Parks Full but have reservations

[SqueakyMouse]

Sorry, I know I have read answers to my questions in the past; but I'm afraid I cannot remember the answers or find the threads!!

1. If MK closes on Christmas Day and you leave for a meal at a resort, what happens when you return to MK?

2. What happens if MK is full and you try to enter the park with a dinner ADR?

 

[Deb & Bill]

Sorry, I know I have read answers to my questions in the past; but I'm afraid I cannot remember the answers or find the threads!!

1. If MK closes on Christmas Day and you leave for a meal at a resort, what happens when you return to MK?

Depending on the status of closure, you might not be allowed to re-enter the park if it is fully closed.


2. What happens if MK is full and you try to enter the park with a dinner ADR?

If the park is closed to all guests, you will be out of luck and have to eat somewhere else, outside the park.

There are different stages of closure, first to non-resort guests, then to all guests.

 

[InstImpres]

2. What happens if MK is full and you try to enter the park with a dinner ADR?

ADR's do not give you a guarantee of admission. If MK is closed on all levels, you are out of luck until they reopen. Hopefully you are on site as that is the last one to be "shut out" and the first to be let back in.

 

[SqueakyMouse]

So...after we go for our Christmas morning brunch at CM, we may find ourselves with no park open to us???

 

[Cruise04]

That is correct, unless you are staying on-site, then you might be exempt for a while. It also depends on what time your meal is. One good thing to do is to either call down now and see what they suggest to you or ask when you check-in. It is my understanding that MK is the first to fill up and then the other parks get the overflow.

 

[CheshireVal]

So...after we go for our Christmas morning brunch at CM, we may find ourselves with no park open to us???

You probably won't be able to get back into MK, but I don't think all four parks will close.

We're planning on leaving Epcot for lunch and then returning.... I'm not really concerned about not being able to get back in.

 

[michaelwilliammidd]

We were at Epcot the past 2 Christmas days....we chose it because of it's large size so that the crowd would seem a little more spread out. It never closed due to capacity and although it was crowded, it wasn't unmanageable.

 

[3for Me]

We were at Epcot the past 2 Christmas days....we chose it because of it's large size so that the crowd would seem a little more spread out. It never closed due to capacity and although it was crowded, it wasn't unmanageable.

I am so glad to hear this as this is the park we chose for Christmas day. Afterwards, I looked at the UG and TGM and both advised AGAINST this choice, so I was panicked!

So, hopefully it will be "manageable" again this year!

 

[frayedend]

I won't have this problem because I am going in Jan, with a hopper...

But what if someone has park pass that is not a hopper and say goes to MK but leaves to have lunch at CM, then goes back and the park is closed due to capacity? Do they lose the rest of the day or will they allow them to "hop" that one time?

 

[Deb & Bill]

I won't have this problem because I am going in Jan, with a hopper...

But what if someone has park pass that is not a hopper and say goes to MK but leaves to have lunch at CM, then goes back and the park is closed due to capacity? Do they lose the rest of the day or will they allow them to "hop" that one time?

Not an expert, but I'd guess that if the park closed, you wouldn't be able to get in anywhere if you had already been in one park and you did not have a hopper.

 

[eeyoreiscool]

I think this is the first year with the new tickets so that situation probably hasn't been encountered. They probably have a strategy for it but I don't know what. I would be afraid that they wouldn't let you in and you would lose a day.

 

[tlbwriter]

So...after we go for our Christmas morning brunch at CM, we may find ourselves with no park open to us???

I thought on-site guests were guaranteed reservation to a park, though not necessarily the one they wanted. Is that not the case?