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Disney World Annual Pass
Breakups can be hard, especially if you’re talking about breaking up with your Disney World Annual Pass. The reality is that even with hotel discounts, complimentary magnets, and other exclusive discounts, sometimes there just aren’t enough benefits to keep renewing your annual pass year after year. Also, one Disney World competitor is making it very enticing to switch to their annual pass.
This week Disney World, SeaWorld, and Universal Orlando had to close their theme parks due to Hurricane Ian.Â
Universal Orlando
We have been tracking the hurricane to make sure that you have the most up-to-date information on the storm and how it might impact your trip to Disney World. Today, Disney World shared a phased reopening and SeaWorld shared that they would remain closed until Saturday, October 1. Now, we have an update from Universal Orlando.Â
Theme parks in Florida have been reopened for a few weeks now, following temporary closures. Universal Orlando was one of the first, initially reopening in early June.
Universal
As the global health crisis continues, the Universal Orlando (and Walt Disney World) are continuing to tweak their health and safety procedures that may impact your trip, especially those concerning face coverings.
Since theme parks have started to reopen, one of their highest priorities has been implementing stricter health and sanitation procedures.
Disney Springs Sign
Although Disney World and Disneyland haven’t welcomed guests back just yet (but will soon!!), Disney has still started to implement some of its heath and safety procedures in Disney Springs. On top of the temperature checks, social distancing measures, and face mask requirements, restrooms (yes, restrooms) have even switched things up, too.
Universal Orlando reopened a little over a week ago to greet all sorts of guests, show off its new Virtual Queue system, and introduce U-Rest locations (even if there were some bumps in the road throughout the day).
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Prior to reopening to the general public, Universal Orlando offered Annual Passholder previews. And now, Universal is doing something else for APs eager to hang out at the parks again.Â
We’ve been hard at work scoping out all the latest news for you this week. Today we have all the details on what’s happening that affects the Disney Parks.
Disney Springs
Due to the current global situation, Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris theme parks will be closed until further notice. Shanghai Disneyland reopened in mid-May and Disney World is REOPENING on July 11th! See all of our coverage HERE. And Disney Springs has REOPENED! Now — we still have a LOT to share with you this week, so let’s jump right in… .
We’re reporting LIVE from the grand reopening of Universal Orlando today.
Universal Studios
And while we’ve already stopped by to check out theme parks earlier this week during an Annual Passholder preview, today is the first day Universal is open to the general public! Let’s go check it out!
Universal Orlando is now OPEN for a special Annual Passholder preview, (and we’re ready to drink all the Butterbeer we can get our hands on)!
Butterbeer
While we’ve been taking you to some of Universal’s newly reopened hotels, as well as showing you how the new virtual lines works, we’ve received a lot of questions from you guys about what it’s like to wear face coverings while riding attractions!
Universal Orlando Resort will reopen to the public this Friday, June 5th.
Universal Orlando
When the Resort presented its proposed plans for reopening to Florida’s Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force, one of the measures they mentioned was pre-arrival communications for guests coming to Universal Orlando so they could be well-prepared for what to expect (and protocols they would be asked to follow) during their visit. [Read more…]
Universal Orlando will officially be opening to the public on June 5th. Buuut, if you’re an Annual Passholder, you’ll get to go back home to Hogwarts early!
Universal
After Universal Orlando announced its extensive health and safety protocols, it also stated that they would be opening the parks to team members and Annual Passholders prior to June 5th.
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