Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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Lilofan

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Flugell said:
No coffee maker- saves money! No housekeeping- saves money.
We stay for 3 weeks, from the U.K. so I guess people would social distance from us if we slept in the same sheets for 3 weeks and had no clean towels!
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If you request for housekeeping to clean your hotel room you might save that cast member from staying at home collecting unemployment and giving her or him work so they can collect a paycheck and pay their bills.
 
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celluloid

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Expect one main difference to happen to protect the employees from guests. No more being obligated take pictures with the guest's personal devices. The bad photopass machine dream, although meet and greets being possibly reduced anyway will help that anyway. But the standard practice will not be reprimanded if denied.
 
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Lilofan

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Flugell said:
Good point - but why would I have to pay? That has always been included in the hotel cost?
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My bad. That's right. Refuse housekeeping service and perhaps cast members that could have worked are sent home or not scheduled to work due to guests refusing their hotel rooms to be cleaned.
 
SirLink

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ppete1975 said:
shopping is what scares me, everyone is going to want their mickey ears, t shirt... and of course their mickey mouse candied apple... dang it I want one now.
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They'll do it the Argos way, order it through your phone pick it up at another location. But would you want to...
 
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easyrowrdw

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monothingie said:
Or maybe stop allocating so many rooms at DVC resorts for cash reservations.
lentesta said:
Good point. You may see very few cash-sale DVC rooms for a while.
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Disney can't just allocate DVC rooms at their convenience and pleasure. They own a certain number of points (required via the contracts) and "gain" points when members trade out for non-DVC uses. Perhaps they can choose to "give back" those rooms, but that's a whole other matter. Regardless, it's all contractual.
 
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Calmdownnow said:
Another doozie from Orange County: "do not offer self food services". So presumably no microwave, toaster, or in-resort retail outlet selling bread etc. Heaven help DVC -- are they going to disconnect the cookers and refuse grocery orders?
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I interpreted self food services as buffets or food offered in the lobby where you take the food yourself. There would be no reason a grocery order wouldn’t be allowed. You just won’t have any plates, cups or silverware in the room unless they provide disposable ones. They are taking coffee makers out since the coffee touches the pot directly but I don’t see why a microwave would be a problem. You shouldn‘t be eating food that touches the microwave directly. Toasters may have to go similar to coffee makers.
 
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ppete1975 said:
shopping is what scares me, everyone is going to want their mickey ears, t shirt... and of course their mickey mouse candied apple... dang it I want one now.
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I’m curious to see if they change the layout of the Emporium...you walk around one display, then you go around another one and bump into someone coming the other way, etc.
 
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rowrbazzle said:
Disney can't just allocate DVC rooms at their convenience and pleasure. They own a certain number of points (required via the contracts) and "gain" points when members trade out for non-DVC uses. Perhaps they can choose to "give back" those rooms, but that's a whole other matter. Regardless, it's all contractual.
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Yes, I know. In normal times, Disney offers for cash those DVC rooms for which owners have not made reservations. What I'm saying is that because owners are (relatively) awash in points they need to use, there should be relatively few DVC rooms left over for Disney to sell via cash.
 
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celluloid

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I am still wondering if this will be mostly wasted effort theater if the security check remains anything close to the same. If the guards wear the same gloves as they check your bags and others before and after yours, all day long. If you had something funky, now everyone may because it GURANTEED touching of each others belongings in the same plastic bins and hands/stick from one item to the other.
Wiping down a counter that others MAY touch at some point and often enough to spread things is nice, but the efforts would be better suited to redo the security theater already there.
 
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Parker in NYC

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Question. So, let’s say I have resort, dining, and park tickets and airline tickets all reserved/purchased for the timeframe in which WDW reopens. How do those plans stack up against everyone else intending to visit when it comes to operating at reduced capacity?

If just 25% of guests are allowed, how are they chosen? Lotto? Am I not guaranteed entrance? How does this play out? Do I lose my dining reservations?
 
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Calmdownnow

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GoofGoof said:
I interpreted self food services as buffets or food offered in the lobby where you take the food yourself.
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Ah, could be. I didn't view it from that perspective, but wouldn't that also include self-service drinks dispensers (soda/coffee etc)?

Edit to add: so in your interpretation, it would prevent Club/Concierge Lounges operating.
 
ppete1975

ppete1975

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SirLink said:
They'll do it the Argos way, order it through your phone pick it up at another location. But would you want to...
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cuts down on impulse buying though, which is half of what I honestly buy lol. I am more curious about where Disney and universal (heck every major company) will draw the line between profitability and safety. You could be 100 percent safe and not open. You could be 0 percent safe and have no restrictions, the guidelines ive seen on here id put between 60-40. So it really depends on what risks corporations are willing to take. I feel bad singling out Disney, because its everywhere.. I still don't see how most traditional theaters reopen.
 
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ParkerLoLs said:
Question. So, let’s say I have resort, dining, and park tickets and airline tickets all reserved/purchased for the timeframe in which WDW reopens. How do those plans stack up against everyone else intending to visit when it comes to operating at reduced capacity?

If just 25% of guests are allowed, how are they chosen? Lotto? Am I not guaranteed entrance? How does this play out? Do I lose my dining reservations?
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Good question. To answer that, does it mean that only 25% of the rooms will be allocated? If that’s not the case, does it mean only 25% of the people staying on property will be allowed into the parks? Don’t know how they can do it without a lottery. Maybe the first people that booked? My heads spinning.
 
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