Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Spaceguy55]

I'm not superstitious...

 

[Mit88]

I’m not sure how ADRs could have continued on without cancellations. I’m sure 25% of the people that got a reservation would be happy, but I’m pretty sure they would have had a big issue from the 75% of the people that got cancelled while seeing that people are still able to go on the day they had reservations.

No park hopping might be good for people that want to ride as much as they can. Unless people do repeat rides on say Space Mountain, the set crowd will move from ride to ride and keeping most of the lines low(ish). Now, for a park like AK or DHS where theres less options, it might become an issue where, if theres just a line and no VQ for RotR, people would just ride that all day keeping the line long, same with FOP at AK, except without FP or VQ (unless they implement them on E-Ticket and more popular rides, which is a real possibility).

What I want to know is if theres going to be re-entry allowed. When I’m staying at Poly, ill probably still take a couple hour mid-day break, same with when I’m at BC and go to EPCOT or DHS, even with the limited hours. If theres no re-entry to your reserved park, that would kind of suck

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Does anyone know the significance of the September 26, 2021 date? Like, why until that day? Why not extend no DDP for example through the end of 2021, if you want to cover your bases?

I check in on the 29th, so figure they wanted to ensure I could still have the option

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Yep...With the reservation system annual passes will get priority and will be able to book 3 days at a time for the whole year and then it opens to Regular ticket guests...meaning all of the days could be reserved before the passholders are able to reserve more days than the initial days booked...Confusing I know...Exactly why Disney is about to start getting everyone mad...!

Aren’t they a rolling 30 days though? Not officially maybe but from Remy, I think?

 

[Broncho52]

Yep...With the reservation system annual passes will get priority and will be able to book 3 days at a time for the whole year and then it opens to Regular ticket guests...meaning all of the days could be reserved before the passholders are able to reserve more days than the initial days booked...Confusing I know...Exactly why Disney is about to start getting everyone mad...!

I wouldn’t imagine they will open all the days at once. Maybe on a rolling basis.

 

[runjulesrun]

Yep...With the reservation system annual passes will get priority and will be able to book 3 days at a time for the whole year and then it opens to Regular ticket guests...meaning all of the days could be reserved before the passholders are able to reserve more days than the initial days booked...Confusing I know...Exactly why Disney is about to start getting everyone mad...!

Wait, how did I miss this? Is this confirmed? Source?

 

[e_yerger]

Yep...With the reservation system annual passes will get priority and will be able to book 3 days at a time for the whole year and then it opens to Regular ticket guests...meaning all of the days could be reserved before the passholders are able to reserve more days than the initial days booked...Confusing I know...Exactly why Disney is about to start getting everyone mad...!

Link?? Where did you hear this? Because there are NO details released about the functionality of the reservation system.

 

[WhitneyMB]

My poor heart! I am sleepy so I thought it was just free dining, not all. Sleepy reading comprehension

I didn’t believe it said “all dining plans.” I think it specifically said, “dining plans included in packages.” As a DVC member, I can usually choose to add a dining plan with no package. Because of the way it’s written, I’m hoping those are still a go.

 

[Pickle Rick]

Yeah, I don’t know. They still haven’t officially announced dates for F&W, so they could do something shorter and more limited maybe. But everything I’ve heard seems to indicate that they’re focused on just getting WDW back up and running before making a decision on those types of events, but we’ll see.

No, I agree with you. I suspect they most certainly haven't made a decision on special "events" like F&W yet. They probably want to figure out how many people will come, and staffing issues first.

 

[tinkerhon]

Sorry , but trying to watch my kids as I sift thru 60 unread pages - so, all hotels closed for now with the exception of DVC? We are booked July 14 for ASmovies - (or, we were !)

 

[Arguetafamily]

I didn’t believe it said “all dining plans.” I think it specifically said, “dining plans included in packages.” As a DVC member, I can usually choose to add a dining plan with no package. Because of the way it’s written, I’m hoping those are still a go.

Hmmm I'm intrigued. We usually add them as well

 

[DisneyWishes14]

what time do the phone lines close ? Honest question - I have too much money invested in my July trip to throw all of the planning out the window and start over
Any best number to call ?
Pls no flames !

The phone lines close at 11 pm. No flames. totally understandable, IMHO.

 

[firefly_ris]

I actually sort of dig the idea of no FPs at all and it being old school Disney for a while in that regard. I'll probably get some angry emojis thrown at me, but that was my first thought. Sometimes I think FP just slows the entire thing down. I get that I could be wrong there though. So it will be interesting to see how they manage that.

Everything else... I can feel everyone's pain there.

 

[DanSG]

I wouldn’t imagine they will open all the days at once. Maybe on a rolling basis.

Hopefully they don't, but with the way they are running things right now they obviously aren't thinking their decisions through...If they wanted to cancel all reservations they should have done it back in March/Early April when there was so much uncertainty about reopening...

 

[JacknSally]

Sorry , but trying to watch my kids as I sift thru 60 unread pages - so, all hotels closed for now with the exception of DVC? We are booked July 14 for ASmovies - (or, we were !)

Nothing has changed about hotels yet. We still know nothing more than we did yet.

 

[Mit88]

27 pages since @CastAStone ’s initial post about the reservation cancelations. If anyone is keeping track.

that was at 8

I was going to ask yesterday when we were at 750 pages if we’d make it to 1,000 before the Disney parks opened. We’ll be there before Universal starts their soft openings

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

well just can't wait to find out what's in store for the Friday evening drop! To be continued tomorrow....

 

[tinkerhon]

The phone lines close at 11 pm. No flames. totally understandable, IMHO.

Thanks so much for your help and kind words !

 

[tinkerhon]

Nothing has changed about hotels yet. We still know nothing more than we did yet.

Thanks much !

 

[npatellye]

What I want to know is if theres going to be re-entry allowed. When I’m staying at Poly, ill probably still take a couple hour mid-day break, same with when I’m at BC and go to EPCOT or DHS, even with the limited hours. If theres no re-entry to your reserved park, that would kind of suck

I was wondering the same thing. I’m fine with not hopping parks but I don’t know if I would be okay with not being able to return to the same park later. I guess it would depend on if your reservation was for the whole day at the park or for certain time slots.