Is there?
Regarding the refund it depends what they actually consider the parks being reopened. If you paid in full you can get refunded for the period of closure. The way I read the email that mentions the AP preview is that reopening is 7/11 as far as passes go and that since we know you won't be happy to not get reservations a lot of the time while you have paid for your pass we are letting you be a beta tester for new procedures a few days before opening so that you won't complain.
This is a Disney message board. Of course people are discussing a first world problem.
I would think issues would only come up for those with premier or plus passes...I believe those have no black out dates.
Not the same...and, to your point, that $20.00 on the street was either a stroke or luck or a gift, it wasn’t a transaction.
You’re half right...I fully expect increases and squeezes. But I never agree with them. I believe they are burning out their fan base and will have problems in the future.
Thats the logic that comes to my mind too, to me they would want to move people to resorts with other modes of transportation if they can. Monorails, Ferries, Skyliner, just to further reduce the busses that they do have to run from going all over property.
One thing we don’t know for sure is whether the non-Disney partner hotels are offered the same benefit as on property guests. Assuming they are not in the mix there are only about 24,000 Disney hotel rooms. I agree on the 4 per room for DVC. I would assume the average hotel room is closer to 3 people with some individuals, lots of couples and families of 3 mixed in with families of 4. Outside of the family suites it’s hard to sleep more than 4 to a room. So based on that math and half the rooms full that‘s 36,000 plus 18,000 for DVC or 54,000 total. If we assume a park capacity of 15,000 that gets you to 60,000 total capacity so plenty to spare. That also assumes nobody goes to Universal or Sea World or somewhere else off property or decides to spend the day golfing and/or at the pool and/or shopping at DS. In reality some portion of on property guests won’t go to a park each day.
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I was looking for that list last night! Now i have it! Take us for example. we Arrive august 9th. Day 1 for us is not parks, but its pool and relax. we then have 5 days of parks. then that saturday morning we get up and we drive back. i think thats pretty common, so we need an extra night of hotel, vs our parks.One thing we don’t know for sure is whether the non-Disney partner hotels are offered the same benefit as on property guests. Assuming they are not in the mix there are only about 24,000 Disney hotel rooms. I agree on the 4 per room for DVC. I would assume the average hotel room is closer to 3 people with some individuals, lots of couples and families of 3 mixed in with families of 4. Outside of the family suites it’s hard to sleep more than 4 to a room. So based on that math and half the rooms full that‘s 36,000 plus 18,000 for DVC or 54,000 total. If we assume a park capacity of 15,000 that gets you to 60,000 total capacity so plenty to spare. That also assumes nobody goes to Universal or Sea World or somewhere else off property or decides to spend the day golfing and/or at the pool and/or shopping at DS. In reality some portion of on property guests won’t go to a park each day.
On the DVC front the actual number of rooms used will be well under 4,500 for the first few months. Going on the tool today for the first month the 4 parks are open there is availability at every resort for either a studio or 1 BR villa for almost every day. Unheard of in years past. That doesn’t tell us how many rooms are available, but since they relaxed the use year expiration I think a lot of people have pushed back to the fall/winter in the hopes that some of the restrictions will be lifted or at least it will be less oppressive to wear a mask when the weather is less hot and humid. In other words while park capacity is at its lowest in the first few months after reopen DVC will not be at its usual 95% occupancy.
I used this list from touring plans to come up with number of rooms:
Walt Disney World Hotels - Number of Rooms
There should be plenty of places they could go. Any hotel with a DVC attached will be open for Disney guests. Outside of that some combination of resorts won’t be open right away. Probably 2 of the 5 values are open. 1 or 1.5 moderates and all of the deluxe except maybe YC with a possibility CR doesn’t open and just the main concourse stays open for BLT. Based on that there’s a number of possible resorts that will be sitting vacant anyway even if NBA takes one (likely CSR). MLS also doesn’t have the security risk the NBA has. The players aren’t at the same level of celebrity as basketball.
I think that’s pretty common on check-in and check-out days. Plus a lot of people tack on days at Universal or Sea World and it’s hot in July or Aug so a pool day is also common. In normal times when the convention business is booming there are lots of rooms filled with individuals traveling for work who never visit a theme park at all. These are not normal times and I assume the convention business is at or close to zero right now.
What resort is CR?
Contemporary
