Hey y’all long time lurker and infrequent poster. Brought the family here and arrived Saturday morning from North Carolina after rescheduling four times since our spring break. Also a Dvc member since 2011 so have come here 1 to 2 times a year for the last several years. Have to say, I can’t imagine Disney could’ve done a better job than what they’ve done with social distancing. So far we’ve been at MK & AK and mask compliance was 100%. One guy fighting at the front gate with someone because he wanted to wear a gator but aside from that everyone seems to behaving. Honestly, so glad we came. We really needed to get out of the house and frankly this is safer than our local environment as far as I can see. CMs are fantastic and in some cases even desperate to see guests which honestly makes me sad. In the villas at grand Floridian lobby for example, all of the staff jumps up every time anybody walks in to say hi. The waiters at the restaurants in the parks are super social and it seems like desperate to talk to people. Even though it is still cast member days yesterday and today for the parks, it is very strangely empty. I don’t miss fast passes although I thought I would, it’s actually pretty refreshing to not have to worry about where you’re running next except for dining reservations if you have them. If you are going to the parks, I suggest you do have dining reservations if you want them as their walk up availability seems to be low to none. I would also say that posted wait times so far have been at most 50% of what’s posted.
No concerns whatsoever so far about eating inside, tables are spaced out at more than 6 feet and in some cases we were one of three parties dining in one of the smaller rooms in say Skipper canteen or Tiffins. Spacing on the floors of rides is more than adequate and so far guests have been very respectful of the signs. Trying to get my kids to see if they would want to go to Universal later this week, their main beef was that I need to prove to them that Universal will be as good with Covid as Disney is LOL. Pretty sure that’s never gonna happen. We did rent a car as I was a little worried about dealing with magical express as well as the resort buses. Who knew most of the parks were only 10 minutes away?!
If anyone has specific questions about being here let me know, so far as of almost 3 PM on Sunday the tropical storm has been a non-event in Orlando. Honestly if you’re going to leave home this is about as good as it gets. But it also makes me a little worried and sad as I believe there’s no way they’re making a decent profit on anything that’s open right now. I think it is probably most likely a combination of the quarantine bands and the uptick in Florida cases. A lot of locals I know who could drive within 10 hours have held off thinking this is a war zone, but again I think disney has done a great job with what they are offering.
Forgive typos please as this was a voice text sitting at the grand Floridian Beaches Pool drinking a captains mai tai.
We rode things for awhile, ate lunch, and then walked back to Boardwalk. At 2pm we tried from our room and were able to get a backup boarding group, which looks like it will be called in the next two hours. The new app update of showing what groups are currently boarding will allow us to stay in our room until it gets closer and we need to head back.
