@Pat Sorry for doubting you. Great catch and thanks for sharing!
COVID-19’s Impacts on BGW
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A friend of mine thinks this is just a ploy to not have to suspend passholder payments. So they open one ride with an extreme limit on park capacity and they can say they are open and charge passholders. Not sure if true. I guess it depends on how cynical you are.
No worries, with so much false info flying, and the link being pulled from the site, I’d be doubting at first too. I’m glad I still had the app open to get the screenshots.
There is no question that the park absolutely WANTS to do this, but the idea of a single ride and an extreme limit creating this challenge is a class action waiting to happen, and I don't think they want to generate that much ill will at a time when they NEED people to visit the park and spend money to stay afloat. I do think they're going to try to thread the needle on how much of the park is open to try to get this done, but I think an outright "ploy" is off the table.
Anyway, lots of questions these screenshots don't answer, but clearly there's an embargoed release that we'll get more information from in due time. This is...going to be interesting.
The main page of the park website no longer has the banner at the top of the page about it being closed due to Covid. But there still is a "Closure Update" block on the page just down a little ways. It takes you to the main Seaworld page but it hasn't been updated yet with BGW info.
Assuming that the park is only going to open with very limited capacity and only part of the park, could they do something for passholders(members) like reducing the payment per month. For example, for every 2 months of reduced capacity/park usage, they only charge for 1 months worth of a pass.
It has been appearing and disappearing intermittently for me. No idea why.
A couple days ago when I clicked on the 29th, it still listed Summer Nights on the show schedule part. Now when i click it it is not there. Definitely tells you that they could have been paying attention to the park hours page and chose not to push back the date(as of yet). Or they just got rid of the summer nights page off the website entirely.
I just called and the ambassador said they will be reopening on the 29th!
I wonder if the customer service rep had new information or just looked at the on-line calendar?
When SFA reopened there were employees posting things to instagram stories (and other places) showing them getting the park ready and we had a good idea of when it was opening. We're only 5 days out, I would imagine employees frequent this board, someone has to know more. I'm skeptical.
They stated if you kept your payments up to date then you would be awarded four months credit for the four months the park has been closed.
I suspect that someone drafted the article and hit "publish" too soon when they saw the projected opening date on the calendar. I think it'll be another couple of weeks at the earliest to be honest -- there are a lot of variables to figure out even for a super small opening.
This is a reason why you'd have a secure testing environment for website changes - content and page elements don't change until everything's signed off. In a decent system, it'd take a few clicks to duplicate settings between the test environment and production environment, then review again before publishing (preaching to the choir of folks far more talented in web development since that's not exactly my forte).