CROWDS THIS WEEK-Week of March 23rd..ANYONE BEEN THERE

[Blueberry]

We arrive tomorrow afternoon for a short weekend trip. Just for three days over the weekend. Not our big trip, so if it is crowded that is ok..just wondered if it was any less crowded than last week seems to have been.thanks!!!

 

[DisneyMom92]

Crowds are large but manageable. Certainly not as big as some other spring breaks in the past.

For the most part, people are congenial and happy too, which makes the crowd better.

We have been here since Saturday evening. We did Magic Kingdom Saturday night (what can I say, I have kids). It was nice. Didn't get to do Space Mountain because it was down or Splash Mountain because it was too cool, but otherwise did everything big in about 3 hours. Sunday went to MGM, crowded enough to have street performers everywhere, but still did all the major attractions except Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Monday was Animal Kingdom, which we thought at first was a mistake because it was early entry. Not so, it was fine. Did everything except Kali (again too cool) and had a better time than we have ever had at that park. Yesterday, started out going to Magic Kingdom, line to monorail was probably over 2 hours long, so we switched to Epcot. Again, crowds were managable, did all of front of park except Living Seas and half the back of the park in about 5 hours and then switched to Magic Kingdom. There we did all of what we missed Saturday night plus a few other things. This has truly been the best and easiest trip we have ever taken.

I would be glad to answer any questions.

 

[Blueberry]

Thanks DisneyMom92..

You said the line to the monorail was maybe two hours long, from where??? The parking lots or the resorts....
Since it is kinda crowded, are COP and Timekeeper open at MK and Wonders of Life open at Epcot this week??
Thanks for all your help...

 

[Dad of 3]

Hello Blueberry,

We were at MK last Thursday March 18. I agree, the crowds were large but manageable. We walked from the Contemporary to MK by 7:45 for early opening and the entire area between inspection area to the gates was packed with people. Bus after bus, monorails and boat loads of more people were arriving, it is actually quite the scene in the early morning. I thought, it was going to be a very crowded day, but after the gates opened, the park swallowed the crowd outside. We immediately went to SM and although the line up was well outside the building, it moved well. Fast Pass were set for after 10:00am thus stand-by line moved fast. Within 30 minutes of entering the park, we were rode SM and were in line for Buzz. We did SM, Buzz, Snow White, HM, and Philharmagic by 10:30 am. At which time we got a fast pass for BTMRR. The other attractions we did were PoC, Tiki Birds, Goofy's Dancing, TimeKeeper, meet and greet Mickey and Friends in Toon Town then a railroad ride. The longest wait was 30 minutes for PoC and even though we check several times, Splash Mountain was not open due to technical difficulties, even though FastPasses were being dispensed. We had lunch at Peco Bills. As the day wore on the crowds got larger, but not enough to prevent movement around the park. We did leave MK around 2:30pm for the hotel pool. But we returned after dinner for SpectroMagic parade and Wishes fireworks. We also road SM, Buzz, Timekeeper and Indy Speedway before the park closed at 10PM. They was a second SpectroMagic Parade, that was still going after we left!
The next day we went to Epcot. It too was busy, but we got there early and rode Mission Space and got a FP for TT. We visited almost every pavilion in future world before noon and then in the evening. Wonders of Life pavilion was closed. We spent the afternoon in World Showcase and enjoyed most of the shows there. I do not think that we waited for any attraction more than 20 minutes. On Saturday, we spend the day a BB, there was large, but not overwhelming crowds.

The crowds are by far larger last week than off peak times like in early December or January and February, but not as big as I was expecting for Spring Break.

Dad of 3

 

[DisneyMom92]

We were happy to see TimeKeeper open since we have not been able to enjoy that attraction for quite some time. My youngest is 8 and doesn't remember ever doing it. I'm not sure, we may have done it when he was too small to ride Space Mountain. We have been fortunate enough to do CoP every trip for the last several and it is one of my youngest's favorites.

My oldest is 11 and she was disappointed that Wonders of Life was closed. A sign said that it was open seasonally but I guess this isn't the season

A highlight of Saturday night that I forgot to mention was that Space Mountain was down so we did the Tomorrowland Trasit Authority. When it took us through the Space Mountain portion, the lights were on. The kids got a big kick out of seeing it in the light.