New rules at Disney
Dear future Walt Disney World theme parks visitor, the long-awaited reopenings are near.
The next time you go to a Disney theme park, it will look and feel different as it emerges from a four-month shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s just life in 2020. Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom are opening to the general public on Saturday, with Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios following suit on July 15. (See factoid No. 1 below for the hitch in all this.) Disney World employees and annual passholders were eligible for previews on the days before the official reopening.
Disney released many details about the procedures over the
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past few weeks, but we’ve rounded up 10 basic factoids about the near-future experience. Remember that the situation is fluid. Adjustments will be made by the parks, and Disney has included words such as “at first” to indicate that some moves may be temporary. Confused? Ask a cast member when you get there. 1. Reservations required: Right now, to go inside any Disney theme park, visitors must have a date-specific reservation in addition to a valid ticket or annual pass. This is a great variance from the first 48 years of Walt Disney World, where, in theory, you could wake up, drive to the park, walk up and buy a ticket, pretty much spontaneously.
Now you need a plan.
Those Park Passes are secured through Disneyworld.com, and they are limited. They’re also di