Disneyland To Open Sept. 16th?

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Askimosita said:
In an interview Josh D’Amaro recently had with The Dow Report, he said“…we don’t have any California guidelines for opening. And as soon as a date and those guidelines are set, I can tell you we’re ready.”

Also, If you look at the California COVID government page of guidelines, amusement/ theme parks are not listed with any new guidelines (or at all), though a few different sectors—predominantly childcare and schools—received guideline updates yesterday to be discussed today or tomorrow by Newsom.

So just reiterating what we all already know, and that is that we are still waiting. It will be curious to see this Thursday if Disneyland does their weekly “push” of reservations. Because this next push will theoretically (based on pattern) cancel reservations between Sept 12 through 18. And that magic Sept 16 date that has been the earliest date for booking falls in that range. I wonder if they are looking at opening hotels without the parks? I can’t imagine there would be as much demand, especially at those prices and without a theme park. I know WDW opened their DVCs like a month early prior to opening, but at least in WDW there is a plethora of things to do outside of the parks on property AND they had a hard opening date.
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And to reaffirm that, from the WDW Board:

Rteetz said:
Governor DeSantis and execs from Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld are wrapping up a press conference right now. All three companies said that they are seeing travelers from out of state. They said the majority is those driving though. The governor endorsed increasing capacity. Disney and SeaWorld talked about their animal care and how both companies worked together on many aspects there. All three also noted that they have plans in place for CA parks but are waiting on CA government.
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So as soon as the California Gov't finally gives the okay, I don't think it will take long to reopen.
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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I'm ready.

Awaiting another run on cheap airfare right now to SNA from where i currently am.
I strongly suspect the airlines have been tipped off to re-openings in the State as the air fare rates skyrocketed back to normal last week after a month of awesomely cheap offerings.

Just need official word...and it is GO TIME, baby.

Well, that is if any of the non-Disney owned hotels and motels in Anaheim will be re-opening for business along with the Park that is.
One would assume...but these days one cannot assume anything, especially when it comes to traveling.
As an out-of-Stater coming from 2,840 miles away ( give or take a few miles ) i would rather not have to sleep in the bushes next to the CVS again......

But hey, at least Mimi's is open.
YES !!!
( fist pump )

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Tamandua

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Interesting that sea world san diego is doing their food event through September 27th. I wonder if it will be as successful as Knotts. It's way more expensive.
 
Emmanuel

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“Gently but firmly”
 
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cmwade77

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Kram Sacul said:
Crowd levels are great. The rest however leaves a lot to be desired.
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Depends on what you want to do, I think the character interactions look better than the normal ones (for me at least), no waiting for rides simply means the trip will be more ride heavy than entertainment heavy and there is still the atmosphere of the parks.
 
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cmwade77

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Askimosita said:
In an interview Josh D’Amaro recently had with The Dow Report, he said“…we don’t have any California guidelines for opening. And as soon as a date and those guidelines are set, I can tell you we’re ready.”

Also, If you look at the California COVID government page of guidelines, amusement/ theme parks are not listed with any new guidelines (or at all), though a few different sectors—predominantly childcare and schools—received guideline updates yesterday to be discussed today or tomorrow by Newsom.

So just reiterating what we all already know, and that is that we are still waiting. It will be curious to see this Thursday if Disneyland does their weekly “push” of reservations. Because this next push will theoretically (based on pattern) cancel reservations between Sept 12 through 18. And that magic Sept 16 date that has been the earliest date for booking falls in that range. I wonder if they are looking at opening hotels without the parks? I can’t imagine there would be as much demand, especially at those prices and without a theme park. I know WDW opened their DVCs like a month early prior to opening, but at least in WDW there is a plethora of things to do outside of the parks on property AND they had a hard opening date.
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Well, the state did make it clear the guidelines that were just released are not the guidelines for businesses expected later this week, so who knows.
 
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cmwade77

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George Lucas on a Bench said:
They're never going to be able to reopen in this state. Disney has a few options:

- Convert DLR into condos
- Convert DLR into a manufacturing facility of masks and sanitizers
- Convert DLR into a Costco
- Move DLR to Texas
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Actually, there is another option: Buy enough of Anaheim and get it to secede from California. This is an odd idea, but is actually technically possible, unlikely, but possible.
 
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cmwade77

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Tamandua said:
Interesting that sea world san diego is doing their food event through September 27th. I wonder if it will be as successful as Knotts. It's way more expensive.
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For passholders (at least Platinum), it is only $30, at least that was what it said when I logged in, so we get a very healthy discount. But one of the reasons it is more expensive is they are doing some form of shows/animal interactions. And yes, I though the timing was interesting too, but there may be logistical reasons for that.
 
Disney Irish

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Mac Tonight said:
Stranger things have been floated out there...

I remember when there was once a proposal to split CA up into 6 individual states.
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(State of) Jefferson has been proposing it for a long time for Northern CA:

en.wikipedia.org

Jefferson (proposed Pacific state) - Wikipedia

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Interesting enough they didn't include the Bay Area which would have made it one of the largest economies in the world, but hey they are crazy....
 
Askimosita

Askimosita

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In the Parks
Yes
Disney Irish said:
Side note:

You know I'm still waiting for the day when @Darkbeer1 writes a book about Disney and Anaheim politics. It'll be interesting to read, specifically the chapter that goes over this time period. I'd just be curious what fun stories he'd have on the backroom talks that are going on between Anaheim and Sacramento in relation to Disneyland reopening.
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I don’t need a full book, I’m happy for a few posts as well, @Darkbeer1😉
 
el_super

el_super

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cmwade77 said:
Well, we know it is a minimum of 7 days for DLR, because they have to give their CMs at least that much notice before having them come back.
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It will be more than that, but probably less than the original six weeks. It will be interesting how they handle retraining the CMs since they would have all lost their job knowledge by now.
 

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