News Disney's Hollywood Studios July 2020 reopening reports

larryz

larryz

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gerarar said:
Have they ever reached BG 240? At least in DHS, the highest it’s ever been was around 200 on New Years Eve when they were opened til midnight. DL could be a different story since they’re usually open later than DHS.
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I know a thread where you could research that...
 
wdwmagic

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Purduevian said:
As cool as these pictures are... this is not a good thing for WDW or Disney in general. Which also means its not a good thing for people that like shiny new attractions.
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It isn’t really representative though. If you hang around, put some effort in and get lucky you can get those empty shots but that isn’t the normal view.
 
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OhioDuo

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donsullivan said:
I made my first return visit to DHS this afternoon amidst the crazy heat; but I really needed to get out of the house. A few observations on my first day back at this park since the re-opening
  1. - As feared, lots and lots of guests are doing everything they can to bypass the mask rules.
    1. In the queue for MMRR, it felt like nearly 25% of those in line had decided they should use this opportunity to get food and drink and take their masks off 'because they were eating' while in the queue. They were just chomping away at whatever it was they had and made no pretense, they just took the masks off. -This cannot be allowed to continue
    2. Countless guests just sit down on a random bench and take their masks off.-This cannot be allowed to continue
    3. Only once did I see a CM correct a group that was doing this and tell them they had to put the masks back on while sitting at a table on Galaxy's Edge
  2. Countless people just cannot seem to grasp the basic concepts of distancing. They are just walking randomly all over the place with zero regard for anyone else around them. If you are coming up to a curve in the path and the curb is on your right, those coming at you will come so close I had to jump up on the curb multiple times to maintain distance.
    1. I lost count of the number of times I had to look behind myself in a queue to find the group behind me was inches away and totally ignoring the well-marked separations on the floor/ground. Oblivious guests will cause conflicts in the queues by not paying attention to the distancing requirements.
  3. Disney has absolutely no protocol in place when an attraction breaks down. The Plexi barriers in queues do not go all the way to the floor, they stop at the bottom cross-rail of the railing between the lanes. The minute the attraction shuts down, half the people in the queue sit down on the ground/floor and now there is no physical barrier between the people in adjacent rows.
  4. In addition to everyone sitting on the ground, they are actually telling people to make their way back to the entrance of the attraction if they do not want to wait. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to maintain distancing if someone actually does this but that was the non-recorded announcement made on Slinky Dog this afternoon. -This cannot be allowed to continue
The bottom line of this all is that Disney has put in most of the right protocols but far too many selfish guests are going to totally screw this up because it's all about them and they just keep ignoring the rules. If guests keep flouting the rules, we are going to have issues that will in the end have a very, very negative impact on the whole thing.

And before you try to go off on me that "It's hot out" don't waste your time. I know exactly how hot it is, I was there and I live in this climate. If you are unwilling or unable to follow the rules, please do not visit the parks- you are going to screw it up for everyone else including the CM's. Just do not go if you are unwilling to follow the rules.

Having said all of this, over the course of 5 hours in the park this afternoon I managed to get on Runaway Railway, Slinky Dog, Swirling Saucers, Star Tours and Rise of the Resistance in addition to having lunch at Backlot Express. I enjoyed the low crowds but the behavior of selfish and oblivious guests will likely make me rethink my future visiting plans.
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It does not make sense to go given all of the rules and restrictions all while paying a premium price for a short circuited experience.
 
MisterPenguin

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donsullivan

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OhioDuo said:
It does not make sense to go given all of the rules and restrictions all while paying a premium price for a short circuited experience.
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disneygeek90 said:
For someone traveling a long ways and spending money on tickets and hotels, absolutely. For an AP local, it's been an overall quite pleasant experience.
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And that is certainly the decision that each and every guest needs to make as they consider a visit. The value question is absolutely and completely subjective. For some, the shorter wait times and low crowds are a welcome change, if only for a short time until we have a vaccine and things can return back to normal. For others, it's not worth spending the money for a whole trip if it cannot be exactly the same as it used to be.

For all of my frustration following my DHS visit, I was also able to see that so many other things were working well and being done correctly. Whether it was the car seat & plexiglass barriers separating seat groups in Star Tours, or the new Mobile Order procedures there are a lot of things being done properly. Combining that with Disney constantly making adjustments to procedures as they discover new gaps or guest creativity that needs to be curtailed things are certainly heading in the correct direction. And I have to be honest, it's hard to not take advantage of the opportunity of the crazy short waits for nearly all attractions (Except Rise and MMRR).

I'm planning to visit Epcot on Saturday to take in some Food & Wine Festival so I'll get a new set of perspectives there.

I'm hoping the no-food-or-drink while walking policy adjustment (if effectively enforced) fixes the MMRR food court issue.

I kind of had three goals with my post on Sunday. The first I'll admit was a rant. The second was to make people aware of what the environment was like on that specific day and time I visited. The third was to highlight some poor guest behavior that all of us should be conscious of when visiting to be sure we're not doing those things.

Everyone is adapting to a new experience and it's vitally important that everyone is paying attention to everything around them, all the time. As is the key to this whole thing- It is no longer just about you, but everyone around you as well- and it's important all keep heightened awareness all the time.
 
Giss Neric

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OhioDuo said:
It does not make sense to go given all of the rules and restrictions all while paying a premium price for a short circuited experience.
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Half-agree. Having a short-circuited/modified experience might be a turn off for some, but having low crowds, low wait times, no lines etc. are enough to entice people to go like me even for the same price. Disney's problems has always been overcrowding and long wait times on everything due to it, and this is on a daily basis with no off season anymore. Now, that it's a complete opposite of that, people still complain so they can't really please everyone.
 
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DisneyCane

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Purduevian said:
Disney doesn't make money on a customer waiting in a line. They need people out on the streets buying food and merch. That was the whole attempt and failure of FP
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100% virtual queues like volcano bay would theoretically achieve the original goal of FP. The issue with the FP model is that the guest can be on another line while in the virtual queue.
 
RevRemy

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Giss Neric said:
Half-agree. Having a short-circuited/modified experience might be a turn off for some, but having low crowds, low wait times, no lines etc. are enough to entice people to go like me even for the same price. Disney's problems has always been overcrowding and long wait times on everything due to it, and this is on a daily basis with no off season anymore. Now, that it's a complete opposite of that, people still complain so they can't really please everyone.
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Exactly. That is us. We had a trip scheduled for April and rescheduled to end of September. We are 100% looking forward to less crowded and this is our first big disney trip as a family. We actually saved money loosing the DDP (we only had DDP because we were doing character dining. No DDP, our eating habits will look drastically different) and got some money back when we rescheduled and a room upgrade at POP. I just added an extra day so we can have a "resort" in between park visits. To us, the only thing we lost was BBB and the ability to do meet and greets during meals. We are thrilled for smaller crowds and hope the trend stays.
 

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