Attention Tomh: My dates have changed, can you update the roll call? We switched to August 22-28, still at the Poly. My coworker and I discovered we had the same week of vacation booked and mine was easier to move. Saved about $800 by switching too!
How are we feeling about a return to a sense of normalcy by August?
Attention mantysk8coach: (sorry, couldn't resist lol) Roll Call has been updated with your new dates
Awesome that you saved $800 by moving your vacation!
A sense of Normalcy by August, well, that is a tough question to answer. I, for certain, feel that we are headed in that direction. We have had a year of people getting Covid-19 and recovering from it (yes, I know sadly some have died, but lots of people have had it and recovered) which should give them some form of immunity from it. Now, we have the beginnings of vaccine distribution, which I am sure will ramp up over the course of the coming months.
Will that be enough by August for us to really see something that resembles normal. I suppose that depends on what you consider to be normalcy. I don't think we will be past mask mandates by August. I don't think we will be at 100% capacity for the parks by then either, but at the same rate, the parks never really hit 100% capacity in August anyway. I still think we will have somewhat lower crowds than we had pre-Covid, but I think the parks will be busier than they have been since they reopened.
I hope that some shows will be starting to return to the parks in some manner, but I don't expect that you will see huge crowds shoved together into tight seating for Fantasmic, or the hub packing for Happily Ever After, and to be honest, I wonder if those things might not return the way they were before for quite a number of years. I am optimistic that perhaps EPCOT will return to having it's show, as there is more room for crowds to spread out for that show.
All just guesses on my part though, only time will tell for certain. However, from what I have been hearing, park capacity has been inching up, so baby steps in the right direction.
We will be at CBR 8/1-8/7 for my twins 10th birthday!
You have been added to the Roll Call. Happy planning
