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[Moliphino]

Water fountains are back in operation at Walt Disney World!

Can anybody in the parks confirm this?

We used water fountains in the parks in October and early May.

 

[Heather07438]

Sweet & Spicy Chicken Waffle Sandwich From Sleepy Hollow!
Recipe attached

 

[Heather07438]

Hollywood Studios Park Hours Extended in August, September

 

[LSUmiss]

Park passes open for July, again.View attachment 584742

This is why I am partly not worried about Boo Bash opening up. I think they under shot numbers and things have changed so quickly with opening back up. At least that's what I'll tell myself until I read bad reviews.

Yeah I’m hoping that too since they sold It so quickly. The other after hours events pre-Covid never sold out that quickly.

 

[HokieRaven5]

Face Masks No Longer Required Outdoors for Fully Vaccinated Disneyland Cast Members

Starts tomorrow for these CMs.

 

[tigger2002]

Yeah, I'm pretty upset at this development.

You state in the advertisement - Disney After Hours Boo Bash lets a limited number of Guests experience the park for an additional 3 hours after it closes. That means less waiting in line at popular experiences like Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain!

People buy those limited tickets, it sells out, you realize you can make more money and then release more tickets??? Bad move.

Well it is limited. Limited to the number of tickets they can sell.

 

[HokieRaven5]

Cast Member Preview of Happily Ever After Scheduled for June 29th

 

[Heather07438]

ruh

Cast Member Preview of Happily Ever After Scheduled for June 29th

That is wonderful!

Sponsored by Kleenex

 

[DianaMB333]

ruh

That is wonderful!

Sponsored by Kleenex

Agreee!! It is so nice!! Must be very touching moment for all of them!

 

[dancergirlsmom]

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Cast Member Preview of Happily Ever After Scheduled for June 29th

Ooohh! I hope my DD gets to go. She hasn't mentioned it but has park reservations for July 1.

 

[HokieRaven5]

Land Clearing Begins at New Magic Kingdom Perimeter Fireworks Launches

 

[mickey916]

Just wanna shout out a thanks to @HokieRaven5 and @Heather07438 for stepping up and helping with posting the news in @mrsap's absence...Great job!

 

[Heather07438]

Just wanna shout out a thanks to @HokieRaven5 and @Heather07438 for stepping up and helping with posting the news in @mrsap's absence...Great job!

Thank you

 

[HokieRaven5]

Just wanna shout out a thanks to @HokieRaven5 and @Heather07438 for stepping up and helping with posting the news in @mrsap's absence...Great job!

 

[TikiTikiFan]

One quick relevant thought on waiting for things to reopen: We're here now and compared to Universal, Disney is absolutely rocking things right now. Universal was an absolute mess- everything open to full capacity (shops, dining, etc) but not enough staff to fill it. While it's a bummer we still have things closed at Disney, experiencing Universal with the opposite approach of opening more before they had the staff to handle it, I think is actually a positive on Disney's part. Our experience today at HS/MK was so smooth in comparison even just for simple things like not having to wait 30-45 minutes in line for a bottled water. Just wanted to share that, I know the slow news has been rough because we all want things back! But being here and experiencing the two approaches back to back... I think Disney's right to wait until they're done training/hiring!

 

[disny_luvr]

One quick relevant thought on waiting for things to reopen: We're here now and compared to Universal, Disney is absolutely rocking things right now. Universal was an absolute mess- everything open to full capacity (shops, dining, etc) but not enough staff to fill it. While it's a bummer we still have things closed at Disney, experiencing Universal with the opposite approach of opening more before they had the staff to handle it, I think is actually a positive on Disney's part. Our experience today at HS/MK was so smooth in comparison even just for simple things like not having to wait 30-45 minutes in line for a bottled water. Just wanted to share that, I know the slow news has been rough because we all want things back! But being here and experiencing the two approaches back to back... I think Disney's right to wait until they're done training/hiring!

Thanks for the update! That is good to hear! I hope you are having a great trip!

 

[shelbel95]

Recommending the same strategy for a family tomorrow AM.

If similar, they will then head to Safari-did you do that by any chance?

Then also wondering if FotLK is going on and when. TIA.

The Celebration of the Festival of the Lion King is going on each day. Show times are listed in the app. It was amazing and more than I was expecting (but no trampoline monkeys)

 

[shelbel95]

One quick relevant thought on waiting for things to reopen: We're here now and compared to Universal, Disney is absolutely rocking things right now. Universal was an absolute mess- everything open to full capacity (shops, dining, etc) but not enough staff to fill it. While it's a bummer we still have things closed at Disney, experiencing Universal with the opposite approach of opening more before they had the staff to handle it, I think is actually a positive on Disney's part. Our experience today at HS/MK was so smooth in comparison even just for simple things like not having to wait 30-45 minutes in line for a bottled water. Just wanted to share that, I know the slow news has been rough because we all want things back! But being here and experiencing the two approaches back to back... I think Disney's right to wait until they're done training/hiring!

I would definitely agree. We did Universal last Friday and saturday… then came over to Disney for 7 park days. Disney is doing it right making sure they have the staff to support the crowds, food, entertainment, etc. Not so much at Universal. Lots of waiting and frustrated people because the staff is stretched thin

 

[shelbel95]

Star Tours – The Adventures Continue: 90 minutes

At 10 am? My family members who can't do Slinky, ToT, or RnR were talking about going to Star Tours first while everyone else goes to ToT and RnR since regular rope drop is back....I might tell them they might have to ACTUALLY rope drop it

(Although the rest of the day looks like a walk on...lol)

It must’ve been a fluke. We did 2 Hollywood studios days this week (today and Tuesday) and it was always 30 mins or less - usually around 10-20. We joked how poor Star Tours doesn’t get any love now that Galaxy’s Edge is open

 

[pigletto]

One quick relevant thought on waiting for things to reopen: We're here now and compared to Universal, Disney is absolutely rocking things right now. Universal was an absolute mess- everything open to full capacity (shops, dining, etc) but not enough staff to fill it. While it's a bummer we still have things closed at Disney, experiencing Universal with the opposite approach of opening more before they had the staff to handle it, I think is actually a positive on Disney's part. Our experience today at HS/MK was so smooth in comparison even just for simple things like not having to wait 30-45 minutes in line for a bottled water. Just wanted to share that, I know the slow news has been rough because we all want things back! But being here and experiencing the two approaches back to back... I think Disney's right to wait until they're done training/hiring!

This makes a lot of sense and gives a better perspective on the slow and steady reopening that Disney is doing .

I can’t imagine how awful it must be for the staff who are at Universal who don’t have enough help and are dealing with frustrated customers .