Hey, hey! I just play detective and look at patterns. I don’t actually know anything and just hope for the best
but the facts are as follows:
1) Newsom is releasing new guidelines at noon. These may include theme parks, these may not. In fact, new guidelines even mean we can close even more technically, but that I doubt.
2) reservations, as of 2 weeks ago, have been available for paradise pier hotel and grand Californian hotel for start on Sept 16, and since then, have not been pushed. You can still get those reservations if you have a modest $700
3) Every Thursday over the last couple months, Disneyland has pushed hotel reservations a week, about 3 weeks out. Yesterday there was no push (or none that I heard of) and that push would have—based on pattern—been for reservations Sept 19 onward. Based on point #2 and this point, it looks like at the very least Disneyland hotels are hoping to open in this week in September, week of the 16th. I’m pretty sure they are allowed to reopen at the moment regardless of parks being open or not... the question is will they keep it if parks can’t reopen, AND will they open the parks this week? I have no clue on this. But....
4) a few good neighbor hotels that are not already open have availability for either Sept 11th onward (Friday prior) or Sept 16 onward. There is something going on around this week with activity. Like I said, many are already open so it’s hard to find a pattern here. But for a few that aren’t at the moment, their first reservations that I can see are in this time frame as well. To further this..
5. Desert Palms, who IS open already, has the 13th-16th dates uniquely inflated to a rate of $401. Otherwise they are under $200 a night. Very bizarre because competitors aren’t at that price during those dates, but I felt I should report it.
6. Lets not forget that OP told us—and a fellow poster reiterated— that they were told that Disney aims to open sept 16 and they may keep their reservation until sept 13 without penalty. Did this only mean hotels? Was the CM mistaken? Maybe, but another point in my list
7. This week, Disney executives—and fellow theme park executives from SeaWorld, Universal, and Legoland—all made public cries of “we are ready to open California parks”. I will say, when this happened, it made me think “well maybe they WEREN’T having conversations behind the scenes”. But on another hand, it may have been a strategy to not just push Newsom to remember them in his plans this Friday, but to also inform the public that may be crying “omg Disney why”
Another thing that makes me think maybe conversations WERENT happening Are per OCR this morning:
“ Legoland California will host a news conference in Miniland U.S.A. on Friday, Aug. 28 with county and city officials who will call for the park and other San Diego County business to be allowed to open.”
But on another hand, depending on when the new conference is (B.N or A.N, and the “N” here is “Newsom”) maybe this is a “we are reopening conference”..? That’s optimistic, so again, I’m just pointing out and putting together all that we know.
8. This may not mean ANYTHING, but preparation has occurred on the front gates of both parks. Plexiglass, yellow standing marker lines (though just two per kiosk). Also, the chain queues are up again around the ticket and guest relation booths. Also, the lights are up again at the entrances of the parks. The reason why I don’t know if this is to be read into as much is because we know THEY want to open and so they are probably preparing what they can little by little, knowing it is inevitable. But it’s a question of if they are preparing to open SOON. Also, to further this, they replaced the billboard in DCA with one of “Soul” opening in Nov. previously it was of Hamilton, which they put up in anticipation of the July opening. So that billboard tells us they at least hope to open between now and Nov.
If you guys have anything else, Go ahead and add to this list. I just love to speculate!