Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

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Most bars will be wishing they can manage to find enough customers to get to 50% right now.

The restriction is basically meaningless now.
It doesn't matter at this point. The spike is pretty much out of control and the state has clearly decided to go with survival of the fittest at this point. In all honesty, just a lukewarm shut down of some bars wasn't going to accomplish much anyway. Wonder if Disney put pressure on the governor to lighten up so they could open their bars up. Priorities.
 
It doesn't matter at this point. The spike is pretty much out of control and the state has clearly decided to go with survival of the fittest at this point. In all honesty, just a lukewarm shut down of some bars wasn't going to accomplish much anyway. Wonder if Disney put pressure on the governor to lighten up so they could open their bars up. Priorities.
Exactly.
 
I disagree. As mentioned this rule when put into place was to curb the masses at the beach bars where those my age are going and partying nightly. This isn’t for Disney style bars.

That said what will the enforcement be? That’s the real question. This rule needs to be enforced.

Exactly. Without strict enforcement, some places will take the risk and allow more than 50% capacity because they may not be profitable otherwise.

Bars around us have been packed every weekend. We live in a lake town and many visitors come into town for the weekend. If it’s like that around here, I can only imagine what it’s been like at the FL beaches.
 
I wonder what the RotR rope drop looks like. Sure the park capacity is limited, but there will no doubt be some sort of crowd there, if anywhere. Do they make efforts to distance the crowd walking there? In the best of times they had a hard time controlling the crowds for more popular rides.

Lots to watch for at DHS in the first bit.
I think it ends up being a mess the first few days and they go back to the virtual queue. RotR and FoP are the reasons I am surprised they didn't stagger entry times.
 
I think it ends up being a mess the first few days and they go back to the virtual queue. RotR and FoP are the reasons I am surprised they didn't stagger entry times.

Funny enough, they could open those 2 rides 2 hours after open...but let people get in line at open...that would probably get rid of any rush...it would suck, but it would work...
 
Funny enough, they could open those 2 rides 2 hours after open...but let people get in line at open...that would probably get rid of any rush...it would suck, but it would work...
Reduce the daily capacity of the ride by 2 hours every day? I am not a fan of that idea. Then again, I am not the person who would normally run with the crowds at rope drop for it. I can't even guess at what my plan should be though until we see the reality of what lines and rope drop would be.
 
We have visited enough so main attraction rides are not necessities for us. We are hoping most rides will be around 25 minutes or less. That would make us happy . Balancing that with nice TS and some shopping and we will be thrilled. We are not all day park guests either. We always head back to swim .
 
I finally canceled our August trip. Thanksgiving is still there, but it will probably be canceled too if things don't change. I'll wait until I can go back to normal Disney. To me, the value isn't there with such a modified experience and the associated health risks. Good luck to the people that go and be safe.
 
Yes, as long as they sell something you can eat and pretzels are food, they can open. The restrictions are meaningless.
Exactly. I could see a lot of places selling chips or popcorn super cheap just to get around this. Florida is really being pathetic right now, are state officials even trying? They put out an order and cave within 2 weeks even though the situation is worsening there every day...
 
I’m trying to understand how eliminating 2 hours of ride time for these very popular attractions would somehow improve the situation.

It means everyone knows they have 2 hour+ wait to ride them (and arriving early/running/packing in won't change that)...they'll plan accordingly...
 
Just a quick update from Hersheypark. As the day has gone on a lot more chinstraps instead of masks.

The water park area is a bit of a mess as masks not required so no one is wearing one - and no social distancing going on in lines for lazy river and stuff like that

I will say overall the park is really empty - we just rode the new big coaster and it was a 5 minute wait. Given that is is pretty easy to stay far enough away from people but if it was any more crowded then I probably wouldn't feel safe enough here
 
Just a quick update from Hersheypark. As the day has gone on a lot more chinstraps instead of masks.

The water park area is a bit of a mess as masks not required so no one is wearing one - and no social distancing going on in lines for lazy river and stuff like that

I will say overall the park is really empty - we just rode the new big coaster and it was a 5 minute wait. Given that is is pretty easy to stay far enough away from people but if it was any more crowded then I probably wouldn't feel safe enough here
Yeah based on how things went on passholder preview / pickup vs. ticketed crowds, it looks like their operations / enforcement couldn't scale up. Then again our state went Red / Yellow / Green for phasing, and almost every county is in green, but green from the state is wear masks, etc. but green in people's minds are do whatever you feel like.
 
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