Out of State Disneyland Trip Planning Thread

[abbeyroad6282]

On Twitter, I saw a snippet of Gov. Newsom on a CA news station (ABC7 San Francisco) saying CA reopening guidelines would be released later today or tomorrow, at latest. I wonder if it will say anything about OOS visitors to theme parks? Or, if state guidelines don't specifically address OOS visitors, maybe an announcement from CA theme parks in the not-too-distant future? Fingers crossed!

 

[wishing4PA]

Following this for any news. Fwiw, I've been looking into all sorts of possibilities, DLP, random non-Disney trip, and DL and DCA. And looking at the few dates possibly available and the outrageous airfares now that I'm sitting on airfare credits.
It's been fun. I'm learning a lot about everything, including thinking getting to and from DLP sounds a lot easier than Disneyland in California. Those ground transport options look like such a pain, not to mention expensive. I may be looking at this for quite a few more months, or jumping in on the assumption California's going to open and be a less risky choice than international travel. All this to say, hi! And keep the info coming. It's much appreciated!

 

[TikiTikiFan]

On Twitter, I saw a snippet of Gov. Newsom on a CA news station (ABC7 San Francisco) saying CA reopening guidelines would be released later today or tomorrow, at latest. I wonder if it will say anything about OOS visitors to theme parks?

Oh that would be nice to know what's going on for once! I'm sure Disneyland would love to know too so hopefully they're pushing him on it.

Following this for any news. Fwiw, I've been looking into all sorts of possibilities, DLP, random non-Disney trip, and DL and DCA. And looking at the few dates possibly available and the outrageous airfares now that I'm sitting on airfare credits.
It's been fun. I'm learning a lot about everything, including thinking getting to and from DLP sounds a lot easier than Disneyland in California. Those ground transport options look like such a pain, not to mention expensive. I may be looking at this for quite a few more months, or jumping in on the assumption California's going to open and be a less risky choice than international travel. All this to say, hi! And keep the info coming. It's much appreciated!

Welcome! I love trip planning, it's so fun. When I'm bored I just sit and start creating travel itineraries! My flights for CA in August (coming from Denver) were dirt cheap- I've never seen them that low! Paid less than $300 round trip for two people! I wonder once it's all officially "open" if were gonna see prices go up.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

On Twitter, I saw a snippet of Gov. Newsom on a CA news station (ABC7 San Francisco) saying CA reopening guidelines would be released later today or tomorrow, at latest. I wonder if it will say anything about OOS visitors to theme parks? Or, if state guidelines don't specifically address OOS visitors, maybe an announcement from CA theme parks in the not-too-distant future? Fingers crossed!

Here’s the quick article for anybody curious. Clearly the info didn’t come out today, so I guess we all watch intently tomorrow!

https://abc7news.com/health/ca-to-r...plan-newsom-says-heres-what-we-know/10669298/
Hopefully it’s just semantics, but the wording of “modifications to the blueprint” makes me nervous. I thought the whole thing was being tossed.

 

[wishing4PA]

Welcome! I love trip planning, it's so fun. When I'm bored I just sit and start creating travel itineraries! My flights for CA in August (coming from Denver) were dirt cheap- I've never said them that low! Paid less than $300 round trip for two people! I wonder once it's all officially "open" if were gonna see prices go up.

Thanks! Oh, I get it. I've planned so many trips I haven't taken. I'm really still mad about our Japan trip that the pandemic stole, but we're all still alive and kicking, so I guess that's good.
And you're right. CA isn't too bad. That's part of why I've looked at it some. It doesn't help being tied into one airline by the vouchers, but yes, that's one reason California is calling. I considered the Republic of Georgia just to use the vouchers, and b/c it's on my bucket list, but it was double our vouchers. Paris is ... not a whole lot more, depending on dates. I just don't know if I am ready to trust the borders situation and whether I want to jump through any international transit red tape. London is tempting too, but I'm getting terribly high prices there.
But California, not so bad. Then the issue is it would only use up about half our credits, which leaves me wondering if I did call to actually book the flight, is there any chance they would be sweet and give me the other half back in cash?
And poor DD doesn't even want to think about all this. She fails to understand the allure of trip planning, especially when 2 trips got pulled out from under her last year at the last moment. So I'll probably just have to some time make a decision and just bring her along (and renew her passport if applicable.)

 

[TikiTikiFan]

Hopefully it’s just semantics, but the wording of “modifications to the blueprint” makes me nervous. I thought the whole thing was being tossed.

I'm going to go ahead and add "blueprint" to the list of words I never want to hear again when all this is over.

