The past few days have revealed a lot of information in light of Walt Disney World’s proposed reopening starting with Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom on July 11th followed by Disney’s Hollywood Studios and EPCOT on July 15th.
Walt Disney World Annual Passholder
In order to promote physical distancing as part of the new safety measures upon reopening, the parks (as well as restaurants within the Resort, among other venues) will reopen with limited guest capacity. And Disney is beginning to send out communications to Annual Passholders about changes being put into place that will help implement these measures.
Walt Disney World Annual Passholders will want to be on the lookout for an e-mail communication from the Resort regarding the upcoming required theme park reservation system and other recent updates concerning future visits that were revealed just yesterday.
Email Update screenshot
The message addresses that the new measures have required the cancellation of existing FastPass+ selections and Advance Dining Reservations and experiences. (You can read more about FastPass+ cancellations here, and Dining Reservations here.)
The message goes on to say that “because you have valid Theme Park admission, you will have access to the Theme Park reservation system before new tickets are sold to other Guests.” (Note that — depending on your currently booked experiences — the phrasing in your message may vary slightly, if you are a recipient.)
Annual Passholder Email screenshot
Recipients are also advised that there is no action they need to take at this time, and that Disney will be contacting them “soon” with details on the new reservation system.
We will be keeping you posted as this story develops and more details are revealed. And to read more about the reopening of Walt Disney World, you may visit any of the links below.
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TUTORIAL: How To Use Disney World's NEW Park Pass Reservation System
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I have my AP, my husband did not purchase his park ticket yet and now ticket purchases are on hold.
If I am able to book a park admission time before my husband gets a park ticket , how can we coordinate our being able to visit the same park together on the same day ?
are we suppose to go to the park on different days not together ?
this is a mess , help !
VP, hopefully that’ll all be clarified when Disney unveils the new theme park reservations system. For now, I’m sorry it’s all still so uncertain.
I never seem to get passholder emails and end up missing important information. Even though I’ve been a passholder for 22 years. Is there anywhere I can check if I’m on the email list. I’ve never changed my email address so I’m worried I’ll miss the reservation window like I did for galaxies edge opening ..Thanks
Lana, here’s the info from V.I. Passholder Support:
Phone – Call (407)-WDW-PASS or (407) 939-7277â€
Email – Visit Disneyworld.com/PassholderHelp and fill out a short form
Perhaps they can confirm your email is good to go. Good luck!
Laura I have the exact same issue and no matter how many times I contact them they always tell me my email is set up and don’t know why I’m no receiving them.
Lana , I’ a PH also and I have never gotten an email update either This is all so confusing. I may just get a partial refund on my pass and go from there. IT is a mess.
I’ve had the same issues to with not getting notified by email of upcoming things and then missing out completely. I’ll try your suggestions tho and hopefully it will work
I stopped by to catch and post that I am not receiving AP email updates either. I too have contacted them several times to no avail. I have been a AP for a very long time and missed out on Stars Wars AP previews and would have missed out on Pandora had my husband not gone into guest relations and spoke with the AK park manager–who BTW was so very helpful and kind. I actually had no idea people were receiving these emails until someone in line told me about them. Now I am concerned we will miss the reservations for AP to get into a park. Very disappointed.