Walt Disney World are continuing to make plans behind the scenes for a possible shut down this week due to expected severe weather over the resort from Hurricane Milton.
Walt Disney World is slowly gearing up for a possible resort shut-down in the days ahead as concerns grow that Hurricane Milton will barrel over Central Florida on Wednesday, October 9.
Tropical Storm Milton formed on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 6, and has rapidly intensify into a hurricane today, October 7, and is expected to make landfall in Florida near Tamp onWednesday, Oct. 9 as a major category 3 or higher hurricane.
The storm is forecast to bring the risk of life-threatening impacts to the west coast of Florida, with the potential to tear through the I-4 corridor including Walt Disney World.
As residents and visitors are urged to ready their hurricane preparedness kit and plan now, Walt Disney World has started making operational adjustments.
On Saturday evening, the resort paused hotel reservations for Oct. 9 and 10, and earlier today the resort stopped accepting reservations for all four Walt Disney World theme parks on Oct. 9.
The latest news is that the resort is now waiving hotel cancellation and change fees for guests with reservations at the resort hotels that wish to adjust their upcoming stays at the resort.
The following changes are in effect now:
Due to potential weather impacts to guest travel plans, change and cancellation fees imposed by Disney will be waived for check-in dates of Sunday, 10/6 – Saturday, 10/12.
Most room-only and vacation packages can be modified, or canceled online, including changes to travel dates, without fees.
Packages including air transportation or other services provided by third parties, or those with travel protection, cannot be modified or canceled online. For Guests with these reservations please call for assistance.
Milton's latest path has the hurricane tracking south of Tampa, but it is still expected to rip into Florida as a major Category 3, or possibly 4 hurricane, bringing damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and torrential rain.
Here in Central Florida, current models show strong to damaging winds, flooding and tornadoes affecting the entire area, including the tourist areas of Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando, International Drive and more.
Well in advance of the storm, waves of heavy rain have already started to affect Central and South Florida.
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