GimpYancIent
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And you are clairvoyant.
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News Walt Disney World theme parks increase capacity but see longer waits and less physical distancing
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And you are clairvoyant.
Cesar R M
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I guess I'm going to have to do a lot of walking around. Those long lines terrify me. XD
Unless of course one of those who passed was a mother, father, grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother, sister or close friend. So according to your logic, tough luck.
zengoth
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Animal kingdom today felt like a normal pre-pandemic day. Despite some restaurants and shows still being closed, there was plenty of fun. Besides everyone being masked, the only odd things were the 6feet apart queues. Festival of the lion king might be closed, but it became the place the Safari line started in one direction and Flight of Passage started in the other. Wait times were inflated. FOP showed 80 minutes, but we were inside in under an hour. There were a few chokepoints, like around the Everest queue, where we had to wade thru the thick crowd, but for the most part we moseyed along and did everything on our agenda. One more weird thing- it appeared FOP was honoring a few fast passes. We wondered how that was happening.
UNCgolf
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My guess is they were fast passes given out by guest services as apologies for something.
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bluetiedye
Active Member
While winter will push people indoors in most states, in Florida it actually enables people to be outdoors more, which is preferable to limit the spread of COVID.
Of course, nobody knows for sure as this is the world’s first winter with COVID, but the hope is that the winter may actually be advantageous in Florida.
While it could be recovery for various reasons, most attractions are using their old "FastPass" lines as the entrance for the DAS (disability access service) and for rider switches.
lentesta
Premium Member
It's been noted elsewhere on these boards that folks using the DAS service, VIP tours, and Club 33 members all have FastPass access to the attractions.
been doing fine since they opened months ago and during schools coming back, pro sports being played with fans in the stands, major holidays , hitting capacity, being open at night, bars being open, and many other things that some have said that would cause them to have an outbreak or shutdown again. Also did fine during the months of February when it is known that the virus was actively present in Florida and it was business as usual in the parks full capacity etc.
I’d be surprised if they do close WDW again. Maybe more restrictions, but closing would mean it’s gotten a lot lot worse in general in Florida. And if that’s the case vacations may be the last thing to worry about.
Again, I hope and don’t think it would come to a full closure. But there again if you’d asked me in February did I think a full closure would happen this year....
2020 has proved one thing. Expect the unexpected.
rreading
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Crowds at MK today are remarkable. Someone looking to avoid corona should NOT be here. Social distancing is not consistently working as the line for HM stretched into Frontierland (and for those who haven’t been here - they’re winding it through the Liberty Belle and Keelboat docks). Huge number of people here.
No one seems sick though.
Waits for snacks are routinely daunting (50 feet long) though the waits we’ve waited were only ~15 minutes. Lots of carts closed.
I for one miss FP+ terribly. Normally we can skirt a few selected long waits. Today there is no avoiding any long waits. Sure the standby lines move routinely but there are way more people in the standby line. Perhaps when they re-introduce FP+ they can limit it to three per day so as to not overwhelm the number of the fast passes that are used.
That being said, for right now they probably do a much better job of spacing people out in the queues compared with having people in the shops and the esplanades.
No one seems sick though.
Waits for snacks are routinely daunting (50 feet long) though the waits we’ve waited were only ~15 minutes. Lots of carts closed.
I for one miss FP+ terribly. Normally we can skirt a few selected long waits. Today there is no avoiding any long waits. Sure the standby lines move routinely but there are way more people in the standby line. Perhaps when they re-introduce FP+ they can limit it to three per day so as to not overwhelm the number of the fast passes that are used.
That being said, for right now they probably do a much better job of spacing people out in the queues compared with having people in the shops and the esplanades.
RichKermitFan
Active Member
DAS is not a FastPass
HongKongFooy
Well-Known Member
You describe a terrible outing at WDW....absoltely abysmal
Masks everywhere, queues so long as to mess with the atmosphere, closed eats. NO THANKS
I think I'd take a 95 degree day with scattered huge downpours, 62k guests sprinkled with some Brazil chants over the above scenario.
Dan Deesnee
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I was there last week and experienced the opposite of what you're saying...
I've been to the parks over 10 times now in the past 5 years. I would say it felt like pretty low crowd early November days to me. Definitely not empty.
Also the pictures are pointless. When I was in the park if you turned your head one direction it looked packed and if you turned your head the other direction it looked empty so you can use pictures to prove either point.
Also I think it's interesting to note that the resorts are crowded and I was at three of them throughout the week. Including Riviera.
HongKongFooy
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I learned from Columbus to apply rule #1.....cardio: keep yourself fit. Rule #2 is helps out quite a bit, too: Always "double tap"
Jrb1979
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Get used to it as it's most likely going to be that way for awhile.
Chi84
Premium Member
Nobody knows this - depends on factors such as the unpredictable nature of this novel virus, development of a vaccine, development of rapid tests, public tolerance of restrictions, Disney’s business decisions, etc. I suppose “awhile” is vague enough to cover anything. I’m optimistic that things will be better “soon.”
Need? Absolutely. Will it? Not at the moment. Understandably. It’s kind of what a worldwide pandemic does.
You can only gamble with lives so far.
rreading
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Unfortunately soon won’t likely be until Spring
BWDVCkidsince96
Active Member
We have the typical recovery apology type fastpasses for our December trip coming up but as with most such fastpasses, they exclude the most popular rides like fop, sdmt, MMRR, etc, so the people with fastpasses for fop would probably be those with disabilities, rider switch, or the like I’d imagine.