News Disney's Animal Kingdom July 2020 reopening reports

[TheDisneyDaysOfOurLives]

As we come up on 12pm here at Animal Kingdom, the wife and I have gone through the entire park once and are wrapping up lunch. The park is so empty and it’s great. This is a much better experience then I thought it would be simply because you’re not dealing with people rushing everywhere, grumpy, and it being packed to the gills. It’s probably going to ruin every trip going forward because this is surreal.

In addition, it gives the cast more time not only to clean, but to interact with you. They all seem happier and friendlier as a result of not being required to deal with thousands of guests flowing through an area at any given time. It makes a world of difference in the service level. So many managers are out as well providing support.

Such a great experience.

 

[wdwmagic]

@Steve - What time were these photo taken?

PHOTOS - Tour of Disney's Animal Kingdom reopening

Very low numbers of guests offer a different look at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

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They look like before 9AM?

Around 9am and through to 10am

 

[wdwmagic]

Photo gallery from today at https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...m-walk-through-with-covid-19-restrictions.htm

 

[Rider]

 

[SoFloMagic]

Not sure if mentioned yet, but Everest is down today. They say down for the day

 

[Rider]

FoP is allowing reride.

 

[TheDisneyDaysOfOurLives]

FoP is allowing reride.

This. We were asked both times we got off the ride. We would've done it but I normally need a break after rides like this (same with Forbidden Journey). The queue is really long otherwise and you're almost exhausted by the end while being thankful for the air conditioning.

 

[Rider]

It feels busier out in the park today than on AP previews last week but the lines are just as short.

 

[Rider]

 

[Crazydisneyfanluke]

I guess with how few of guests there are, they chose to the close places early that were not in demand.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Week's average:

 

[revancho]

Not sure if mentioned yet, but Everest is down today. They say down for the day

Looks like it is still down this morning. Has anybody heard what’s going?

 

[SoFloMagic]

Looks like it is still down this morning. Has anybody heard what’s going?

My uneducated guess would be switch issues. That or the yeti actually broke the track

 

[MisterPenguin]

Looks like they finally got EE going.

 

[MisterPenguin]

 

[DznyGrlSD]

went to AK yesterday (Sunday) and it's officially a 1/2 day park again. Got there by 815, rode/saw everything, at lunch at was gone by 130p. Everything was walk on with the exception of Navi River which was about 15 minutes.

With FOtLK and Nemo closed - that's 2 hours of park time you're not using if you see both shows in 1 day. Dawa was closed and there was a wait for Nomad otherwise I would have stuck around a bit longer.

The new bird show is cute. I've not seen any of the previous versions but I was entertained.

 

[disneygeek90]

went to AK yesterday (Sunday) and it's officially a 1/2 day park again. Got there by 815, rode/saw everything, at lunch at was gone by 130p. Everything was walk on with the exception of Navi River which was about 15 minutes.

With FOtLK and Nemo closed - that's 2 hours of park time you're not using if you see both shows in 1 day. Dawa was closed and there was a wait for Nomad otherwise I would have stuck around a bit longer.

The new bird show is cute. I've not seen any of the previous versions but I was entertained.

I do enjoy the Dawa bar but as long as Pongu Pongu is serving Mo'ara Country Ale I'll be fine. I'm looking forward to my visit there Saturday. FoP as a near walk on all day? Sign me up.

 

[marni1971]

 

[cgersic]

I wonder how many rides of FoP I could get in. Honestly once they open up the AP days I may swap one of my HS or MK days in favor of AK.

I was just there and could have easily ridden 20 times. On, off, on, off, rinse and repeat. It's fabulous!

 

[disneygeek90]

I was just there and could have easily ridden 20 times. On, off, on, off, rinse and repeat. It's fabulous!

How many times did you go?? Looking forward to this experience Saturday.