It depends how you define near future. Today's wait times may be very relevant . . . if you're going in the next week.
Posted wait time is now 50 minutes, which is actually 5 minutes shorter then slinky dog dash. I've posted this before, but I think Disney is in real trouble attendance-wise. We are now at 39 of the last 41 days Crowd Level 1's, and the other two days (Labor Day Weekend), Crowd Level 2's. All of these cutbacks and changes recently, I think they've miscalculated. In the same time period Universal has ranged from 1's to crowd level 8's, with everything in between.
I think everyone is overestimating the crowd increase for the anniversary at this point. What, exactly, is going to draw people on October 1st? Or better yet, what is going to draw people on October 2nd - October 30th?
I mean, i know people keep responding to this but It seems like a huge hadooh about nothing. I mean, school is in, so obviously crowds are lower. If you are planning to skip school and come visit, why not wait until the 50th anniversary? Clearly September has a bunch of people that are going to decide to just wait until October. That is probably exaggerated by the fact that so many kids were virtual last year, and so those families (like myself) feel more comfortable missing days in October closer to fall break, rather than taking kids out of school after just getting back in after 1.5 years. NOt that it is really reasonable to miss school in October either, after all that happened, but...who ever said a Disney trip was "reasonable?" So the combination of school finally back in and a huge 50th anniversary, and it is not surprising at all.
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There is still almost no availability for the time we’re going (November 5-15). I’m interested to see if that changes when we hit the 30 day mark. I’m worried that it’s going to be very crowded and wish we’d been able to go now instead, but we’ll make the best of it.
The lines were never 3 hours long, the MDE times were way off. Reports on the ground had the liens at their worst being around an hour fifteen to an hour and a half.
At some point, all this "Bob Chapek" stuff has to stop doesn't it. People around here think he is the same guy that didn't bring towels to the room, didn't warm the pools from 72 to 74 degrees, didn't sweep the floor of California Grill under the table before they were seated, etc. etc. etc.
Once IAS starts, we're going to see some horrible wait times.
Bob Chapek tells Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro to reduce costs by 5%. D'Amaro tells each of his VP's to reduce costs by 5%. It gets down to each resort manager who say, "I can save 5% by reducing the water temperature by 2 degrees."At some point, all this "Bob Chapek" stuff has to stop doesn't it. People around here think he is the same guy that didn't bring towels to the room, didn't warm the pools from 72 to 74 degrees, didn't sweep the floor of California Grill under the table before they were seated, etc. etc. etc.
I mean, that guy runs a multi billion company. He does not have input in the day to day operations of WDW. He has PEOPLE that do that.
Yes, he signs off on stuff just like most of us check the bottom box on the MDE before we hit approve, but good god people, he has bigger worries.
Not picking on you at all OP by quoting on you, I could of picked a million quotes just like it.
Same here. DH and I are going in Nov for food and wine. We have friends that just decided they
