Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[rteetz]

I know. But after everyone who currently holds a ticket or an AP makes their reservations, realistically what slots will be left over to reserve?

Depends on the capacity. Early on it likely will be nothing.

 

[Eric Smith]

Where does it say MBs are being discontinued? I think the only change is they are not free as of 2021. I would imagine photos would work the same as always.

It doesn't. All it says is that they're going to stop giving out free magic bands with resort stays starting in 2021 and they're going to add Magic Band features to MDE for use with your smartphone.

 

[NJlauren]

I just don't see how they are going to allow park reservations for all of 2020 on Monday... i just don't get it... sorry it makes no sense

 

[TheMaxRebo]

So, here would be my question: what happens if you make a resort and/or ticket change?

Let's say you are staying at FW, get your reservations, then decide you want to stay at BLT...cancel your FW stay, and book BLT. Do you lose your reservations or does it come with it?

Similarly...if we book with hoppers for example, but then later on, I decide I want to save my hoppers, and I use AP passes instead.....does re-prioritizing the tickets make you lose those reservations?

I know when they cracked down on FP+ reservations to have them be cancelled if you cancel your resort stay there was a grace period in there before they were cancelled to enabling a rebooking or switching of booking

So I would think this would work the same - if you book your park days due to having a resort stay but then want to change your resort you will keep the park reservations if you get the rebooking done within like 24 hours of cancelling the first one .... If you cancelland don't rebook for a while you would lose them

 

[jen7233]

I doubt you'll need to reserve an exit time. I also doubt anyone without a reservation would be able to enter a park for a while.

Interesting. But I hope it's clarified soon by Disney if you're allowed to reenter the park later in the day, such as can you go back to your resort for a bit and come back later?

 

[Leigh L]

So....Monday will not only be resort stays with tickets to make park reservations for the next 30-60 days, but for the rest of 2020?? Am I reading that right?
Yikes, seems like this will cause system crashes galore.

I am so not prepared to do any planning for November yet (trip with just DD) until August is squared away. (And I only have 1 day of tickets for November since I haven't had success extending it to more days).

 

[disguy22]

This. I already have tickets for next year - which I bought for my planned holiday 09/28/21-18/10/21 - but they stopped selling rooms 2 days ago. My plan was to book room only. Can Disney force us to buy a holiday package to get into the park ?! Room only and tickets from TA won`t be good enough to get in ?

How do people already have tickets for their 2021 trips? Are these tickets bought originally for a 2020 trip that now work for 2021 due to the date extension?

 

[SaintsManiac]

This. I already have tickets for next year - which I bought for my planned holiday 09/28/21-18/10/21 - but they stopped selling rooms 2 days ago. My plan was to book room only. Can Disney force us to buy a holiday package to get into the park ?! Room only and tickets from TA won`t be good enough to get in ?

It should be fine. I received the email they sent out early on about needing to make park reservations and I have UT tickets and a room only in my MDE.

 

[MrsBooch]

So the priority for 2020 is

1. Resort guests (and other select hotels) with tickets
2. APs without hotels
3. Anyone who currently has a ticket
4. Everyone else, including guests with existing resort reservations but no tickets

That seems fair (even though it means I probably won't get to go) EXCEPT DVC members without tickets. They should have priority before 4.

I'm super confused by this. Even though we will have a reservation on site - because we do not have tickets or our AP's - we will be put into a pool of everyone else to buy tickets at the same time and then even people who don't have an onsite reservation will be competing for park time with us in the park reservation system?

that is less than ideal if so.

 

[Moliphino]

We have a 9 day stay at Pop with 9 day hoppers for 8/22-30. I booked a second week 8/30-9/7 room only with no tickets later, because I figured I might as well use up more vacation time, but if we can't get more tickets that will be a bust. Can't they offer existing resort guests tickets before the general public?

 

[Kmedders]

I just don't see how they are going to allow park reservations for all of 2020 on Monday... i just don't get it... sorry it makes no sense

im not sure what you mean? Their website is always able to handle a large volume of people at once and rarely crashes. I think Monday will go great without any hiccups,

 

[Hummingbird]

I really need them to give some clarification on the reservation window.
If it's being able to book all the way through to stays in 2021 on Monday as opposed to a rolling booking window (30 or 60 days out) it is going to be a complete nightmare and AP/locals are at a huge disadvantage.

 

[Eric Smith]

How does it currently work for offsite guests who don't buy MBs?

You get something called a "Keys to the Kingdom" card which allows you to tap on the magic band pedestals.

 

[TropicalDIS]

I'm super confused by this. Even though we will have a reservation on site - because we do not have tickets or our AP's - we will be put into a pool of everyone else to buy tickets at the same time and then even people who don't have an onsite reservation will be competing for park time with us in the park reservation system?

that is less than ideal if so.

That’s correct.

 

[SaintsManiac]

You get something called a "Keys to the Kingdom" card which allows you to tap on the magic band pedestals.

Or you can just use the hard ticket (if you have one).

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I just don't see how they are going to allow park reservations for all of 2020 on Monday... i just don't get it... sorry it makes no sense

Given that they seem to be allowing you to see availability prior to ticket purchase and then reserve as soon as you have a ticket, I think we see all of 2020 on Monday and then 2021 on the 28th or whatever it said for bookings opening.

 

[Farro]

How do people already have tickets for their 2021 trips? Are these tickets bought originally for a 2020 trip that now work for 2021 due to the date extension?

They also started offering people who booked early the option to book a package light - tickets would be added once available and apparently your quoted price didn't go up.

Unfortunately I wasn't offered that when I booked for 2021 so either I have to switch to a package and watch my room rate sky-rocket, buy tickets when released on 6/28 (we aren't ready) or take a chance and buy tickets when we are ready and see what's left to choose from for parks.

 

[Jennifer Harris]

If we currently have park hopper tickets, do we think that we need to get those downgraded/refunded now (before Monday when we make park reservations)??

 

[Roscoe18]

How do people already have tickets for their 2021 trips? Are these tickets bought originally for a 2020 trip that now work for 2021 due to the date extension?

For me, that's a yes. The tickets we were going to use in May this year got extended to 9/26/21, and we rebooked our DVC rental for next year, so we have both a valid resort reservation and tickets.

 

[Eric Smith]

$169 if you buy in advance

Not my point though. How do they get connected. Some rides like Mine Train and Slinky don't have a ride photo touch point like Space Mountain does. They are connected via active battery powered RFID in the magic band. So will they now add that feature to the phone is my question which will likely be an added battery drainer.

I don't see that working well. You'd have to open the app before you get on the ride in order to make it active or let it run all the time. You're correct, it would kill your phone battery. Springing for a $15 magic band sounds like a much better idea (assuming people don't have tons sitting in a closet somewhere).