Shanghai would be not only busy handling legal disputes with the opening of the Disneyland resort on June 16. The city would also be filled with crowds since all tickets for the first two weeks have been sold out.
Anticipating problems with the huge number of visitors from June 16 through 30, Murray King, vice president of public affairs of Shanghai Disney Resorts, announced on Thursday that attendance management and crowd control measures have been put in place, reported The South China Morning Post.
The measures include the introduction of a daily ticket system to ensure that guests “who plan in advance have an opportunity to enter the park with the daily tickets.” King said that visitors who did not purchase tickets in advance would be advised not to proceed on days that are particularly busy because chances are they would be turned away.
Tickets that the resort are selling are from June 16 through Sept. 30. Tickets are dated for specific days to ensure the crowds are controlled daily. But Disney did not disclose how many daily tickets it sells.
Ticket prices are 499 yuan for peak days and 370 on other days. Since the park went on a soft opening in which employees of the resort and their family were allowed to enter, the park has taken in about one million visitors. These are on the non-ticketed areas of the resort, said Liu Zhengyi, deputy director of the administrative commission of the park’s planning zone, reported Bloomberg.
The $5.5-billion resort, which covers an area of 3.9 square kilometers, expects to attract 30 million visitors yearly.