Crowds right now?

[lenshanem]

I just booked Fairytale deal last mintue so my Mom could go with the kids. How are the crowds right now? We'll be there in a few weeks. We were there last month before school let out and I was surprised at how bust MK was. Thansk for any info.

 

[nativetxn]

I'll just bump this back to page one for you. I don't know how the crowds are right now.

Will you be going along too?

 

[lenshanem]

Thansk for the bump.
Yep, I'll be going, too. Just a girls only trip. I'm pretty excited. We plan on lots of pool time! I am really curious as to how the crowds are, though with thsi FTP deal. Seesm they are really filling up the resorts.
Thansk!

 

[DRU2L8]

We just returned after 6/11-21 trip and found MK to be pretty crowded most of the time except on Fridays (due to 7 pm park closure?) We pretty much relied on Fast pass to get on rides. I know it's only going to get worse as the summer gets longer and hotter.
As for the resorts, we stayed at CBR 6/11-15 and the resort and the smaller pools were not very busy. The main pool was pretty crowded. I got the $59 rate for Radisson Resort Parkway from Mousesavers for the end of our trip and we enjoyed it much more than the CBR ($104 AP rate). Good luck!

 

[beccasmom]

We were there 6/14 through 6/20 and I'd say the crowds were moderate. About what I expected for June. Epcot was not as bad, but then Epcot absorbs a lot of people pretty easily.

I noticed when passing the Crystal Palace while in the MK last Thursday that it was really mobbed (at dinnertime) with people all over the front porch, but it was also raining heavily. Perhaps some of them were hoping to get last-minute dinner reservations. I will say that I did a FastPass for TestTrack at 12:30 and the time to return said between 5:30-6:30! The line at the time was about 75 minutes long.

We didn't use the monorail, so I can't comment about those hotels. OKW seemed moderately busy. We were able to check into our 2-bedroom villa at 1:00 p.m.

 

[Denise W]

Well, We are at WDW right now, arrived on Saturday, 6/21. I have found the crowds and weather to be much better than I expected. Until yesterday the weather was in the 80's but with low humidity, and the only rain we had was a little on Sunday while we ate lunch. Yesterday it began to get hotter and more humid and it is pretty hot and humid today.

Crowds seem fine. The longest line we have waited in was 20 minutes, using FastPass and Stand By wisely. The longest posted line I saw was Test Track at 120 minutes after it had been down for a few hours. We had a 5 minute wait with Fast Pass.

We are going back into Epcot in a little while because a CM told us Mission Space might open at about 4 PM.

We are having a wonderful week!

Denise

 

[yesdisneyfool]

Originally posted by Denise W
(snip) Well, We are at WDW right now, .....We are having a wonderful week!Denise

Good luck with Mission space.

Whenever we are in the boundaries of WDW, we are having a wonderful week.

 

[Cindy'sCastle]

Originally posted by Denise W
We are going back into Epcot in a little while because a CM told us Mission Space might open at about 4 PM.

You are so lucky. I hope that they'll open it while we're there. Hope you're having a wonderful time while you're there.

 

[swanmom]

Just got back yesterday. Our experience was similar to Denise W's. We usually go to WDW in either October or early February and I definitely like those times the best but DH had a last minute conference scheduled at Y & BC so we couldn't pass that up! We found the crowds to be moderate - not impossible to manage with a small amount of planning. MK was better in the middle of the week than on weekends or Monday, other parks we avoided early opening days unless we could get there first thing. With smart use of Fast Pass and some thinking ahead about our priorities, we were able to enjoy just about everything we wanted without too much of a wait anywhere. However, the water parks were mobbed ........ if you plan on doing a waterpark, go really, really early or go for a couple of hours at the end of the day. Have a great time!

 

[Granny]

Shan...we just got back and found the park crowds to be pretty sizable. At everywhere except AK, we had waits for attractions in the 30-45 minute range. There were waits at some of over an hour!

Use FastPass, and be patient! You'll have a great trip!