I posted in the Universal thread last night, but they very carefully did not say anything about the *parks* in their announcement, just “some portions of our destination” or similar. The chatter from TMs was that only City Walk and maybe VB might open today. But I agree it was very confusing esp when Disney announced a phased reopening that includes the parks and posted hours.
Universal tweeted at about 7 pm on Thursday: "We continue to conduct assessment and recovery efforts across our entire destination with the safety of our guests and team members being our top priority. We expect to begin a phased reopen of portions of our destination for our hotel guests only beginning Friday, Sept. 30. We will update our website and social channels with information on Park hours as conditions allow." No more recent tweets as of 8:34 am on Friday. Their website currently says the same thing. I don't follow their other social media channels.
That’s really just semantics- what they said was “ portions of our destination”- and the point is nothing is open, no portion of their destination is open and not a word to resort guests as to whether they will or not and no one to contact to get any information from. But as a Universal novice, when I say the “parks” I mean any portion or part of Universal.
I agree their communication is super lacking and the vague wording leaves room for people to make assumptions, esp when Disney is opening the parks today.
Unless they changed early entry rides, only Tomorrowland and fantasyland are usually only open prior to main opening. I think the main opening time today is 10 am, so Frontierland and Adventureland wouldn’t be open yet.
Peter Pan and Buzz show as “Temporarily Closed” in MDE - they would normally be open during EE I think right?
This. I'm a former CM and UO team member. When storms threatened, I always volunteered for the ride-out crew. As it turned out, I never actually got a ride-out shift, because a major hurricane never actually came through when I was working at the parks. But it's a ton of extra money and a safe place to be. And especially for CMs without family in the area, it can also be a whole lot less scary to be at work with other people rather than at home alone. That said, now that they're doing phased reopening, I hope they're still only taking volunteers and not pushing people to come in yet. They need to continue to allow CMs to take care of things at home if needed for at least the next couple of days.
I honestly don’t remember, as our crew heads to SM, but I would assume they should be open, especially PP.
The number of people had significantly increased by the time they let us move forward and security was a bit chaotic despite the CM’s best efforts (getting a crowd of people into four single file lines, two of which were only for people with a stroller…). We’re now standing third and fourth in line for the tapstiles though (having headed to the far right).
We can't make any either. On site hotel is linked and we have valid AP's. Pretty disappointed, honestly, since we had reservations yesterday and it wouldn't allow us to move them. I know a lot of people here extended trips to make up for lost park days and now can't get in
My toddler will be incredibly sad when he wakes up that we can't go ride Dumbo this morning afterall.
And currently in the ROTR briefing room
Did either universal park ever open this morning?
Not sure why I'd want to go there but ...
