Back from a great WDW vacation with Tips!

[CaptHook34]

Hey Diser's!

I just got back from WDW and im here to give some tips and what to expect if your going soon. We got there August 24th and Left September 3rd. It rained just about every day, bt not for more than about 45 minutes. Then the sun came back out, and the day we be nice. I big tip would be to bring some ponchos, becuase you never know when it will start to rain. For the parks, the Magic Kingdom was packed with Toursits and famlies. When i was walking through the park, i got to the point where i had to squeeze past certain furnitures/ropes, just to get wheer i wanted to go. It semmed that most popular ride to get on was Pirates of the carribbean. If you really want to get on this ride, i suggest you head there first in the morning. The majority of the people ran to Tommorowland or Adventureland. Fantasyland was no wait, just Peter Pan had the bggest line, no suprise. Splash Mountain was a walk-on ride, and so was Thunder Mountain. When it rained during the afternoon, alot of people left the park and headed staright for the Monorail, then the weather clreared up and the park emptied. Another suggestion would be to grab fastpasses quick for space mountain. Animal Kingdom, MGm and Epcot had all equal amount of guests, and the waits on any rides through all of thoughs parks were no more than 20-30 minutes each. For pin traders, Downtown Disney's Pin trading Kiosk was packed with traders. It seems more people are trading now, and alot more castmembers were wearing lanyards. Most of the lanyards were flooded with mini-pins, which was a little dissapointment becuase a set of like 6-7 mini pins cost about $25.00 dollars. I also suggest if you have no patince waitng for the Monorial or buses, rent a car. They were alos packed during the afternoon and evening. If anyone has any questions, please send me a pm, and i will be happy to answer anyything. I hope this helps some people leaving for WDW soon. Thanks for reading!

Matt

 

[Dan Murphy]

Welcome home, Matt. Sounds like a good trip with some great tips. Thanks.

 

[Dana49]

Thanks for taking the time to write. Much appreciated!

 

[disneypharm]

Thank you for your post. Your tips will definitely help when we go back in 2 weeks.

 

[MassMom94]

Our trip overlapped with yours - 8/25 to 9/1 - and we did not have the same experience with Pirates of the Carribbean. We went on it multiple times (because DS8 loved it), and most of the times it was a walk-on; we had two times, on two different days, when we were the only ones on the boat, and the boats in front and in back of us were empty (because they were running only one side due to lack of crowds). I am not doubting your experience of crowds - I did see a line sometimes - but I just wanted to mention that IME it wasn't usually bad. We were usually there at night or maybe around 10:30 AM.

 

[Dossgang]

During 8/13-21 the lines were longer than what we are used to. At that point we decided to avoid the parks with EMH's and had much better luck with the lines. FP's are a must for the more popular rides.