Crowds are way up this year...

[dvcgirl]

Summer is definitely here. My husband and I went over to Epcot yesterday and couldn't get over the crowds. Definitely more crowded than at the same time last year. 90 minutes for Soaring and Test track by 1pm...yikes. Also spoke with a family from California who said that the extra magic evening at MGM and MK was packed. They suggest the early hour instead if you want to accomplish anything. I remember being in the MK last Jualy and wondering how it could possibly be more crowded. I think that this year we may see that.

 

[danny1649]

We still had a great time on recent trip arrived early and used Fast Pass and didn't have to many waits of more than 10 minutes.Stayed at home resort OKW and it was booked up solid.

 

[kcbean]

What were the fast pass waits like yesterday?

 

[luv2nascar]

Thanks just the news I wanted to hear. We are arriving on 6/18.
Maybe we can get lucky and get some more people packed into the parks on 100 degree days.

 

[Jane E.]

We just got back on Friday from a few days at the Flower Power Concerts. I couldn't believe how packed the parks were. Thankfully, we didn't want to ride any rides at Epcot. We had a ps for lunch - no wait thankfully, did some wine tastings around the world, saw the regular concerts at Epcot - Off Kilter etc & did the Flower Power Concerts.

At MGM we wanted to see the stunt show. We got to the park about 9:10am and hustled to get our fp for the show. We had a 12:20 entry time. I couldn't believe how they herded everyone like cattle. Then we all had to wait 20 minutes in some hot building thing under the stands. They didn't let us start walking to our seats until 12:40. Unbelievably they were still seating people after the show began. Not the fp people but the standbys. I felt so bad for them. The show was great! Too bad they didn't have it when my sons were younger. They would have loved it!

However, after getting our fp in the morning we were able to do two quick rides without any wait time - muppet movie & drew carrey. That part of the park was dead. After eating lunch at Sci Fi we couldn't believe how bad the crowds were. It was like night & day.