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Rope Drop Radio: A Disney Travel Podcast

Breaking News Disney Parks Closing, Doug and Michelle from Walt Disney World

Rope Drop Radio: A Disney Travel Podcast

Rope Drop Media

Travel, Portorleans, Disney, Waltdisneyworld, Places & Travel, Ropedrop, Disneyland, Society & Culture, Cruise

5707 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Disney Parks and Cruise are closing.  Doug and Michelle are at Walt Disney World right now and they share what's going on and what you can do if you have a trip booked

Contact Michelle for rebookings or future bookings at [email protected]

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0:00.0

Welcome to a breaking news episode of Rope Drop Radio. Derek here. And as you may have heard in the last 12 hours, Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line Universal Studios have all been closed in an effort to slow down the novel coronavirus. And it's kind of surreal. Doug and Michelle are actually at Walt Disney World right now.

0:21.9

We're going to hear from them in a second as they are finishing out their trip, but we know that

0:28.9

this is something that's going to affect all of us. It's territory we've never been in before,

0:33.1

but Doug and I both want to just reach out to our listeners and just know that we love you guys.

0:37.8

We're here for you.

0:38.6

We're going to continue to do the show.

0:40.4

Even though the parks are closed, we're still going to try and give you guys a source of entertainment during these challenging few weeks and just know that you guys are in our thoughts and prayers.

0:52.1

Definitely Disney's not done forever. Trips will continue. You can always

0:56.6

rebook. I'm looking forward to my trip in November for sure, but it's definitely a unique time.

1:03.1

And who knows what happens after these two weeks. But don't give up, Disney is going to continue,

1:08.7

and we're going to still have a lot of fun. So let's go to Walt Disney

1:12.3

World now and hear from Doug and Michelle. Hey, rope droppers. This is Doug. We are doing a little bonus

1:19.3

episode because currently I'm down here at Disney World with my family and as you may have noticed,

1:24.5

some big news happened, the parks closed.

1:34.4

So we were actually just leaving the Magic Kingdom standing, waiting for our bus when the news broke.

1:36.2

And Derek was the first one to tell me because he is on top of the news because that is how Derek is.

1:43.0

And I just left the Magic Kingdom hanging out with Kent.

1:46.1

We were with Kent when the Disneyland news broke. And then poof, there went Disney World.

1:53.2

And we're supposed to be here through Monday. So it works out pretty good for us. Not too,

1:58.2

too big a deal or impact on our vacation but definitely crazy times and

2:05.0

all kinds of closures going on but i don't know i'm here with michel to talk a little bit about

2:12.4

it michel um what is going on right now?

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