I want to mentally prepare myself for them so I won't pass out...
Thanks a bunches!
Oh and do you think DL will be full by the afternoons (around 3 or 4pm) and they'll start turning away people?
Just wondering about our plan for the first day.
Thank you!
It was even super crowded last week when I was there, and I thought I was avoiding heavy crowds because I was there earlier in December than my usual visits, I was there mostly on weekdays instead of a full weekend
and two of my days were CM party days so the hours in DL were cut short. No such luck. Honestly, I felt it was packed for the first 3 days I was there (12/12, 12/13 and 12/14), and didn't begin to even
sort of lighten up a bit until my last day, Wednesday, 12/15.
In reality, if we were to get the final attendance numbers for my dates last week and compare them to other days/years I have been to DLR in December, I'm sure last week's numbers would be a wee bit lower than my previous trips. That's my logical mind talking after the fact, but at the time I was there I was simply thinking, "Wow! It's packed!"
At the same time, I strongly suspect that a lot of folks are making trips to DLR earlier in the month or even earlier in the holiday season in general now because they are trying to avoid that crazy two weeks around Christmas and New Year's when it is notoriously packed, and in doing so, they are shifting the intensity/balance of the crowded periods a bit so that it spreads out more through the month and season. Add to that the fact that more people are probably visiting DLR for the holidays overall.
Keep in mind, it will be a Magic Morning day every day this week except today, and also every day next week except for Wednesday. So that means DLR is anticipating huge crowds now and all through next week. A couple of CM's have said that it hasn't been 'quiet' or uncrowded at all this whole holiday season, unlike some previous years where you might catch some lighter crowds on certain days.
So...I am fairly positive that if my dates were as crazy as they were, crowd-wise, your dates will be even more so. Chances are, the heavy rain we have been having has kept
some folks away from DLR this week (though not as many as I thought, from what I've been hearing - people are still out there, braving the torrential downpours). That's all the more reason why people will likely flock to the park when it dries up, and before the next storm system rolls in - so that will be just in time for Christmas eve and day!
On a positive note, though, I had a really wonderful time because I had several days to stretch things out. I just kind of had to shift my agenda and make it less about rides for the entire trip and more about taking lots of photos. I rode rides the first day and then the next couple of days were about nothing but photos!!
We were excited during that brief period of sun today, too. I'm so over it! If I see one more post on facebook saying "I love this rain" I'm going to snap 
