Disneyland Reopening Speculation Superthread

[DisneyJamieCA]

Of course. As long as you are stationary and eating or drinking you can remove your mask almost any where in the park where you can social distance. Disney isn't expecting the mask to be glued to your face the whole time.



Nah you just have to be stationary and socially distanced as long as you are eating or drinking. If you want a place to just chill with your mask off and not eating / drinking then you will need to be in a designated spot.

Since nothing official has come from Disneyland about this (at least to the best of my knowledge), I don't think either of us can be so sure. It would be a mistake to assume things from Disney World would transfer here.

 

[crystal1313]

Of course. As long as you are stationary and eating or drinking you can remove your mask almost any where in the park where you can social distance. Disney isn't expecting the mask to be glued to your face the whole time.



Nah you just have to be stationary and socially distanced as long as you are eating or drinking. If you want a place to just chill with your mask off and not eating / drinking then you will need to be in a designated spot.

Are you sure? It’s that way in Florida but the way I read the guidelines for CA, you have to be in a designated eating and drinking area to eat and drink. You can’t just plop on a park bench and eat/drink, unless it’s in a designated area. The guidelines even mention places to eat for food carts like churros, etc.

 

[ycsteves]

You're not incorrect in what they said. But it was presented as though it was the answer we were all looking for from the state - as is evident in some of the comments that followed, like "your turn Disney".

So I think some were just clarifying this is no more official than anything that came out yesterday and nobody should get excited. We are STILL waiting for the state to comment/clarify.

And yes, eliminating the negative testing things would lead to nobody unvaccinated allowed. I don't see any theme park, who gets the bulk of their money from families, doing that. And the outcry, especially at Disney would be something they haven't seen before.

I didn't say it was official and the source I provided makes that evident, but I understand.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Capa is clarifying confusion surrounding why certain parks were making certain announcements and that is evident when one looks at the source I referenced. I did not mention the state and what they are/are not allowing. @TikiTikiFan was kind enough to provide the actual screenshots of the source which supports this. I apologize to those who mistook my post.

Either way, it says a lot that capa is going out of their to make this clarification. They must have had conversations with CA gov. Already. Or they're just being reckless, but I find the latter to be odd. Releasing such a definitve statement without any information from the 'powers that be' would not be wise on their part.

If the statement about Disney is to be believed, it does make it sound like guidance was given to theme parks. Would be nice if there was a public statement from CDPH to us peons though!

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Since nothing official has come from Disneyland about this (at least to the best of my knowledge), I don't think either of us can be so sure. It would be a mistake to assume things from Disney World would transfer here.

I think the more apt comparison would be Touch of Disney. Stationary + actively eating/drinking + distanced was the rule, as it is in Downtown Disney. I’d feel pretty safe assuming the parks will be the same.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

Are you sure? It’s that way in Florida but the way I read the guidelines for CA, you have to be in a designated eating and drinking area to eat and drink. You can’t just plop on a park bench and eat/drink, unless it’s in a designated area. The guidelines even mention places to eat for food carts like churros, etc.

I remember reading this too. Which is so ridiculous and illogical. Let's jam a ton of folks in a group together to eat rather than letting them find spaces around the park. At WDW I felt much safer being able to just find a little corner to eat my Dole Whip in rather than join the groups of people eating it. Now being vaccinated, whatever, but makes no sense.

 

[Bigmace]

Since nothing official has come from Disneyland about this (at least to the best of my knowledge), I don't think either of us can be so sure. It would be a mistake to assume things from Disney World would transfer here.

Are you sure? It’s that way in Florida but the way I read the guidelines for CA, you have to be in a designated eating and drinking area to eat and drink. You can’t just plop on a park bench and eat/drink, unless it’s in a designated area. The guidelines even mention places to eat for food carts like churros, etc.

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/experience-updates/#drawer-card-face-coverings

Face coverings are required for all Guests (ages 2 and older) and Cast Members, including those who have received a COVID-19 vaccine.

Please bring your own face coverings and wear them at all times, except when dining or swimming, and remember to not touch your face. You may remove your face covering while actively eating or drinking, but you must be stationary and maintain appropriate physical distancing. Eating and drinking are permitted only in designated dining areas, and are not permitted while queuing or in attractions. Disney reserves the right to require a Guest to leave if they are not properly wearing an approved face covering.

Looks like you might have to be in designate areas.

 

[ycsteves]

If the statement from about Disney is to be believed, it does make it sound like guidance was given to theme parks. Would be nice if there was a public statement from CDPH to us peons though!

