Define 50% capacity

disney4life2008

disney4life2008

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thomas998 said:
I think the problem is going to be that if they open up all their resort rooms which they would probably want to do as soon as possible because its lots of money... and if people go back in mass, then they are going to have a problem with trying to go to 50% capacity. They have over 30,000 rooms... if they are booked solid and you assume 3 guests per room (since some will be a family of 4 and some maybe only 2) you have 90,000 potential MK guests on any given day. Now is you've spent the premium price on a Disney resort are you going to be happy when you're told sorry but the MK is full so you can't go in today. Remember the MK capacity is about 100,000 so you're hotel guests represent way more than half the 50% capacity of the park.
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There is no way they could open the parks and not admit resort guests. I could see them blocking APs but even that is questionable.

Just out of curiosity, when the parks close during a hurricane how do they handle resort guests? Do they complain?
 
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thomas998

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disney4life2008 said:
How will they ensure guests don't have the virus?
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At most you will probably have the thermal cameras to make guests think they are safe, but unfortunately those camera would likely miss more than 50% of the people that have the virus. It will also be curious as to where they would even set the threshold for the temperature where they thought you were infected. Average normal body temp can be as high as 99 and normally you have to have a temp of 100.4 or more to be considered having a fever... Now when I had the virus about a month ago my temp never went above 100.1 if I was off the Tylenol, possibly my fever never went high because my normal temp is usually closer to 97.2 than 98.6... So If they had set the threshold at 100.4 I could have slipped past every day, although I felt like such total crap that I wouldn't have bothered... but remember some people will just be popping Tylenol and trying to warrior through because they paid for the trip and can't get a refund, or they are taking their kid and don't want to disappoint them.... The people that are super sick won't be a problem because they'll be in a hospital somewhere... but lots of sick people never get to that point.

If someone is worried or has a pre-existing condition that makes them fearful they probably shouldn't even consider going to a place like Disney no matter what precautions the park has in place.
 
disney4life2008

disney4life2008

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thomas998 said:
At most you will probably have the thermal cameras to make guests think they are safe, but unfortunately those camera would likely miss more than 50% of the people that have the virus. It will also be curious as to where they would even set the threshold for the temperature where they thought you were infected. Average normal body temp can be as high as 99 and normally you have to have a temp of 100.4 or more to be considered having a fever... Now when I had the virus about a month ago my temp never went above 100.1 if I was off the Tylenol, possibly my fever never went high because my normal temp is usually closer to 97.2 than 98.6... So If they had set the threshold at 100.4 I could have slipped past every day, although I felt like such total crap that I wouldn't have bothered... but remember some people will just be popping Tylenol and trying to warrior through because they paid for the trip and can't get a refund, or they are taking their kid and don't want to disappoint them.... The people that are super sick won't be a problem because they'll be in a hospital somewhere... but lots of sick people never get to that point.

If someone is worried or has a pre-existing condition that makes them fearful they probably shouldn't even consider going to a place like Disney no matter what precautions the park has in place.
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Thanks. I still see a disaster. Do you think they will have us a sign a waiver for resort guests and entry into the parks?
 
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thomas998

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disney4life2008 said:
Thanks. I still see a disaster. Do you think they will have us a sign a waiver for resort guests and entry into the parks?
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No, at most you might see some warning about the dangers of the virus and may receive that warning along with your magicbands when you have booked your trip. Signing waivers wouldn't be of any value to Disney. Think about how much time it would take to organize those, it would be a huge clerical exercise that would really have no value. It would however probably make guests feel less comfortable at Disney which is not what they want. I would even expect that any warning signs they might have up would be made to look as friendly as possible with Mickey's face somewhere on them just so they didn't look too scary.
 
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crawale

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Initially crowd should be restricted to Florida residents. Our Governor has done a great job and we have one of the lowest death rates in the country.
 
Master Yoda

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crawale said:
Initially crowd should be restricted to Florida residents. Our Governor has done a great job and we have one of the lowest death rates in the country.
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As a Florida resident that enjoys not having to pay state taxes thanks to tourism, I would like to see those out of state tourism dollars to start flowing again.

I don't want anyone in Tallahassee to get any bright ideas if and when the budget comes up short this year.
 
YankeeMouse

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I read somewhere along this long road of information that maybe only one park would open to start, i.e., MK. This was total conjecture but anyone think so?
 
ELG13

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Has the time frame for the different phases been mentioned? Like phase one will last 3 months, phase two etc....? I know it's hard to make any type of plan and I assume when a vaccine is readily available it will change but for now....how long will phases last?
 
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Sheilags

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Since Walt's death, WDW/Disney has been all about the money and only the money. They will use maximum capacity for their numbers regardless of actual crowd averages. More money that way. So, except for max crowd weeks like Christmas, etc I don't think you'll notice a change in crowd size much. The only thing that will affect this is how many are willing to risk Covid. And you can bet that with the "possibility" of lower crowds in summer, or anytime, there will be thousands planning a visit that weren't even planning a visit before Covid.

IMO
 
Queen of the WDW Scene

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Sheilags said:
Since Walt's death, WDW/Disney has been all about the money and only the money. They will use maximum capacity for their numbers regardless of actual crowd averages. More money that way. So, except for max crowd weeks like Christmas, etc I don't think you'll notice a change in crowd size much. The only thing that will affect this is how many are willing to risk Covid. And you can bet that with the "possibility" of lower crowds in summer, or anytime, there will be thousands planning a visit that weren't even planning a visit before Covid.

IMO
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Um pretty sure Walt was all about the money as well.
Yes he had great ideas but he knew they were money making ideas.
And based on the fact that WDW is waiting 5 weeks from the time the other area theme parks opened I think says a lot about the fact that they are not as concerned about money as the others.
I also feel that they will handle capacity and crowds like Universal vs Seaworld. (Meaning I feel they will handle it well).
People are more than willing to go to WDW but with Florida in general nearly 10,000 new positive cases per day and states like NY telling people that if they go on vacation and come back and end up testing positive they will not get paid sick leave etc I think THAT is what's going to end up causing less people to go. It may not be about how "safe or unsafe" they feel.
I was more than willing to go this year still until the cases picked up and I don't want to bring something home to my parents who I live with.
 
Moka

Moka

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Sheilags said:
Since Walt's death, WDW/Disney has been all about the money and only the money. They will use maximum capacity for their numbers regardless of actual crowd averages. More money that way. So, except for max crowd weeks like Christmas, etc I don't think you'll notice a change in crowd size much. The only thing that will affect this is how many are willing to risk Covid. And you can bet that with the "possibility" of lower crowds in summer, or anytime, there will be thousands planning a visit that weren't even planning a visit before Covid.
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While yes, they want that money, they also don't want people tracing cases back to them. That's pretty much one of the last things they want. Negative press. So personally, I believe you'll be able to notice the difference in capacity. Maybe not as low as say Universal since Disney parks are relatively bigger, but still noticeable low crowds. Not sure about 50% though, may be slightly lower but not by much.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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Disney never releases actual numbers and never will. I would suspect during this time they are not selling tickets, considering existing ticket holders only, they will keep the park capacity to some unknown low number.

After they resume selling tickets again, all bets are off. Disney would never give numbers but for example it’s estimated the magic kingdoms maximum capacity is 90 to 100 thousand guests.
 

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