Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Arym]

This is absolutely insane. We have three APs and my husband needs a ticket. So, I guess we are out of luck?!

 

[Farro]

I think a rolling booking window is out the....window, since they are talking about booking as soon as tickets are purchased.

All I can hope is capacity is back to normal for 2021 because we aren't buying tickets yet.
Never would I imagine that I would have book my parks 10 months out and be nervous I can't get in a park because i didn't purchase next year's tickets yet!

 

[rteetz]

I think a rolling booking window is out the....window, since they are talking about booking as soon as tickets are purchased.

Thats the piece that is a bit confusing to me.

 

[Raggou]

Timed entry confirmed.


Step 3: Select a Date and Park

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Choose the date and the theme park that you’d like to visit from the available reservations. Please note that dates and theme park selections are limited and subject to availability.
After creating your party in the Disney Park Pass system, you’ll be prompted to:

• Select a Date: View a calendar and choose one of the available dates for your visit.
• Select a Theme Park: Park hours will be displayed for your convenience.
• Select a Time: This is the time that you can visit the park.

After selecting your date, park and time, you can confirm your reservation.
Go to Step 4

Timed entry... ohhh jeezz.....

 

[mmackeymouse]

If everyone can do what the bands can do using their phone, I see this more or less as the eventual end of magic bands.

I hope not as not everyone (er my parents) has smart phones.

And some of us don't like to do Disney with phone in hand.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I’m sure most have realized, but the reservation end dates is the same as the date they extended the multi day tickets to.

 

[Eric Smith]

If everyone can do what the bands can do using their phone, I see this more or less as the eventual end of magic bands.

I hope this isn't what happens. I don't want to have to rely on something that has a battery to get in to the park or my hotel room for that matter.

 

[Farro]

"If you have a room-only reservation at a Disney Resort or other select hotel for a stay in 2021, please call the Disney Reservation Center or call your travel professional beginning on June 24 to upgrade to a vacation package with tickets—and then make your theme park reservations."

I am guessing you can buy them and reserve at least before the next group. But what about people that bought DVC points and not yet tickets...?

Ugh. My room rate will go up if I switch to a package.
I'm getting anxious. I'm feeling shades of having to cancel again like 2020.

 

[kverdon]

Man, if they are moving everything to the phone, which may be why they want you to enable location services for the app, they’ll be replacing the droid backpacks for phone battery backpacks!
You’ll definitely need extra power if it’s constantly communicating with Disney.

 

[Rxdr2013]

Park reservations will be available through September 26, 2021, based on your Resort stay and ticket eligibility or ticket eligibility window.

I mean, it sounds like it's available to reserve for all dates on Monday.
It wasn't very clear.
I was so hoping for more time before my day to reserve...

I highly doubt everyone will have to make it for every day thru sept 2021 on the site on the first day. I think it just means the park reservation system will be in place for that long?

 

[Mal6586]

This is absolutely insane. We have three APs and my husband needs a ticket. So, I guess we are out of luck?!

Check your local grocery stores. My local Kroger in Mississippi still has 3-day tickets for sale in the area where the gift cards are sold.

 

[Raggou]

• Select a Date: View a calendar and choose one of the available dates for your visit.
• Select a Theme Park: Park hours will be displayed for your convenience.
• Select a Time: This is the time that you can visit the park.

This is what make me nervous get the park you want... hope you get the time slot you want...

 

[Rxdr2013]

Man, if they are moving everything to the phone, which may be why they want you to enable location services for the app, they’ll be replacing the droid backpacks for phone battery backpacks!
You’ll definitely need extra power if it’s constantly communicating with Disney.

they will make more money on their fuel rods now!

 

[Racheldb]

I took it to mean that just because you have a multi day ticket, you still have to make a reservation for each day in order to completely use the ticket. They don’t want people to think that if they have a five day ticket that one park reservation will guarantee them entry for the full five days. They would need five separate reservations.

OK, that makes sense! I think I'm on sensory overload here! I was taking it to mean that even though I have a 5 day park ticket, since I have a resort reservation for 7 days, I would need to make a park res for all 7 days. I need to take some deep breaths

 

[fla4fun]

Timed entry... ohhh jeezz.....

Well, there are some people, like me, who only spend a few hours in the parks anyway, so I won’t be fighting people for rope drop times. Even the 11:00 opening at Epcot is earlier than I typically arrive.

 

[woody337]

Timed entry for parks that have reduced hours is a BAD combo

 

[Eric Smith]

Stupid question, without magic bands can the ride photos that appear in your account still work?

I don't believe so. I think the battery powered RFID chip inside the band is the one that makes the ride photos work. Without the band, you wouldn't have that.

 

[WonderlandisReality]

I’m really confused. We don’t have a package. We have a RO reservation and linked tickets from UT. So...

 

[TropicalDIS]

I’m sure most have realized, but the reservation end dates is the same as the date they extended the multi day tickets to.

Yup, because after that will be the 50th anniversary celebrations

 

[DynamicDisneyDuo]

I feel like they could keep the complimentary gray bands that they give out if you didn't order one. It probably doesn't cost a lot to make them. Plus they are still going to be selling magic bands to some of the folks who take the complimentary one when they, or their kid(s), see one they absolutely have to have in one of the million locations that sell them; including the resort shops.
If not, they will probably see a big uptick in the requests for the boring plastic card tickets instead.