Effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) On Entertainment & Tourism Industry

[ThemeParks4Life]

DeSantis just approved the Phase 1 re-opening for South Florida and will announce Phase 2 tomorrow. He'll probably announce when the parks can/should re-open with it.

Edit: Also, Disney has just cancelled reservations for the first week of June.

 

[BBPH]

This is cute

 

[Wishmaster]

Dark Harbor isn’t happening for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with COVID-19.

Yes, I know they released an article about Queen Mary but my post was specifically to predict the probability of the other events.

 

[Bobharlem]

This is cute

If you ever wanted to know what the local blogger's drive...

 

[Jerroddragon]

just a though but this may be the end of single riders.But on a bright note ill get an entire ride vehicle to myself on forbidden journey.

Ohhh F....going to have to buy the AP with Front of the line on it then.

I walked on to Potter soooo many times because of Single rider...RIP

 

[Evan]

This is a nope from me.

 

[JungleSkip]

This is a nope from me.

Considering the “spacing” between groups and the fact that they’re all probably bloggers there just to get a few pictures I’d say if you show up in an hour it’d be empty again

 

[Lucky Planet]

This is a nope from me.

i am at least seeing masks, at least

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

Really curious what the temperature check experience is like.

 

[JoeCamel]

Considering the “spacing” between groups and the fact that they’re all probably bloggers there just to get a few pictures I’d say if you show up in an hour it’d be empty again

Unless they have day specific merch the tills will be empty at the end of the day. Maybe a couple of Auntie Ann's but few bucks today.

 

[snayberry]

I’m watching the livestream on Facebook from Streaming The Magic. It doesn’t look so bad, lots of open space once you get in City Walk. This gives me hope. Kudos to Universal for having the crew continuously sanitizing areas. Hope everything goes well for them.

 

[Tbad556]

I no longer think that I'll even debate going to the parks within the first month of reopening after seeing that. Does a temperature check even matter when there's literally no distancing prior to the check?

 

[Alicia]

Really curious what the temperature check experience is like.

Like this:

I no longer think that I'll even debate going to the parks within the first month of reopening after seeing that. Does a temperature check even matter when there's literally no distancing prior to the check?

There's warning signs about keeping 6 feet apart everywhere after you park, then 6 foot spaced out stickers in a long line leading to temp checks from what I am seeing on Twitter. Also, only 1 family in elevators at a time.









Expedition Theme Park on Twitter

 

[Tbad556]

There's warning signs about keeping 6 feet apart everywhere after you park, then 6 foot spaced out stickers in a long line leading to temp checks from what I am seeing on Twitter. Also, only 1 family in elevators at a time.

Which I appreciate and I'm not sure what else Universal can necessarily do, but I have no interest in dealing with a crowd like that having very little etiquette. I pictured a much cleaner, probably overly-optimistic scenario in my head where distancing actually was done by guests I know my old TM friends I've talked to who have seen those pictures are no longer dying to get back to work like they were previously.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

I wonder what Voodoo Doughnuts looks like now...

 

[JoeCamel]

Which I appreciate and I'm not sure what else Universal can necessarily do, but I have no interest in dealing with a crowd like that having very little etiquette. I pictured a much cleaner, probably overly-optimistic scenario in my head where distancing actually was done by guests I know my old TM friends I've talked to who have seen those pictures are no longer dying to get back to work like they were previously.

Wait for the bloggers to leave, it will be much better.

 

[Tbad556]

Wait for the bloggers to leave, it will be much better.

I can't say that I have more faith in regular guests having more etiquette than bloggers after my years of working in the parks

I wonder what Voodoo Doughnuts looks like now...

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

Judging six feet of separation between folks is kinda hard to do in pictures. Long story short, but my wife and I ended up in a Twitter photo of people hanging out in a park here in LA last weekend, and the tweet went kinda viral because it looked like people weren't social distancing, but IRL people were really well spread out. So, some photos might be a tiny bit deceiving.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Judging six feet of separation between folks is kinda hard to do in pictures. Long story short, but my wife and I ended up in a Twitter photo of people hanging out in a park here in LA last weekend, and the tweet went kinda viral because it looked like people weren't social distancing, but IRL people were really well spread out. So, some photos might be a tiny bit deceiving.

Exactly, people are standing apart but head on photos don't show depth of field correctly.

 

[knoxmyers]

All things considered, I think everyone is doing pretty well in the pic, better than I anticipated!