Rumor about “modified experiences” when Disney reopens (read 1st post for potential modifications being considered)

[woody337]

There was some chatter from someone or their friend who had a Disney conference in June and Disney, while offering refunds to guests, would not refund conferences. Disney had told the conference organizer they would hold them to the contract if they were open.

Oh ok I see now. I think they are gearing up for it

 

[AmberMV]

Am wondering if Disney will update online menus and ask guests to look at the menu online if possible? Or, more likely I think, they'll sanitize each menu after use. Which wouldn't be a bad thing at all! I hate picking up a menu and grabbing onto a mystery sticky substance...

The reopening guidelines that were discussed by Florida's theme park task force today said menus would be one-time-use aka disposable...presumably paper menus.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Hand sanitizer at every table seems problematic. I don't want to touch the bottle everyone else has been touching. Also it makes me wonder if condiments will switch to single serve. Can't sanitize the salt and pepper shakers very well...

 

[gottalovepluto]

The reopening guidelines that were discussed by Florida's theme park task force today said menus would be one-time-use aka disposable...presumably paper menus.

Oh right, duh. Right up top that one lol

 

[SierraT]

If anyone got sick after being at Disney they would have stated that. No matter how many times you try to manipulate to your opinion, its not gonna change.

Chances are also very good the verbiage in future ticket sales and resort reservations will now include sickness (ie. Disney can’t be held liable if someone becomes ill). It makes sense, Disney isn’t forcing us to vacation, we’re choosing to go.

 

[gottalovepluto]

You are doing Disney’s job for them. All really great points a lot of people probably wouldn’t think of. I wouldn’t have thought about the menu thing, people sneezing and coughing and getting their grubby hands all over them.

I missed the plan is paper.

But I feel like that is going to get slammed for wastefulness real quick...

 

[cakebaker]

Am wondering if Disney will update online menus and ask guests to look at the menu online if possible? Or, more likely I think, they'll sanitize each menu after use. Which wouldn't be a bad thing at all! I hate picking up a menu and grabbing onto a mystery sticky substance...

The guideline say disposable menus.

 

[rpb718]

Hand sanitizer at every table seems problematic. I don't want to touch the bottle everyone else has been touching. Also it makes me wonder if condiments will switch to single serve. Can't sanitize the salt and pepper shakers very well...

It'll all be disposable packets. Sanitizer, salt, pepper, sugar, ketchup, mustard, etc.

 

[MissLiss279]

Hand sanitizer at every table seems problematic. I don't want to touch the bottle everyone else has been touching. Also it makes me wonder if condiments will switch to single serve. Can't sanitize the salt and pepper shakers very well...

You use the sanitizer to sanitize your hands from touching the hand sanitizer bottle.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

You use the sanitizer to sanitize your hands from touching the hand sanitizer bottle.

I mean that makes sense and all, but isn’t it more amusing to think you could fall into the santization wormhole where you have to sanitize after touching the sanitizer with the sanitizer and so on and so on.

 

[fbb]

It's really not worth arguing about for a number of reasons, but the idea that somehow the tens of thousands of people who were in WDW that weekend were magically free of a highly contagious virus that no one was protecting themselves from is...interesting. Talk about a bubble!

Maybe we've found the cure - everybody just has to go to WDW and hunker down there, and then NOBODY will have the virus! Pixie dust for everybody!!

Decontamination chamber in Flight of Passage preshow doing work.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

Hand sanitizer at every table seems problematic. I don't want to touch the bottle everyone else has been touching. Also it makes me wonder if condiments will switch to single serve. Can't sanitize the salt and pepper shakers very well...

What does that matter if your using sanitizer the second after you touch it?

 

[gottalovepluto]

What does that matter if your using sanitizer the second after you touch it?

Sir/M'am: I am not touching that BYOS all the way

But I do see the bottles growing legs and walking out the door multiple times a day if sanitizer is still hard to get hold of lol

 

[NWOhiogal]

The idea of disposable menus isn't a bad one, but when you do the math that's going to get HUGELY expensive for the restaurants, quick. I imagine it's going to end up being printed menus in wipeable vinyl sleeves, sanitized after each use. That's a lot more economical. Disposable wipes (or cloths and spritz sanitizer) are way, way cheaper than printed menus.

 

[vinotinto]

I agree the heat stroke argument is overblown. I think the real issue is that there is a large contingent of guests who wouldn't visit the parks if they were forced to wear a mask the whole time. I'm in that group. I wear glasses and it would drive me nuts to have them constantly fogging up due to a mask. It's one thing to wear a mask on a short trip to a store. It's another to wear it for 8 hours straight in a theme park.

This! People wear masks all the time in hot and humid places with lots of smog and they are not passing out. Americans just don’t want to wear them. The person wearing the mask is protecting others from them. But, how exactly are we protecting the CMs?

And, BTW, you do realize that the only thing you have to do to prevent your glasses from fogging is to wash them with soap and water.

 

[SaintsManiac]

I missed the plan is paper.

But I feel like that is going to get slammed for wastefulness real quick...

Doubt it. The amount of single use plastics, gloves, etc being used has been largely ignored.

 

[hereforthechurros]

Well... in my opinion it would have been an absolute miracle if there wasnt an outbreak of some size going on before the shutdown.

I was at wdw 3/12-3/14. We were at dinner at Disney springs that first night when we received the message that they were shutting down otherwise we wouldn't have gone. We stayed at SSR and Copper Creek but cut our stay shirt and flew home early since they were shutting down. Anyway after we were home for a week I developed cough, chills, aches. No fever so I didn’t think it could be Covid. Never called the doc or asked for testing because I’m recovering fine from whatever it was. Regardless I wouldn't blame WDW. But anyone thinking that this virus, which is everywhere, was not at Disney is pretty naive.

 

[Sandiz08]

I think it would be nice if we were given a small bottle of hand sanitizer upon check in. Doesn’t have to be large, travel size will do, left in our rooms.

 

[hertamaniac]

I was at wdw 3/12-3/14. We were at dinner at Disney springs that first night when we received the message that they were shutting down otherwise we wouldn't have gone. We stayed at SSR and Copper Creek but cut our stay shirt and flew home early since they were shutting down. Anyway after we were home for a week I developed cough, chills, aches. No fever so I didn’t think it could be Covid. Never called the doc or asked for testing because I’m recovering fine from whatever it was. Regardless I wouldn't blame WDW. But anyone thinking that this virus, which is everywhere, was not at Disney is pretty naive.

I can add to your story. We were at WDW about 2 weeks or so prior to the shutdown (for the MMRR grand opening on 3/4). I did experience at least one symptom of COVID-19 about 10-14 days after the trip, but there is no way I can do a tracing audit back to WDW.

 

[Pickle Rick]

I was at wdw 3/12-3/14. We were at dinner at Disney springs that first night when we received the message that they were shutting down otherwise we wouldn't have gone. We stayed at SSR and Copper Creek but cut our stay shirt and flew home early since they were shutting down. Anyway after we were home for a week I developed cough, chills, aches. No fever so I didn’t think it could be Covid. Never called the doc or asked for testing because I’m recovering fine from whatever it was. Regardless I wouldn't blame WDW. But anyone thinking that this virus, which is everywhere, was not at Disney is pretty naive.

Bet that was the case for some people.