food IS a theme park
We’ve seen signs that several bars in Disney World could be close to reopening!
Cape Gobbler
Even though all of the Disney World parks and select Resort hotels have now reopened, there are still some restaurants and bars across property that remain temporarily closed. And while several locations including Cinderella’s Royal Table and Hollywood & Vine have announced reopening dates for later this month, we also noticed some signs of reopening at a few of Disney World’s bars!
While the theme parks in Disney World are now open, both of Disney’s water parks — Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park — remain closed.
Mickey Photo Op at Disney’s Blizzard Beach
Now we’ve got an update from Disney in terms of when we’ll potentially be able to take a splash at those water parks again.
Bars had to close temporarily due to the global health crisis. This regulation affected many bars at Walt Disney World.
Dockside Margaritas
Dockside Margaritas initially reopened with the rest of Disney Springs then had to shutter their windows immediately once the new regulation was in order. Flash forward to today when Florida bars can reopen at 50% capacity. We just learned that the little-Marg-stand-that-could has reopened!
We saw a lot of changes when Florida’s theme parks reopened, including many at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida.
Camp Jurassic at Universal Studios Florida
Many of these changes involved social distancing: not just in the parks, but also on the rides. Since reopening, theme park attractions have been seating guests in every other row.
The global health crisis has brought about many challenges for bars and restaurants in Florida.
Dockside Margaritas at Disney Springs
Although Walt Disney World began reopening this summer, many of its bars had to shut down due to a statewide ban of on-premises alcohol consumption at bars. This applied to any locations that received more than 50% of gross revenue through alcohol sales.
Although Downtown Disney welcomed back guests in July, the rest of Disneyland Resort remains closed.
Disneyland Main Entrance
And it seems that Disneyland’s reopening continues to get delayed, with reservations most recently canceled through September 12th. At the time, guests could only make reservations after September 15th.
We haven’t been able to step inside Disneyland Park for quite a few months now.
Disneyland Gate
We wish Elsa could “tell the guards to open up the gates!” But alas, we’ve only been able to stare longingly at the park from afar for now. On our last visit, however, we noticed something new had been placed near the park’s entrance!
Earlier this year, Hong Kong Disneyland closed temporarily due to the global pandemic.
©Disney
It then reopened in June, only to close again shortly thereafter, in July, due to an increase in Covid-19 cases in the region. Although the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort hotels are open, Hong Kong Disneyland Park remains closed. Now, nearly two months later, we’ve got some signs that may point to another reopening of Hong Kong Disneyland coming in the near future.
In mid-June Disney World announced that Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party would be canceled this year.
Gingerbread Cookie at Epcot’s 2019 Festival of the Holidays
But, uncertainty still remained over Christmastime offerings like Magic Kingdom’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, EPCOT’s International Festival of the Holidays, and Candlelight Processional.
Shortly before Disney World’s phased reopenings began on July 11th, Disney announced that they would be cancelling Mickey’s-Not-So-Scary Halloween Party this year.
Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
As for their winter seasonal offerings, Disney World hadn’t quite reached a decision — until today. Disney has just officially announced Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party will not take place in 2020.
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