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5. Cars Land at Disney California Adventure

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Honestly, one of the best places to be trapped alone with your family might just be a ready-made town with all of its services dedicated directly to you. And in Cars Land, that's exactly what you'd get: the entire Route 66 town of Radiator Springs with all of its businesses open just for you, with no worries about contacting other humans at all! Okay, so maybe it's a little far-fetched to imagine Pixar's automobile residents actually cooking up food and operating rides for you, think of what you could do with Radiator Springs to yourself.

Food wise, you not only have the patio dining of American diner classics at Flo's V8 Cafe (with gorgeous sights overlooking the sensational Ornament Valley), but the fresh fruits of Fillmore's Taste-In and the limitless snacks of the Cozy Cone Motel. (If only you could empty a cone out and add some beds so it could live up to its name...). The land's signature drink, Red's Apple Freeze, would make for a refreshing treat after you jog along the deserted desert highways, too, for your daily exercise.

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Then, of course, imagine access to the land's three attractions: Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, the trackless Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters, and the starring Modern Marvel: Radiator Springs Racers... A pretty good spread and an awesome set-up for a family. But best of all might be the chance to stand at the corner of Route 66 and Cross Street each night at sundown as the song "Life Could be a Dream" brings the town's neon signs to glowing, humming life – a memorable and tear-inducing sight anytime, but most certainly during this not-so-happy moment in history.

6. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland and Hollywood Studios

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Of all the locales in Disney Parks today, there's probably no more sought-after experience than Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge – in universe, the village of Black Spire Outpost on the planet of Batuu. Imagine having it all to yourself – imagine it being your neighborhood for quarantine! It's true that this sprawling village offers plenty of things to do and places to eat (especially if we imagine the cash registers being turned off during your self-imposed one-land lockdown). Imagine it: you could dine on "alien" comfort food at Docking Bay 7; much on Kat Saka's kettle corn; even refresh with a Blue Milk (if that's your kind of thing). 

Especially if the "paywall" were lifted, imagine the fun you could have tinkering with "scrap metal" in Dok Ondar's and Savi's, customizing your very own Lightsaber – without a doubt, the most expensive and sought-after souvenir around the parks today. And if you get lonely here, you can literally create a friend, building your very own Astromech Unit to wheel around the village.

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It goes without saying that – if we keep imagining the rides would be accessible – you'd be the luckiest human on Earth with free-reign access to STAR WARS: Rise of the Resistance, a ride whose demand outweighs supply to the extent that folks will wake up just after midnight for an opportunity to ride if that's what it takes.

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Just about the only problem we can find with Galaxy's Edge is that, technically, if we're going by the idea that this isolation would be 'in-universe" in terms of storytelling, you wouldn't be isolating alone... Story-wise, Batuu isn't exactly a great place to live. It's meant to be an impoverished and war-town village of friendly (but struggling) inhabitants who live in the shabby structures and second-story villages that inhabit the town. In that sense, if it were under a strict quarantine, we can imagine First Order troopers roaming the town, literally forcing people to stay in their own cramped apartments. So while isolating here would certainly be interesting, if it were "real," it wouldn't be a cake walk.

7. Grizzly Peak at Disney California Adventure

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Following in that same "trapped in a tropical paradise" scenario behind Pandora, Grizzly Peak at Disney California Adventure presents the perfect opportunity to be "stuck on vacation," "roughing it" by quarantining in a gorgeous national park. In fact, this '50s-set national forest of towering pines, misty rivers, lantern-lit trees, and erupting geysers is maybe one of the most romantic lands in any Disney park in the sense that it would be a perfect place to quarantine with someone special.

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After all, you could take literal hikes through the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail (which also has climbing structures, watchtowers, ziplines, scavenger hunts, and spirit caves to explore) and relax around its firepit each night, take the old bypass road to the base of the snow-capped Grizzly Peak itself, or set up camp in the Grizzly Peak Airfield where the Smokejumpers Grill would be a great place to get takeout and where you can take off on the original Californian Modern Marvel: Soarin'.

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And while you could stock up on canvas jackets, flannel shirts, and trail snacks at the log cabin Rushin' River Outfitters and prep for nights of camping in the wilderness, we cheated a little by choosing Grizzly Peak... After all, the resort's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is actually inside Disney California Adventure and is part of the world-building of Grizzly Peak... in-universe, it's the National Park's "real" lodge, so even in self-isolation, you could have a AAA Four-Diamond night's sleep with views overlooking the forests of the park.

In other words, Grizzly Peak gives you the chance to rough it... or not!

8. (Pick a country) in World Showcase at Epcot

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Pick a country – any country! Really, the opportunity to quarantine inside World Showcase is too easy since it would give you practically unlimited food options, plenty of places to sleep, a ton of museums and exhibits to visit, a few rides, and, you know, unlimited alcohol. So instead we'll challenge you here.

..If you could pick any one of World Showcase's pavilions whose boundaries you got to be locked down into, which would you choose and why? The air-conditioned splendor and waterfront plaza of Mexico? The excitement and family-friendly offerings of Norway? The cuisine of Japan? The pubs of the United Kingdom? The snacks of France (with the chance to be a living test dummy on the Modern Marvel: Remy's Ratatouille Adventure)? Whose food, souvenirs, attractions, and atmosphere could be your "home away from home" for the duration of social distancing?

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