Christmas Day-Epcot Closing?

[4Spen]

I've made our Christmas Day dinner reservation for 7:20 at Biergarten. I'm concerned about park closings due to crowd levels. Does anyone know if this has happened? Just trying to decide when to be in the park so we don't miss our reservation. TYIA

 

[johde]

I don't think EPCOT has hit stage 4 closure (nobody allowed in) since Dec 31, 1999 if even then. EPCOT is capable of holding a massive amount of people if they want to go to the trouble of opening up the backstage areas between FW and WS to improve traffic flow and setup the SW traffic CM. NYE is likely to be a much busier evening compared to Christmas. For comparison according to Touring Plans, last year Soarin' peaked at a 140 minute wait on Dec. 25th and 255 minutes on Dec.31st. So, Christmas is going to be busy but they can still squeeze a whole lot more bodies in there.

 

[Robo]

I don't think EPCOT has hit stage 4 closure (nobody allowed in) since Dec 31, 1999 if even then. EPCOT is capable of holding a massive amount of people if they want to go to the trouble of opening up the backstage areas between FW and WS to improve traffic flow and setup the SW traffic CM. NYE is likely to be a much busier evening compared to Christmas. For comparison according to Touring Plans, last year Soarin' peaked at a 140 minute wait on Dec. 25th and 255 minutes on Dec.31st. So, Christmas is going to be busy but they can still squeeze a whole lot more bodies in there.

Ditto to all of the above.

 

[4Spen]

Thanks for the replies. The information helps tremendously!

 

[pad406]

I've made our Christmas Day dinner reservation for 7:20 at Biergarten. I'm concerned about park closings due to crowd levels. Does anyone know if this has happened? Just trying to decide when to be in the park so we don't miss our reservation. TYIA

Just stumbled across this, we're there at 7:05 on Christmas Day