Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[sara_s]

Epcot was great tonight - we went from 5-close. Wandered around the booths - bummer some weren’t open. Loved Morocco the most! Amazing weather, actually feels like the holidays! Light crowds for the most part. Did Soarin around 7:30 - less than 10 min wait.

AK day tomorrow!

 

[rteetz]

California Mayors Ask Governor Newsom to Allow Theme Parks to Reopen in Tier 3

 

[ArielRae]

https://disneycruiselineblog.com/20...ngs-removed-from-disney-cruise-lines-website/

 

[MrsBooch]

Not sure what is going on or why (capacity increase indoors or cancellations) but Thanksgiving Day dinner and lunch reservations are wide open right now 5:30am EST. Liberty Tree has several open spots, Whispering Canyon etc. - if you were looking - jump on that. Also other days that week opened. I have been searching for a November 22 Beaches & Cream dinner spot and I had my pick of times.

 

[Wendy12]

Not sure what is going on or why (capacity increase indoors or cancellations) but Thanksgiving Day dinner and lunch reservations are wide open right now 5:30am EST. Liberty Tree has several open spots, Whispering Canyon etc. - if you were looking - jump on that. Also other days that week opened. I have been searching for a November 22 Beaches & Cream dinner spot and I had my pick of times.

Thank you for posting!! I was able to get our Christmas morning breakfast ressie at Chef Mickey's! 5 minutes after getting it scheduled, I got the alert from Touring Plans. Wide open on times for me as well.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Not sure what is going on or why (capacity increase indoors or cancellations) but Thanksgiving Day dinner and lunch reservations are wide open right now 5:30am EST. Liberty Tree has several open spots, Whispering Canyon etc. - if you were looking - jump on that. Also other days that week opened. I have been searching for a November 22 Beaches & Cream dinner spot and I had my pick of times.

They have to have increased capacity. I just want to know how much, 100% puts me back to spilling water in the lap of the stranger next to me and while legal in FL I am not ready for that. Bunch of hours dropped for Topolino’s breakfast for my trip in a couple weeks in addition to B&C.

No Oga’s.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I see my Topolino’s TP alert came in an hour before Beaches hit. Looks like they’re rolling out so maybe more coming.

I know we’re on top of this (for once I picked a great night to be an insomniac ) but this seems like a lot of capacity. 6 feet has to be gone for distancing- we’re talking a bunch of ADRs for B&C for goodness sakes. (omg are they gonna put up plexiglass all over the dining places and say good enough! 100%. Cause yikes ...)

While happy to snag a couple ADRs, I’m concerned. Ugg. One week to go and Disney throws this curveball at me, I hope they publicly address it so we know what to expect.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Fascinating time to pick to up indoor dining COVID wise. I’d love to have heard how this convo went down honestly.

Let’s guess numbers! I’m in for 75%. I had tons of options yes but I just can’t imagine with how careful they’ve been they’re ready to go all in at 100%.

 

[MrsBooch]

Fascinating time to pick to up indoor dining COVID wise. I’d love to have heard how this convo went down honestly.

Let’s guess numbers! I’m in for 75%. I had tons of options yes but I just can’t imagine with how careful they’ve been they’re ready to go all in at 100%.

Yes my thoughts as well - I was thinking 50% though - were they at 25% indoors?
Beaches will be interesting bc that joint is small inside.
I already told everyone at home that if anything feels weird or not safe we just go somewhere else, eat in our room etc. I would rather take the cancellation hit.

 

[MrsBooch]

I see my Topolino’s TP alert came in an hour before Beaches hit. Looks like they’re rolling out so maybe more coming.

I know we’re on top of this (for once I picked a great night to be an insomniac ) but this seems like a lot of capacity. 6 feet has to be gone for distancing- we’re talking a bunch of ADRs for B&C for goodness sakes. (omg are they gonna put up plexiglass all over the dining places and say good enough! 100%. Cause yikes ...)

While happy to snag a couple ADRs, I’m concerned. Ugg. One week to go and Disney throws this curveball at me, I hope they publicly address it so we know what to expect.

I also wonder if they Intentionally held back capacity to see who would still be booked with a month to go? Who knows. We will - soon.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Yes my thoughts as well - I was thinking 50% though - were they at 25% indoors?
Beaches will be interesting bc that joint is small inside.
I already told everyone at home that if anything feels weird or not safe we just go somewhere else, eat in our room etc. I would rather take the cancellation hit.

^good call! I will be telling my crew the same.

I thought it was 50%.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I also wonder if they Intentionally held back capacity to see who would still be booked with a month to go? Who knows. We will - soon.

Like maybe they were worried they’d have to roll back capacity on indoor dining in case of a surge? So opened fewer winter ADRs to start with? I could buy that...

 

[MrsBooch]

Wasn’t today the day to start 7am boarding groups for Rise??

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Today was the first day of the new RotR boarding Group process

I saw someone post they got one from home in Clermont, someone else said they got one from Tampa

Did see some people complain of errors where it was saying some in their group didn't have DHS park reservations for today even though they did though

 

[gottalovepluto]

Today was the first day of the new RotR boarding Group process

I saw someone post they got one from home in Clermont, someone else said they got one from Tampa

And multiple reports people got denied for not having a park pass even when they did.

So Disney IT strikes again

 

[Dis_Yoda]

We were always planning on having today as being HS day. I got a boarding pass but it showed that my husband didnt have a park reservation. I got group 51. We will visit guest services later to address it since he should have shown as valid.

Hopefully Thursday goes better.

 

[MrsBooch]

And multiple reports people got denied for not having a park pass even when they did.

So Disney IT strikes again

welllllll let’s see how it goes - they fixed the first issue where you had to select everyone in your party after that became such a sticking point - today is day 1 after all who knows?

but you are prob right

 

[MrsBooch]

Like maybe they were worried they’d have to roll back capacity on indoor dining in case of a surge? So opened fewer winter ADRs to start with? I could buy that...

exactly - so instead of mass cancelations bc it was too much, they did this bc it was too low to start.

 

[yulilin3]

Wasn’t today the day to start 7am boarding groups for Rise??

Many reports on the RotR thread in the SWGE subforum, successful and unsuccessful

 

[Sara W]

I think they are increasing restaurant capacity. I got notifications of availability for both Beach and Cream and Chef Mickey's (on the day the characters come back) for Dec 16 and 17 while I was sleeping. When I went to book this morning, not only were the reservations still available but I had a number of times to choose from.

Edit to add: here I thought I was bright and early with seeing this. Reading the posts above and I guess this is old news now! But the quick info sharing is why I read this thread.