Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[npatellye]

Basic understanding of the AP 3 day cap is that onsite park reservations count towards that, right?

We have an on site stay in October but since we're only an hour away, I don't want to tie up all our days in that trip and not be able to use our passes until then.

Yikes, I sure hope not! We have a 9 night stay in August (and another 5 night stay in May) plus APs and I would find it odd if they would cap APs with onsite stays at 3 days instead of length of stay.

 

[kverdon]

It will be interesting tomorrow to see if it lets me book the 3 WL days from our trip in Dec.....

 

[JacknSally]

So, this will probably not be comforting to anyone at all but it looks like the TA's know as much as we do at this point. Just got this in an email from my Dreams Unlimited agent...

"LOL this weekend is a comedy routine, one that we don’t really find funny! This is crazy – we sat through a 1.5 hour training on Saturday explaining all of these changes, the biggest being ALL reservations were going to moved to DVC villas/cabins, and now tonight they release opening dates for other resorts! We honestly have no idea what they will tell us tomorrow when we call in to confirm travel."

Friday/Saturday she told us that tomorrow, our 12/1 POFQ stay would be moved to a DVC resort. I emailed her after today's updates to confirm that we now don't actually have to move our POFQ to a DVC resort tomorrow like we thought we did yesterday. Basically at this point neither of us has any idea what might be happening with the December booking, so we'll see what Disney tells her when she calls tomorrow and we'll go from there. As long as I'm not forced to modify my POFQ reservation tomorrow (especially at my cost), I'll wait literally as long as possible to address it.

Also, as far as they know right now, the pay-in-full date reverts back to 30-days out after September 30, 2020. But according to Disney's update today, if POFQ isn't open for our 12/1 check-in, we'll have to modify no later than 11/24 (7 days prior) or they'll cancel us automatically... even though I have to be fully paid by 10/31. Clear as mud!

I feel SO bad for everyone involved in this right now.

 

[jbreen2010]

So frustrating that I arrive in 30 days and found out today CBR is not going to be open and I have to call in tomorrow like I’m trying to win tickets to a concert on the radio. I wish they at least staggered this system so I don’t have to compete tomorrow with our trip so soon....fingers crossed they have hundreds of CMs working that reservations line at 7am...I’ll be at my computer with coffee in hand!

 

[Sandisw]

I'm booking for my full two weeks and making them confront me when/if the time comes. Until I get some direct, individualized communication, I'm gonna remain blissfully ignorant. I have a back-up reservation at UO, but I'm not canceling until I know what Disney's best offer is. Hopefully I can at least snag a future discount. This is my third round of playing chicken and I lost the first two. This time I'm holding out.

Just an FYI...The newest update from Disney on the website states you must call if you have a trip scheduled at a closed resort, If you don’t, they will cancel within 7 days of the trip..I assume after.

 

[Ninjagrrl]

Gonna try asking again - does anyone know if UT room only reservations count as TA controlled? Because I'm gonna try to call in to modify my reservation tomorrow, and I don't know if they're going to let me. Booking through UT is kinda like booking through Expedia, I don't have an agent.
Sooo frustrating.

 

[HikingFam]

Is everyone just planning to randomly try to grab parks? Without a crowd calendar or ADRs, how am I supposed to decide what park I want on which day? I guess it doesn't matter, as long as I get at least a day at each.

 

[MrsSmith07]

Wish me luck, I'll be trying to book first full week open AND Thanksgiving week park reservations in the morning. I've already bribed my 18yo DS to wake up stupid early with me, so hopefully he can work on Thanksgiving while I work on July 18 trip, all while on hold with reservations to confirm where they're putting me (was told we were staying at GF, not moving, but everyone says that can't be right). Should be fun. Let's hope Stitch is getting plenty of sleep tonight, because I think we'll be seeing lots of him tomorrow.

 

[Makmak]

Duplicate

 

[CastAStone]

Is there a betting pool for what time the website crashes?

I don’t think it will crash I think it just won’t work as advertised. There will be loopholes waiting to be found and people who should be able to reserve who can’t.

 

[npatellye]

Is everyone just planning to randomly try to grab parks? Without a crowd calendar or ADRs, how am I supposed to decide what park I want on which day? I guess it doesn't matter, as long as I get at least a day at each.

