Disneyland Reopening Speculation Superthread

[VandVsmama]

What do we think about park hopping?

I don't there's going to be park hopping for awhile.

 

[VandVsmama]

Sounds like Knotts, like Disney, is equally as frustrated with the CA governor's office & the responsiveness to questions & pleas to publish reopening guidelines.

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/...heme-park-reopening-plans-were-ready-to-open/

 

[midnight star]

Sounds like Knotts, like Disney, is equally as frustrated with the CA governor's office & the responsiveness to questions & pleas to publish reopening guidelines.

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/...heme-park-reopening-plans-were-ready-to-open/

They really need to pursue aggressive legal options. It's one thing to not allow them to be open right now. But to not have ANY sort of guidance or details is just wrong imo.

 

[taaren]

What do we think about park hopping?

With Flex passes, you can make a reservation for DL/CA or both.

Its possible they'll have buckets for each of those three categories built into reservations.

Pre-pandemic the both parks reservations filled up first, I'm not sure if DCA passes ever ran out, and we were going on busy holiday weekends due to our distance/time off schedules.

 

[disneychrista]

Are we sure about that? When we booked with WDW and originally looked at GN hotels we counted as a resort guest and not a ticketed guest. According to that CM ticketed guests are ones who do not book packages through WDW.

They don’t count for any other perks of onsite hotels.

 

[EddieK76]

They don’t count for any other perks of onsite hotels.

Right, I think the CM was indicating that it counts for the reservation system if booked directly through them. I'll find out for sure once they open up and open up reservations for parks

 

[Self-Rescuing Princess]

Tried booking at paradisePier and they said they discount is only for those who're already booked and had to move their reservations. Drat!

 

[Katie Count]

It’s like Disney Emoji Blitz is now mocking us too. Free September item of the day is It’s a Small World Icon.

 

[bgswan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1309225927965061126

Low numbers continue trend toward Orange tier

 

[Self-Rescuing Princess]

So far this discount is only if you had already booked a room. I wanted to book room for Dec and they said that the discount doesn't apply unless you are rebooking.

 

[Janemall]

I agree but how long until it crashes on day one. From what I have gathered the speculated date now is Oct 16th. i have a flight to go Oct 22nd to Oct 25. I worry that if they do open that I won't be able to get a reservation and have to cancel my flight again.

We have a trip booked for two weeks (dec12-26). My biggest fear is the same - I won’t be able to get a reservation. We’ll be coming from Canada so I don’t know if it will be worth still going if we can’t get into the parks.

ive had our park tickets now since December 2019 lol

 

[disneychrista]

Right, I think the CM was indicating that it counts for the reservation system if booked directly through them. I'll find out for sure once they open up and open up reservations for parks

anything is possible. IF they count my guess is only those who booked directly through Disney would count. But I still don’t think they’d count.

 

[Lesley Wake]

I was just coming to post that very thought. Do you know if any adjustments have been made at WDW?

They haven’t, but they don’t have as many detailed blockout dates as DL. You have Platinum (every day available), Gold (no Xmas or Spring Break), and Silver (no Xmas, Spring Break, June or July). Not like DL with certain days of the week depending on the months.

I think that they absolutely will adjust AP blockout dates.

I haven’t followed anything historical, but has DL ever added blockout dates after Initially announcing them? Definitely would be some annoyed passholders who bought one pass expecting certain days and then getting that changed. Though I guess they could make a compromise by allowing them to upgrade based on cost of pass at time of original purchase, maybe even prorate it for the rest of the days left on their pass (though that gets nice and complicated and of course I trust Disney IT to get that done right).

 

[Lesley Wake]

I don't think there will be any park hopping for a while. WDW isn't allowing it, even on days with low attendance.

Yeah I don’t expect any park hopping. Only way you can do it now is to be on a VIP tour or be a Club 33 member!

And I would probably end up going with single park per day anyways, being a local who can make those decisions. Just easier to focus on one park (and knowing how much extra walking will be needed to/from parking garage, I don’t like the idea of walking all over the resort)!

