Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Brianstl]

Yeah, I don't think crowds kick in until tomorrow

That is my thinking, too. It will be interesting to follow on here and on MDE.

 

[yulilin3]

Report from HS today:

I am not sure we should take that post as gospel. According to MDE waits haven't been bad today at DHS. The waits for the most parts have been pretty similar to yesterday a few rides were five to ten minutes longer than yesterday for about an hour earlier today, but it doesn't look all that bad at all at least on MDE.

and it's all about perspective and expectations.
Look at @osufeth24 he was expecting awful crowds and he just reported it's not that bad
Like I said before I know there will be tons of reports like that poster, after seeing the parks empty, walk ons on everything it does feel like they upped the capacity like 100% even if they didn't. Also following from home never gives you the whole pic like being here, it is ridiculously hot, that on top of longer wait times, that poster being stuck on RotR, it all compounds to a grumpy experience if you were not expecting crazy crowds
I will say that it is definitely busier, but doable and yeah no more real walk ons (even though I did walk on to Dumbo at 11am) this weekend

 

[Mit88]

How did they “drop the ball”?
1. It’s a holiday weekend. People travel. This shouldn’t have come to the surprise to literally anyone.

2. Disney needs to make money. We complain about the cuts and lack of experiences. Well to get these things back and avoid additional cuts in the future, Disney needs to have people come back to the parks and into their resorts. Itmay be fun for guests to get on these attractions as walk-one but that’s not why Disney re-opened. They reopened to make money. They can’t make money if the parks are dead

3. CMs aren’t used to larger crowds this size since it’s been 6 months since they’ve dealt with a “crowded” parks atmosphere. They’ll fix issues but you can’t expect people that haven’t worked in a crowded environment to suddenly turn a switch back on. Like I said last night, most of the guests prior to this weekend were people that are Disney diehards. A lot of guests this weekend are going to be entitled guests that don’t understand the regulations because they’re not on Disney forums.

 

[Krandor]

Yeah, I don't think crowds kick in until tomorrow

Agreed. Likely a lot of people travelling today.

 

[Dentam]

How did they “drop the ball”?
1. It’s a holiday weekend. People travel. This shouldn’t have come to the surprise to literally anyone.

2. Disney needs to make money. We complain about the cuts and lack of experiences. Well to get these things back and avoid additional cuts in the future, Disney needs to have people come back to the parks and into their resorts. Itmay be fun for guests to get on these attractions as walk-one but that’s not why Disney re-opened. They reopened to make money. They can’t make money if the parks are dead

3. CMs aren’t used to larger crowds this size since it’s been 6 months since they’ve dealt with a “crowded” parks atmosphere. They’ll fix issues but you can’t expect people that haven’t worked in a crowded environment to suddenly turn a switch back on. Like I said last night, most of the guests prior to this weekend were people that are Disney diehards. A lot of guests this weekend are going to be entitled guests that don’t understand the regulations because they’re not on Disney forums.

That was a quote from another thread from someone at HS today. Good to read different perspectives and try to prepare for whatever we might encounter this weekend. I did see the temps are supposed to go down a bit next week, so that's one positive thing.

 

[Brianstl]

That was a quote from another thread from someone at HS today. Good to read different perspectives and try to prepare for whatever we might encounter this weekend. I did see the temps are supposed to go down a bit next week, so that's one positive thing.

Selfishly I should probably be wishing for some bad reports to scare people away for my trip in two weeks.

 

[Sunelis]

Woody's Lunch Box is really the outlier here, isn't it? Completely outdoors, can social distance. Could even set up more tables at SWGE/TSL transition

My 2 cents on that one is that the problem is more for the CMs inside the Lunchbox. From what I remember it seems really small in there.

 

[osufeth24]

Leaving hs. Just so hot. Heat index was 112

HS was definitely a lot emptier than I was expecting. Outside of mmrr no ride got above 40 min.

 

[Dentam]

Selfishly I should probably be wishing for some bad reports to scare people away for my trip in two weeks.

Well, hopefully I won't have any to give you this coming week... lol

 

[gottalovepluto]

Report from HS today:

IF that’s true...
I personally would have cut bait quick. ROTR is not the be all, end all.

And Guest Services would have been my next stop to discuss a blatant lack of mask enforcement in DHS.

...but I don’t think this is sounding accurate based on @osufeth24 reporting...

 

[Brianstl]

Leaving hs. Just so hot. Heat index was 112

HS was definitely a lot emptier than I was expecting. Outside of mmrr no ride got above 40 min.

That heat index is just oppressive and really takes it out of you.

 

[Mit88]

IF that’s true...
I personally would have cut bait quick. ROTR is not the be all, end all.

And Guest Services would have been my next stop to discuss a blatant lack of mask enforcement in DHS.

...but I don’t think this is sounding accurate based on @osufeth24 reporting...

Not to mention the wait times look no different at any of the parks, let alone DHS than they did ASG week.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Reporting on compliance and enforcement is going to vary so much depending on where you are and the people you’re around that I can totally believe one person saw the majority doing a great job while another saw a pretty bad job being done at the same place on the same day.

My guess is that has less to do with crowds ramping up this weekend and more to do with the luck of the draw as to who you’re around.

 

[hereforthechurros]

I thought at one point all buckets for Saturday & Sunday were showing no availability? If that changed then clearly they increased capacity. Not arguing that’s good or bad as long as things stay safe.

 

[Mit88]

Reporting on compliance and enforcement is going to vary so much depending on where you are and the people you’re around that I can totally believe one person saw the majority doing a great job while another saw a pretty bad job being done at the same place on the same day.

My guess is that has less to do with crowds ramping up this weekend and more to do with the luck of the draw as to who you’re around.

I agree. I had a great week from what I saw. Could have been completely different just 50 feet from me at all times. So many moving pieces, so much real estate, it’s impossible to judge an experience based on the entire park and not just your own perspective.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I thought at one point all buckets for Saturday & Sunday were showing no availability? If that changed then clearly they increased capacity. Not arguing that’s good or bad as long as things stay safe.

Unless reservations aren’t returned to the system without IT putting them back in?

 

[Krandor]

Reporting on compliance and enforcement is going to vary so much depending on where you are and the people you’re around that I can totally believe one person saw the majority doing a great job while another saw a pretty bad job being done at the same place on the same day.

My guess is that has less to do with crowds ramping up this weekend and more to do with the luck of the draw as to who you’re around.

More crowds will result in making it harder to police resulting in a lot more variability so they all factor in

 

[yulilin3]

IF that’s true...
I personally would have cut bait quick. ROTR is not the be all, end all.

And Guest Services would have been my next stop to discuss a blatant lack of mask enforcement in DHS.

...but I don’t think this is sounding accurate based on @osufeth24 reporting...

the thing is that it is accurate to that poster. Crowds feel are subjective unless it's a 10 out of 10. Some people are there today and think it's busy but not terrible, some will think "this isnt busy at all remember when we came on Christmas" some will say "this is awful, no where near the walk on experience I saw posted from July"
It's just all about expectations

 

[gottalovepluto]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/09/what...d-at-disney-world-theme-parks-september-2020/

I had no idea Spice Road Table was open!! One of my faves!!

 

[Mit88]

I thought at one point all buckets for Saturday & Sunday were showing no availability? If that changed then clearly they increased capacity. Not arguing that’s good or bad as long as things stay safe.

Very confusing. All parks were sold out for all 3 buckets the next 2 days. So moving Allocation from one bucket to another wouldn’t make sense if they didn’t add capacity. Unless enough people cancelled their vacations to allow them to reallocate availability.