COVID-19’s Impacts on BGW

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Eric said:
You know with Busch Gardens Williamsburg figuring out how to operate with 1000 people in the park, are we seeing the foundation being laid for year round operation in the future too?
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I know they have considered opening on some other weekends before that they traditionally haven't. While I don't seem the opening the entire year. I could see them doing some limited weekends in November between HOS and CT and adding some weekends to the beginning not the year so they run a schedule closer to SWT which runs from the last week of February to the end of December every year.
Buschfan777 said:
I say England, Scotland, Ireland, and maybe France or Italy one of the two with lochness and finnegans open and other rides in those areas with the possibility of griffin
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It is definitely going to be England, Scotland, Ireland and France. They will be blocking the path to Pompeii/Sesame by the train tracks.
 
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BGWnut said:
It is definitely going to be England, Scotland, Ireland and France. They will be blocking the path to Pompeii/Sesame by the train tracks.
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I agree plus with the announcement of delaying the chains new ride openings to 2020, no need to open Festa. I imagine tempesto would be a nightmare distancing wise.
 
Irishman said:
I agree plus with the announcement of delaying the chains new ride openings to 2020, no need to open Festa. I imagine tempesto would be a nightmare distancing wise.
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Could they do virtual queueing and have coasters like alpengiest and Apollo open, and have a worker take you to the rides?
 
I winter if they would open Finnigans Flyer. Could load both arms but just one side. Griffin could go outside seats, inside seats, outside seats to distance people. Nessie’s line is going to use overflow and the bridge in my estimations. They should open New France to get a little extra in there. Doing the trains as just a single station continual loop ride and the sky ride the same way would be nice extra things to do.
 
Happy 100 pages! + does anyone know when the reservation system will be up and if we can reserve multiple visits?
 
Applesauce said:
This is a good question. I have a 2 park pass, and even if bgw does open fully (eventually) wcusa never opened, what's gonna happen? Are they gonna refund me the extra money for wcusa, or am I just gonna eat the cost, and have my 2 park pass be a 1 park pass.

I just want clarity for passes in general, I'm already uncomfortable with the idea of the park only partially opening, having a 2nd park on your pass that won't be able to open certainly doesn't help.
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Playing devil's advocate here. They are extending the pass for the months already missed so you would really only be missing about a month that you paid for with WCUSA so are you losing much there.

I more concerned about how they handle a partially open park and how they work out fair value on that. One possible solution is to make them not valid till the park fully opens and expend the carry over time on them. What ever they do it's likely going to be a PR nightmare that they need to get on top of fast.
 
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horsesboy said:
Playing devil's advocate here. They are extending the pass for the months already missed so you would really only be missing about a month that you paid for with WCUSA so are you losing much there.

I more concerned about how they handle a partially open park and how they work out fair value on that. One possible solution is to make them not valid till the park fully opens and expend the carry over time on them. What ever they do it's likely going to be a PR nightmare that they need to get on top of fast.
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For the two park pass they would need to extend it for months WCUSA is actually open to make it work, which could be different than when BGW is open. At this point they would almost be better off canceling or modifying some of the existing memberships and just refunding a proportionate amount of money, vice trying to create another complex deferral process.
 
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@horsesboy , if they open up early next month like they are intending to, that's 2.5 months of a closed park. They aren't likely looking at opening wcusa for this season just based on the fact that they'd be open for a month/month and a half before shutting everything down again. Plus you have to get life guards. So that's it's entire season. Plus the no slides issue. So an entire season is lost that I'm still paying for. Unless bgw says "yeah all passes are valid for 2021", and doesn't charge at all for months closed, I'm still paying for two parks, one of which I do not have any access to, partially or otherwise.

EDIT: @rswashdc beat me to it
 
rswashdc said:
For the two park pass they would need to extend it for months WCUSA is actually open to make it work, which could be different than when BGW is open. At this point they would almost be better off canceling or modifying some of the existing memberships and just refunding a proportionate amount of money, vice trying to create another complex deferral process.
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For the record, they have to solve this problem for prepaid BGW passes and meal plans too. Extending them into the period after New Years is not a fair compensation.
 
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