During The Walt Disney Company’s Q1 FY2021 Earnings call on Thursday, Feb. 11, CEO Bob Chapek shared the company’s expectations for COVID-19 precautions at the Disney Parks and what guests can anticipate in the future.
Just a few days after California officials announced they would lift the statewide stay-at-home-order, Disneyland Resort announced that dining establishments on Buena Vista Street in Disney California Adventure and the Downtown Disney District would be reopening.
Disneyland Paris will not reopen to guests this February as originally announced, as the resort has shared that it will extend its temporary closure due to the current conditions in Europe.
While Disneyland Resort may still be closed to guests in Anaheim, it will soon become a new Super Point-of-Dispensing site (POD) for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Let’s face it: 2020 was a stressful, complicated year in the theme park industry. With record-long closures, enhanced safety protocols, face masks, and more, visiting your favorite parks looked a lot different this year.
December is always one of the busiest times in Orlando for the theme parks. That fact was very apparent today when both Universal Studios Florida and Universal’s Islands of Adventure were closed for capacity before 9 a.m. Due to social distancing measures, all the major parks in Florida have followed CDC guidelines to limit visitors, which has reduced capacity to less than half for most locations.
As part of the company’s ongoing steps to provide exceptional experiences and solutions for meeting professionals and attendees, Marriott International has identified health protocol options—including COVID-19 testing—that may be selected for group meetings at certain Marriott branded hotels beginning in January 2021.
As people across the world hope for a COVID-19 vaccine to be ready and distributed as soon as possible, what could that mean in terms of the changes we’ve seen in the theme parks so far? Will guests and employees still be required to wear masks? Will plexiglass still separate you from the row in front on your ride vehicle? Will your party still need to stand on a sticker six feet away from another party? The short answer? No one knows yet – or has announced plans for these circumstances.
“Festival of the Lion King,” a beloved fan-favorite show, did not re-open when Disney’s Animal Kingdom did back in July. The building was presumed to have been in a state of limbo, waiting for the show to begin again. Instead, it appears that the show building has been emptied to be temporarily used as a…
Disney has announced that Hong Kong Disneyland will experience yet another temporary closure starting Dec. 2, 2020 due to COVID-19.
