Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Yooperroo]

Do we know how long they give you to "cool down"?
As I posted last week, my body does not react well to the heat in my older age. (Lets just say WDW and I celebrate together yearly )
I've always been slightly sensitive, but since all of this, knowing I'd need a temp check, I've been checking mine after being out in heat. It does raise my temp above the 100.4 sometimes.
Takes me about 10 minutes to get down below 98.6

My husband didn't pass the first check and had to go to the cooling tent. He sat there for maybe 45 seconds and then they rechecked him and was good to go.

 

[yulilin3]

Do we know what time they are releasing more AP park passes for July/Aug? There seems to be no change to the availability calendar yet.

I managed to move dates around, at about 7:15 the entirity of next week showed DHS as available but that went fast, Epcot on Saturday which is the last park I needed this week so I'm happy

 

[osufeth24]

ugh, still does me no good when the limit is 3. I have 2 this weekend, and I had to use 1 in Sept for HS before it filled up

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

Based on yesterday DHS shouldn't get any more availability. That was... bad. Plus I thought all the three buckets were full for that park, so that wouldn't be a reallocation, but an expansion?

Agreed. It's possible that some of what we're seeing for DHS was generated from cancellations. The slots did go fast, indicating there may not have been all that many.

 

[TropicalDIS]

Agreed. It's possible that what some of what we're seeing for DHS was generated from cancellations. The slots did go fast, indicating there may not have been all that many.

hopefully that’s the case. Be interesting to see if it gets better at DHS over the next week.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

hopefully that’s the case. Be interesting to see if it gets better at DHS over the next week.

It did seem like (from the outside at least) the bad at DHS was isolated to certain areas - so hopefully they can figure out ways to address. I did see even during they day they added more "wait here" strips for an even more extended queue fpor MMRR (which I guess is needed at rope drop) so appears they are looking at things and making changes ... be interesting to see how they adjust for the Galaxy's Edge area and for Rise and stuff .... do they maybe start having capacity limits for the land itself to minimize cross traffic in the land that was designed with smallish pathways and stuff?

 

[TropicalDIS]

It did seem like (from the outside at least) the bad at DHS was isolated to certain areas - so hopefully they can figure out ways to address. I did see even during they day they added more "wait here" strips for an even more extended queue fpor MMRR (which I guess is needed at rope drop) so appears they are looking at things and making changes ... be interesting to see how they adjust for the Galaxy's Edge area and for Rise and stuff .... do they maybe start having capacity limits for the land itself to minimize cross traffic in the land that was designed with smallish pathways and stuff?

I don’t think that’s a bad idea. Universal did that for Hogsmeade for the first couple years when it opened.

 

[osufeth24]

I don’t think that’s a bad idea. Universal did that for Hogsmeade for the first couple years when it opened.

Disney had it for GE, but it was only needed for the first day GE opened since after that the crowds just weren't coming

 

[RWinNOLA]

It did seem like (from the outside at least) the bad at DHS was isolated to certain areas - so hopefully they can figure out ways to address. I did see even during they day they added more "wait here" strips for an even more extended queue fpor MMRR (which I guess is needed at rope drop) so appears they are looking at things and making changes ... be interesting to see how they adjust for the Galaxy's Edge area and for Rise and stuff .... do they maybe start having capacity limits for the land itself to minimize cross traffic in the land that was designed with smallish pathways and stuff?

We have a park reservation at DHS today. Was at EPCOT all day yesterday and wasn’t really able to follow this thread to closely.
That said, I haven’t seen anyone mention but I received a notification from MDE yesterday stating that boarding groups would be available for ROTR at 10, 1, and 4 and that you do not have to arrive early. Wording is confusing and it kind of implies that you do not have to be inside the park but it’s not 100% clear.

 

[glocker]

Agreed. It's possible that some of what we're seeing for DHS was generated from cancellations. The slots did go fast, indicating there may not have been all that many.

I was scheduled to arrive yesterday, family of three. By the time I got off the phone with VIPassholder line (two and a half hours) to cancel my APs for the refund, I had yet to cancel my park reservations for the 10 days. I thought they would auto cancel after the pass was cancelled, but since the passes are still active until August 11th, I had to go in and cancel each individually. I imagine many people who cancel have a similar story, waiting until the last minute...it's a painful experience after so much emotional investment.

 

[yulilin3]

We have a park reservation at DHS today. Was at EPCOT all day yesterday and wasn’t really able to follow this thread to closely.
That said, I haven’t seen anyone mention but I received a notification from MDE yesterday stating that boarding groups would be available for ROTR at 10, 1, and 4 and that you do not have to arrive early. Wording is confusing and it kind of implies that you do not have to be inside the park but it’s not 100% clear.

you do have to scan into the park, you can leave after and get a bg from somewhere else, but you have to had scan in first

 

[TheMaxRebo]

We have a park reservation at DHS today. Was at EPCOT all day yesterday and wasn’t really able to follow this thread to closely.
That said, I haven’t seen anyone mention but I received a notification from MDE yesterday stating that boarding groups would be available for ROTR at 10, 1, and 4 and that you do not have to arrive early. Wording is confusing and it kind of implies that you do not have to be inside the park but it’s not 100% clear.

