How have the crowds been the last couple of week?

[Disney Adventurer]

Am leaving soon and was wondering how have the crowds been the last couple of weeks since the 4th of July. Has the stay 7 pay for 4 helped keep the parks full or are the lines liveable?

 

[Carole]

We just returned after being there from 11 July - 19 July. The crowds were manageable if you planned right. Go when the park opens, take advantage of fastpasses, take an afternoon break, and make PSs for popular eateries. We avoided all long lines.

One day at MGM the line for Tower of Terror was 130 minutes and the fastpass line was a 30 minute wait. They actually stopped letting people into the line. They told us to come back later with our fastpass. Several hours later - the standby line loaded quicker than the fastpass - five minutes at the most for both. We also went back to Animal Kingdom around 4 o'clock on the EE day. We were able to ride the Safari, Dinosaur, Primawhirl, and Kali River Rapids - we only waited in the line for Kali.

We never went to any water parks but they looked packed.

Have fun!

 

[tar heel]

Just returned from a short trip. Saturday, MGM was moderately crowded and Epcot was not bad at all -- we even got a last-minute ps at Teppanyaki, which is normally a pretty crowed restaurant. Lot of people must have arrived Saturday, though, b/c on Sunday MGM was crowded and MK was a zoo. You could barely walk in Frontierland and Tomorrowland. Our experience is that MGM usually clears out late in the day, especially after the parade, but it was still fairly crowded early evening. One thing that made MGM SEEM crowded was that RnR was down much of the day Saturday and ToT was running without all the elevators operating when we were there on both Saturday and Sunday.