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Darth TNT posted:Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, it closing now means that the ability for the virus to transmit is severely cut down. So we can get it under control again before I'm supposed to go. On the other hand, time is running out. European flights aren’t banned, it’s Europeans who are banned. So depending on your citizenship or you and your partner that may or may not affect you. The flight schedule is just super restricted, eg Switzerland went from like probably 40 daily flights from Zurich and Geneva to 2 daily flights, only from Zurich, for the next 30 days. No one will be -stuck- (unlike Wuhan) but yeah all non-emergency travel is pretty much over for a while. I don’t see this getting under control by Easter to be honest since the US isn’t really even testing yet... but you will be able to reschedule for free at least.
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Kaddish posted:Kind of odd the hotels are staying open. We were supposed to stay at Animal Kingdon Lodge on the 21st. My wife read they are offering free date changes but not sure about cancellations. They probably figure it might be hard for some people to cancel their vacations entirely; I know some carriers aren't being great about refunding airfare or waiving change fees. Tim Whatley posted:Friend of mine just rescheduled to April, they said very accommodating. Let's.... see if April sticks. We should start a pool. My money is on "no." We're supposed to go to Universal in mid-May and I'll be surprised if this is over. But I think Saladman is right; as long as operations are being mucked with, you'll be able to change things pretty freely. If things are closed for more than a couple months, the rush after the place reopens will be pretty significant, I think. If we want to be super classy about this I'll bet we get some sweet rear end discounts on the other end. Fluffy Bunnies posted:I just need electric, food for me and the animals, medication, and toiletries. I'm on a well and septic in the middle of nowhere. My husband is in Washington state and can't come home. I don't know what folks in cities are going to do. ...be fine? There isn't any significant danger to utilities at the moment, and no one's really expecting any. Edit: I should qualify that “fine” is relative. Corona-chan is gonna take us all into the abyss. Boxman fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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For anyone wondering, they are extending current APs two extra weeks
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couldcareless posted:For anyone wondering, they are extending current APs two extra weeks Extending them by one day for each day the parks are closed.
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For Disneyland and WDW or just WDW? Cause oh man, if my Disneyland AP gets extended, I will be very very happy.
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I'm wondering when their systems will recognize the extension because we are trying to rebook for first week of May with hopes that this mess is handled by then but can't do fastpasses...
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BlueBayou posted:For Disneyland and WDW or just WDW? It's for everybody
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This means my pass that expires 4/1, hopefully I don’t have to renew until 5/15 now. Save me some delayed monies there WDW and I’m gonna handsomely reward you with more of my monies.
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Rebooked for first week of May, cheaper flights now too! Let's hope the world gets back to some form of normal before then.
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couldcareless posted:Rebooked for first week of May, cheaper flights now too! Let's hope the world gets back to some form of normal before then. Social distancing saves lives by spreading out a roughly equal number of infections over a longer time period. This keeps the number of infected at any one time below the capacity of the health system, so nobody dies due to rationing. If you look at the graph going around of St Louis and Philadelphia’s responses to the 1918 Spanish Flu, you’ll note that Philadelphia’s epidemic took a few weeks to resolve, while St Louis’s took months. But the total dead are noticeably lower for St Louis. I have an international trip scheduled for mid-May also, so I would like for things to resolve by then. But I’m doubtful that it’ll be safe in the US by then. The last projections I saw were for a peak in Covid-19 activity in May. Edit: just got an announcement that my conference in May is canceled. Glad I sprung for refundable plane tickets! Grundulum fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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couldcareless posted:Rebooked for first week of May, cheaper flights now too! Let's hope the world gets back to some form of normal before then. Yeah, as Grundulum said this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. At this point I'd be surprised if anything mass tourism related reopens before June or July, and even then I imagine it will come with tons of restrictions. Anyway, not a big deal for your trip as you can just keep kicking that can down the road until whenever it is that things do reopen. Much of Europe now seems to be closed until April 30th, and I'm sure the rest will follow soon. This is already a 2 week delay from just earlier this week, when the first announcements were to close everything until after Easter (April 13). It's probably time to quarantine the Tourism & Travel forum.
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Saladman posted:Yeah, as Grundulum said this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. At this point I'd be surprised if anything mass tourism related reopens before June or July, and even then I imagine it will come with tons of restrictions. Anyway, not a big deal for your trip as you can just keep kicking that can down the road until whenever it is that things do reopen. Much of Europe now seems to be closed until April 30th, and I'm sure the rest will follow soon. This is already a 2 week delay from just earlier this week, when the first announcements were to close everything until after Easter (April 13). I think it's fine to just chatter about it. Besides, people get excited about upcoming trips. And with all the misery this is going to cause, maybe planning a Disney vacation on here will give folks catharsis. On the other hand I just ordered 30 bags of pet food and I'm about to go get a shitload of livestock food. I can always eat hay if things get rough, right?
