Disneyland Hongkong Sold Out for Chinese New Year Celebrations
OK, if you’re still considering to go to Disneyland Hongkong for the Chinese New Year Celebrations, forget it.
As it is, the park is sold out, reaching its maximum limit of daily visitors, estimated to be 30,000. Disappointed visitors, mostly form mainland China, have staged riots outside the gates.
This seems to be more than just an issue of unanticipated number of guests. According to an International Herald Tribune article:
“The problem is they sell too many tickets and don’t put dates on them,” she said, with the result that too many people try to use the tickets at the same time on holidays.
The park introduced in early January a new, discounted, one-day ticket that can be used at any time in the next six months, except on designated “special days” when the park anticipates big crowds.
Public holidays for Lunar New Year began last Saturday in Hong Kong and ended Tuesday, and the park designated these days as special days. But Wednesday and Thursday are public holidays as well on the mainland, as is Friday at many mainland workplaces, and the theme park did not identify these as special days.
Disneyland Hongkong extended its opening hours to accommodate more guests, and supposedly, internet bookings for the New Year Celebrations are suspended. I checked, but it doesn’t seem so.
Still, I wouldn’t recommend braving the throngs, especially if you have kids in tow.
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