I went for free dining last year and this year,while there are more crowds then say before free dining like in the 1990"s, I don't think it was that awful busy.This year was absolutely dead quiet.No wait for Splash at 1130 am on a 90 deg humid day is unheard of, a 5 min wait at 130pm unprecedented. It was very HOt though, but we managed with plenty of pool time and rest time and still expereinced every major attraction mulitple times.Personally, I thought the crowds were lower this Sept then last December( when we usually liked to go)