Florida will continue to be the only place that you can visit a fully owned Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) theme park in the near future. The original Disneyland in California has yet to reopen since closing in the wake of the pandemic more than 10 months ago. Over the weekend, Disneyland Paris announced that it's bumping its second restart date from Feb. 13 until at least April 2.
With the recent spike of COVID-19 cases in Europe, it's not entirely a surprise. Disneyland Paris opened alongside Disney World and Disney-branded gated attractions in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai between late spring and early summer last year. The French resort shuttered its two theme parks in late October. It was hoping to reopen for two weeks during the peak Christmas holiday season but that didn't happen with coronavirus cases rising throughout Europe. Disneyland Paris is now only taking reservations for visits from April 2 onward, and naturally there's no guarantee that it will be able to open then, either. Running a theme park is a challenging endeavor in the new normal.
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