If you are staying at Disney’s Contemporary Resort today, June 4, and you were planning an afternoon at the resort, this is the information you need before those plans get disrupted by something nobody warned you about.
Fire alarm testing is scheduled for the Contemporary Resort today from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.. During that three-hour window, guests in the main building can expect strobe light testing and loud ringing tones. Signs have been posted in the building to notify guests, but not everyone will see them before testing begins.
Cast Members at the front desk are available for questions or additional assistance for anyone who has concerns about the testing or needs support during the scheduled window.
Who This Actually Affects
The 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. window falls in the middle of the afternoon, meaning the majority of guests spending the day at the parks will be away from the resort and unaffected. For those guests, the testing will likely come and go without affecting their day.
The guests who need to plan around this are the ones who will actually be at the resort during those hours. Guests who had a resort day planned and were looking forward to a quiet afternoon at the Contemporary. Families with young children who nap during the early to mid-afternoon and whose nap schedule overlaps with the testing window. Guests doing a monorail resort crawl who were planning to spend time at the Contemporary between 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. And anyone who was planning to return to the hotel for a midday break from the parks during that specific window.
What To Do At Disney Instead
The Contemporary’s monorail access is one of the best perks of staying there, and it becomes particularly useful during the testing window. The monorail loop connects the Contemporary to both Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort and Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, giving guests easy access to two beautifully themed resort environments with their own dining options and lobby atmospheres to explore.
Neither the Polynesian nor the Grand Floridian will be affected by the Contemporary’s fire alarm testing and both offer pleasant ways to spend an afternoon in the monorail resort area without returning to the main building where the noise and strobe lighting will be active.
For guests who would rather head back to the parks during the testing window, Cool Kids Summer programming is running across all four Walt Disney World parks with limited-time experiences specifically designed for families. Jessie’s Roundup at The Diamond Horseshoe at Magic Kingdom and GoofyCore at CommuniCore Hall at EPCOT are both worth considering as afternoon options.
The testing is scheduled for today, June 4, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Be aware of it before you arrive at the resort in the afternoon, and the impact on your day will be minimal.
