Despite all of the current corona virus disruption, for the time being at least we are still planning as though the trip is going to go ahead.
The current logic is that if we can get into the states and the parks are open we will still be travelling. Should Virgin Atlantic go under and we are left without flights, we will probably look to differ the trip until May 21 (but that would require a week and a half out of school not the single week we currently have) or potentially next October. One advantage is that having paid OOP for the dining plan on our booking we wont be constrained to any DDP dates next year should we have to delay.
My biggest worry right now is that Virgin are still flying, but the parks are closed (or open to a very limited extent without a lot of the magic) in which case we would want to delay but may not be able to.
The other impact has been to the budget, We had already had the news pre CV19 that there would be no bonus company wide this year. Post CV19 my wife is self employed and due to last years tax return being the start up year (with a lot of one off expenses) the income under the government's scheme will be a lot lower than expected. The net result of all this is that while the core holiday costs are allowed for (the remaining payments for the villa and Disney), or already sunk (flights, tickets), the budget for the extras is going to take a hammering. So some of the planned additional ADRs and experiences at SeaWorld / Discovery cove are going to fall by the wayside. Assuming we do manage to go in October the plan is still to do MNSSHP, but that is next on the chopping block.
It was our
ADR day on Easter Monday, and we managed to get the majority of what we wanted. We were unable to get quite as early a slot as we wanted for Be Our Guest breakfast on day 1, while a few of the 8person bookings later in the trip were only available as 4s (usually at this point we would phone Disney direct and sort it out, but clearly in the current environment thats not possible.) Right now the solution has been to book two 4 person ADRs at the same time with the intention of either trying to get the tables next to each other (or ideally getting it converted to an eight.)
Car hire still remains to be booked, something that I need to do something about if the prices look ok...
All in all a very strange feeling to be planning