Crowds Now???

[unclescroogefan]

We are leaving for DL tomorrow? How's the temp & crowds?

 

[kkheburn]

I have a friend that went this week and said there were no crowds. It was a Monday. I did not ask about the weather.

 

[zonamom]

We went this past weekend and the weather was beautiful, of course I'm from Arizona so anything less hot is beautiful to us! The lines weren't bad at all. Most of the rides with the exception of tower of terror and soarin we walked right on, those two we fast passed because the line was longer than I wanted to wait. Disneyland was the same. The more popular ones we got right on with fast passes...the rest were less than 15 minutes wait.

 

[Blackunicorn]

It's nice, the temperatures are hovering right around 70's and 80's. A word of warning, the a/c is VERY cold, so I'm freezing my rear end off. Crowds are fine, no long waits for much of anything. Be sure to utilize the Fastpasses for popular attractions like Space Mountain, I've seen the wait for that get up to as much as an hour!

 

[Michelle2]

I went this past week too, and it was great. We got really spoiled and didn't want to go on anything with more than a 10 minute wait. Weather was perfect, couldn't have been any better, not too hot, not too cold. Even though it seemed like the streets could get bottlenecked and look crowded in some areas, the rides were mostly walk on.

The Grand Californian was over booked due to some conferences though, and I am assuming the rest of September, and October should still be pretty booked there....but parks were great!!

 

[lark]

Just got back, was in the parks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Went this exact same time last year, and it was definitely more crowded this year. By summer standards, it was a piece of cake, but the crowds certainly were not negligible.

The longest wait was about 50 minutes for Soaring Over California. We waited for about 20 to 25 minutes on other rides -- Splash, Dumbo, and Tower of Terror. The lines looked a little longer at other times of the day, but we know how to time things pretty well. As I said, not that bad compared to high season, but still, when the parks have short hours like they do right now, it's not negligible. The parade was about 4 to 5 deep on Wednesday, which is always a decent way to judge.

On Tuesday, it rained like crazy early in the day, so the parks were virtually empty after it cleared up around 3 or 4, but before that, we had some sizeable waits. (Also an early entry day, which I think had something to do with it.)

All in all, still slightly "busy" season. It's exaggerated most in DCA, where they have lots of slow loading rides and lots of discretion about how to operate -- for example, they only had one "jellyfish" open on the jellyfish ride, so we had to wait about 20 minutes, even though the line looked short and would have gone much quicker in the summer with both open. Same with Soaring Over California.