New Park Rules in Effect Today at Walt Disney World and Disneyland

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• We visit both parks often through the course of the year. We live in Texas and it’s a long trip for us to get there. On our most recent trip to Florida we could not believe the size the number is extremely large strollers covered wagons and stagecoaches the people were billing as strollers. after that trip I was so excited to hear that they were limiting the size and breath of the wheel implements being called strollers. We raised our families going to the parks we usually use the small umbrella stroller or rented one there. It seemed to work just fine. Glad but there will be fewer encumbrances moving about the parks…

  • I could not wait to get our daughter finished with “stroller life”, and when she turned 6, we got rid of the umbrella stroller we had. It was an annoyance to try and maneuver an umbrella stroller around and have to park it and then find it afterwards, and carry it, and fold and unfold, and so on. I can’t imagine how people survive all that with the tank-size strollers! They must have stronger backs than I do!

• Our Double Sit n Stand is right at the length limit. Hopefully, we don’t need to get it checked over at every park every time at our trip.

  • If they do need to check, the process goes very quickly. You’ll likely spend more time having items in the stroller checked than the stroller itself checked (if you use the stroller for storage as well as for kids).

• I’m wondering the same…

• Ice…is it allowed in a water bottle?

  • Yes, water bottles with ice in it are allowed.

    • Unless this new rule prohibits it, frozen bottles are still allowed. We freeze water bottles overnight and hang them in a hiker’s pouch attached to our fanny packs. As the ices slowly melts, we have a cold drink always at our disposal (at least until the early afternoon).

• I too am wondering about effective ice strategy from this point forward. It appears that “containerized” ice will be acceptable, but I wonder if it will work as well as the prior practice of just dumping a bunch of loose ice into one’s cooler.

• is it true that you can still bring the ice inside ziplocks??

  • Truth told, for Florida in the summer, you will likely have a bag of cold water instead of a bag of ice by the time you get from your hotel to the front entrance.

    The reason behind the rule was to prevent people from bringing in coolers of loose ice that security had to move their hands around in at bag check, leaked water all over the place, and where people would just dump entire coolers of ice (usually encrusted with food particles from whatever they were storing in the coolers) into the bushes when they were done. My advice, if you need ice, is to bring an insulated water bottle with ice in it. That will help preserve the ice longer than a ziploc bag. If you need to refill in the park, go to any quick-service location with fountain drinks and ask for ice to refill the bottle. If you need ice packs for medicine or other needs, you should be fine with a ziploc bag of ice as long as the bag is closed, and then refill it throughout the day at those quick-service locations.

    • Oh, the other method that works really well is to open a water bottle, pour a bit out, and then freeze it overnight. Carry that into the park to use as a cooling method during the day. Once it melts, use it for a drink.

    • thank you. I’ll probably use an insulated bottle.

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