News Round Up 2020

[CastAStone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1265970312941834241

Very interested to hear from those contacted by Disney first as to what “working with guests” means.

Also I have a room ressie (at a hotel they will almost certainly not open) and no tickets yet so I’m curious whether that puts me in the back of the line.

 

[rteetz]

News

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...uu-home-to-you/?CMP=SOC-DPFY20Q3wo0528200006A

 

[dolewhipdreams]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/media/disney-world-open-bob-chapek/index.html

Looks like he's also the CEO of not actually answering your questions.

 

[rteetz]

Looks like he's also the CEO of not answering questions.

What were you looking for to be answered? (Not attacking just curious)

If it’s numbers, Disney would never give those out. Many were shocked that they did for Shanghai but it seems that is because of what the government set the limit at.

 

[YesterDark]

Sort of sad that my first thought seeing that is "looks cool but how do you keep social distancing in there?"

When I see people shake hands on a TV Show/Movie I cringe now.

 

[mum22girlz]

Our Sep trip is a FD BB which meant we had to purchase the PH to qualify for Free Dining. Given the reduced park hours it will be much more challenging to utilize the PH even if we're able to based on availability to enter different parks.

Add me to the list of those waiting to find out how they will handle all of this.

This is me as well. We have DVC rental, park hopper tickets from Undercover Tourist, and Halloween party tickets for the end of September. Lots of unknowns and I have no idea how to plan.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Very interested to hear from those contacted by Disney first as to what “working with guests” means.

Also I have a room ressie (at a hotel they will almost certainly not open) and no tickets yet so I’m curious whether that puts me in the back of the line.

Just curious, what hotel do you fell they will not re-open? I didn't realize there were any that may not be re-opening.

 

[CastAStone]

Just curious, what hotel do you fell they will not re-open? I didn't realize there were any that may not be re-opening.

Chapek said on CNBC yesterday that they would not open more hotels than they need to initially.

I imagine (this is pure speculation) that, at the very least, both Port Orleans resorts, Coronado Springs, and the All Stars will not open.
Depending on occupancy levels, it would not surprise me to see Pop Century and Yacht Club join them.
That's all the resorts without a DVC attached except for AoA, which with all the suites would be harder to accommodate guests from (although I wouldn't completely rule that out either if they have trouble filling the DVC rooms with points guests).

I am booked at POR.

 

[siren0119]

I would hope they treat unused media as basically a gift card to apply to a future ticket. Now granted the price could go up and you'd be out another couple of bucks, but at least you wouldn't lose it. That way it fixes the third party problem.

that is the standard procedure. If you have expired, unused tickets they do not lose their value. Their value at the time of purchase can be used toward new tickets (though you will have to pay any price difference if the prices have gone up). Keep the ticket #'s somewhere safe, I believe they drop off your MDE when they expire but are still able to be found in the system on Disney's end.

 

[Jroceagles]

And what happens to people who purchased through 3rd party already? It puts those people in a bind.

I would think if you have them linked already then you are fine.

 

[Fantasia79]

I think the real problem is banking, not borrowing. There’s basically 3 extra months of points banked right now. And I fear that availability for this summer/fall will wind up plentiful as people avoid the half-an-experience parks and then there will be even more of a glut. Then on top of all of that, come 2021 UYs, there will be even more current year points than normal because fewer were borrowed into the 2020 UY. It just sets up for banking in perpetuity.

I have similar questions and concerns. If I’m understanding the new “rules” correctly, there’s roughly 3 months of UY points that won’t expire for 1 additional year. On top of that, for an undisclosed amount of time, you can only borrow 50% of your contracts points. Tight, but I don’t think it’ll be like 24 of of trying to book Christmas

Reservations will be tighter and harder to get with more points out there, but I don’t think it’s going to be a total log jam. There will be people like me who usually are borrowing points (made a lot of effort to start to get to ‘0’ borrowed points over the last 2 years). People using the opportunity for a “one in a lifetime” reservation (we also discussed with 2 refunded trips). There will also be a lot of people with loss of job/income and/or savings. People that avoid the restrictions/masks vs people that can’t wait to go no matter what.

If you think you’re landing F&W or Christmas, it’ll be between hard and not happening. But, traveling at most times, it will spread out quite a bit. I think we got 12-18 tighter months but not impossible.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

that is the standard procedure. If you have expired, unused tickets they do not lose their value. Their value at the time of purchase can be used toward new tickets (though you will have to pay any price difference if the prices have gone up). Keep the ticket #'s somewhere safe, I believe they drop off your MDE when they expire but are still able to be found in the system on Disney's end.

