Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[Pyotr]

It is only illegal for public sector unions to strike in Florida.

Ah, okay. That makes sense.

 

[Krandor]

DeSantis has been against movie theaters opening since the start. The first big movie set to release (Tenant) isn’t for 9 weeks. I think they’ll open theaters 2-3 weeks before hand to test things out and get people comfortable

So on the theater side of things which does affect disney just saw this article. Currently 200 theaters are open. 150 are drive ins and 50 brick and morter.

So those are the theater numbers we are currently looking at.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/m...th-200-locations-after-coronavirus-shutdowns/

 

[pooki1]

Why would Disney be offering park hopper tickets for July 1st if they were going to have guests reserve one park per day?

 

[Krandor]

Why would Disney be offering park hopper tickets for July 1st if they were going to have guests reserve one park per day?

because a final decision hasn't been made on how it will work and they are not ready to announce it?

 

[gottalovepluto]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/cor...0200517-yb4ngdydq5egfpkbgy7vyriwba-story.html
Good to see people are following the rules. The ones who needed to be reminded to wear a mask did with out causing a scene

I’d like to get excited that people are chill with the rules but that news outlet...

1) ran an inciting headline “get used to it” (LOL)

2) interviewed a grand total of a couple people

3) interviewed folks who were literally eating

so at the end of the day...

 

[Vern60]

Yes, the Vice President is coming to meet with the Governor and theme park execs last I heard. I find this to be a pretty big deal.

I agree, this does sound like a pretty big deal. Hard to get a read on it, but I think the president would like things to open as soon as possible. My guess is he's sending the vp to see if they can help things along as much as possible. Disney opening would be a very visible sign and no doubt picked up by all the media. Again, just my guess.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Why would Disney be offering park hopper tickets for July 1st if they were going to have guests reserve one park per day?

Concur. Some people think Disney is straight up committing fraud (if you know you will only allow people into one park while up selling them on multi-park tickets for that time period it’s fraud) but I happen to think that’s not true. I’ve never understood the obsession with reserving one park. The only reservation system Disney has in place domestically, Disneyland, allows reservations for one or two parks (FlexPass).

 

[jerry557]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/cor...0200517-yb4ngdydq5egfpkbgy7vyriwba-story.html
Good to see people are following the rules. The ones who needed to be reminded to wear a mask did with out causing a scene

I've seen some bloggers saying they've been seeing a few people taking the mask off and a lot of people lowing it below their noses.

 

[cakebaker]

Why would Disney be offering park hopper tickets for July 1st if they were going to have guests reserve one park per day?

Well first of all, there hasn’t been the slightest hint that they’ll only offer 1 park per day. But If they did, they’d sure be processing a lot of refunds if they did. They could just continue to extend or refund pass holders during the opening phase, but if you buy a park hopper and you can’t park hop, you’d be entitled to a refund or extension of your ticket. Can’t sell a product you don’t deliver.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I've seen some bloggers saying they've been seeing a few people taking the mask off and a lot of people lowing it below their noses.

Yep. And that report even the bloggers were over it after an hour? Masks will be on for entry, encouraged after.

 

[Krandor]

Well first of all, there hasn’t been the slightest hint that they’ll only offer 1 park per day. But If they did, they’d sure be processing a lot of refunds if they did. They could just continue to extend or refund pass holders during the opening phase, but if you buy a park hopper and you can’t park hop, you’d be entitled to a refund or extension of your ticket. Can’t sell a product you don’t deliver.

Totally agree. If they go to a one park reservation system (which i think they will) they'll have to refund the hopper portion of tickets bought.

 

[jlwhitney]

I've seen some bloggers saying they've been seeing a few people taking the mask off and a lot of people lowing it below their noses.

But right now those that are going are Manila locals, going to do something , check it out eat at a favorite place , get donuts lol. That crowd is very different than families traveling for a vacation and spending thousands that want to fully enjoy it and may not be as tolerant to keeping masks on. Time will tell.

 

[Krandor]

Yep. And that report even the bloggers were over it after an hour? Masks will be on for entry, encouraged after.

