Walt Disney World Resort has submitted a plan for reopening in a phased process with Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opening to guests on July 11th and Disney’s Hollywoood Studios and EPCOT opening on July 15th.
Monorail Station at Walt Disney World Ticket and Transportation Center
During the presentation of the plans, it was announced that park capacity would be “significantly reduced” upon reopening to implement physical distancing measures. And Disney has presented additional information about guest capacity with regards to new tickets sales and Disney Resort hotel reservations.
Disney already announced that they will utilize a system that will require guests to obtain a reservation to enter the park in advance. And in addition to this system to help manage attendance, Disney has also stated that — at press time — they are “temporarily pausing new ticket sales and Disney Resort hotel reservations” with an intent to “focus on guests with existing tickets and reservations.”
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
Noting that Disney Vacation Club members can make new reservations at this time, it was also revealed that existing ticket holders as well as Annual Passholders will be able to make their requests for reservations in phases prior to new tickets being sold. Reservations will be limited and subject to availabilty, according to Disney.
Magic Kingdom Park Entrance
In the presentation today, it was noted that additional details regarding the new reservation system will be revealed in the “near future,” and we will be keeping you posted as this story develops.
In the meantime, you can learn more about the status of Disney parks and destinations by visiting any of the links below, and learn more about Disney World’s reopening proposal here.
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So, pretty much what we all thought – reservations, nothing that will attract crowds like parades or fireworks. Undoubtably people are going to be upset. Glad we decided to postpone our trip planned for later this year.
I’m so happy that I at least have a chance of being at WDW this September — although I may have a different experience than years prior. I figure that I’m perfectly happy staying at a resort, visiting nice restaurants and just relaxing when I visit the beach — so, I should have a pretty good time at WDW too. I will just set my expectations low and allow the pixie dust to sprinkle wherever it may! I may even return from this year’s vacation RELAXED (can you believe it?!?).
Wonder when they will update the expiration dates on AP , due to the closure ?
VP, our team will update when we see this happening!
If you have to make advance reservations for your park ticket, I’m curious if that means Park Hopper will be unavailable during this time.
I have a resort reservation and tickets for September. My mother wants to come along and stay with us in our room. Do you know if I can modify our reservation and add her to our room and tickets?
Has there been any updates with information for Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach?
Judiish, no updates as far as I know today. Yesterday’s info was that they won’t be opening with the first phase, but we await details from Disney.
I’m from the UK and we are DVC members . We have a booking at the Bay lake studio 16-26 aug BUT as I am disabled and having to isolate (and currently there’s no flights) we cannot come this year . Unfortunately I borrowed my points from next year .Does anyone know if DVC under these exceptional circumstances will put the points back into the original use year or not . Has anyone else had this problem ? If not I will have to try to sell the points I used by Feb .
had my April trip cancelled. then we were hoping to go in july. i think we will wait until Xmas ..hopefully by then the world will be back to normal. Stay safe
DH and I have resort reservations for the last week in October and the first week in December. We let our Florida resident AP’s expire in December after our visit to take a WDW break with all the construction and the upcoming anniversary celebration. We had planned to get new AP’s when we arrive in October. Well, with new theme park reservation requirement and all new ticket purchases on hold, I am in a panic. Will DFB let us know as soon as AP’s can be purchased on Disney.com? Also, can you confirm that I can make theme park reservations with a new AP voucher if I go a head and purchase new AP’s on line as soon as they are available. Then I can activate our new AP’s when we arrive for our October trip. Thanks 🙂
Kathryn, we absolutely will update as soon as we have the info. Another reader was told on the phone that ticket sales will reopen as soon as next week, but we haven’t heard from Disney publicly/officially. We were told by Disney on the phone that vouchers linked in your account are sufficient for Disney Park Pass reservations, and I have had readers say they were able to do it. Good luck!