News Walt Disney World's COVID-19 reopening plans announced - July 11

[oceanbreeze77]

The article references that Disney is also in talks with their unions over concerns. It's a combination of government and employee push back.

that's how I see it.

 

[Mainahman]

The article references that Disney is also in talks with their unions over concerns. It's a combination of government and employee push back.

Yep. Here at least they have all the union buy in. Heck I finally saw them sorting it out in Florida with equity preformer unions. Not sure why the even announced CA with that in place.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

At one point WDW was taking reservations for June 1.

Plans can change and have many times already. They could change again.

 

[Horizons '83]

The article references that Disney is also in talks with their unions over concerns. It's a combination of government and employee push back.

If there wasn’t the government holding them back, they would open.

 

[milordsloth]

At one point WDW was taking reservations for June 1.

Plans can changed and have many times already. They could change again.

At that point they definitely had not started bringing employees back and opened up a whole reservation system. We are way further along than when June 1st reservations were still open.

 

[afterabme]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

 

[TrojanUSC]

This wasn't a Walt Disney company choice. That was the government. They really had no choice.

If there really were internal concerns prior to this, they likely wouldn't put them in a press release. Using this as a scapegoat is a good way to weasel out of a plan. It looks better for your brand than saying something to the effect of "we aren't super confident we can keep people safe in the climate, so we aren't opening."

At that point they definitely had not started bringing employees back and opened up a whole reservation system. We are way further along than when June 1st reservations were still open.

100% but it's easier to send 3000 back home to furlough than it is to send 70,000 home in 6 weeks when the whole state is completely overwhelmed.

 

[disneygeek90]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

I'm personally still leaning toward unlikely. But you never know.

 

[Piebald]

Cases are blowing up in Orlando/Florida. Especially in younger demographic. I'd imagine the older CMs are very concerned.

 

[CastAStone]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

Not zero! This is all going poorly.

 

[Miss Bella]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

I would say no. I live in a state that's spiking. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. I think the media overblows a lot of it. We are not walking back anything as far as I know. In March we didn't know a lot about the virus. Now we know it's not very deadly, most people have mild symptoms or are asymptomatic. COVID will be around for a while. We have to learn to live with it.

 

[Horizons '83]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

0%

 

[Magic Feather]

If (and at this point I think it’s a pretty big “if”) WDW’s opening gets pushed, it would have to be the company’s call. Orange County has already said they are staying out of it, and there is no way DeSantis would ever try to stop them.

While they have already proven that they are willing to sort of do their own thing, I don’t see a world where WDW doesn’t reopen while Universal and SeaWorld continue to operate. There is already an “acceptable standard” for operating parks in Orlando, and that doesn’t seem to be going away.

That said, the point at which this really becomes irreversible is next week when parks CM’s start getting called back to work in order to gear up for operations.

 

[marni1971]

What are the chances WDW pushes back as well?

Theres a good chance. There’s a better chance it won’t.

 

[esskay]

I'm guessing the reopening wasn't going to exactly drive profits in (and wont for a while), but its probably just got even worse to even consider opening. With states putting a quarantine in for people coming from Florida it wont be long before it happens for international flights that it isnt already happening for.

I just hope all these people flooding into Orlando arent going to moan like hell and blame Disney for having a terrible experience and/or catching covid.

 

[Lilofan]

I'm guessing the reopening wasn't going to exactly drive profits in (and wont for a while), but its probably just got even worse to even consider opening. With states putting a quarantine in for people coming from Florida it wont be long before it happens for international flights that it isnt already happening for.

I just hope all these people flooding into Orlando arent going to moan like hell and blame Disney for having a terrible experience and/or catching covid.

Everyone agrees to prior to entering the parks that Disney accepts no responsibility regarding covid.

 

[lewisc]

Everyone agrees to prior to entering the parks that Disney accepts no responsibility regarding covid.

The people guests infect when they return home made no such agreement. Disney might have some responsibility if its unwilling to enforce safety procedures including mask rules.
Disney will have staffing and union issues if CM s start testing positive

 

[mariedarling]

I understand the hesitant behavior but I feel the attendance could be way less because people can make their OWN decision whether or not they feel comfortable to go.

 

[MaximumEd]

This is like deja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. Here we are with a trip 18 days away, and I’m on vacation at the beach spending a good bit of time on this forum just waiting for the hammer to drop if WDW pulls back on their reopening plan. Same thing I was doing a couple weeks before our soon to be cancelled March trip, just doing it at the family beach cottage instead of at home.

 

[Miss Bella]

I got an email that my magic bands are on the way. I got another email asking me to confirm that I’m coming.