Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mhautz]

Yes, and our fast passes corresponded with the park opening dates too.

LOL...we had HS on 7/13 and Epcot on 7/14, and our AK FPs were all in the evening after 6 pm, so the spiteful part of me was happy to see ALL FP+ go away.

 

[rteetz]

I was talking to my friend that works in the food/ gift shop at BC, they're getting ready to get people complaining BC doesn't have a food court from people being moved from the other resorts.
I also asked her about ther pools, the only thing she's heard is that they're thinking of only opening the dvc pools

I’ve heard Yacht club may not initially open so that could make sense.

 

[tinkerhon]

I haven't received one cancellation email (with the exception of the dessert party, which I cancelled on my own) AND I cancelled my entire trip ! My FPS are gone from MDE, as are my hotel reservations, but every single one of my ADRS still there - even before I cancelled, had not received any emails

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

Why would you think that? We called Disney a few days after the announcement for our reservation that starts 7/10 and were told we will just be contacted to modify it to different dates if our dates don't line up with Disney's projected opening of resorts. We have no problem with pushing the dates back a bit in this case but it would seem silly to cancel peoples 5+ day vacations just because the start date is off by a day or two.

I would keep on top of this; I don't see a lot of people being called by Disney to modify their reservations. Disney's trying to lower the number of reservations anyway at the moment...

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

I was talking to my friend that works in the food/ gift shop at BC, they're getting ready to get people complaining BC doesn't have a food court from people being moved from the other resorts.
I also asked her about ther pools, the only thing she's heard is that they're thinking of only opening the dvc pools

I'm trying to process what you said-- are you saying that they're moving people from Beach Club to a different resort?

Or the other way around?

 

[Disneylover99]

I haven't received one cancellation email (with the exception of the dessert party, which I cancelled on my own) AND I cancelled my entire trip ! My FPS are gone from MDE, as are my hotel reservations, but every single one of my ADRS still there - even before I cancelled, had not received any emails

If you cancel your own ADR’s you get a cancellation email, if you don’t cancel, they just eventually disappear, no email. I cancelled my June and July trip. No cancellation email, but I don’t think I’ve ever received a resort cancellation email, it just disappears from MDE.

 

[courtney1188]

I’m not sure how your online “schooling” is going but our kids have No “live” classes and all assignments are posted for several weeks out. We could easily go during the “school year”. They could do the work in the car ride Down/back home.

That will likely change if virtual school continues into next year. I am a teacher with many teacher friends and relatives in different states, and we’ve all been told that if virtual learning continues next year, much more will be mandatory/expected than what is currently the case for most school districts. (Which is going to be a giant pain for those of us who are working parents, but that is a whole different conversation - I’m just warning against assuming that fall virtual learning for a full week can happen during a long car ride or two.)

 

[Krandor]

I'm trying to process what you said-- are you saying that they're moving people from Beach Club to a different resort?

Or the other way around?

I think she was talking about moving peolpe who are at other resorts with a food court to beach club which doesn't have one and that those people are likely to complain about that.

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

I think she was talking about moving peolpe who are at other resorts with a food court to beach club which doesn't have one and that those people are likely to complain about that.

That makes sense! Thank you for clarifying.

 

[Raggou]

Does anyone remember how close Ratatouille was to being finished? With the MDE showing Spaceship Earth in the refurbishment section, Epcot could really use this ride being open asap.

Also curious about this

 

[rteetz]

Does anyone remember how close Ratatouille was to being finished? With the MDE showing Spaceship Earth in the refurbishment section, Epcot could really use this ride being open asap.

Rumor is that it was roughly 10 weeks out before the parks closed. So if the parks never closed it would be opening around now.

 

[Randy Miller]

That will likely change if virtual school continues into next year. I am a teacher with many teacher friends and relatives in different states, and we’ve all been told that if virtual learning continues next year, much more will be mandatory/expected than what is currently the case for most school districts. (Which is going to be a giant pain for those of us who are working parents, but that is a whole different conversation - I’m just warning against assuming that fall virtual learning for a full week can happen during a long car ride or two.)

