Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[one_cat]

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

With the three newest rides I am expecting HS rope drop to be nuts. It will be interesting to see how they enforce social distancing.

 

[Farro]

I’m not! But I have a closed resort for 2020 and modifying that is open and tomorrow modifying in 2021 will be open so what the heck I’ll take a shot!

Wouldn't it just be so much easier if they just let us do it online???

I don't need to talk to anyone! I can compare the price of my room-only to the new price if I upgrade to a package on my own!

 

[one_cat]

Wouldn't it just be so much easier if they just let us do it online???

I don't need to talk to anyone! I can compare the price of my room-only to the new price if I upgrade to a package on my own!

With Disney IT in chaos the customer facing online system may not be available. This may be the only option.

 

[cristen72]

I have a DVC reservation for January 1-3. No tickets. And probably can’t “make it a package” tomorrow since it’s not a regular reservation from Disney.

 

[Hummingbird]

Saw two people in the Boardwalk lobby today without masks. They were told they had to put masks on. They told the CMs they didn’t have any and they were instructed to go to the Screendoor and purchase some immediately. CMs did treat this like a big deal and a few of them even apologized to us even though this definitely isn’t their fault. It’s the guests. There are signs everywhere. It was impressive. I hope CMs continue to be able to enforce rules like this. So happy to be here even if it’s a limited experience.

I'm so glad to hear this. I hope this extends to the parks and Disney really empowers CMs to hold up the rules.

 

[LSUmiss]

Then what in the world is 407-934-7639 for? The front desk at a resort?

Idk what it’s supposed to be, but it was the first number I was able to call that didn’t give me a busy single or all circuits busy message. I’m on finally on hold now. Mine is a park pass issue.

 

[BrianR]

Idk what it’s supposed to be, but it was the first number I was able to call that didn’t give me a busy single or all circuits busy message. I’m on finally on hold now. Mine is a park pass issue.

It's the number listed on my room reservation but I never got anything other than all circuits busy on it.

 

[chasgoose]

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

Yeah, I'm still really interested to see how they manage that, especially at DHS where they are opening later in the day and, even w/o RotR virtual queue madness, its still one of the parks where rope-drop is most beneficial and also one of the worst at allowing for social distancing. I can't imagine Disney wants people posting pictures of anything even half as crowded as what rope-drop looked like post SWGE/RotR.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Yeah, I'm still really interested to see how they manage that, especially at DHS where they are opening later in the day and, even w/o RotR virtual queue madness, its still one of the parks where rope-drop is most beneficial and also one of the worst at allowing for social distancing. I can't imagine Disney wants people posting pictures of anything even half as crowded as what rope-drop looked like post SWGE/RotR.

I agree, especially the first few days - hopefully word gets out that with low crowds there are no real issues with getting on RotR if you want/no need to rope drop (assuming that is the case)

 

[EddieValiant]

With the three newest rides I am expecting HS rope drop to be nuts. It will be interesting to see how they enforce social distancing.

I chose Hollywood Studios for 3 days of a 5 day trip. It might take 3 days to ride them all!

 

[LSUmiss]

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.

I took screen shots too!

 

[Eric Smith]

I chose Hollywood Studios for 3 days of a 5 day trip. It might take 3 days to ride them all!

I really don't think the lines are going to be that long.

 

[MIndy S]

With no virtual queues or Fast Passes, what do you guys think are the chances that they will assign ride times to guests with Park Reservations for the more popular rides to avoid crowds and chokepoints? Rides like ROTR, FOP, MFSR, and MMMR?

 

[AmberMV]

With no virtual queues or Fast Passes, what do you guys think are the chances that they will assign ride times to guests with Park Reservations for the more popular rides to avoid crowds and chokepoints? Rides like ROTR, FOP, MFSR, and MMMR?

Yeah there must be some plan they have for managing crowds. 100% chance otherwise there will be a massive rope drop crowd waiting at the gates to rush to RoTR and MMRR which none of that fosters social distancing. I'd bet there will be some system.

Edit: What if it's something like room location requests at resorts where you give you 1,2,3,4,5 attraction requests in order and they assign you windows of time to show up for the rides based on your requests?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

With no virtual queues or Fast Passes, what do you guys think are the chances that they will assign ride times to guests with Park Reservations for the more popular rides to avoid crowds and chokepoints? Rides like ROTR, FOP, MFSR, and MMMR?

I don't think they will do that - I think they want people in the standby queues - with no shows and no character meets, etc there isn't that many other places for people to "be" so they want them in the queues

They said they will be utilizing the FP queues for standby as well so quite a bit of room for the big rides that have sizeable queues even with social distancing given the overall park capacity limits

 

[Wreckem]

I agree, especially the first few days - hopefully word gets out that with low crowds there are no real issues with getting on RotR if you want/no need to rope drop (assuming that is the case)

Well they were doing about 1150-1200 per hour before the shutdown.

If they are open for 10 hours you can expect about 11,000-12,000 riders tops without social distancing. I’d say they probably top out at 8-9k with social distancing when they reopen. So not everyone will get to ride if park capacity is at 15k. I actually think DHS park capacity will be less than that as IOA and UO are reportedly at a combined 15k capacity.

 

[chasgoose]

With no virtual queues or Fast Passes, what do you guys think are the chances that they will assign ride times to guests with Park Reservations for the more popular rides to avoid crowds and chokepoints? Rides like ROTR, FOP, MFSR, and MMMR?

I don't understand, wouldn't that create the same problem for social distancing as virtual queues or FP? Part of the reason they are doing standby only is to get people into lines to reduce the amount of people wandering the park and also because social distancing is more easily enforced in a line setting. Also, I think randomly assigned times would frustrate a lot of guests.

 

[LSUmiss]

It's the number listed on my room reservation but I never got anything other than all circuits busy on it.

I was able to get through right away but am on hold, of course.

 

[Gabrielle Broughton]

Does anyone have another number to call for only changing park hopper tickets to base tickets? I've tried a bunch of numbers and am only getting "All circuits are busy"

 

[MIndy S]

I don't understand, wouldn't that create the same problem for social distancing as virtual queues or FP? Part of the reason they are doing standby only is to get people into lines to reduce the amount of people wandering the park and also because social distancing is more easily enforced in a line setting. Also, I think randomly assigned times would frustrate a lot of guests.

I guess that makes sense. I just am envisioning a scenario where 90% of the people with Park Reservations show up at Rope Drop at DHS and all head towards ROTR.