Orlando’s theme parks ending sluggish year on bright note – by closing the gates

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Personally I have seen on several websites where Disney had to close it’s gates this week due to hitting capacity before noon. Good or Bad you decide…

Article from the Orlando Sentinel

blockquoteOrlando’s theme parks appear to be ending a lackluster year on a positive note.


Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando are all experiencing thick crowds and long lines this holiday week.

The region’s most popular theme park, the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, has been forced to close its gates multiple times this week after hitting capacity, including on Tuesday morning. SeaWorld has had to direct cars to the parking lot of its Aquatica water park and then shuttle them back to the main park. At Universal Studios, the line for the new Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster has at times topped three hours.

“I have never seen so many people packed into one area,” said Marnita Torres of New Mexico, who was in Disney’s Animal Kingdom on Tuesday.

Torres, who is visiting Disney World this week with her son and two granddaughters, was in the Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day as part of “a mass of humanity on Main Street.”

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is typically one of the most intensely busy periods of the year for Orlando’s theme parks. But 2009 has hardly been a typical year.

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