Disney Post covid changes

[hawk299]

Just trying to keep up to date with what's changed since Covid changed a lot

Park booking, first visited park of the day must be pre-booked

Magic tickets, 14 day (over 18 days) or 7 day (over 15 days) options (no more purchasing of Ultimate - 1,2 or 3 week tickets)

Obviously first up, fastness gone. Replaced by Genie+ (if you want to pay for it - daily), and individual lightning lanes for some premium rides (also additional cost per go). And for now, virtual queue (free) just for Guardians of the Galaxy
(I'll leave that there, plenty of details and other posts about that)

Extra magic hour at select parks (for Disney hotel guests) are now 30 mins at all parks. With extended evening hours (usually 2 hours, Mon in EPCOT and Wed in MK) for selected deluxe hotels

Dining bookings currently 60 days out

Trams:
I believe parking lot trams are running at Magic Kingdom and Animal kingdom. Not returned to EPCOT or HS yet

Magic Kingdom:
Tron, no opening date yet (not soon)
Cavelcades instead of parades
Meet and interact with characters is back

Animal Kingdom:
Cut down Lion King show (no tumble monkeys) - Update, tumble monkeys (full show) is back from 16th July
Finding Nemo show, re-imagined and re-opened 13th June

Holywood Studios:
Fantasmic still closed, no return date announced
New rides, Minnie and Mickey runnaway railway
Star wars land opened 2019...

EPCOT:
New rides, GOTG and Ratatouilles open

Probably missing loads of relevant things so thought I'd post for replies. Also some stuff I've put isn't specifically new post covid
Also helps writing it all down

[Taffy1959]

Festival of Fantasy parade is back in Magic Kingdom but it’s a shortened version

[Orlandoguy]

Parades are definitely back at magic kingdom but somewhat smaller than before

[derenstar]

Tumble monkeys will be back in July for FOTLK -

wdwnt/2022/05/tumble-mon...ng-on-july-16/

[Goldia]

I think housekeeping is still a reduced offer compared to pre covid. Also, mobile ordering food is more commonplace now.

[UnderTheSea]

This is a really helpful thread, thanks!

[hawk299]

Originally Posted by derenstar

Tumble monkeys will be back in July for FOTLK -

wdwnt/2022/05/tumble-mon...ng-on-july-16/

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Amazing thanks, hadn't seen that one and they're one of our (many) favourites

[G54321]

This is super helpful thank you. We are booked to go back to Orlando in May, we have 2 days unexpired on old tickets. Disney Guest Services gave us a code to use when we last visited pre Covid and said to present that at park and they would issue 2 one days hopper passes.Am I understanding correctly that I now have to book park entry in advance as opposed to just showing up? Many thanks

[hawk299]

Originally Posted by G54321

This is super helpful thank you. We are booked to go back to Orlando in May, we have 2 days unexpired on old tickets. Disney Guest Services gave us a code to use when we last visited pre Covid and said to present that at park and they would issue 2 one days hopper passes.Am I understanding correctly that I now have to book park entry in advance as opposed to just showing up? Many thanks

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Yes, you need to pre-book whichever park is the first you visit on any given day
No idea how that works for tickets you don't have yet, guess you have to do it as soon as you get them

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Originally Posted by hawk299

Yes, you need to pre-book whichever park is the first you visit on any given day
No idea how that works for tickets you don't have yet, guess you have to do it as soon as you get them

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I just bought some tickets yesterday, it’s really easy to do in MDE once your tickets are linked.