We visited in May 2021 and October 2021. In May, masks were required both indoors and outdoors. Reminders were consistently broadcast and CMs were stationed around the parks reminding people to pull up masks. Compliance was very high indoors, but less so outdoors - the heat was at record highs for May and entire groups were finding out-of-the-way places to sit and take off masks. Outside at our resort, people generally had a mask with them and would put it on as others approached.
It’s been my experience that most of the CM’s who you suggest “don’t care” are actually the CM’s who are sick and tired of being attacked (verbally and sometimes physically) by guests for just doing their jobs and trying to enforce the policies of their employer; policies that each guest agreed to when they walked through the entrance. After enough berating and attacks by guests they have just given up to cut back on the stress and anxiety in their lives.
Those were the kind of guests that pushed me away from picking up PAC shifts when I was a CM.
What I see are guests clearly ignoring safety restrictions that they agreed to when they booked their reservations and then belittle Cast trying to enforce rules. It is not a surprise, guests are warned several times that these are the current guidelines throughout the booking process and on signs and placards throughout the resort. If guests don’t agree or don’t think they can follow these rules, or any other of the park rules, designed to keep guests and cast safe then they should find somewhere else to visit. These type of guests just wear down the cast and make it harder for cast members to offer great service as they waste energy on people creating unnecessary issues.
I agree. Their park, their rules.
USO still has their mask policy in place as well. I think theirs is actually stricter as it also includes outdoor attractions.
Going to a Disney Park is not a right. It is a privilege you pay for.
No offense but more and more I am hoping the mask restrictions stay in place through our trip this October and many more people think the same as you. Btw, I completely understand your desire to wait.
The airlines don't need to attract customers in the same way that Disney does because they all have the same rule and are required to have it by "federal law" (calling it a law is tenuous at best but I'll not go on that tangent). If the federal mandate gets dropped in my lifetime and one of the airlines stops requiring masks, then others won't be so strict because they won't want to lose business to a competitor.
There's no shortage of people that want to go to a Disney park.
It’s not just behavior around masks that gets people banned from airlines. Berating a Cast Member for enforcing any rule or sense of decorum can result in rewards for the customer and punishment for the employee.
There won't be.
The huge unknown is still who’s hospitalized specifically because of Covid and who just has Covid as a secondary condition?
I'm all for following the rules when I go to a place - much as I hate masks and believe that much of how they are worn, and under the circumstances they are worn makes their effectiveness questionable at best - I'd where a mask where required at WDW because I'm a polite person who doesn't make scenes and challenge people.
People just waited 7 hours for a popcorn bucket.
I've been to Disney around 100 days since covid without getting sick. Is it the masks? Self awareness? Vaccines? Luck?