But will that be the case now?

With the parks having been closed for months, Disney not wanting a ton of people to show up initially and many places that will be on reduced number of people in a given gathering for a while, people's concerns over being in a crowd, etc impact Disney's (and 3rd party sellers) past procedures. Much of this is not related to past reasons for people not being able to use their tickets. That's some information I'm interested to see how Disney's handles (if they even deviate from the past norm).

 

[scrappinginontario]

Chapek said on CNBC yesterday that they would not open more hotels than they need to initially.

I imagine (this is pure speculation) that, at the very least, both Port Orleans resorts, Coronado Springs, and the All Stars will not open.
Depending on occupancy levels, it would not surprise me to see Pop Century and Yacht Club join them.
That's all the resorts without a DVC attached except for AoA, which with all the suites would be harder to accommodate guests from (although I wouldn't completely rule that out either if they have trouble filling the DVC rooms with points guests).

I am booked at POR.

Interesting thoughts.

We're booked at Pop which we'd really like to stay at as I'd much prefer the Skyliner over buses.

Time will tell....if we're even 'allowed' to go. As an International visitor we have a lot of unknowns outside of Disney which will affect our planned trip:
- border
- will we be able to obtain travel insurance?
- will there be a mandatory quarantine upon return to Canada?

As with everyone, still far more questions than answers now as things slowly creep towards what will become our new-normal...whatever that is!

 

[dac7265]

Sorry if this has been mentioned, any thoughts on Food and Wine?

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1265999653855735811

 

[Firebird060]

I have always wondered if because of the point constriction with DVC members if Disney plans to allow "Point Cash Reservations" on non DVC rooms. It would be a fine balance of when and where they would allow this, and it would take capacity from cash making side of the reservation industry but it would solve alot of the problems if Disney was to allow this for a short time to help free up the point crunch

 

[peaceluv&mickeymouse]

My information is purely based on what I’m seeing on the Disney website right now.

I’m looking at our September dates and as of right now, Halloween Parties are still displayed. Park hours have changed a bit in that the park now closes to day guests at 7:00 rather than 6:00.

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It also appears that they may be staggering the park opening times. Disney’s Hollywood Studios appear to be opening at 10am with some 9am EMH days.


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Epcot may not open until 11:00am
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Also, Blizzard Beach is now displaying park hours after Sep 12th. Prior to the shutdown BB was not displaying any park hours after Sep 12th which matched the refurbishment shutdown date in 2019. Happy to see there are hours there now!

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We’ll see what happens but these appear to be some of the Sep projected hours as of today.

I noticed all of these things too. We are going sept 12-21

 

[Fantasia79]

I have always wondered if because of the point constriction with DVC members if Disney plans to allow "Point Cash Reservations" on non DVC rooms. It would be a fine balance of when and where they would allow this, and it would take capacity from cash making side of the reservation industry but it would solve alot of the problems if Disney was to allow this for a short time to help free up the point crunch

they already have this category, not widely advertised and not advised as a good use of points. It’s extremely high points per night. Used to be in the old DVC point chart “books.” Looked at my 2015-2016 book I kept. For example: Yacht Club studio 49 ppn in value season, 90 ppn Holiday,

 

[Azziefan]

Chapek said on CNBC yesterday that they would not open more hotels than they need to initially.

I imagine (this is pure speculation) that, at the very least, both Port Orleans resorts, Coronado Springs, and the All Stars will not open.
Depending on occupancy levels, it would not surprise me to see Pop Century and Yacht Club join them.
That's all the resorts without a DVC attached except for AoA, which with all the suites would be harder to accommodate guests from (although I wouldn't completely rule that out either if they have trouble filling the DVC rooms with points guests).

I am booked at POR.

I am pop. I start July 23. Are you saying you think that someone like me would have their trip totally cancelled? Or do you think they will just move me to another resort ?

 

[Azziefan]

do you guys think world showcase will open? And what about those of us with non DVC stays in late July. Should I worry about being cancelled on or do u think they’ll just move me to another hotel if mine is closed? They didn’t act like yesterday they would be cancelling any reservations when they opened seemed like to me they’re trying to cap it so they can focus on us