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Looks nice! Similar vibe to the Efteling hotel.

Yeah, this thread is getting out of hand. Once again, I don't know why MASKS are what is making the country go crazy but take the crazy elsewhere. Have your kids wear a mask and follow the rules or don't go. I have a kid. You teach your kids young that they have to follow rules even if they're uncomfortable or don't make sense to you personally. I mean, when your kid says the carseat/seatbelt is uncomfortable do you let them take it off!?! Now, how's that SFStL opening plan going!?!

Yup, we've also been watching the 'number of hospitalizations' figures as I feel that's probably most important.

This is not a short term problem. Even if we somehow beat the virus in the next six months and give permission for everything to open back up the damage has been done. I expect to see at least a few small parks close and probably one or two decent size ones.

^I think you need to call. I remember dealing with them and the whole 'which hotel will you be assigned to' was super sketchy.

LOL! Yup!

I agree that it's ridiculous that Indoor FEC's and Movie Theaters were told they could open but parks were not, but apparently that also is having issues so who knows. Ohio. I just thought announcing a suit so fast was a big move.

Wow. That escalated quickly!

^Yay! Great news for you guys!

HA! Miss all you guys! And miss all my trip people...and trips. Ugh, We need to seriously fix up our countries issues and move forward and do fun things again.

Ha! And next year! We will get the world back on a better track and go to Japan!

Cyclops saves that park in my eyes. I don't know how it still runs and how it never killed anyone but it's a great ride. I'm guessing part of your better experience than average is due to smaller crowds and more dedicated employees. Thanks for the trip report!

We've seen people wear masks on giant RMC's so it's certainly possible. No one argues that it's going to be uncomfortable on a hot summer day, but if it's wear a mask or have the parks closed most of us will deal with it.

KT has been trying to kill Dan for 13 years now...someday she will succeed.

^And yet, BGT IS closed for two days consecutively. I agree that this was done for money/staffing reasons, but a lot of us guessed that BGT and SWO wouldn't have the same closed day.

Great to hear! Hoping that there's not a spike, but we all saw what happened in Missouri over Memorial Day weekend so a few more days and they'll be in the clear right!??!?

I'm really surprised and somewhat impressed that so many of you didn't realize that the WDW version wasn't an actual elevator!!!! Yay for Disney Magic!

Odd choice to open on a Thursday but then be closed on all future Tuesdays and Thursdays?!?!

I feel like this park really improved since our last visit in 2008. Sure it's not really meant for a group like ours but it was nice to see such a great family park with some fun rides. Formule X is underrated and a really great ride. Awesome photos as always!

^Europa has always been so dead set against any skip the line system, at least this would be one positive to come out of the pandemic!!!

^I'm sure they'll just have the doors open and you'll walk through the rooms.

We have video from the one at Skyline Park. It's in our Carnival Cruise preview video. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be] Go to the 33 second mark and you'll see the ACTUAL ride.

I explain it as you're not getting punched in the head anymore, your whole body now takes the brunt of it.

^Very interesting. This seems to be a new 'worry' for parks as Japan has also put out recommendations asking people not to scream on roller coasters. The majority of the research shows that when you pass quickly by small amounts in the air from talking/screaming the infection chance is super low so I wonder if this will be short term when people realize it's a little crazy. https://soranews24.com/2020/05/26/no-screaming-on-roller-coasters-please-say-tokyo-disneyland-other-japanese-amusement-parks/ Amusement park association wants quiet thrill rides, no hugs as part of post-coronavirus closure reopenings. The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on many businesses, but it’s been especially devastating for amusement parks. Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea, as well as Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan, have been closed since late February, dropping their attendance-related revenues down to zero even during Japan’s Golden Week Spring vacation period that straddles the end of April and beginning of March. But with infection numbers decreasing, amusement parks are looking ahead to what sort of precautions they’ll need to put in place in order to reopen. To that end, the East Japan and West Japan Theme Park Associations have prepared a document titled “Guidelines to Prevent the Spread of Infection of the Novel Coronavirus,” which says it has the agreement of Oriental Land Japan and USJ, the companies that manage Tokyo Disneyland/Disney Sea and Universal Studios Japan, respectively. The document, which was posted by Mie Prefecture’s Nagashima Resort hot spring facility to its website, lays out a number of suggested policies. A lot of them seem like they’d be pretty easy to implement, such as capping admission to parks and individual attractions, or checking guests’ temperatures at park entrances and denying admission to those with fevers, and also asking all guests to wear masks while inside the park. The associations also ask entertainment facilities to encourage the use of cashless payment systems and advance purchase tickets, to shorten the amount of time spent standing in lines and handling cash. The guidelines then move into discussing how to manage the attractions and rides themselves and things get tricky. Again, some of them, like keeping windows and doors to indoor attractions open for better ventilation, don’t seem like they should be that hard to follow, but then you come to this: “Roller coasters and other conveyance-style attractions Have guests wear masks, and urge them to refrain from shouting/screaming.” The cathartic release of tension that comes from yelling your guts out at the most intense part of the ride is sort of the whole point of riding a roller coaster. Shouting and screaming are the exact responses they’re designed to produce, after all. But with the coronavirus being an airborne infection, the associations would rather not have riders’ breath, saliva, and other mouth-sourced particles flying around. It’s not only thrill rides that the guidelines want guests to remain quiet while enjoying, though. “Refrain from shouting/screaming” also shows up in the sections for indoor attractions and costumed character shows, which would cover Japanese amusement parks’ terrifying haunted houses and also excited squeals of “Kawaii!” for any cavorting mascots. Speaking of which, the document also asks park managers to instruct staff, including those in costume, to refrain from hugging or any other sort of physical contact with guests, and to develop gestures that can communicate friendliness since employees wearing masks (another listed guideline) will make it harder to see their welcoming smiles. At the moment, these are just guidelines, so it doesn’t look like you’ll be thrown out of Disneyland for getting scared on Space Mountain. Still, if the experience of riding a roller coaster is an even split between fun and frightening for you, the guidelines suggest you’re probably better off waiting a bit longer before your first post-closure day at Disneyland and getting a temporary fix with a virtual visit instead.

Something about flying robots shooting chemicals on me at a park that's 30min from Auschwitz is a bit too disturbing.