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What’s closed at Walt Disney World

Every attraction, show and restaurant that Disney has flagged closed, read from Disney’s own schedule data on 22 September 2026. Disney publishes schedules to 1 December 2026 and no further, so anything still closed on that date has no published reopening — which is a different thing from reopening the next morning, and it is the distinction most refurbishment calendars lose.

Disney’s schedule says closed, our wait record says open

These carry no published hours on Disney’s calendar, which is what puts an attraction on this page — but our own wait record has seen them operating in the last three days, with the reading count beside each. Two independent records disagree, so we publish both rather than pick. On the evidence, treat these as open and check on the day.

Closed, with a reopening date

Disney’s schedule shows these open again on a specific day. That is the strongest signal available — stronger than an announcement, because the booking system is already behaving as though it is true.

Closed, with no reopening date published

Still closed on the last day Disney has published a schedule for. Where Disney’s own page gives an expected reopening, it is quoted underneath — an expectation in prose, not a date in the booking system, and the two sometimes disagree.

Whole parks

Nothing inside these is operating, so they are listed once as a park rather than once per slide. On the day we read it, ten of Typhoon Lagoon’s eleven attractions carried Disney’s refurbishment flag and the eleventh carried a plain “Closed”; counted one by one, a closure list ends up ten lines longer and says nothing more.

Announced on Disney’s pages, but not in its schedule

Disney writes some closures only in prose, and some third-party restaurants only announce them on their own sites. On the day we read it, Grand Floridian Cafe was listed as operating in Disney’s schedule while its own page said it was closed, and the Swan’s Garden Grove was operating every day in Disney’s data while the hotel’s own page said it was on summer break. These are quoted exactly, with the page they appeared on, because a notice on one page is sometimes about something else entirely.

Not operating, with no reason given

Disney’s schedule shows these closed for a week or more, with no refurbishment flag and no notice. Some are closures. Some are seasonal — a holiday overlay before its season, or a lounge that only opens for events — and Disney’s data does not tell the two apart, so neither do we.

How this is built, and why it is not a typed list

Disney used to publish a refurbishment calendar and does not any more — the old calendar URL is an empty shell and the park-updates page is a 404, both checked on 11 September 2026. Every refurbishment list in this category is now maintained by hand from press announcements, which makes them good at headlines and weak at dates.

We read three things from Disney, because no one of them is complete. Its finder service carries a refurbishment flag on every attraction, show and restaurant, per date. It also carries each one’s schedule, and a week of days marked “Closed” is how Coral Reef’s closure showed up — with its 4 November reopening visible before any notice mentioned a date. And we read the notice on every one of Disney’s 700 pages, because some closures appear nowhere else.

Where the three disagree, both are shown. The Railroad’s schedule has it back on 30 October; its page says “November 2026”. We do not pick one.

Closure flags and schedules from Walt Disney World’s public finder service, swept 22 September 2026. Published reopening dates are Disney’s, not ours. Closures can be added, extended or lifted without notice, and a date here is what Disney’s system said on the day we read it.