Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1275445962626879489

 

[SMRT-1]

Looking for clarification - Can new room reservations for 2021 be made starting tomorrow 6/24 or not until 6/28? Do you have to call or can you do them online? If have to call, which phone number? Thanks!!!!

Tomorrow (June 24) is only for people with existing 2021 room-only reservations to convert to a package with tickets so that they can make Park Pass reservations. New 2021 packages and tickets don't go on sale until June 28.

 

[Mit88]

If there truly are 3 separate “buckets” of Park Passes, then why were AP sales stopped over the weekend? They would have their own “bucket”. I had assumed that it was to control the number of possible passholders. And why won’t they sell tickets to guests with room-only reservations? And why did they open the reservation system to onsite guests with ticket media before opening up the system to guests with tickets and APs with no resort reservations if they all pull from separate buckets? Why not just open it to everyone at once? It couldn’t have been worse than yesterday’s disaster.

Yeah, I’m not sold on the Three Buckets Hypothesis. I think it’s more like the FP+ system. They may release more Park Pass reservations as they increase capacity limits but I think we’re all drawing from the same pool of reservations.

But I guess we will find out when the Park Pass system opens for those without report reservations.

I think new tickets and AP sales will come back sooner than people think. “Later this summer” could technically be now. They probably want to get this week out of the way, gauge the demand and then bring in new ticket sales within the next couple of weeks. Thats my guess. If there’s availability at the parks, theres no reason to continue to cast out the people with resort reservations that don’t have tickets yet.

 

[CastAStone]

Tomorrow (June 24) is only for people with existing 2021 room-only reservations to convert to a package with tickets so that they can make Park Pass reservations. New 2021 packages and tickets don't go on sale until June 28.

I thought we could move 2020 reservations to 2021 tomorrow too? Is that not right?

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

Tomorrow (June 24) is only for people with existing 2021 room-only reservations to convert to a package with tickets so that they can make Park Pass reservations. New 2021 packages and tickets don't go on sale until June 28.

Thanks!!!

 

[Marionnette]

By the way this is exactly the kind of information that if Disney had released a week ago it would have saved 2,656 angry posts and 11,000 heart palpitations.

But that just says that “additional spots will be released”, not that they will be exclusive to AP holders or offsite guests. Not really any different from when they would hold back a number of FoP FP+ reservations and release them on the day of.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Doesn’t seem like having extra spots for APs and Non Resort Guests with tickets is even really going to be a big deal. Its not like we’re looking at an enormous amount of days fully booked. Yes, if you’re taking a 3 day vacation on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of July and you have an AP you wont be able to go to DHS (if they weren’t holding extra spots) but for the most part, come friday, even if the dates that were fully booked were actually fully booked, APs and guests without resorts would still be able to go to the parks.

I didnt expect enormous demand, but I expected more dates to be fully booked. You can still get MK for Re-Opening Day. Thats crazy

I think one of our best hints at less demand than we thought (concerning travel to WDW, not locals) was the wide open DVC availability that was being reported up until October or so. Despite what the loudest people online may make it seem like, DVC members who are loyal Disney guests with points with a clock on them were somewhat staying away. That’s big, IMO.

I do think once everyone is in the mix the early MK days will sell out though.

 

[SierraT]

So does anyone care to guess when tickets will be released for this year, if at all? I know there are two sets of people remaining to book tickets by the end of the week. Availability still looks good so far though.

 

[Minnie368]

Was there a page before that calendar where you picked your party? And then once you select a date, do the various parks’ images load below the calendar? If you have a resort reservation and park tickets linked for everyone you selected, you should be able to confirm your Park Pass for that day.

Yes I selected my party. Then when I selected the date the parks' images below the calendar were all greyed out and it said no availability. I have a resort reservation and park tickets linked. I was able to book all 8 days for the 2 in my room who had 8-day tickets. I was able to book the first day for DH and myself who have both 8day tickets and APs. After booking that first day nothing has shown available since.

That's not the availability calendar! Disney made this thoroughly confusing, surprise surprise. It looks like you shared the reservation calendar (where you actually select a date and make reservations).

Here's the link to the availability calendar - filter it to resort guests (there should be 3 buttons above the calendar)

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/availability-calendar/?segments=tickets,resort,passholder
August is still showing wide open



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I'm actually not looking for the availability calendar. I was able to find that. Thanks though! I'm having issues with the calendar where I actually make my reservation from which does not give the option of theme park ticket, resort guest, or AP. It's just a calendar and when I select a date it shows no park available.

