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Headed to Disney World this month for some holiday cavalcades, EPCOT’s International Festival of the Holidays, and festive treats?
Main Street Holiday Character Cavalcade
Well, if you haven’t already gotten your Park Passes or you’re looking to change some of the ones you have for other parks, now is your time. Disney has made more Park Passes available throughout the month!
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Disney World is about to get a lot busier with the holidays, especially now that the parks are decorated, and the holiday snacks and entertainment have appeared!
Holidays at the Magic Kingdom 2020
That’s why we haven’t been TOO surprised seeing park pass availability for the month of December sell out, especially for Christmas and New Year’s Eve!
We’ve steadily seen more crowds at Disney World since its reopening, especially now that the holidays are in full force at the parks.
Holiday Crowds
And that’s likely to be the case for Thanksgiving Week, at least according to today’s Disney Quarterly Earnings Call.
Thinking of heading to Disney World during December to celebrate the holiday season?
Magic Kingdom
One thing you’ll definitely need is a Disney Park Pass Reservation for each of the parks you want to visit on the specific days you want to be there. If you haven’t already booked your Park Passes for New Year’s Eve or Christmas Day, you definitely should soon as the days are starting to fill up!
On October 20th, the state of California released its reopening guidelines.
Disneyland at Christmas
Although Disneyland has not released a reopening date yet, we can’t help but wonder what the west coast parks will look like when they do reopen. Based on the guidelines, this is what we expect Disneyland’s reopening to look like for guests!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Disney World…
Hollywood Studios Christmas
…which happens to be one of the busiest seasons of the year! As a quick update, Disney implemented a new Park Pass reservation system that monitors capacity levels in the theme parks. Guests must make a reservation prior to entering the parks and passes are subject to availability. Holidays and weekends tend to fill up the quickest and December has been filling up fast! This is especially true for reservations at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day. Now, more reservations have filled up for Christmas Day and News Years Eve!
If you’re planning on visiting Disney’s Hollywood Studios in December and have not yet made a park pass reservation, you may be out of luck.
Galaxy’s Edge
As you may know, Disney World started the park pass reservation system when it reopened to keep its parks at limited capacity. So a park pass, in addition to a valid ticket, is now required to enter any given park.
A lot has changed at Disney World since its reopening. One of the biggest changes is that guests must now make advance park pass reservations, in addition to having a valid Disney World ticket, to visit a park on any given day.
Magic Kingdom
To do this, guests must go online and choose which park they plan on visiting for each day of their trip. And before now, this could only be done via the Disney World website.
The week of New Year’s Eve is generally a crowded week at Disney World. Despite the parks’ current capacity limits and limited entertainment options due to the global health crisis, that still could be the case this year.
Hollywood Studios Entrance
And now that we’re looking at park pass availability for the week of New Year’s Eve in 2020, and it looks like at least one park, Hollywood Studios, is going to fill up quickly.
After Disney World’s reopening, we slowly began to see weekend park pass availability beginning to fill up for Annual Passholders on a regular basis, particularly with Disney’s Hollywood Studios. (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is still a HUGE draw.)
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
And most recently, we noticed that weekends in October were beginning to fill up for Annual Passholders.
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