Hurricane Irma?

[trouttigger]

Praying that Irma does not affect Disney World. Or the East Coast.

 

[wonder whisper]

I pointed that same fact out earlier and was told I was "scaring" people.

It's not just you. Anyone here who points out your vacation destination could possibly become a disaster zone is being demonized.

 

[Chris Anglin]

Ugh considering moving trip the the 24th. Big downside is we won't be able to get any of the adr we had for this week. Adr that week are extremely slim pickings with almost no character meals. And we had one for each day this week including akersus banquet hall which my daughter was extremely looking forward too. And in sure fastpasses will be difficult to get. I know to move the trip is prolly the best decision but still sux when u had everything scheduled several months ago and put alot of time into it. Irma u suck.

I've learned not to stress too much over the ADR's because I've come across the ones I want just a day or 2 before that date. Now, as far as FP's are concerned, I've read people are able to snag those the day of sometimes. Just luck of the draw, I guess. You'd have to keep checking MDE app and wish for Pixie Dust.

We're flying in the 25th and I've kept checking since my 60 day window for ADRs and have had trouble too.

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

It's not just you. Anyone here who points out your vacation destination could possibly become a disaster zone is being demonized.

The panhandle could also be a *potential* disaster zone, Georgia or the Carolinas could also be a *potential* disaster zone. Notice the key word here? Potential. NO ONE knows where it is going. The only thing that the majority of people here are focusing on is the trends of all the models AND the NHC forecast over the past 24 hours.

 

[xWilliam]

My rant. Stop listening to people who post Joe Blow weather guy sites or spaghetti and meatballs forecast. Follow the National Hurricane Center at NOAA only. This is the true indicator for storms.
End of rant

The ECMWF is the euro forecast model, and the GFS is the US forecast model. They arent some Joe blow spaghetti models. NOAA uses both to help predict their outcome

 

[Southernmiss]

Sam's Club at Tampa was a mad house. I went there for everything BUT water but I don't understand why there isn't a limit of the amount of water people are allowed. When you have one person buying 100 cases of water, what do you think they'll likely be doing with it?

Supporting power crews, National Guardsmen, storm shelters, hospital, police, fire, EMTs ...many different agencies that could need that much water during/after a storm.

 

[izzy25]

Just saw the latest track at 11:00am est time and it looks like as of right now it's going to skirt up the east coast of Florida.

 

[GOOFY D]

Local here again...I am liking our situation as the days go by. It looks like any impact to Central Fl will be as a category 3, still strong storm but not "catastrophic" damage.

Category 3 is still very dangerous and not to be taken lightly.

 

[HarperLeigh]

Really? Wow. only through Sunday? And rebook through Tuesday? Am I the only one that thinks that's too short? Right now at least.

Yeah, that doesn't give much leeway at all.

 

[HarperLeigh]

Supporting power crews, National Guardsmen, storm shelters, hospital ...many different agencies that could need that much water during/after a storm.

Hmmm. Good point. I didn't even think about those possibilities.

 

[mls80skate]

This may be a dumb question but why can I find an open reservation online when I look but the CM shows nothing available? This has happened with more than one date/resort. Frustrating as trying to reschedule our trip. thanks in advance

 

[jo-jo]

Smart

I worked for Yankee Candle up in Wisconsin for 11 years before moving here so my 300 jars and 700 tealights came with me (don't need anyone lecturing me on the dangers of candle usage during emergencies please) I was looking at my Tea Kettle Warmer as a way to warm a pot of soup. But now that I have my grill I think that will be more effective

We have a charcoal grill, so that fine if we are doing hamburgers, and I suppose my cast iron fry pans would work fairly well. But if we wanted just a bit of cooking, in summer I'd just put a few sterno cans in the grill and heat up whatever. In winter inside the house, between a few cement blocks, cookie sheets and a rack, on top of the stove, it works just fine for 20-30 mins of heating up soup etc. I've needed to do both, thankful only a handful of times over almost 40 years here.

 

[abooch]

Supporting power crews, National Guardsmen, storm shelters, hospital, police, fire, EMTs ...many different agencies that could need that much water during/after a storm.

Yep, good point!

 

[Jasten]

Really? Wow. only through Sunday? And rebook through Tuesday? Am I the only one that thinks that's too short? Right now at least.

Yeah also doesn't include travel for Friday so it doesn't include us, unless I am mistaken? If I changed the flight it would be $300 + difference in fair. I'm not sure if that $300 fee covers the return flight or not either. It definitely puts me in a wait and see mode but this is excruciatingly stressful to figure out the right move here. If the models hold and it keeps going east, I feel pretty safe being in Orlando. We could easily pack food and supplies I think (unless there is any issues with packing water or liquids in checked baggage?

I will call Guest Services this afternoon to see what options we have. Honestly it comes down to the safety of my family. If I can be reassured we will be safe, I am more apt to risk it if the models keep trending the way they are.

 

[xWilliam]

The latest NOAA model has it moving more east as well.

 

[vettegirl]

Just spent 2.5 hours on the phone, there were not rooms at all for Oct or Dec for military to switch. So I sit not knowing what to do at this point, check in tomorrow.

 

[errorlesss]

So, I'm sitting on hold, trying to cancel my first Disney World vacation. With time to kill, I'm playing around online. I currently have a room only reservation which forfeits a deposit if I cancel at this point, but I can change the reservation online to a tent site a few weeks out which costs less than my deposit. I would then also be outside the five day window to cancel without penalty. Is this plan too good to be true? I'd really rather not sit on hold all morning with hopes I can have fees waived.

 

[jar996]

Yes. They will not refund the airfare for AA. Lesson learned, do not book airfare through Disney. AA travel agent told me she would have been liberal with the voucher policy but since I booked through Disney she could not issue a voucher. Disney was great about refunding hotel and park tickets, but I'm out airfare. Better safe than sorry.

Actually Orlando was added to the list. So they will refund it. I am waiting for the customer service rep to call back because when I talked to her this page wasn't updated yet. She was going to call AA and then call me back, so when she does I expect the $610 from AA will be able to be refunded.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/travel-alerts.jsp

 

[abooch]

So, I'm sitting on hold, trying to cancel my first Disney World vacation. With time to kill, I'm playing around online. I currently have a room only reservation which forfeits a deposit if I cancel at this, but I can change the reservation online to a tent site a few weeks out which costs less than my deposit. I would then also be outside the five day window to cancel without penalty. Is this plan too good to be true? I'd really rather not sit on hold all morning with hopes I can have fees waived.

You will be able to cancel or change without penalty.

 

[Jasten]

So, I'm sitting on hold, trying to cancel my first Disney World vacation. With time to kill, I'm playing around online. I currently have a room only reservation which forfeits a deposit if I cancel at this, but I can change the reservation online to a tent site a few weeks out which costs less than my deposit. I would then also be outside the five day window to cancel without penalty. Is this plan too good to be true? I'd really rather not sit on hold all morning with hopes I can have fees waived.

You shouldn't have any problems getting the fees waived. Many here have canceled with no fees the last few days.