Park visitors will be required to have their temperature taken when they arrive. Face masks are mandatory, except when eating or swimming. Hand-sanitizing stations are sprinkled throughout the park.
There’s only a 15-minute wait right now for the “world famous” Jungle Cruise, whose boats now sport plexiglass barriers, breaking up the bench seating. The skippers deliver their pun-filled spiels about “the backside of water” from behind face masks and transparent vinyl curtains.A sign of the times: The vintage ragtime music that normally plays on Main Street USA is now periodically interrupted by safety announcements.
Guests stand in socially-distanced queue waiting to ride the iconic monorail from the Transportation & Ticket Center to the Magic Kingdom entrance. The train’s cabins have been divided up using vinyl barriers, and only one or two families were allowed in each. On a normal, pre-COVID-19 day, they would have been filled to standing-room only capacity.Minutes after doors opened, there is no wait were no delays for the touch-free forehead temperature checks administered by AdventHealth.
"To put that number in perspective, the Magic Kingdom averages just under 60,000 per day," he says, adding that this week's preview events drew between roughly 7-8,000 per day. "If you look at the lines, too, it's pretty easy to confirm very low attendance," Testa noted. Virtually every ride was a walk-on."The threat of coronavirus still looms over the theme park. Its reopening coincides with a
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