As Hurricane Matthew approached this week, theme parks in Central Florida issued rare closures. Now that the storm has moved out of Florida, the theme parks will reopen this weekend.
Disney World theme parks will reopen at 8 a.m. Saturday, park officials told WFTV.
Water parks, Disney Springs and mini golf will have normal operations on Saturday.
SeaWorld Orlando and Aquatica are expected to open by noon Saturday.
Read the original report about theme park closures below.
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Here's a wrapup of which parks have posted notices:
Disney
Disney's theme parks, water parks, Disney Springs, miniature golf courses and ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex will close by 5 p.m. today and will stay closed Friday. Disney also canceled Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party for Thursday.
The closures include three Disney resorts: Disney's Vero Beach Resort in Vero Beach, Florida; Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground in Orlando, Florida and Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort in South Carolina.
In addition to its resorts and parks, Disney announced a number of changes to four of its planned cruises.
The Disney Fantasy was scheduled to depart Saturday from Port Canaveral, Florida, for a 7-day trip through the Caribbean. The cruise was delayed by a day and shortened to 6 days.
The Disney Dream, which was expected to return Friday to Port Canaveral, has been delayed by a day while the next trip out, scheduled to take place Friday, was canceled.
The Disney Magic, scheduled to leave Friday from New York, is changing its route to take travelers through Canada to avoid Matthew.
Universal
The park posted a notice on its Facebook page that for Thursday, its theme parks and CityWalk will close at 5 p.m., Wet 'n Wild will close at 2 p.m. and Halloween Horror Nights is canceled.
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On Friday, all theme parks will be closed and Halloween Horror Nights is canceled.
Universal expects to reopen its parks Saturday.
Legoland
Legoland Florida will operate as usual Thursday, but will be closed Friday.
SeaWorld
SeaWorld posted on its website that it will close at 2 p.m. Thursday and be closed Friday. The park is expected to be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Hours are subject to change.
The SeaWorld call center will follow the same schedule for Thursday and Friday, and reopen at 8 a.m. Saturday.
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