Currently at the parks. Some observations:
I can confirm the temperature check line was stupid beyond belief. When I arrived around 9:30, I parked on the bottom floor of the garage, and when I reached the third floor, there was already a massive, unstructured line. Fortunately almost everyone had a mask on by that point, but until you get closer to the check, there are no “actual” 6 feet markers, just the reminder circles.
Likewise, entering USF was pretty bad for social distancing. Everyone just stood outside the gate, and the wrap around the ticket booths into the turnstiles had very little space for social distancing. If reservations will be required in the future, a staggered opening needs to work much better. Fortunately walking over to IOA at noon was issue-free.
The parks were pretty busy this morning, but right now, it’s died down a lot. There was a very brief shower 20-30 mins ago, but the crowds were dispersing before them. I was able to get on Spider-Man, Hulk, and Cat in the Hat with 0-10 min waits in the past hour, and I’m currently waiting for a Hagrid reservation at 3. At USF, I did Rockit, Supercharged (with only 2 other people on my bus; it was as hilarious as it sounds), MIB, E.T., and Mummy in about two hours. None were using virtual queue at the time, and waits were being inflated for some rides.
I’m relatively happy with sanitation procedures at the rides, but there is a significant lack of hand sanitizer outside of the rides. That’s the one thing that needs to be improved upon.
Virtual Queue is buggy as hell. Reserving a time almost never works and requires restarting the app. The system definitely isn’t as robust as Fastpass+, but given how low crowds are right now, I don’t foresee it being an issue with the lower capacity.
I’ll have more thoughts later.