Are we sure about that? When we booked with WDW and originally looked at GN hotels we counted as a resort guest and not a ticketed guest. According to that CM ticketed guests are ones who do not book packages through WDW.

WDW has different rules for Good Neighbor hotels. They have certain ones which pretty much get most of the actual Disney hotel perks. You don’t even need to book via Disney; you can book on the hotels website or a discount travel site or something like that. Pre-Covid they could link the reservation into My Disney Experience and get EMH, 60 day FP. Nowadays I think they are included in the on-site guest park pass system.

Disneyland good neighbor hotels are just a label the hotels basically pay for to get extra promotion on the Disney website. And you can buy tiks in the building. Maybe some sort of packages, but it’s still not the same perks as WDW.

 

[montreid]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1309225927965061126

Low numbers continue trend toward Orange tier

Is UC-Irvine opening? We have UCSD opening with 15k students on campus. Hopefully they act better than the SDSU kids with 800+ cases that put SD County on the brink of slipping.

If OC is able to get to red tier, really wondering what's holding back reasoning for DLR to move forward. It's crazy, that movie theatres can open with folk processing through at higher risks than a park with strict masking and exposure processes.

 

[ten6mom]

Well.

I bit the bullet and booked a Dapper Days rate for November for the Grand for me and my son who has been dying to go back. I don't know if we will get a chance to use it and I would never in a million years (in normal times) pay that much for a hotel room but it's a dream of his to stay there and he has been so patient and it would be really nice if it works out.

Off to cancel my early October reservation at the BW.... *sigh*

 

[DLgal]

They haven’t, but they don’t have as many detailed blockout dates as DL. You have Platinum (every day available), Gold (no Xmas or Spring Break), and Silver (no Xmas, Spring Break, June or July). Not like DL with certain days of the week depending on the months.

I haven’t followed anything historical, but has DL ever added blockout dates after Initially announcing them? Definitely would be some annoyed passholders who bought one pass expecting certain days and then getting that changed. Though I guess they could make a compromise by allowing them to upgrade based on cost of pass at time of original purchase, maybe even prorate it for the rest of the days left on their pass (though that gets nice and complicated and of course I trust Disney IT to get that done right).

Yes, didn't they just do that in 2018 ahead of SWGE opening? They blocked out the entire month of July for Deluxe APs at DL park. Remember that's when they split up the blackout days to be park specific. Plenty of people had already bought their passes when they announced this change.

 

[DLgal]

Is UC-Irvine opening? We have UCSD opening with 15k students on campus. Hopefully they act better than the SDSU kids with 800+ cases that put SD County on the brink of slipping.

If OC is able to get to red tier, really wondering what's holding back reasoning for DLR to move forward. It's crazy, that movie theatres can open with folk processing through at higher risks than a park with strict masking and exposure processes.

UCI will be 100% remote learning for the fall semester but they will have students living in campus housing and the campus will be open in a limited way for students (places like library, labs, gym, student union, etc). They will be testing students who live in campus housing weekly.

There really seems to be no reason why Disneyland and Knott's can't open. The numbers, state wide, simply don't justify keeping them closed at this point and I have to assume that there IS no plan, nor have there been any meaningful moves towards issuing guidelines. The powers that be seem to have no idea what to do here.

 

[audrey2580]

Is this available online or do you have to call?

Tried booking at paradisePier and they said they discount is only for those who're already booked and had to move their reservations. Drat!

I would try to call back and speak with a different one. I saw the info here and called https://mickeyblog.com/2020/09/23/d...YlRqogc1HJi8Z3WxOODJl_GlmipciA11TZ6e19eyOwsw8

 

[bgswan]

Is UC-Irvine opening? We have UCSD opening with 15k students on campus. Hopefully they act better than the SDSU kids with 800+ cases that put SD County on the brink of slipping.

If OC is able to get to red tier, really wondering what's holding back reasoning for DLR to move forward. It's crazy, that movie theatres can open with folk processing through at higher risks than a park with strict masking and exposure processes.

OC is already in "Red" tier and will likely move to "Orange" tier on Tuesday per OC Register.