Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1242279238767697920

 

[FireflyJar]

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[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1242222693623177221

 

[TheMaxRebo]

On the mandatory self-isolation order FL issued for folks flying in from NY and surrounding states, it's useless without some sort of enforcement. And what if someone just drives down rather than flies? They are free from mandatory self-isolation just because they didn't fly down? Again, these spur of the moment type mandates are just not that well thought out.

Of people like us - we are from NY but often drive to my in-laws to drop our dog of for them to watch and then fly out of DC or Philly (not saying we are about to do this but just other ways around this)

Guess it is more optics than anything to try and lessen the people heading to FL from the NY (and other) area via guilt and/or a show that they are "doing something" (even if not really effective)

 

[rpb718]

Of people like us - we are from NY but often drive to my in-laws to drop our dog of for them to watch and then fly out of DC or Philly (not saying we are about to do this but just other ways around this)

Guess it is more optics than anything to try and lessen the people heading to FL from the NY (and other) area via guilt and/or a show that they are "doing something" (even if not really effective)

I wasn't really singling out NY (or anyone there), just bemoaning giving any value to a useless measure done for the sake of a headline rather than something meaningful to address the problem.

 

[Krandor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1242222693623177221

There is the second company talking about May. Tomorrow puts disney just at the 7 day payment deadline for April 1 trips. we will hear something tomorrow before people have to pay?

 

[Thecouch]

Isn't there restrictions till May 9th for eating inside restaurants. How could they open hotels and theme parks till they are lifted

 

[brigros]

I wonder if they'll be more strict about meet and greets after this? would it even be possible to enforce personal space rules,

 

[Krandor]

I wonder if they'll be more strict about meet and greets after this? would it even be possible to enforce personal space rules,

i think fewer/no meet and greets is more likeky in least short term. Didn’t Tokyo or Shanghai do that?

 

[Thecouch]

They might have princess sit on things and you sit next to them. Like frozen ones on a sled

 

[mshanson3121]

I wonder if they'll be more strict about meet and greets after this? would it even be possible to enforce personal space rules,

In the rumor proposal, they said only meet and greets where the characters are wearing costume heads like Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Chewy etc... no face to face ones like all the princesses etc...

 

[Henwen88]

In the rumor proposal, they said only meet and greets where the characters are wearing costume heads like Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Chewy etc... no face to face ones like all the princesses etc...

Would they no longer allow touching/hugging? All it takes is one infected person or carrier, and the virus (which can live on surfaces for a loooong time) will spread to everyone else in that meet and greet line.

 

[Alicefan]

Ok.... now this has gone too far.

Funny you said that because my best friend had made her vacation around the opening of this movie so that she could come here and we could watch it together. I had no idea about this until I caught up today. Ugh!

 

[Alicefan]

Would they no longer allow touching/hugging? All it takes is one infected person or carrier, and the virus (which can live on surfaces for a loooong time) will spread to everyone else in that meet and greet line.

Surely this means no autographs either. Can't see them letting anyone handle thousands of different books. THIS will not hurt my feelings in the least. I think making characters sign autographs is the stupidest thing they've ever come up with! I mean get your picture and go! Watching those poor people trying to see what the hell they are doing through those eyeholes is bad show and looks pitiful. I think each character needs a stamp like Buzz has. That would be way cooler as a keepsake than writing. Especially for these little kids who have ZERO idea about the significance of an autograph. Even now I don't care at all about someone writing on a piece of paper no matter who it is. I want a picture to take home. I've always thought having them sign just prolongs the waits. I'm old school and remember the days when characters roamed freely through the parks and there were no lines, you just ran up and gave them a hug and ran off. Nothing is simple anymore.

 

[Karin1984]

In France the measures are getting stricter. People are only allowed 1 hour outside their house and they have to stay within 1 Kilometer (0.6 Miles) their home. So for DLP it's not looking good for the coming weeks.

Here's a video made from the sky of the empty park:

 

[Thegoatfeeder]

This thread/forum has been great and generally keeping me sane in this difficult time! I’m in the UK and have been indoors now for 14 days, I’m in the fortunate position that myself and my partner can both work from home and we’ve managed to make food last!

We have a Disney World trip (DVC) booked for the first couple of weeks in December and have really bad anxiety that the parks will be closed or have massively reduced operations and we’ll have to cancel, so some of the calm heads in this thread have been really pleasant.

I’m a bit of a pessimist anyway, and on top of that, we nearly missed out on our last WDW trip last year because Thomas Cook (UK based airline) went bankrupt 4 days before we were due to travel, fortunately we managed to find alternate flights that weren’t stupidly overpriced!

And then we went to DLP in March and came back 2 days before those parks shutdown, so that trip was massively doubtful in the run up.

I guess I shouldn’t complain, I’ve not had to cancel a trip (yet), and loads of people have had too! On top of that, it’s Disney World, I guess we have much more important stuff going on right now, but yeah, I’m pretty edgy about that end of year trip!

We’ll get through this together though, sorry for the lengthy ramble! Remember to stay indoors too

 

[Spridell]

Isn't there restrictions till May 9th for eating inside restaurants. How could they open hotels and theme parks till they are lifted

Most restrictions can be lifted just as fast as they were put in place.

 

[Tandy]

Most restrictions can be lifted just as fast as they were put in place.

Exactly... from the press conference yesterday you can tell that as soon as things flatten and normalize they (the government) will open stuff (restrictions) up faster then you can imagine.

 

[FCDub]

Surely this means no autographs either. Can't see them letting anyone handle thousands of different books. THIS will not hurt my feelings in the least. I think making characters sign autographs is the stupidest thing they've ever come up with! I mean get your picture and go! Watching those poor people trying to see what the hell they are doing through those eyeholes is bad show and looks pitiful. I think each character needs a stamp like Buzz has. That would be way cooler as a keepsake than writing. Especially for these little kids who have ZERO idea about the significance of an autograph. Even now I don't care at all about someone writing on a piece of paper no matter who it is. I want a picture to take home. I've always thought having them sign just prolongs the waits. I'm old school and remember the days when characters roamed freely through the parks and there were no lines, you just ran up and gave them a hug and ran off. Nothing is simple anymore.

I, on the other hand, don't know why people wait in line to take a picture with a minimum-wage, overworked employee dressed up like cartoon characters. It works both ways. Let people do what they want.

 

[tlmadden73]

On the mandatory self-isolation order FL issued for folks flying in from NY and surrounding states, it's useless without some sort of enforcement. And what if someone just drives down rather than flies? They are free from mandatory self-isolation just because they didn't fly down? Again, these spur of the moment type mandates are just not that well thought out.

These spur of the moment mandates are purely to make it appear like the government is "doing something". Basically hoping enough people take the toothless mandate seriously enough to make.

All of these things are about optics . .the government doesn't have enough law enforcement to "force" people to stay home . .to force businesses to close and force people into mandatory self-quarantines.