Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[yulilin3]

There are salaried cast members that have started returning to work. My husband is back. Hopefully that’s a good sign for many others to get back to work soon as well.

I just posted up thread FT have started getting call backs to start on the 28

 

[bernina]

to bring this back to the theme parks themselves and since we had so much fun speculating on an opening date, can we speculate on timeline for previews?
I'll go first
CM previews July 5th - 7th
AP previews July 8th - 10th
no park hopping.. If a certain park reaches capacity of previews then CM/AP can choose another park

Fun!

Do you think previews will be for all parks or just MK/AK prior to the 11th and then HS/EP as we get closer to the 15th?

Do we think all non blocked APs will be allowed a chance to register?

 

[cmp3400]

I read that Florida is now counting positive antibody tests as positive cases, which explains the increase. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Dr Pino from Orange County did say that BUT, at the next meeting said he MISPOKE on that.

 

[MickeyMinnie1971]

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[yulilin3]

Fun!

Do you think previews will be for all parks or just MK/AK prior to the 11th and then HS/EP as we get closer to the 15th?

Do we think all non blocked APs will be allowed a chance to register?

I think every person will have the option of picking one park of the four, Disney has been very persistent that blockout dates will wil apply, so silver will not be able to partake in previews, but they might change that

 

[mcmry5]

to bring this back to the theme parks themselves and since we had so much fun speculating on an opening date, can we speculate on timeline for previews?
I'll go first
CM previews July 5th - 7th
AP previews July 8th - 10th
no park hopping.. If a certain park reaches capacity of previews then CM/AP can choose another park

The only thing I might add to the AP preview days would be other affinity groups like DVC members, Golden Oak residents (is that the name of the Disney community down there?) and Club 33 members.

if they have the DVC resorts open, it would make sense to use the DVC members as guinea pigs. I don’t know actual numbers, but I have to think many DVC members are also APs.

 

[MrsBooch]

Good news
Park CM are starting to get callbacks to work
I have first hand info from SWGE full timers, some have been called back to start on the 28th
Remember this process goes by seniority with FT CM being called first, so it will take a while to get the cat in place. But the 28th seems to be starting date for all of them

I am not even going to the parks until November and I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Just to see things moving and happening - or should i say, to KNOW things are moving or happening.

 

[Krandor]

At some point when the country which you would come from has lover or no infection makes sense to lift travel restrictions. But until I agree it won`t happen.

Which makes me wonder if we may see travel restrictions put on by other countries. Some contries are managing to get the virus under control. We are not and likely will not so I wonder if we may see countries with low cases put restrictions on us.

 

[yulilin3]

I am not even going to the parks until November and I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Just to see things moving and happening - or should i say, to KNOW things are moving or happening.

Not SOON anymore for cast members

 

[WhitneyMB]

This is a conversation posted by someone yesterday in another group I’m part of. Not sure if there is exactly “new” information but glad to see it re-confirmed that training on the reservation system is beginning. The idea of waiting another 1-2 weeks seems like no fun but is aligned with what some others have said.

ETA: Sorry the photo posted twice

 

[SarahC97]

Do we think they're still only going week by week with resort reservations? I am going 7/27 and I'd like to know where I'm staying for sure before I need to make park reservations...

 

[Marionnette]

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to bring this back to the theme parks themselves and since we had so much fun speculating on an opening date, can we speculate on timeline for previews?
I'll go first
CM previews July 5th - 7th
AP previews July 8th - 10th
no park hopping.. If a certain park reaches capacity of previews then CM/AP can choose another park

I can see those being the preview dates for MK and AK. HS and Epcot don’t open until 7/15. Might they have later preview dates to give those two parks more time to implement changes and train CMs before testing their procedures on APs and other CMs?

 

[yulilin3]

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I can see those being the preview dates for MK and AK. HS and Epcot don’t open until 7/15. Might they have later preview dates to give those two parks more time to implement changes and train CMs before testing their procedures on APs and other CMs?

Cm are being called to start work on the 28th, all at the same time, so the parks will be ready by MK/AK opening day

 

[Farro]

Cm are being called to start work on the 28th, all at the same time, so the parks will be ready by MK/AK opening day

I'm just wondering, will the safari ride be open at AK? I think they can social distance on that, wear masks?

 

[Anthony Vito]

It’s not NOT soon.

But is it soon enough?

We’ll know soon.

 

[chicagoshannon]

WOO HOO on SWGE CM's getting called back!

And yes that positivity rate is great. It was back over 5% for a couple of days!

 

[Anthony Vito]

This is the first time ever that I wish my countdown wouldn’t go quite so quickly. We are getting closer and closer to the point we will need to make a go/cancel decision. We are 105 days away from checkin.

Yeah, our Countdown to Disney calendar has definitely felt much more ominous than exciting this time around.

 

[yulilin3]

I'm just wondering, will the safari ride be open at AK? I think they can social distance on that, wear masks?

If we go with the procedures UOR and SW have shown basically all attractions can open.
Masks are required everywhere, all the time other than rides that get you soaked and while eating
What they're doing now is scattering loading, so on attractions like safari they'll probably load every other row. Also members of same family/ group can go in the rows directly behind
No filling same row with different groups. For example i have gone solo and i have got rows to myself on spiderman, transformers, mummy, gringotts, hagrids, the Hogwarts Express

 

[chicagoshannon]

Any more rumors about where the mask free zones will be? (hoping they are outside not in like rumored last week)

 

[yulilin3]

Any more rumors about where the mask free zones will be? (hoping they are outside not in like rumored last week)

We won't know until cm are back in the parks which won't happen until the end of the month, but my guess is that they'll use the previous smoking sections, they are already isolated from walking traffic, all outside