Shanghai Disneyland will be the first Disney theme park to reopen next week, and should give us an idea of what kind of procedures other theme parks will have to follow during the pandemic.
Yesterday Disney announced that it’ll reopen Shanghai Disneyland on May 11. The first of the company’s 12 theme parks to close due to the coronavirus, it will also be the first to reopen, albeit with a variety of new precautions and policies to hopefully stem the risk of infection. No other Disney parks are currently scheduled to reopen at the moment, but when they do we can probably expect them to follow some of the same procedures as Shanghai.
To get in the park, tickets will have to be bought in advance and for specific dates. Annual passholders won’t be able to just show up—they, too, will need to schedule reservations for specific days in advance. Sanitation measures will also be ramped up, with hand sanitizers located near stores, rides and restaurants, and regular, frequent disinfection of surfaces throughout the park.
Most of the park’s attractions and rides would reopen, along with shops and restaurants. Theaters would remain closed, though, so no indoors shows. Character meet and greets would also be suspended, and events like parades and fireworks—which pretty much require large, stationary groups of onlookers to crowd all up on top of each other—will also not be running.
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