He seemed to kind of stumble over his words when he said that so maybe it doesn't mean much... right?! Right?! Just toss it out man!

 

[lily_belle]

Here we go again. I know I’ll be stalking the boards in between conference calls tomorrow for news.

 

[Frederic Civish]

I have been trying for months to get a trip to Disneyland this summer for my wife and her sister and her sister's kids. I finally got everything set up for 5 days, starting June 15th, since I heard Disneyland would be open then to out of state. We got timeshare reservations, park tickets, park reservations, and plane fare.

Now, as I understand it, it looks like we are going to have to cancel the whole shebang. Apparently everyone must be vaccinated and the kids can't be vaccinated. 3 of the adults are fully vaccinated and 1 of us HAD COVID. But I can't continue to plan for a date which is now less than 30 days from now, if I can't get the kids in, and the kids can't get the vaccine.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Does a negative COVID test count for anything?

Thank you for your comments.

 

[upritbass]

Apparently everyone must be vaccinated and the kids can't be vaccinated

Where did you get that information from?

 

[TikiTikiFan]

I have been trying for months to get a trip to Disneyland this summer for my wife and her sister and her sister's kids. I finally got everything set up for 5 days, starting June 15th, since I heard Disneyland would be open then to out of state. We got timeshare reservations, park tickets, park reservations, and plane fare.

Now, as I understand it, it looks like we are going to have to cancel the whole shebang. Apparently everyone must be vaccinated and the kids can't be vaccinated. 3 of the adults are fully vaccinated and 1 of us HAD COVID. But I can't continue to plan for a date which is now less than 30 days from now, if I can't get the kids in, and the kids can't get the vaccine.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Does a negative COVID test count for anything?

Thank you for your comments.

It's just a rumor that vaccinations will be required after June 15th... and seems like an unlikely one too! We don't know anything for sure yet. Hopefully we'll get more news tomorrow since Newsom said they'd release info.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I have been trying for months to get a trip to Disneyland this summer for my wife and her sister and her sister's kids. I finally got everything set up for 5 days, starting June 15th, since I heard Disneyland would be open then to out of state. We got timeshare reservations, park tickets, park reservations, and plane fare.

Now, as I understand it, it looks like we are going to have to cancel the whole shebang. Apparently everyone must be vaccinated and the kids can't be vaccinated. 3 of the adults are fully vaccinated and 1 of us HAD COVID. But I can't continue to plan for a date which is now less than 30 days from now, if I can't get the kids in, and the kids can't get the vaccine.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Does a negative COVID test count for anything?

Thank you for your comments.

A few things here

First, you should have never made the park reservations. You attested to being a CA resident when you did.

Second, while always assumed dropping the tiers & “reopening the state” would include allowing OOS to the parks, that was never expressly said.

Third, there has been nothing besides a rumor that everybody would need to be vaccinated (and that was actually 12+). A phone call with somebody from the executive team said that it is only a rumor and not happening. But we don’t actually know. It is unlikely that a negative test will do anything.

My advice would be wait to see what is said tomorrow and then decide. After he releases the state’s plans, hopefully Disney can follow up shortly with theirs. But if you want to be able to plan now, then I’d probably push out your trip. Even if the state allows it, it doesn’t necessarily mean Disney will be ready to move on the 15th.

 

[rockpiece]

Technically, you can't yet. You would have to click you are a CA resident if you do it now. Do with that what you want.

I ended up doing it and clicking the button, if they don't change it by then I will change my reservation dates until later on but didn't want the reservations to fill up.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I ended up doing it and clicking the button, if they don't change it by then I will change my reservation dates until later on but didn't want the reservations to fill up.

I mean you do you, but it’s hard to have a lot of sympathy your trip may not work out the way you planned when you knowingly & willingly broke a rule.

I do hope you headed the advice of many on these threads and booked things that were all changeable/refundable.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

I mean you do you, but it’s hard to have a lot of sympathy your trip may not work out the way you planned when you knowingly & willingly broke a rule.

I do hope you headed the advice of many on these threads and booked things that were all changeable/refundable.

OOS guests are in a rock and a hard place with the reservations right now. I'm sure when DL gets a confirm date they'll change the wording on the website.

But let's not get the thread shut down with this talk please.... it's technically against DIS rules.

 

[Frederic Civish]

A few things here

First, you should have never made the park reservations. You attested to being a CA resident when you did.

Second, while always assumed dropping the tiers & “reopening the state” would include allowing OOS to the parks, that was never expressly said.

