Report from 7/29:
HS
Staying at Beach Club, DVC. We walked to HS, took us about 20 mins. We were at the entrance at 8:05 and held at the arches to Toy Story Land by 8:30 (or close to). We stayed to the right. We entered the queue around 8:35 and we were on the ride at 8:47 and 8:49 (two different cars) (off 8:51). We then went to TSMM, in line at 8:55 and on ride at 9:13, off 9:19. We then went right to Saucers, got in line at 9:24 (listed wait 20 mins) and off ride at 9:41. We decided to head over to GE, which we had never been to before (we failed getting a RoR). Queue for MFSR was listed at 100 mins, wasn't moving, and I swear went to the entrance to GE (but that could just be my vague memory). We walked to the front and went on single rider (there are 4 of us and we were fine not being on the same "ship"). We got into the line at 9:50, preshot at 9:58, done with ride by 10:04. Usually we like to walk around "One Man's Dream", but the girls were hot by this point and we decided to head back to the hotel via skyliner after some shopping. We got in line for skyliner at 12:03 with no wait and it took maybe 25 mins altogether.
FOOD
We ate in our rooms and did the Kitchen Sink at Beach Club for breakfast / lunch. We asked for no peanuts, our server asked if we had any allergies and we said no, but they didn't do the peanut butter sauce or Snickers, so that was a little disappointing.
EPCOT
It rained pretty hard yesterday afternoon and a lot of things got shut down (Test Track was only open for about a 15 min window all night). We headed over to Epcot around 4, probably a little earlier than we should have went. We headed to Spaceship Earth and got in line at 4:31. Posted wait was 25 minutes and off by 4:55. Line was much shorter when we got off though (which I know, but we had nothing else to do). We headed over to The Seas With Nemo. Posted wait was 15 mins and it was completely walkon, this was at 5:10. We explored at the seas a little bit to let lines fall off at the Land as much as possible. We got to the land and I don't know what the posted time was (sorry!) but Living with the Land was walk on. So many new things on this ride in the green houses this time. We got on the ride at 6. We headed to Soarin', which was posted 20 mins at 6:15, we were off the ride by 6:41. After that we explored the World a bit in the drizzle. Tried food from Hawaii, Greece, Germany, Canada and Appleseed. All was good except the apple desserts at Appleseed and Germany. completed the Ratatouille scavenger hunt (spoiler alert: make sure you explore the gardens in Japan and China)
HOTEL
Pool isn't too crowded! Yay! Haven't noticed the garbage issues that others have talked about. TV is questionable. Says we get NBC Sports, but couldnt find it so we had to stream the USWNT game today (7/30). (WOO WOO), which was a tad frustrating.
MASKS / COVID
Compliance is good. We did one day at Universal, where we saw a lot of masks (more that at Disney), it was right about 20% of people relatively consistently. We have dealt with COVID before despite being super careful and have no desire to quarantine again, so we've used KN94 masks off of
Amazon (they are awesome, by the way). We wear them at all times unless we are outside and we aren't around people. We have chosen to not eat indoors anywhere (except once, at Leaky Cauldron) and will skip some indoor stuff. I know people are worried about how hot it is, but truthfully it really doesn't bother me that much, nor do my kids (girls, 9 and 11). We've noticed a decent amount of sanitizer stations have sanitizer, but they are slow.
WEATHER
It's been hot, but truthfully, we have had a decent amount of cloud cover and it hasn't been as oppressive as I remember some trips in the past. Seems morning is the worst, before the clouds and breeze move in. I am from PA so by no means used this level of heat consistently. We have an umbrella but I wish we also had one of those fans I see people wearing around their necks as well.
PHOTOPASS
Between HS and Epcot yesterday we saw 2. Today was better (will update today later today or tomorrow).