Day Two (Sunday June 6) was a wonderful day at the Magic Kingdom.
Before I begin the long recap, just some observations:
- The weather was hot - but at least it didn't rain
- without fast passes, the wait times were great
- a lot of places (restaurants) were still closed, which was a little disappointing
- face masks were required only inside, which was nice. However, there was some confusion about what "inside" actually meant (see Splash Mountain)
- about 80% of the hand sanitizer stations we tried worked, compared to only about 30% at Animal Kingdom
- some safety measures are still in place such as distance separating on rides, but some are not such as following the 6 ft. distance markers in line.
We arrived at the Magic Kingdom about12:30 and walked right on a monorail with no wait. We had the entire pod to ourselves, but they are able to accommodate 8 people.
Our first attempt at a ride was Buzz Lightyear which we quickly realized was not working at the time as the line was not moving and the wait time had been taken down. So we moved on to Space Mountain where we had about a 30-minute wait.
As we were walking to Fantasyland, we noticed there was no wait for Winnie the Pooh so we walked right on...
The wait for Peter Pan was about 30 minutes - was one of the longer waits of the day, but considering it is usually well over an hour, it was still considered good.
We then headed over to Frontierland where we could not believe that we basically walked right on Thunder Mountain
Then we moved to Splash Mountain which was, by far, the most difficult wait of the day! It was about a 45-minute wait which wasn't bad. But it was so hot at this time and, most frustrating, the workers were instructing people to put masks on as soon as they entered the line even though the outside wait was at least a half hour! Once we got on the ride we all agreed that while we normally don't enjoy getting wet on water rides, we would absolutely NOT mind it that day.
At this point we desperately needed to hydrate so we returned to Tomorrowland and had a soda at the Lunching Pad. They changed the entrance...I wasn't impressed.
After the sodas, we waited just a few minutes for Buzz Lightyear, Carousel of Progress, and for the People Mover.
We were not even close to being done yet - I can't believe how much we were able to do this day. We walked over to Adventureland and waited about 20 minutes for Pirates of the Caribbean and then returned to Thunder Mountain for another ride.
Finally, we ended the day with a 15-minute wait for It's A Small World and only about a 5-minute wait for Haunted Mansion.
And that was a wrap on day two. Up next...day three at EPCOT.
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