Extended park hours?

[jemtx]

Anyone think (or hear) if park hours would possibly get extended towards the end of the year & holiday time? When I made my park reservations for Christmastime, it still had the current reduced hours for all 4 parks

 

[skeeter31]

Anyone think (or hear) if park hours would possibly get extended towards the end of the year & holiday time? When I made my park reservations for Christmastime, it still had the current reduced hours for all 4 parks

Wouldn’t count on it. I’m thinking park hours will be condensed for the foreseeable future.

 

[Animal]

If I was a betting man, I would bet that the hours currently posted for Christmas week will not be the actual hours. As long as closing times are staggered to spread out bus capacity, I could see hours being extended. Extended hours COULD serve to further spread the buses. Instead of closing times staggered every hour, they could be staggered every two hours. AK closes at 6. HS closes at 8. Epcot closes at 10. MK closes at 12.

This is obvious speculation, but let's face it, the parks may be closed Christmas week!

 

[yulilin3]

Hours can an have changed up to a day before. It can happen, no one will know in advance though. Keep checking thre calendar

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Remember the early closures right now are probably set for the need to do deep cleaning of the parks overnight.

 

[GPC0321]

I hope so, but there's no way of knowing. Right now their priorities are reducing guests' exposure to each other and keeping the place clean, so the reduced hours make sense.

We have to remember that Disney has never been through anything like this before, so they're still figuring it all out too. I'm sure once the parks open back up, they'll be able to see what works and what needs to be tweaked. They'll have five months between opening and Christmastime to fix glitches and oil the machine. If all goes well, I would hope they'll at least bump hours back closer to normal.

Or it could be a disaster and they'll shut back down completely for the rest of the year.

 

[Disneytrippin']

I think there will be a miraculous disappearance of the virus in November. There are more positive cases because there is more testing yet, not an increase in deaths. But then the data doesn't support that claim. I really expect this to die out by then. So, I do think there will be MVMCP along with normal park hours for the holidays.
Check out the latest from the CDC and scroll down to the report on last weeks cases. Am I missing something? I thought they were reporting a spike in cases. I also find it curious as you read each column that there isn't one stating Covid 19 only. It is always attached to another illness. Hence the wording "Involving." and "or". I don't know if you all know this but, they don't have to test someone for Covid 19 to list them as cause of death Covid 19. They simply have to assume and then they can list that on the cause of death. Testing is not required.

Week ending date in which the death occurred	All Deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Percent of Expected Deaths2	Deaths involving Pneumonia, with or without COVID-19, excluding Influenza deaths (J12.0–J18.9)3	Deaths involving COVID-19 and Pneumonia, excluding Influenza (U07.1 and J12.0–J18.9)3	All Deaths involving Influenza, with or without COVID-19 or Pneumonia (J09–J11), includes COVID-19 or Pneumonia4	Deaths involving Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 (U07.1 or J09–J18.9)5
Total Deaths	108,684	1,223,289	105	118,510	47,017	6,455	185,695
2/1/2020	1	58,158	98	3,765	0	476	4,242
2/8/2020	1	58,729	98	3,751	0	515	4,267
2/15/2020	0	57,880	98	3,767	0	549	4,316
2/22/2020	5	57,855	100	3,639	1	557	4,200
2/29/2020	5	58,241	101	3,761	3	637	4,400
3/7/2020	33	58,503	101	3,898	16	620	4,534
3/14/2020	52	57,417	101	3,883	27	611	4,518
3/21/2020	549	58,054	102	4,464	245	542	5,304
3/28/2020	3,051	62,057	111	6,048	1,376	439	8,112
4/4/2020	9,502	70,816	127	9,624	4,543	461	14,821
4/11/2020	15,695	77,467	140	11,707	7,028	468	20,504
4/18/2020	16,346	74,815	138	10,985	6,990	260	20,415
4/25/2020	14,095	70,968	132	9,704	6,034	143	17,812
5/2/2020	11,665	65,826	123	8,227	4,937	62	14,997
5/9/2020	10,740	63,460	120	7,485	4,547	46	13,715
5/16/2020	8,753	59,862	114	6,370	3,623	19	11,516
5/23/2020	6,647	55,954	107	5,380	2,784	20	9,261
5/30/2020	5,396	52,537	101	4,609	2,187	10	7,828
6/6/2020	3,834	48,324	91	3,879	1,659	10	6,064
6/13/2020	1,943	37,700	69	2,485	854	7	3,579
6/20/2020	371	18,666	31	1,079	163	3	1,290

 

[gharter]

It will all depend on the CoVid-19 situation most likely.
In the past, park hours have changed a month, week, day before and day of. So anything is possible.

 

[Chrizwald]

Can Florida get it together and lower those cases? Perhaps? Probably not

 

[JM23457]

I think park hours will be longer by Christmas season. It just doesn't pay to announce longer hours in advance because then more guests will try to rebook for later in the year.

 

[KittyKitty]

If Disney decides to increase capacity in the parks, then they would change the hours.

 

[jemtx]

I think park hours will be longer by Christmas season. It just doesn't pay to announce longer hours in advance because then more guests will try to rebook for later in the year.

That sounds right. I hope so.

 

[jar]

seems longer hours would better let them spread out the crowds.

 

[pmiranda]

Disney is so fluid, they could change hours at a moments notice.

 

[Jadyreen1282]

I hope the hours are reduced in December. Gives me more time to sit on the Boardwalk with my Jameson and dream about the old days when we had 24 hr parties, EMH every day, fast pass and Hoop Dee Doo. And the poster above has it correct. A miraculous cure will happen in 4 months.