Superthread for Disneyland Resort Closure and Reopening, 3/14/20 - 7/17/20: Please Post All Relevant Questions and Information Here!

[Skyegirl1999]

Thank you @hiroMYhero. I am really angry that they've changed the terms!

It's quite a low blow to extend the dates and then go back on it.

I wonder if that was just a glitch as they're updating parts of the site to reflect the new info. I wouldn't be surprised if it changes back at some point.

 

[mel2014]

This may be a dumb question, but the Southern California and child ticket promotions are still available for purchase. Do you think that if those tickets are purchased between now and when the park reopens, they will also have the extended validity period or that the extension only applies, based on the literal language of the Disney site, to "already purchased" tickets? We have Flex Passes but are planning to go over the summer (fingers crossed) with a friend who lives in Southern California with her two kids. It would be great if we could buy tickets, at least for her kids if not her, now and have them be valid until the end of the year, since the 3-day child ticket promo is less than a 2-day "normal" ticket.

 

[Cal-Pie]

This may be a dumb question, but the Southern California and child ticket promotions are still available for purchase. Do you think that if those tickets are purchased between now and when the park reopens, they will also have the extended validity period or that the extension only applies, based on the literal language of the Disney site, to "already purchased" tickets? We have Flex Passes but are planning to go over the summer (fingers crossed) with a friend who lives in Southern California with her two kids. It would be great if we could buy tickets, at least for her kids if not her, now and have them be valid until the end of the year, since the 3-day child ticket promo is less than a 2-day "normal" ticket.

Get Away Today was promoting the discount children's tickets yesterday on a FB live, saying you could buy them now and use them until Dec. 15. I guess it all boils down to how DL interprets their own terms, which they've already proven they can change.

 

[YayforMickey]

I wonder if that was just a glitch as they're updating parts of the site to reflect the new info. I wouldn't be surprised if it changes back at some point.

I hope you're right.

 

[midnight star]

Will Disneyland automatically cancel your dining reservations during the closure? I have a reservation for the Tangled Tea on April19. It is still showing.

 

[LilyJC]

Will Disneyland automatically cancel your dining reservations during the closure? I have a reservation for the Tangled Tea on April19. It is still showing.

We had a Lamplight Lounge reservation on the 25th which was automatically canceled when the closures were announced. My Tangled Tea for the 18th is still in my plans, but I assume they’ll get to it once we’re around a couple weeks out.

 

[midnight star]

We had a Lamplight Lounge reservation on the 25th which was automatically canceled when the closures were announced. My Tangled Tea for the 18th is still in my plans, but I assume they’ll get to it once we’re around a couple weeks out.

Part of me doesn’t want to cancel it. The tea reservations are so hard to get and I was excited to finally get one oh well there will be others.

 

[coaches24]

The same for school districts in LA county. Teachers go back on May 4 and students on May 5. However it is subject to change again.

I am a teacher in a nor cal school district and I will be shocked if any schools open again before summer break. My school district has informed family’s out here to expect “distance learning” to go until the last day of school even though officially we are to be closed till May 1. All the school districts I know of up here have either started distance learning or are making preparations to start distance learning. Imo we have not seen the worst yet of this whole situation.
These closures and the stay at home order will likely stock for several more weeks if not months.

 

[CastAStone]

News: Disneyland hotels not taking reservations until June 1st

Headline says it all, see https://disneyland.disney.go.com/travel-information/ and below.

 

[EmJ]

I would be so excited to see Disneyland open on June 1. It means the world only has to go though this for another nine weeks!

 

[CastAStone]

I’m all for thinking positive - America can figure out how to handle this!

Eventually!

 

[Geemo]

I was there on Opening Day and am thinking of trying to make a trip down for re-opening day.
Just wish we knew the date in order to book flights and a room.....

 

[dieumeye]

Based on a Disney email going around about a dining plan offer for people with cancelled trips, it sounds like WDW is looking at a similar June 1 timeline.

If peak for this virus in California is mid-late April as some are speculating, then a June 1 open might be possible, even if only in a limited capacity.

However, if peak in Florida is, say, in May, that seems like June 1 might still be too early for WDW.

 

[ParkHopper1]

Just wish we knew the date in order to book flights and a room.....

That is not going to be able to be determined until the State of California gives an indication of when the Stay at Home order might ease.

I can tell you first hand from the Emergency Services sector in Sacramento they are working currently on an 8 week assumption with contingencies for 12 weeks. All of that of course to be adjusted as events unfold which is why everything is open ended but give you an idea what top brass is working within.

That is why Jun 1 currently is a fairly safe assumption. While it would be a while before any public statement are released, major players like Disney are indeed briefed on what to expect by officials.

 

[Indiana Scott]

Well, at least that's a dim light at the end of the tunnel!
I sure would be hesitant to purchase airfare based on that though..

 

[hiroMYhero]

This is the first time I’ve seen an article with the breakdown of OC. I’ve been checking because my DD lives in the new Park and Paseo complex where Santa Ana and Tustin meet.

Orange County releases list of all communities with coronavirus cases

https://www.latimes.com/california/...ist-of-all-communities-with-coronavirus-cases

 

[katyringo]

I am really Really debating trying to be there on the day they open back up. Flights are super cheap from omaha for May 31-June 2nd...

But it’s so so unknown.

 

[DesertScorpion]

Hmm...I wonder what this offer will be. Hoping for prices closer to what I booked earlier in the year for our May dates.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

... This thread is a discussion about the DLR Closure related to COVID-19, not about the virus itself, politics, economics, science, etc...

Does this mean that speculation about when the parks might reopen is also off-topic for this thread? Because it's impossible to have an informed discussion about, say, whether existing reservations in June will be cancelled without talking about "science" and "the virus itself." Should we have another superthread for park reopen date speculation?

You appear to have answered your own question by quoting my post above. Posts about the current DLR closure which are related to COVID-19 will remain up -- and have remained up, all 35 pages so far. Posts which are not primarily related to the current DLR closure, but which are primarily argumentative and/or primarily about the virus itself, politics, economics, science, etc. will be deleted. Simple. My answer to you remains the same one I gave to you when you asked a similar question in the Galaxy's Edge Superthread: Let common sense and your experience on this board answer your question.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I wonder if that was just a glitch as they're updating parts of the site to reflect the new info. I wouldn't be surprised if it changes back at some point.

This is what I was thinking, too. Hey, @Skyegirl1999 -- it's good to see you here! Hope that you and your family are doing well and keeping safe!

Part of me doesn’t want to cancel it. The tea reservations are so hard to get and I was excited to finally get one oh well there will be others.

Totally understand how you feel! We have a tea reservation for that date, too.