That is not what the listed DS rules say.

 

[AmberMV]

I’d like to get excited that people are chill with the rules but that news outlet...

1) ran an inciting headline “get used to it” (LOL)

2) interviewed a grand total of a couple people

3) interviewed folks who were literally eating

so at the end of the day...

AND
4) The article can't even spell the Governor's name correctly....RoB DeSantis? Really? Nobody at the newsroom caught that??

 

[pooki1]

Totally agree. If they go to a one park reservation system (which i think they will) they'll have to refund the hopper portion of tickets bought.

That would be so difficult on so many levels UCT and all those types of companies would be affected, also it makes way more sense to me to spread people out among the parks. If they were going that route surely they would have to announced it by now.

 

[Mit88]

So on the theater side of things which does affect disney just saw this article. Currently 200 theaters are open. 150 are drive ins and 50 brick and morter.

So those are the theater numbers we are currently looking at.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/m...th-200-locations-after-coronavirus-shutdowns/

I don’t believe any brick and mortar theaters have opened yet. They’re allowed to, but I haven’t heard any of them physically opening. If they have, that’s great. I think movie theaters will be a domino affect where once a few open, if procedures are done well, more will follow as their state allows. I think most will be open and ready in time for July 17th.

The theater going experience is irreplaceable. It would be like replacing going to Disney World with putting on a VR headset at home to “experience” WDW. Or listening to your favorite band play a show on speakers at your house rather than at a Concert venue. It’s just not the same.

Side note, I’m really hoping that the drive in movie theater industry makes a real comeback after this. I’m not sure why it didn’t adapt with the times and continue. There used to be drive in’s in almost every town, now you have to go 50+ miles in many places to find one.

 

[Mit88]

I’d like to get excited that people are chill with the rules but that news outlet...

1) ran an inciting headline “get used to it” (LOL)

2) interviewed a grand total of a couple people

3) interviewed folks who were literally eating

so at the end of the day...

Weird that the Orlando sentinel would write a piece like this. Florida needs the travel industry. Opening CW and DS are a start to get back to that. Just like sports writers are out of work because there’s no sports to cover, without theme park industry, Im sure a lot of people would lose their jobs in Orlando, probably even some that write for the Orlando Sentinel

 

[midaroco]

Totally agree. If they go to a one park reservation system (which i think they will) they'll have to refund the hopper portion of tickets bought.

They won’t do this. They’ll simply do phased closures as they do when they reach capacity during busy days. As when you purchase the tickets they don’t guarantee access to the parks, this makes the most sense for Disney - financially.

 

[Mit88]

That would be so difficult on so many levels UCT and all those types of companies would be affected, also it makes way more sense to me to spread people out among the parks. If they were going that route surely they would have to announced it by now.

They would be spreading people amongst the parks if they use a reservation system. Whatever number they have for a capacity limit will more than likely be hit at each park. The purpose of spreading guests among the 4 parks would be to control the capacity. If they have a set capacity and it’s hit, they won’t allow more people in. If Magic Kingdom books up, then people will go for DHS, or Epcot, or Animal Kingdom.

It would also allow for less stress for the CMs having to worry about continuous waves of new people going in and out.

They also wouldn’t have announced it yet. Shanghai didn’t announce they were doing reservations until 6 days before the parks opened. No one knew they were doing it until Chapek announced it or else it would have been brought up on this site or others. Figure, at best they’re 29 days away from opening. That’s a very long time. Face coverings became mandatory in NY 29 days ago, and that feels like a lifetime ago now. They probably won’t announce anything until they’re positive they can hit the goal date that they announce. They want to avoid at all costs to have to push back a date that they already revealed to the public. You don’t do that by announcing a month out, not in this climate

 

[StevieB81]

For us, since I’m a government employee, we have to take the grievance to Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC).

I’m not sure what it would be for the private sector. Unions are pretty much banned in Florida as it’s a right to work state.

right to work just means that employment can't be tied to union membership. It weakens the union but doesn't ban it