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CityWalk Reopening Photos

CityWalk Reopening Photos and Update

CityWalk is reopening today with new guidelines and increased safety measures.

The parking lot opened to opened to guests at 3:30pm with CityWalk opening at 4pm. Parking was free and no valet was being offered.

Reminder of those new safety measures:

City Walk Guidelines

Check out the photos that we were sent from the opening below:

CityWalk Reopening
30 minutes before the car park reopened.

After parking, the moving walkways to the security and temperature check were not in use.

CityWalk Reopening
Walkways and theme parks closed
CityWalk Reopening and guidelines
Signage for guidelines to entry
CityWalk Reopening 6 feet apart
6 feet apart.

Before entering the security area, a temperature check is taken. Anything over 100.4 is refused entry. The scanner is placed over the forehead and hats need to be removed for the check.

CityWalk Reopening - Temperature check
Temperature check before entering the security hub.
Temperature check 2
This photo was taken later in the day when the crowds had died down.
Temperature Check
This photo was also taken later in the day when the crowds had died down.

After this step you enter through the security hub as normal.

Heading into the familiar sight of CityWalk.

There are more signs around encouraging hand washing and floor markings indicating 6 feet apart.

Drummers welcome guests back.


Safety announcement informing guests of limited capacity and what is open.


Masked Entertainers outside BigFire
Masked Entertainment outside Big Fire grill.
Branded Sanitizer

Universal are selling branded sanitizer and masks.

Universal Hand Sanitizer
Hand Sanitizer for 3$

Universal Facemasks

Stores Open
Open stores.

Walls are up around the stores that were closed before the virus hit. No news on what is replacing them yet.

Construction Walls
Construction Walls around the stores.

Construction Walls around the store

The globe keeps spinning.

Universal Globe

You can walk to the entrance to both parks but no music is on.

A look at some ground work at the front of Universal ticketing.

Universal Entrance

Ticketing work

Work being done at ticketing booth
Work being done on the floor outside of ticketing.
Fence not standing
Fence not doing its duty here. Wind knocking over the barrier.

On the food front the restaurants are spacing out the seating. Margaritaville had a two hour wait as it was at capacity.  It was also running its regular menu. However they were offering plastic cutlery and plates.

Margaritaville
Margaritaville
Outside Seating
Outside seating for Margaritaville
Entrees for Margaritaville
Unchanged menu.

Drinks Menu

The server was wearing a mask and served the table like normal.

Plastic Cutlery
Plastic Cutlery at Margaritaville.

Margaritaville 2Food at MargaritaVille

Voodoo Doughnuts are available to order from the Universal App and provide a pick up time to go grab your order. Red Oven Pizza Bakery is also available to order from the App.

Universal App Food Order
What you can order on the Universal App.

 

With CityWalk reopening I imagine it won’t be too long before BigFire, Toothsome, NBC and the others follow suit in opening.

Look out for more updates from us as they occur.