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Man, I know, I've had my face glued to every bit of information I can gather. I'm grasping at straws for good news this week, just let me have this one
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“self-quarantine” is a joke. Nothing is stopping self quarantined people from going out and infecting the rest of us. And not enough of us are taking social distancing seriously. Look at the mobs in the grocery stores and the packed bars and restaurants. Look at the people packing hollywood studios yesterday, the people professing that they’re still going to church, the president shaking hands and touching his face during his declaration of a national emergency. Once testing becomes widely available it’s going to be 1-2 weeks until people start seeing the numbers, realizing they know infected people, and start taking social distancing seriously. Even once we begin to take these protective measures seriously all we do is flatten the curve, not stop the outbreak. From what I’ve seen this thing keeps going until either so many of us have gotten it that there’s herd immunity (I saw 40-70% of population infected for this to be the case but these numbers are still up in the air a bit) or a vaccine can be developed. Disney World will be back. I don’t think I will be going until a vaccine is developed, my family gets and recovers from coronavirus so we expect to be immune, or it is well accepted that there is good herd immunity. Aside from getting coronavirus (who knows, we could have it now), all of those things are 12-18 months away.
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Dren posted:Disney World will be back. I don’t think I will be going until a vaccine is developed, my family gets and recovers from coronavirus so we expect to be immune, or it is well accepted that there is good herd immunity. Aside from getting coronavirus (who knows, we could have it now), all of those things are 12-18 months away. The only "non miracle" possibility that I've heard is that theoretically a treatment or even an antiviral cure might be developed faster than a vaccine -- from the test compounds that were developed for SARS and/or MERS that were then dropped when the diseases died out. I'm pretty sure even that timeline is would be "essentially a miracle", but I don't know enough about the SARS drug development experiments to know how close anyone got. Fluffy Bunnies posted:I think it's fine to just chatter about it. Besides, people get excited about upcoming trips. And with all the misery this is going to cause, maybe planning a Disney vacation on here will give folks catharsis. Yeah, I was just joking about a forum quarantine.
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couldcareless posted:Rebooked for first week of May, cheaper flights now too! Let's hope the world gets back to some form of normal before then. see you there maybe... We feel stupid because we booked flights before they dropped through the floor
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I kinda selfishly hope they use to closure to refurb all the stuff that needed it ASAP, like finishing the Castle quickly
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Disney finally updated with new info via the app. If you don’t check-in to hotel during park closure they will automatically issue a full refund. So that’s cool.
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College program is shutting down with everyone being told to go home. That uh does not bode well for opening in a couple weeks.
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So, I knew about the closings before they happened. They are not going to open in a couple of weeks unless this all magically dries up. Internal word is currently a hopeful Late May/Early June estimate with big dreams and hopes for sooner.
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BBS and any other CM goons, godspeed to all of you. Hope everything ends up ok for yall and they keep their promise of paying sick leave during this.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:So, I knew about the closings before they happened. They are not going to open in a couple of weeks unless this all magically dries up. Internal word is currently a hopeful Late May/Early June estimate with big dreams and hopes for sooner. 
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My wife read somewhere they gave college program folks 4 days to get outta the dorms and leave.
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Colleges here did just about the same, so not much better.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:So, I knew about the closings before they happened. They are not going to open in a couple of weeks unless this all magically dries up. Internal word is currently a hopeful Late May/Early June estimate with big dreams and hopes for sooner. I’d say early June could be reasonable I hope I’m wrong but things are gonna get much worse before they get better.
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39 new cases in FL today compared to the 25 new cases yesterday. Cases seem to be concentrated around South FL. Only one new case (who I presume is the MCO TSA agent) reported today is Orange Co. Fellow CMs stay safe today!
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My (36F) husband (40M) called me a "psycho bitch" for demanding the Cinderella castle suite from a Disney customer service repquote:I am writing this in the bathroom because I just got into a huge argument with my husband and I don't know what to do.
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That has to be fake. Please, god.
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sounds like a daily disboards thread from baby newbies. Try asking for a few anytime fastpasses added to your account so you can have some freebies. jfc.
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Yeah that’s gotta be fake. Funny, but fake
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skipdogg posted:Yeah that’s gotta be fake. Funny, but fake I dunno. I've been asked for all sorts of mega-impossible, not in my paygrade guest recovery for the smallest inconvenience (including asking for the castle suite)
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The way they've been slowly whittling down on operational costs during these last years - when things have been pretty much unambiguously great, attendance wise, save for the brief hiccup around Galaxy's Edge initial opening - makes me spooked (relatively speaking) to think what we're going to see in the next 12 months. Loss of a couple months of revenue, plus continued decreased attendance from a cratered economy. Betcha we see 10 hour days at the parks before too long. Boxman fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Mar 16, 2020 |
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Friday is now the last day for the resorts, Monday (Today) is the last day for Disney owned stores and locations at Disney Springs. This is pants-shittingly scary, folks.
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All resorts to be closed by Friday, too. Imagine a totally void of human life disney. Imagine how loving nuts Sonswa is gonna go.
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Okay with the parks being closed I need some help here. You know that animatronic heist? That was loving amateur hour and sloppy. My friends, I'm putting a crew together to steal Space Mountain. Truckula and Elon Tusk are already in.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Friday is now the last day for the resorts, Monday (Today) is the last day for Disney owned stores and locations at Disney Springs. Hoping things are OK for you sir.
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