just a note to the bolded part - it is that boarding groups are first made available at 10am and then again at 1pm and 4pm if there is capacity available - for example yesterday, there wasn't anything left to make available at 40m (as the ride did have some down time). Also, appeared that what was available at 10am and 1pm went in less than 1 minute

... so at least for now your best bet is still to be int he park prior to 10am and try to get a BG then

 

[hertamaniac]

I was scheduled to arrive yesterday, family of three. By the time I got off the phone with VIPassholder line (two and a half hours) to cancel my APs for the refund, I had yet to cancel my park reservations for the 10 days. I thought they would auto cancel after the pass was cancelled, but since the passes are still active until August 11th, I had to go in and cancel each individually. I imagine many people who cancel have a similar story, waiting until the last minute...it's a painful experience after so much emotional investment.

If I understand correctly, once we selected cancel for both our AP's, if they were not in the blackout period they would be cancelled effective August 12th. This effectively would have given us a one month window of usage before the cancellation was executed. So if you took the time and effort to cancel your park reservations to free up spots for others, then I applaud you......others may have just "let it ride".

 

[A2DisneyMom]

@A2DisneyMom How were the queues? We’re currently headed in August, but I’m worried about ventilation in the queues and congestion with poor distancing. Thoughts?

Distancing in the lines is great. There are a couple of switchback areas where you will walk within 6 feet of another party, but those areas move so fast right now that exposure shouldn’t be an issue. Any areas where you’ll stand within 6 feet of others are partitioned by plexiglass. They’ve gotten creative; for example, the plexiglass dividers on Soarin are held in place (in part) by child booster seats.

 

[Alicefan]

From doing this job at a different workplace off and on since March: no. If you have a fever this isn’t going to do much. If you are overheated then this is exactly what the treatment is. I myself read 99.8 once after sitting in my car for 5 minutes in the sun to finish a phone call before going into the eye doctor. After 30 seconds in the building I was 97.9. If you overheated you come back to normal pretty fast.

I was at 100 from just going about 10 feet from my car to the front door of the doctor but like you said, she took my temp just a few seconds later and it was coming down. I had just had a hot flash in the car when I got there so I think it was that. Stress of going to the doctor kicked that bad boy in lol. Ugh!

 

[RWinNOLA]

just a note to the bolded part - it is that boarding groups are first made available at 10am and then again at 1pm and 4pm if there is capacity available - for example yesterday, there wasn't anything left to make available at 40m (as the ride did have some down time). Also, appeared that what was available at 10am and 1pm went in less than 1 minute

... so at least for now your best bet is still to be int he park prior to 10am and try to get a BG then

When I read it over again, I believe you are correct. It is confusing the way it is worded though. I was thinking it was maybe their way of handling. The early rush only to have so many in the park at 10 that ended up not getting a boarding group.

 

[Alicefan]

If someone has an elevated temperature (regardless of the reason) and you get them wet and put them in front of a fan, temp can decrease.

Not to mention the temporary effects of Ibuprofen on a fever. That will knock most fevers down for a good 4 hours. So in reality, are the temp checks going to work in the least? I can be sick as a dog and still control a bad fever with meds.

 

[Alicefan]

Distancing in the lines is great. There are a couple of switchback areas where you will walk within 6 feet of another party, but those areas move so fast right now that exposure shouldn’t be an issue. Any areas where you’ll stand within 6 feet of others are partitioned by plexiglass. They’ve gotten creative; for example, the plexiglass dividers on Soarin are held in place (in part) by child booster seats.

I kinda like the glass partitions in the switchback lines and think they should just keep those up forever anyway. You come face to face with some stanky folk in those lines on a good day. How many think we'll never see those things come back down? I also have a feeling that the distancing markers are going to end up being permanent.

 

[MrsBooch]

I completely agree with this. Being in the Mexico pavilion/ride is the ONLY time over the last 4 days my husband and I felt extremely uncomfortable. There needs to be a capacity limit for the building itself. We have 2 more days at EPCOT on this trip and unless they change and adjust, we won't go back to it.

What happened in the Mexico pavilion???

 

[Alicefan]

Yep. Giving them ice water sounds like desperation to get as many people through the gates and buying that 2020/spash merch as possible regardless of symptoms.

ding ding ding! You win the prize today sir! In the end it's going to be all about the money. Far too many people have the mindset of "my kid isn't feeling well but he doesn't feel bad enough to stay home and miss out on our expensive vacation! He'll rally!" Very very few would cancel a trip like that and lose their vacation and their money no matter what we think they should do. Think about it, we've ALL gone places not feeling our best. Heck, I threw my back out on day one of my trip one time and I absolutely suffered through the rest of it limping along because I had spent so much money to get there and didn't want to lose it all. One year me, my sister and my brother in law all caught something while we were there and we were coughing our heads off but do you think my Dad called it and made us all go back home? Nope. We felt like crap but made the best out of it. Most of us would have to be on deaths door to call off a Disney trip and we know it.