Question on ride seating / spacing

[orangesparkle22]

Hi all,
I have plans to visit WDW in mid-Oct, and would like to understand more around how they are approaching ride spacing / seating (and also buses) to help me make a decision as to whether I am comfortable keeping my trip or not. Specifically, a few examples:

-Haunted Mansion - do they still stuff the "stretching room" fully to capacity? (Same question for the RnR video room and other similar rooms)
-Do they still pair multiple parties together in same ride vehicles (e.g. will they potentially sit people not in your party next to you on rides like Thunder MTN, 7DMT, etc.)?
-In indoor lines, do parties generally keep a reasonable space between each other?
-Are resort buses filled to pre-COVID capacity? (I'm especially concerned with after park closing)

(Note: Per board policy, would request to keep the discussion focused on actual policies and observations from recent weeks in the parks, not opinions on whether this discussion is warranted or not. Just looking to get some info to make an informed decision that is right for me, which may be different from the decision that is right for others).

Thanks!

 

[BK2014]

Hi all,
I have plans to visit WDW in mid-Oct, and would like to understand more around how they are approaching ride spacing / seating (and also buses) to help me make a decision as to whether I am comfortable keeping my trip or not. Specifically, a few examples:

-Haunted Mansion - do they still stuff the "stretching room" fully to capacity? (Same question for the RnR video room and other similar rooms)
-Do they still pair multiple parties together in same ride vehicles (e.g. will they potentially sit people not in your party next to you on rides like Thunder MTN, 7DMT, etc.)?
-In indoor lines, do parties generally keep a reasonable space between each other?
-Are resort buses filled to pre-COVID capacity? (I'm especially concerned with after park closing)

(Note: Per board policy, would request to keep the discussion focused on actual policies and observations from recent weeks in the parks, not opinions on whether this discussion is warranted or not. Just looking to get some info to make an informed decision that is right for me, which may be different from the decision that is right for others).

Thanks!

We are here now. And I think the answer to most of your questions is yes. The busses are being filled, as are the monorails and the boats.. We have been seated with other parties on rides. We have not been to The Haunted mansion on this trip yet but they were filling the stretching room a couple of weeks ago so I only assume they still are. Queue lines are basically as they were pre covid. No spacing in lines.

 

[FreeTime]

Returned two weeks ago. Sat next to others on Living with the land, test track, expedition Everest, dinosaur, runway, so there was no not mixing of parties.
No spacing in lines.
RnR room was packed.

 

[orangesparkle22]

Thank you for the response. That was the sense I was getting from a few of the threads, but very helpful to have this confirmation. Thanks.

 

[gharter]

We are here now. And I think the answer to most of your questions is yes. The busses are being filled, as are the monorails and the boats.. We have been seated with other parties on rides. We have not been to The Haunted mansion on this trip yet but they were filling the stretching room a couple of weeks ago so I only assume they still are. Queue lines are basically as they were pre covid. No spacing in lines.

We will be there in 2 weeks. Thanks for your answers. Thats what I thought I had read was social distancing had ended.

 

[bsmcneil]

Hi all,
I have plans to visit WDW in mid-Oct, and would like to understand more around how they are approaching ride spacing / seating (and also buses) to help me make a decision as to whether I am comfortable keeping my trip or not. Specifically, a few examples:

-Haunted Mansion - do they still stuff the "stretching room" fully to capacity? (Same question for the RnR video room and other similar rooms)
-Do they still pair multiple parties together in same ride vehicles (e.g. will they potentially sit people not in your party next to you on rides like Thunder MTN, 7DMT, etc.)?
-In indoor lines, do parties generally keep a reasonable space between each other?
-Are resort buses filled to pre-COVID capacity? (I'm especially concerned with after park closing)

(Note: Per board policy, would request to keep the discussion focused on actual policies and observations from recent weeks in the parks, not opinions on whether this discussion is warranted or not. Just looking to get some info to make an informed decision that is right for me, which may be different from the decision that is right for others).

Thanks!

-Yeah, these are filled (Tower of Terror, RnRC, etc)
-I think this very much depended/depends on the ride, busy-ness, etc. In the Nav'i River Journey, Living with the Land, and a few others, I sat alone in my own row (single person, all 1s on TP). Things like SDD, etc - I was mixed in with other parties.
-I did not find that people kept a reasonable space. I would keep space from the people in front of me and that was all I had control over.
-Resort buses (particularly after closing) are very full. I went during a very low crowd time frame and so I didn't experience the really, really tight packing of times before - but there was no request for spacing, expectations of it, etc. It was also my experience that people didn't space themselves in lines waiting for the buses, either.

 

[disneyworldsk]

funny my sister commented on this situation last month. she was seated on a ride with another party and didn't like as the ride jerked, moved, shifted around the stranger next to her kept sliding into her body. not that it was his fault, it was the ride's movement, but still.....

 

[lovethattink]

It’s back to fill in all available space.

Single rider lines have been open.

All rows are being filled in shows and attractions.

 

[momtoBrandon&Jacob]

It’s back to fill in all available space.

Single rider lines have been open.

All rows are being filled in shows and attractions.

Good to hear!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

When my wife and I were there in August there was no distancing or precautions other than masks were required indoors while not eating. HM stretch room was packed. A "single rider" was with us on Test Track. Generally speaking, people were filling all space in queues, although i remain intentional about not crowding into the people in front of me. The only transportation we used was Skyliner (other parties with us most of the time) and ferry boats (we chose to use it at relatively uncrowded times).