Parking lot trams are now back at EPCOT, meaning that you can once again catch a parking trams at every Walt Disney World theme park!
Parking lot trams returned to Disney's Hollywood Studios earlier today, and now they are back at EPCOT too!
This will be the first time since before COVID-19 forced Walt Disney World to close in 2020 that parking lot trams are operating at all four theme parks in the resort.
All parking lot trams were stopped in March 2020, when all four Walt Disney World Resort theme parks temporarily closed due to the worldwide COVID- 19 pandemic.
When the theme parks resumed operations in July 2020, all parking lot tram services remained suspended due to physical distancing restrictions that were put into effect at the resort.
As physical distancing rules were relaxed, and operations slowly returned to normal at the resort, Walt Disney World did not resume parking tram operations within any of the theme parks.
Even as mask requirements were dropped for all Disney Transportation options, Disney cited health and safety concerns for not resuming operations on the parking trams.
Eventually in the face of criticism from guests who were having to walk to their vehicles in theme park parking lots, often enduring long walks in extreme heat, Disney eventually announced that parking trams would return to the theme park in December 2021, with service resuming at all other parks in 2022.
It was on December 19, 2021 that parking trams were returned to service at Magic Kingdom, and it was a further 5 months before parking trams resumed operations at Disney's Animal Kingdom on May 27, 2022.
The remainder of 2022 came and went, with no parking trams in sight at either EPCOT or Disney's Hollywood Studios, and only now, three and a half years later that once again we have parking lot tram service at all four Walt Disney World theme parks.
Beep! Beep! Hurray!
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