Florida theme park reopening guidelines

I would feel safe going back when guests are required to wear masks, but it sure would be nice to go when it was at 50% capacity!
ETA. I also don’t see Disney or Universal opening anytime soon or with just these restrictions in place.  I imagine They will both have much stricter provisions enacted before they open.

I didn’t go to theme parks before all of this so I doubt I’ll be going to one any time soon.

Soooooo...what are the provisions for the people who are just wandering around the park? Is there a 6 ft rule for them? How would they enforce it? How about restaurants or food stands?

I think when they open will also factor in to the level of comfort people have in going to them. I had heard that it was possible they won't reopen this year. IF that was/is true then things will likely look a lot different then.

If they open this summer, I wouldn't be comfortable at all. If they open in 2021, then maybe...but i'd be watching how things are going with this virus in the meantime.

We have tickets for Disneyland Paris for the first week in July and we are not going, no matter what safety measures they implement. Hopefully we will be able to get a refund or a voucher for next year. (I booked this holiday before the Covid_19 outbreak in Europe)

We were supposed to be IN Orlando on May 31st. Right now we've punted to August but honestly I really don't want to go. More out of a fear of heatstroke than a fear of the virus, though that's certainly present. I've waffled on this, but really I'm ready to just say we're home (no travel, not sheltering in place) until 2021.

As Ashley said above though having a temperature is not an accurate way to see if someone is potentially infected and in any even all people have to do if they have a temperature is pop some Tylenol.  We see it all the time at school. Parents constantly send their kids back to school the day after they are sent home with fevers because they give them Tylenol and “they seem fine, no fever!  Here ya go”.  By 1 o’clock the Tylenol has worn off and the kids have a fever again.  

I wonder what restrictions Disney can put on who can enter their park and what those would be?  Not picking on you, but genuinely curious what they can do.  

I would be surprised if they open up this year, sadly because I have a long planned and delayed trip set for about the same time as you and it makes me really sad to realize we probably won’t get to go.  

If they do open they won’t likely have parades or face character meet and greets.  They would also likely require people use the app to order and pick up food. 

Priorities shift. And sometimes they need to. But this is interesting. Less emissions but more plastics. And apparently too many people still don’t know not to litter, if the pics of abandoned gloves are any indication.

Gosh people suck.  It would NEVER occur to me to drug myself or my kid in order to get into a theme park.  Then really I have no idea what measures they could take.  Right now my hope is for some miracle treatment or that the parks stay closed.  

Theme parks are filth buckets. You couldn't pay me to set foot in one now or any time in the near future.

I feel bad for employees who have to put their lives at risk so people can ride a stupid ride.

I love Disney but there is no way in hell I would go anytime soon. People in general are dumb and have proven that they just can’t social distance. Couple that with being in a place that caters to kids, and kids are normally all kinds of gross when it comes to touching every.possible.thing and then constantly sticking their hands in their mouths and noses, and that would be one huge NOPE from me.

I’m not generally a germaphobe but I also take reasonable precautions and do what I can to minimize risk from illness (I get flu shots, clean with bleach when people in my family are sick, follow the school’s guidelines for keeping my kid home, etc.) With something like Covid where there’s no vaccine and there isn’t even enough testing to follow up with contact tracing when they KNOW someone has it? Nope. I’m not taking any unnecessary chances with my health or my family’s. My kid has had double lobe pneumonia in the past, DH has some health issues that could prove problematic if he caught it, so I would rather err on the side of caution. 

I’m taking a page out of DH’s playbook and will just stay the heck away from crowds and crowded places.

I'm totally fascinated? (not sure that's the right word, coffee hasn't kicked in) with how the parks will make any of this work.

First off, I can't see them fully opening everything in the park like everything is normal. Because there is no way 50% capacity will pay for all the costs is takes to run one of these parks for a day. Sure they have slower days during normal times, but not every single day. Oh and who decides what that 50% capacity will be? Capacity based on what exactly? If only 6 rides are open, is it 50% of what those rides can hold? 50% of what the lines can hold with 6 feet of space?

Then you have who will be able to go? If this is only for current LOCAL pass holders, Disney has said in the past that local pass holders do not spend enough money in the parks. They go, ride the rides, maybe buy a few treats and leave. Come back the next day and repeat. Local pass holders cannot support the parks on their own. So if they are the only ones going, how long can the parks support that?

For anyone else who may want to go, if you purchase a ticket are you guaranteed entry? What if you show up and all the local pass holders have taken up the 50% capacity? That would not be fun to plan around. And this doesn't even get into people traveling there and needing to stay in the hotels, eat out, etc. That's a whole other can of worms.

Then you have the whole cleaning all surfaces after each? Yea, that's even more personnel needing to clean as a full time job the whole day. So adding even more costs to a park needing to run with half it's normal paying customers? And if most of those are locals not spending money, just riding rides, there is no income to support running these parks.

I can't wait to see what they figure out, because I know they will. But I can't really see them opening this summer without the visitors who travel to these parks and spend tons of money at the hotels, parks, restaurants and surrounding shopping centers. There is no way flights, hotels and restaurants will be ready to fully open for travelers. Open to locals only, how will they be able to fully support the costs to run these parks when they spend so little (according to Disney)? They aren't even buying daily entry tickets since they already own season passes. Pass holders can walk through the door, ride all the rides and then leave without spending a single penny. These parks cannot run fully open with them alone.

An hour and a half is nothing. When we were at WDW last year people were waiting in the standby line for OVER THREE HOURS to go on the Avatar ride. We had a fast pass and even that line was crazy long. We just couldn’t wrap our heads around waiting in a queue for almost half a day just to go on a single ride.

If they limit occupancy to 50% they may be able to have enough space for lining people up 6 feet apart.  Fantasyland would be tough but maybe they will close access to Fantasyland and only allow so many in at a time?  The lineup for Splash Mountain is pretty tight at the end as well as the Matterhorn and those are just 2 that I can think of right now.  Guessing the submarine ride won't be an option at all.  And, what about shopping?  The shops are not designed for any type of social distancing at all.

I do wonder how they would handle the line up before the parks open?  Maybe so many people wouldn't congregate because with only 50% occupancy, there wouldn't be a big benefit to being one of the first several hundred into the park?