, this is what my fear is and what it's starting to feel like: it feels very much like a "Inmates are running the asylum" situation.

And that, my friends, is my second Dark Knight quote/reference on this thread.

Yes, I know the NBA is paying for it. But, at the same time, Disney should be like, "These are the rules that you must abide by in order to use our property/facilities."

Instead, they are very much passing the buck. They are leaving it up to the NBA, so basically, it's up to NBA owners to hold that line against player demands, and if the NBA owners fold, then the NBA players will be able to do have Disney at their beck and call.

Which is essentially what it sounds like right now. Disney should be the one policing this situation.....not bending over backwards to kiss booty, and letting the NBA regulate themselves.

The NBA deal is the reason Disney is the last theme park to reopen, by a long shot, and fulfills the promise Disney execs promised their shareholders in that they will be profitable when they reopen. The NBA deal was worth ALL of June and first half of July's "regular guest" money.

I'm not mad about it. All businesses need to make money to float, esp in these current times. But this is likely the truth behind their actions.