Just drove north from WDW to Atlanta after 5 days at WDW. Traffic was horrible. What should have been a 6.5 hour trip turned into a 9 hour trip. Many are evacuating FL already, even though if it goes through FL, it's not projected until Sunday.
Last year, we were at WDW during Matthew. This was our experience. We stayed at AKL. Parks, all restaurants, and Disney Springs closed Thurs at around 4:00-5:00 pm and remained closed Friday during the day. Regarding food, some restaurants opened with a limited menu on Friday evening. Parks reopened Saturday. We had water and snacks in our room (drove down and brought them). AKL set up the Boma buffet and sat everyone waiting for dinner at Boma or across it at Jiko, but it took a while, and it was clear that they were using all the CMs they could find, even if they usually did not work certain positions. Our server usually worked at JiKo and tried to charge us for my then 9-year old DD as an adult ($42). I think we waited around 90 minutes (were given a pager; sat in the lobby). We also had a breakfast buffet on Friday.
Guests could not leave the resort to go outdoors until Friday afternoon. Safety is their priority. CMs slept at AKL. There was entertainment at the lobby - bingo, even characters came by. Those in resorts where they would need to head outside to reach lobby and restaurants had to stay in their rooms. Info was hard to come by. There wasn't a way to find out basic information. You had to wait at guest services to ask (For example, to find out that Boma was going to serve guests.)
If you needed to shorten your park ticket days, guest service at the resort could do it and issue a refund. We were refunded for the
MNSSHP tickets for the parties cancelled.
Overall, Disney did a great job at keeping everyone safe, but we did lose a day and a half of vacation. Yes, we were at Disney, but it wasn't what we had planned.
