Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[rteetz]

Wait! was this reported already?

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/experience-updates/parks/#park-hopper
Water Parks
While Disney’s Blizzard Beach water park and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park remain closed at this time, pending government approvals, we currently plan to reopen one of the two Disney water parks on March 7, 2021.
Like the other areas of Walt Disney World Resort, we will welcome back Guests and Cast Members to our water parks in a responsible way, with a plan focused on health and well-being. We will provide more details on our phased reopening plan, including a decision on the specific water park that will be reopening first, at a later time. This reopening date may change and if it does, we will let Guests know what to expect in a future update.

Yes

 

[gottalovepluto]

Wait! was this reported already?

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/experience-updates/parks/#park-hopper
Water Parks
While Disney’s Blizzard Beach water park and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park remain closed at this time, pending government approvals, we currently plan to reopen one of the two Disney water parks on March 7, 2021.
Like the other areas of Walt Disney World Resort, we will welcome back Guests and Cast Members to our water parks in a responsible way, with a plan focused on health and well-being. We will provide more details on our phased reopening plan, including a decision on the specific water park that will be reopening first, at a later time. This reopening date may change and if it does, we will let Guests know what to expect in a future update.

Yes, the March date came out in Sept I think

 

[yulilin3]

Yes

lol, I don't pay attention to the water parks cause I don't go to them, thanks!!

 

[gottalovepluto]

Great news!

I'll be intrigued about transportation next. Does Disney offer bus transportation from and to other parks, now?

Epcot Monorail coming soon?

Right now they don’t offer park to park transport because there would be no point.

 

[figmentfinesse]

I am certainly interested in PH, but considering how early the parks may close for my late Jan trip idk if it will be worth it. I was a serial park hopper previously, but it really wasn't so bad at 1 per day for my trip in August.

 

[CaptAwesome]

Do we think this means that new Annual Pass sales will begin to resume?

This is what I'm hoping as well.

 

[babydoll65]

And here's a link to the DPB article:

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...9Sgbqiol7YRhYVDHSzJpOQYJ7GPx8F2vtmM53DUW-6RyQ

Thank you!! Called to add the parkhopping option and the reservation cm was also able to apply the Disney visa promo Upgraded both portions of my split stay, add parkhoppers and still getting money back. Definitely doing a happy dance

 

[hereforthechurros]

GF walkway is now open according to online reports!

 

[tlmadden73]

Do we think this means that new Annual Pass sales will begin to resume?

Goodness I hope so!

I have a trip planned in January and was going to be using just 5-day (no hopper) tickets for 3 of us (since .. you can't hop) .. my daughter has an AP and as a 4yo can't really hop by herself.
So if I can buy (or upgrade my tickets) to APs .. I'm all in, because hopping will make that January trip a lot more fun (especially since we are staying on the Skyliner). Do you hear that Disney? I'm ready to spend thousands of dollars IF YOU LET ME!

 

[PrincessV]

Even as an AP, I don't typically do a lot of park hopping, because we generally only go to a park later in the day. But DHS is also not a full-day park for us, so just being able to do a few hours at DHS before hopping to EP for a couple more will be fantastic!

 

[mattpeto]

Right now they don’t offer park to park transport because there would be no point.

That's what I figured. At the very least the buses should be back into play for park hopping.

 

[Spaceguy55]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329771962672033793

"As a reminder, guests with a ticket or pass that includes Park Hopper benefits get the chance to see and do more during their visit, which could mean a morning on the savanna at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park and an evening stroll by Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom Park or starting the day living your Star Wars adventure at Disney’s Hollywood Studios before an afternoon traveling around the world at EPCOT. "

I love that the are selling/promoting this as something that we all have taken for granted in the past...

 

[skeeter31]

"As a reminder, guests with a ticket or pass that includes Park Hopper benefits get the chance to see and do more during their visit, which could mean a morning on the savanna at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park and an evening stroll by Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom Park or starting the day living your Star Wars adventure at Disney’s Hollywood Studios before an afternoon traveling around the world at EPCOT. "

I love that the are selling/promoting this as something that we all have taken for granted in the past...

That was always the wording used on their park hopping sales site. It’s to entice those first timers.

 

[Spaceguy55]

That was always the wording used on their park hopping sales site. It’s to entice those first timers.

I guess I've been a AP holder too long...

 

[chicagoshannon]

So glad that park hopping will be back for our January trip. Epcot is about to get busy after 2pm! I wonder if the first couple of hours will be less busy now. I think this will be the nicest for the AK day. Go there in the morning hop to Epcot at 2pm.

Our Jan stay is at BLT so it would be really nice if they started that Epcot monorail up again!

I wish they would "test" the hopping out in early December though. lol

 

[MrsBooch]

so.....i think the walkway is open at the Grand Floridian????

Was that posted? I know we are hyped up on Hopping...buuuut that's a great news drop too!

 

[mum22girlz]

And there I go with one of my dim witted, arrogant takes not thinking of situations like yours, or others who have the same or similar issues. I’m sorry

Oh no! I didn't think your comment was arrogant or dim witted. I agree, they are a bit creepy though.

 

[rteetz]

so.....i think the walkway is open at the Grand Floridian????

Was that posted? I know we are hyped up on Hopping...buuuut that's a great news drop too!

Yep

 

[Mit88]

It’s so weird celebrating the return of park hopping as if it’s some brand new experience we get at WDW.

I was thinking they’d announce soon that they were refunding PH tickets purchased Jan 1st - whatever date they chose, not that PH was actually returning on a date they said they would try to bring it back on.

AP purchases gotta be coming back soon now too? While the price point still doesn’t match the experience you got pre-shutdown, I always figured the park hopping was the main reason they were holding them back. Although they’re probably just waiting until their usual March price increase to bring them back

 

[rpb718]

After 2pm is smart. You have to be tapped into dhs to get a bg at 2pm. People wanting to park hop to dhs won't have any advantage for rotr.

They could just as easily made it 1PM or earlier and it still wouldn't matter since the ability to get a BG is tied to your park reservation and not whether or not you are actually in the park. It doesn't appear that one has to select another park reservation to hop.

The hopping change might make HS a good park to hop to after 2PM if you don't want to do RotR but are keen to do other rides (SDD and MMRR).