VIDEO: Disney Springs Opens to Guests During Hurricane; Polynesian Guests Go Swimming

Tom Corless

VIDEO: Disney Springs Opens to Guests During Hurricane; Polynesian Guests Go Swimming

With Disney Springs opening in limited capacity at 5pm, I decided it might be kind of cool to drive on down to Disney World and see exactly what was going on during the final gusts and rain drops of Hurricane Matthew here in Orlando.

We began our evening at Disney Springs, where despite inclement weather, many guests began to show up as establishments opened at 5pm.

Meanwhile at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, guests make due by going swimming and peering across the lagoon at a shuttered Magic Kingdom:

5 thoughts on “VIDEO: Disney Springs Opens to Guests During Hurricane; Polynesian Guests Go Swimming”

  1. You really need to quit with the “hurricane” and “inclement weather” comments….we had a couple rain showers and some breezy conditions. Biggest bunch of hysteria since the “global warming movement”

    • Yeah…If there’s any truth to the “Disney didn’t want to close [on the scale that they did]” rumors, I’d bet it’s because they knew the storm wouldn’t impact the Lake Buena Vista area nearly as badly as the weather entity (which benefits with ratings, clicks, extra ad revenues, etc.) hype claimed it would.

  2. Tell that to the people on the coast. They had it bad. Everyone got lucky the eye didn’t make land or else it would have been worse there.

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