Heather I found this on the Disney news sight
Openings In time for Holidays 2012″ were also announced by Crofton for:
Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid
Enchanted Tales with Belle
Be Our Guest Restaurant
Gastons Tavern
Ariels Grotto
The US has there Thanksgiving on Nov 22 this year. So I would think it would be open closer to then. You never know though they may open parts at a time. So less then a month off for Gaston's Tavern is not out of the realm of possibilities.
Hoop Dee Doo will be closed for most if not all of October for renovations it would be good planing on Disneys part to not close HDDMR until Gaston's is open.
Yes but they all got that information from a badly worded blog at DisneyParksBlog. Everyone has just got "holidays" stuck as the "date" and have all run with it.
But again all she said was "And, it looks like well have
plenty to celebrate this holiday season"
She doesn't say that these areas won't open UNTIL or that will open AT the holiday season....She was announcing the splash park and other half of Dumbo for July and decided to drive the hits by pretending she had opening dates for New Fantasyland.
BUT if you read her replies to people saying there was no date she clearly has no idea at ALL when these sections will open.
"as soon as we have an exact opening date, well be thrilled to share it."
"as soon as we have exact dates per attraction, well be happy to announce it."
"I love sharing info with all of you, and OF COURSE Id share exact dates per attraction (if I had that specific info). Please keep checking back."
Now I have no idea when the area is going to open, I'm still gonna run with FALL 2012 and wait for an official blog post with ACTUAL dates!
lol This media lady really put me in a foul mood!
It was like being lied too....and then given the vaguest lame NON information!