Lol. My husband teaches at a virtual high school and 2 of my children attended virtual schools before all of this started. Their work has always been “do able” in a 12 hour car trip. They both work 40 hours a week and both graduated in the top of their class. Virtual learning is what you make if it. That was “originally” why it was designed. I still will rest assured that my children (that have not graduated) can easily get their class work done on 2 12 hour car rides with zero issues. They can also work during downtime on our trip(s).

 

[tinkerhon]

If you cancel your own ADR’s you get a cancellation email, if you don’t cancel, they just eventually disappear, no email. I cancelled my June and July trip. No cancellation email, but I don’t think I’ve ever received a resort cancellation email, it just disappears from MDE.

Thanks ! Yep - that's what concerned me - I never did receive an email cancellation for the hotel and/or park tickets , or cancellation number when I called - was told to just keep checking my debit card to see if refund went thru
Refund for dessert party only took 2 days

 

[jenjersnap]

That makes sense while BCV is the only building open but I truly hope that isn’t the case if/when either BC or YC are open. I hope we get resort opening dates soon because this our only true dealbreaker (with SWGE being closed as a the second potential dealbreaker).

I was talking to my friend that works in the food/ gift shop at BC, they're getting ready to get people complaining BC doesn't have a food court from people being moved from the other resorts.
I also asked her about ther pools, the only thing she's heard is that they're thinking of only opening the dvc pools

 

[SwirlTheCitrus]

Lol. My husband teaches at a virtual high school and 2 of my children attended virtual schools before all of this started. Their work has always been “do able” in a 12 hour car trip. They both work 40 hours a week and both graduated in the top of their class. Virtual learning is what you make if it. That was “originally” why it was designed. I still will rest assured that my children (that have not graduated) can easily get their class work done on 2 12 hour car rides with zero issues. They can also work during downtime on our trip(s).

...as a teacher, I would like to clone your children and have my next year's classes consist entirely of them.

 

[CopperMonkey]

Yours is the first post that I’ve read saying this.

Their policy has been to cancel by start dates, regardless if the trip ends after the closure period. I’m not saying you were told wrong, but I’d be very cautious about believing anything you’re told by a phone CM, especially right now.

Disney is trying to deter people from booking. While I guess it’s possible, I’d be amazed if they contacted guests to try and adjust dates to include them.

Yea we had a June reservation that was blanket cancelled, but with us actually having a reopening date now, I don't see them cancelling peoples reservations like that. It would be a simple modification to just cut our dates by 1 day and let us check in the day of (July 11th). If they still do rolling cancellations like before, I foresee a Universal Vacation in our future and not Disney.

 

[Jillfo]

MK had some rough times right before the closure. Mountains down, peoplemover on fire, jungle cruise boat sinking. Oof

Foreshadowing of things to come...

 

[Disneylover99]

Thanks ! Yep - that's what concerned me - I never did receive an email cancellation for the hotel and/or park tickets , or cancellation number when I called - was told to just keep checking my debit card to see if refund went thru
Refund for dessert party only took 2 days

I canceled my resort reservation online, so I took a screenshot of the cancellation. I’m really not sure if they send a cancellation email if you cancel over the phone.

 

[Violetspider]

Agree. There are others reasons though. A socially distanced line of 90 minutes would still cause a sensory meltdown in one of mine and social distancing would be near impossible to keep. I am obviously a champion of virtual queues for everyone cuz it solves a host of challenges for our family.

Ours, now that he's a preteen, can make it about 20 - 30 minutes in a wait line. He doesn't meltdown exactly, but will pull us all out of the line and back to the resort. There's no altering the mindset once he's hits that stage. He just wants out. If the parks are at 30% or so in addition to virtual queues, we are thinking that DAS might not be necessary this trip. We're getting closer to that every year. We will have to see.

 

[andyman8]

MK had some rough times right before the closure. Mountains down, peoplemover on fire, jungle cruise boat sinking. Oof

But I’m sure they used the nearly 4-month closure to rehab everything and get it back in perfect shape