My DD is a CM and expects to e blocked out. She is in guest relations and literally only knows what is on the website. They are all officially furloughed except for Dis Spring staff. Hoping to get more info soon. We are still going but not expecting to visit parks.Our trip is July 13-July 17. My husband and I have APs, but our DD at home does not since she does not always travel with us due to her high school schedule. Our CM daughter usually uses her guest pass to bring the younger sister to the parks. I think that with a DVC reservation and APs my husband and I will be able to get park reservations, but what about our daughters?
I don't know if this means anything, but when I made Park Pass reservations for our July trip this morning the system allowed me to make a Park Pass reservation for my CM daughter for each day of our trip. I still think she will be blocked out, but it gave me a little bit of hope.
No, the blockout dates still apply. I can confirm this from personal experience.I haven't been a CM long and only have one family trip where they added me to a hotel reservation during a blockout period (and I have an AP anyway) but is it possible blockout dates don't apply to CMs when they have an onsite stay booked?
This really is wrong. We booked 3 vacations (one rescheduled 3 times) so we could spend time with our CM at the parks. We understand that she might not be able to go everyday, but we can't even buy a ticket. I have 2 emails out to Disney. We also were able to add her to our park reservations, but if they block her out I'm going to cancel all 3 vacations (2 weeks each). That is a CM benefit they are taking away. I can stay off property and save $1000 for the same type of room per vacation.
I totally understand your frustration. My daughter is close to tears also. Our trip is in less than 3 weeks, and we talked about getting her a FL AP, which is expensive for a CM on such a limited budget, we already pay for 2 AP's and a trip across country, and with no info if she would even be able to purchase an AP if we can swing it before we leave.You’re not wrong at all. I don’t fully understand how it can be justified that CM can’t access the parks during this time. I get my magic from the parks just as much as anyone else. I shouldn’t be forced to buy tickets if my main perk for being a CM is theme park access. I’ve done my fair share of crying and I’m just not sure what else I can do at this point.
Yes, we will be blocked. But its rumored that our comp ( paper tix) will be useable...but who knows.