Universal Orlando Reopening Hotels Early
By George Robbins
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, amusement parks have been shut down in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Now that we are getting closer to the summer season, however, parks are planning their reopenings to the public. They will not be able to reopen in any kind of official capacity and will only be able to reopen with reduced park capacity with other restrictions involved. Within the next week or two, many different parks will have their gates opened to the public, but the question is how many people are they really expecting to get and will this work out the way they plan on it. Of the parks that will be reopening, Universal in Orlando, Florida will be opening at the end of this week.
Universal will officially be reopening their park to the public on Friday, June 5th in order to kick off their summer season and are hoping to draw some people in. While the parks may be opening, they still need to draw people’s attention and they have a plan in place in order to try and get at least some people to go into their park. Before the parks reopen, however, Universal has plans to reopen some of their hotels to guests by Tuesday, June 2nd. These guests would then get some perks exclusive only to them when they get to go into the park earlier than anticipated. Guests at their hotels will be able to go into the parks after being screened on June 3rd and 4th before the park officially opens on June 5th.
Like all other amusement parks and hotel chains, Universal must have screenings set up in order to allow in guests. These screenings are simple things like temperature checks and to make sure people are wearing masks to prevent spread of disease. This is a part of the new health guidelines to prevent spread of coronavirus and will be adhered to by everybody regardless of early entry or reduced capacity in the parks. This will be what it is like to go to these places nowadays and it is becoming part of the training employees must go through before then. It really is a strange time to be alive and maybe not too long from now we will see parks being allowed to relax a bit on protocol, but as long as the virus is around, this is how things are.