Thanksgiving Day: MK or Epcot? - The DIS Discussion Forums

aristocatz · 11-22-2009, 11:25 AM

We were originally planning to brave MK, but I'm getting really nervous about the crowds.

We are going from Wed till Sun. We were originally planning to do MK on Thanksgiving & Epcot on Friday, but after joining Ridemax, I'm thinking of switching those days. Ridemax actually suggests that MK is bearable on Friday (and says to avoid it on Thursday)Planning to do DHS on Saturday & DAK on Sunday. We cannot change these park days because we have in-park ADR's & Base tickets.

Our ADR schedule on Thanksgiving is Boma at 5pm & Cape May on Friday at 5pm. Epcot on Friday would have been much easier for our ADR at Cape May, but we will have a car, so that should make it easier, right?

So, should we switch & do Epcot on Thanksgiving (with our 5pm Boma ADR) & MK on Friday (with our 5pm Cape May ADR) or stick with MK on Thanksgiving & Epcot on Friday??

Or will Epcot be just as nuts (crowd wise) on Thanksgiving so it doesn't matter what we do?

Thanks!

danny1649 · 11-22-2009, 11:58 AM

Our experience from doing it both ways like you ask in your post.It is better to go to Epcot on Thanksgiving day and MK on Friday. We were at both Parks 45 minutes before scheduled offical opening.We got alot done in both parks the first two hours.The difference was after that you could barely move in MK and at Epcot it was crowded but you could still get things done at MK you could hardly move from point a to point b.Epcot just handles huge crowds better.Have a magical vaction at WDW

Danny

aristocatz · 11-22-2009, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by danny1649

Our experience from doing it both ways like you ask in your post.It is better to go to Epcot on Thanksgiving day and MK on Friday. We were at both Parks 45 minutes before scheduled offical opening.We got alot done in both parks the first two hours.The difference was after that you could barely move in MK and at Epcot it was crowded but you could still get things done at MK you could hardly move from point a to point b.Epcot just handles huge crowds better.Have a magical vaction at WDW

Danny

Thank you!!

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11-22-2009, 11:25 AM	#1
aristocatz DIS Veteran Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 528	Thanksgiving Day: MK or Epcot? We were originally planning to brave MK, but I'm getting really nervous about the crowds. We are going from Wed till Sun. We were originally planning to do MK on Thanksgiving & Epcot on Friday, but after joining Ridemax, I'm thinking of switching those days. Ridemax actually suggests that MK is bearable on Friday (and says to avoid it on Thursday)Planning to do DHS on Saturday & DAK on Sunday. We cannot change these park days because we have in-park ADR's & Base tickets. Our ADR schedule on Thanksgiving is Boma at 5pm & Cape May on Friday at 5pm. Epcot on Friday would have been much easier for our ADR at Cape May, but we will have a car, so that should make it easier, right? So, should we switch & do Epcot on Thanksgiving (with our 5pm Boma ADR) & MK on Friday (with our 5pm Cape May ADR) or stick with MK on Thanksgiving & Epcot on Friday?? Or will Epcot be just as nuts (crowd wise) on Thanksgiving so it doesn't matter what we do? Thanks!

11-22-2009, 11:58 AM	#2
danny1649 Will be wearing some lime green I just love to dance Armed with this information I might be able to out score DW for once Join Date: Aug 1999 Location: bloomington,indiana,usa Posts: 15,883	It Has Been Our experience from doing it both ways like you ask in your post.It is better to go to Epcot on Thanksgiving day and MK on Friday. We were at both Parks 45 minutes before scheduled offical opening.We got alot done in both parks the first two hours.The difference was after that you could barely move in MK and at Epcot it was crowded but you could still get things done at MK you could hardly move from point a to point b.Epcot just handles huge crowds better.Have a magical vaction at WDW Danny __________________ Last edited by danny1649; 11-22-2009 at 12:00 PM. Reason: spelling

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