We never use a crowd calendar and just juggle our FPs around ADRs (which we also don’t usually have a ton of with very young children who have done all character meals multiple times). I’m kind of loving this more laid back, less planned idea. I’m just hoping it all works!

 

[CastAStone]

Gonna try asking again - does anyone know if UT room only reservations count as TA controlled? Because I'm gonna try to call in to modify my reservation tomorrow, and I don't know if they're going to let me. Booking through UT is kinda like booking through Expedia, I don't have an agent.
Sooo frustrating.

UT is a travel agency. So probably.

 

[Sandisw]

Gonna try asking again - does anyone know if UT room only reservations count as TA controlled? Because I'm gonna try to call in to modify my reservation tomorrow, and I don't know if they're going to let me. Booking through UT is kinda like booking through Expedia, I don't have an agent.
Sooo frustrating.

I know when you get tickets through UT, you have to deal with them and not Disney.

 

[SleeplessInTO]

Is everyone just planning to randomly try to grab parks? Without a crowd calendar or ADRs, how am I supposed to decide what park I want on which day? I guess it doesn't matter, as long as I get at least a day at each.

I’m staying at BCV so picking the park closest to me for departure day (Epcot) so I can walk back and not stress about missing the Tragical Express. Will probably do a mix of MK and DHS for the rest, with one AK. I’m guessing AK and Epcot won’t be as popular as the other two so if they allow changes later on, I’m more likely to be able to drop an MK day and pick up AK instead of the other way around. But if not, at least I get each park at least once.

That’s the only strategy I’ve been able to come up with. Hopefully my dates aren’t popular so it won’t matter much (first week of Sep).

 

[jenjersnap]

Good luck to everyone attempting to book/change parks, resorts, whatever tomorrow! Hope all you guys end up with something that makes you happy.

And to anyone who happens to be playing the role of guinea pig and checking in tomorrow, be safe and soak up some Disney air for the rest of us!

Tomorrow is a big day

From the comfort of your socially distanced balcony or patio!

I was so focused on the clusterfumble of the park reservations that I forgot the DVC resorts are opening. Can’t wait to hear all about it!

 

[skeeter31]

Yikes, I sure hope not! We have a 9 night stay in August (and another 5 night stay in May) plus APs and I would find it odd if they would cap APs with onsite stays at 3 days instead of length of stay.

That’s not what they were saying. APs are capped at 3 park reservations at a time. However, if there is a resort reservation, APs can book up to 14 park reservations in a row. So your trip is fine. What the OP was stating is they have a trip coming up in the future and are wondering if the park reservations for that trip would count toward their 3 reservation cap in case they wanted to do a day trip earlier than their scheduled trip since they’re locals.

 

[2kidsForMe]

Gonna try asking again - does anyone know if UT room only reservations count as TA controlled? Because I'm gonna try to call in to modify my reservation tomorrow, and I don't know if they're going to let me. Booking through UT is kinda like booking through Expedia, I don't have an agent.
Sooo frustrating.

Same here. My 7/17 POFQ reservation and park hopper tickets were booked through UT. I really hope I can get answers through Disney directly (nothing wrong with UT customer service, it's great actually).

 

[Brianstl]

7 night stay. I’m picking Epcot arrival day because it is opened the the latest, 2 days at MK and DHS, day at AK, and tomorrow I will decide on if we will do another day at AK or EPCOT. I am leaning towards EPCOT right now.

 

[jenjersnap]

Grabbing DHS anywhere I can during stays at BCV and BWV and MK the second half when we are at Poly. Filling in AK and Epcot in between. Man, I hope it works!

Is everyone just planning to randomly try to grab parks? Without a crowd calendar or ADRs, how am I supposed to decide what park I want on which day? I guess it doesn't matter, as long as I get at least a day at each.

 

[Nightmarefandom]

7 night stay. I’m picking Epcot arrival day because it is opened the the latest, 2 days at MK and DHS, day at AK, and tomorrow I will decide on if will do another day at AK or EPCOT. I am leaning towards EPCOT right now.

That's what I'd lean toward as well