I agree. I feel that soon we will know. We'll just be the last to know as usual. Why they make it so secretive, I will never know.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

Honestly, I'd rather just have all this thrown out the window (regarding vaccine/negative test proof) and wait for June 15th.

What if the state thinks to themselves: "Hmm, let's just keep this long term" and it doesn't get lifted from the theme parks right away. Yuck. Now if kids that aren't old enough to be vaccinated aren't required to have a negative test, no biggie but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[brightlined]

Either way, it says a lot that capa is going out of their to make this clarification. They must have had conversations with CA gov. Already. Or they're just being reckless, but I find the latter to be odd. Releasing such a definitve statement without any information from the 'powers that be' would not be wise on their part.

I wouldn't necessarily say that they're being reckless - as a trade group, it'd be completely understandable for them to take a public stance like that to put pressure on the state to allow that change.

I don't think it's clear at all that the state has spoken to anyone yet - even the statement from Disney basically removes themselves from the discussion without addressing it:

"Until further notice, only California residents may visit our parks, in line with current state guidelines. Please visit our policy here."

If anything, "in line with current state guidelines" implies that they disagree with CAPA's interpretation.

We really won't know for sure either way until the state goes on record.

 

[DLgal]

That quote from the "Disney official" in that linked article doesn't sound like any updated guidelines were given at all. It sounds like they are still waiting for clarification.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

That quote from the "Disney official" in that linked article doesn't sound like any updated guidelines were given at all. It sounds like they are still waiting for clarification.

Clarification is coming "soon"- ammirite?

 

[brightlined]

Honestly, I'd rather just have all this thrown out the window (regarding vaccine/negative test proof) and wait for June 15th.

At this point, I kinda wish we could completely table the discussion about out-of-state guests until the state actually says something specific about it. Even June 15th is speculative at this point. (The announcement about "fully open" didn't mention out-of-state guests as being part of that.)

 

[ycsteves]

At this point, I kinda wish we could completely table the discussion about out-of-state guests until the state actually says something specific about it. Even June 15th is speculative at this point. (The announcement about "fully open" didn't mention out-of-state guests as being part of that.)

Also, I feel like it's cruel to being this forth after some parks have already opened and other are going to. Like now they'll have to add extra processes and procedures for this. It would be nice if CA could give a definitve yes or no.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

At this point, I kinda wish we could completely table the discussion about out-of-state guests until the state actually says something specific about it. Even June 15th is speculative at this point. (The announcement about "fully open" didn't mention out-of-state guests as being part of that.)

Ah well, easy to say as someone who isn't affected by it. You can't expect people to not be interested in speculating when our entire trips revolve around this decision. Or we could just put it in it's own thread. I suggested this awhile ago- maybe a mod could combine the dangling threads discussing it on the main page and we could just put all the convo there?

 

[ycsteves]

That quote from the "Disney official" in that linked article doesn't sound like any updated guidelines were given at all. It sounds like they are still waiting for clarification.

It looks like Disney is going to move forward with following current guidelines. So we know what we're getting from DLR! Other parks should probably follow suit

 

[audrey2580]

At this point, I kinda wish we could completely table the discussion about out-of-state guests until the state actually says something specific about it. Even June 15th is speculative at this point. (The announcement about "fully open" didn't mention out-of-state guests as being part of that.)

Careful - I've tried to mention that before and got torn a new one. Good luck!

 

[brightlined]

Ah well, easy to say as someone who isn't affected by it. You can't expect people to not be interested in speculating when our entire trips revolve around this decision. Or we could just put it in it's own thread. I suggested this awhile ago- maybe a mod could combine the dangling threads discussing it on the main page and we could just put all the convo there?

Sorry if that sounded like an attack. I'm more looking at it from a message board standpoint - it just seems like we keep spinning our wheels over and over every time there's a glimmer of hope that the parks might open to out-of-state guests early, only to find out that someone cherry-picked a piece of data or a statement to imply something that it didn't say.

I'm way more of a journalistic type - I want a hard detail first, and I'd much prefer to wait on that then to get my hopes up and have them get dashed.

Btw - I'm 100% fine with that being its own thread. Especially now that we (seemingly) know for sure that DL isn't going to allow out-of-state guests in the immediate future.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

Careful - I've tried to mention that before and got torn a new one. Good luck!

Let's be nice folks and stay on topic!

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

That quote from the "Disney official" in that linked article doesn't sound like any updated guidelines were given at all. It sounds like they are still waiting for clarification.

Now that I read the actual quote in another blog post, I agree with you.