Third, there has been nothing besides a rumor that everybody would need to be vaccinated (and that was actually 12+). A phone call with somebody from the executive team said that it is only a rumor and not happening. But we don’t actually know. It is unlikely that a negative test will do anything.

My advice would be wait to see what is said tomorrow and then decide. After he releases the state’s plans, hopefully Disney can follow up shortly with theirs. But if you want to be able to plan now, then I’d probably push out your trip. Even if the state allows it, it doesn’t necessarily mean Disney will be ready to move on the 15th.

I was not aware that Disney STILL had the requirement in place for ONLY CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS for after June 15th. The state of California had said they could change it, IF COVID remained low (which it has) so I assumed they had changed it.

I will be glued to the boards tomorrow, waiting for information about whatever changes California is going to allow, PLUS whatever information we can get about when or how Disneyland will respond.

If anyone hears anything interesting I would love to read about it.

 

[Neurodude84]

A few things here

First, you should have never made the park reservations. You attested to being a CA resident when you did.

Second, while always assumed dropping the tiers & “reopening the state” would include allowing OOS to the parks, that was never expressly said.

Third, there has been nothing besides a rumor that everybody would need to be vaccinated (and that was actually 12+). A phone call with somebody from the executive team said that it is only a rumor and not happening. But we don’t actually know. It is unlikely that a negative test will do anything.

My advice would be wait to see what is said tomorrow and then decide. After he releases the state’s plans, hopefully Disney can follow up shortly with theirs. But if you want to be able to plan now, then I’d probably push out your trip. Even if the state allows it, it doesn’t necessarily mean Disney will be ready to move on the 15th.

I think we can dispense with this idea that the state moves on and Disneyland doesn’t. They made a conscious choice to remove mention of CA-residency for the parks from their DLH reopening post. Ken Potrock has said they want OOS guests ASAP in interviews, but they needed clear guidance from the state. Given news that the post-blueprint plans are forthcoming, I expect Disney was given this information already and changed their boilerplate statement due to this.

Not much longer! I’ll have the credit card ready the moment we get the “go”!

 

[TikiTikiFan]

I think we can dispense with this idea that the state moves on and Disneyland doesn’t. They made a conscious choice to remove mention of CA-residency for the parks from their DLH reopening post. Ken Potrock has said they want OOS guests ASAP in interviews, but they needed clear guidance from the state. Given news that the post-blueprint plans are forthcoming, I expect Disney was given this information already and changed their boilerplate statement due to this.

Not much longer! I’ll have the credit card ready the moment we get the “go”!

Sprinkling all the pixie dust today so we can finally get that official go ahead!

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I was not aware that Disney STILL had the requirement in place for ONLY CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS for after June 15th. The state of California had said they could change it, IF COVID remained low (which it has) so I assumed they had changed it.

I will be glued to the boards tomorrow, waiting for information about whatever changes California is going to allow, PLUS whatever information we can get about when or how Disneyland will respond.

If anyone hears anything interesting I would love to read about it.

I’m going to drop it after this because I’m hoping we’ll get information today that makes this whole conversation moot, but Disney has not changed it on their reservation system yet. You still have to attest to being a CA resident as of now. As of now, there have been no changes for after June 15th. That doesn’t mean it won’t be changing, even as soon as today, but technically the person broke both a state rule & board rule and I was gently trying to let them know.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I think we can dispense with this idea that the state moves on and Disneyland doesn’t. They made a conscious choice to remove mention of CA-residency for the parks from their DLH reopening post. Ken Potrock has said they want OOS guests ASAP in interviews, but they needed clear guidance from the state. Given news that the post-blueprint plans are forthcoming, I expect Disney was given this information already and changed their boilerplate statement due to this.

Not much longer! I’ll have the credit card ready the moment we get the “go”!

I agree. But the person wanted advice and a guarantee on something we couldn’t give. I was giving the facts as we know them NOW. You’ll see I ended it with my advice was to wait to see what announcements come today before making any decisions.

 

[Neurodude84]

I agree. But the person wanted advice and a guarantee on something we couldn’t give. I was giving the facts as we know them NOW. You’ll see I ended it with my advice was to wait to see what announcements come today before making any decisions.

Oh, I agree. Everyone needs to just wait until we know. Those from OOS certainly could book a hotel stay right now and, if we are allowed in, take advantage of the resort guest park reservation bucket, which has both parks available every day from 6/15 on. This is a nice guarantee for those worried about park pass availability. Cancel the hotel if you end up not going.

Some airlines still have refundable fares. I booked JetBlue. All bookings made through 5/31 can be canceled without fees.