No the calendar is still working. Please note that only Resort Guests can make park reservations at this time.

Note: Annual Passholders without a Resort hotel reservation can see availability starting June 26, 2020.

Dave

Responding to you only because your post was responding to a person quoting my post. I am an AP holder with an 8 day resort reservation.

 

[jade1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1275445962626879489

Thankfully, what a constant pain at US.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

So does anyone care to guess when tickets will be released for this year, if at all? I know there are two sets of people remaining to book tickets by the end of the week. Availability still looks good so far though.

I'm betting on sometime in July.

 

[AmberMV]

I don’t know about 3 buckets, I’ll believe it when I see it.

As far as we know (to my knowledge at least), after initial booking opens up for everyone nobody gets priority over anybody else. Have tickets, book your stay. During the initial booking period, especially when capacity is lowered, they have good reason to give people with hotel stays maximum chance of getting what they want before it opens up to APs without a stay and then everyone. I have little faith in Disney IT that they would bother to design this system, that was possibly already giving issues, and that is lasting until at least Sept 2021 with a feature that wouldn’t need to exist past this week.

Am I missing something?

Disney explicitly states that "During the limited capacity period, it may be difficult for Annual Passholders to get park reservations to visit on certain dates. "

To me this means that there is 1 single reservation pool and because of the 3 res. a time for AP, resort guests will still basically get 1st pick as they are only limited by the length of their stay.

 

[SMRT-1]

I thought we could move 2020 reservations to 2021 tomorrow too? Is that not right?

"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."

The official Disney verbiage only mentions converting 2021 room-only reservations. But who knows?

However, I thought I'd read that modifications to 2020 packages were allowed starting yesterday, but maybe that was only for resort moves or park hoppers. Although with the DPPS issues, people were having trouble actually getting through to someone to help.

 

[Mit88]

I think one of our best hints at less demand than we thought (concerning travel to WDW, not locals) was the wide open DVC availability that was being reported up until October or so. Despite what the loudest people online may make it seem like, DVC members who are loyal Disney guests with points with a clock on them were somewhat staying away. That’s big, IMO.

I do think once everyone is in the mix the early MK days will sell out though.

I didnt think we’d see September/October dates sell out, but I thought for sure the first week, especially at MK and DHS would book up yesterday. You’re right though, once locals can make their selections on Friday, we’ll see more early dates book up. I think locals are going to book early opening dates mainly because of their 3 reservation rule so they can have a continuous window rather than booking their first date in August and then they cant book another one until they go in August. Though, I guess they could just adjust it move their reservations up to July anyway

 

[jade1]

That's not the availability calendar! Disney made this thoroughly confusing, surprise surprise. It looks like you shared the reservation calendar (where you actually select a date and make reservations).

Here's the link to the availability calendar - filter it to resort guests (there should be 3 buttons above the calendar)

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/availability-calendar/?segments=tickets,resort,passholder
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See that makes so much more sense.

It was hard to believe parks were "selling out" already with just "onsite with ticket guests". I guess it could have been that small of a capacity but still.

Will know so much more in a week, and of course in 3 weeks.

 

[AmberMV]

I hope you got some rest last night lol!

I did! Thanks!

 

[only hope]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1275445962626879489

That is surprising considering you tilt backwards. I think the locker requirement is not needed at most of the rides there but Hulk, Rip Ride, and FJ are the three where I think it is needed.

 

[Janet McDonald]

Did anyone else check your MDE first thing today just to make sure your park res. were still there? Yesterday was....something, just making sure it still happened

Several times. It took me 17 hours to get mine so I keep going in to look and make sure they are real and haven't disappeared.

 

[Carol Jackson]

So with no staggered entrance times, wanna bet rope drops, even with limited capacity in place, will still be crazy.

 

[SierraT]

I didnt think we’d see September/October dates sell out, but I thought for sure the first week, especially at MK and DHS would book up yesterday. You’re right though, once locals can make their selections on Friday, we’ll see more early dates book up. I think locals are going to book early opening dates mainly because of their 3 reservation rule so they can have a continuous window rather than booking their first date in August and then they cant book another one until they go in August. Though, I guess they could just adjust it move their reservations up to July anyway

The blogger type folks will snatch up whatever they can.