beattyfamily said:
I disagree with the previous poster. I think Disney does a great job, in a short period of time, getting rid of the non-party guests/those without wristbands. I've watched them in action.
Well, I really dont know if you are familiar with previous MVMCP's before they did it like they do now. Maybe you are, but, and maybe it's different on different nights,
But, I can tell you this............
When the park was supposed to close down, they did not close the park.
* They did not require wristband holders go to a specific location (it was more of an "if you want to" type of thing. What they did was close down attractions at areas other than Liberty Square and DID check wristbands on the bridges to get to that location (and they checked the wristbands at the area between Adventureland and Frontierland.). They did NOT however, force people from the park. Anyone who did not have an armband in areas other than the Square were not asked to leave. I know this because I stayed out in the park areas during this time. I never went to Liberty Square and nobody without a band was made to leave.
* Once the party "officially" began, the entire park was re-opened and I only saw 3 armband checkpoints the entire evening. If you didn't have a band, they were not calling security or anything, they simply would not let you in certain areas.
The only area I saw that they tried to keep regular guests from was the "west" side of the park. However, with only 1 person on the bridge from Main St to Liberty Square, about 90% of the people walked by without being checked, and the CM's didn't really seem all caught up in catching anyone either.
Other than those three points, I never saw one person checking bands.
I had a long sleeve shirt on that conceled my band and the ENTIRE night none of the 4 in our party were ever asked to show our bands, so while they may do a good job (I guess that's all relative), anyone could have been in the park and stayed in the park.
I am a serious amateur photographer, along with my brother in law, and we took our tripods and cameras (Nikon D200 now, Nikon D70s at the time) with us and made a point to be the last from the parks. We stayed until 1 1/2 hours after the party ended. We literally were among the last few cars in the parking lot. We got the last monorail out of the park, and got to ride in the front, since we were the only one on it.
I say that to say that, I have photos of Main St. with NOBODY on it, except CM's cleaning (I was surprised they let us stay). We got photos of fantasyland with not a single person in the photo.
Remember this is on the night of the party. Not one single person even in that situation asked to see our bands.
So, basically I can assure you, if people want to stay in the park, they will and they did. They were all over the park the night we saw.
We did MVMCP on the 9th (thursday) and it was packed. Definitely wasn't worth the money, in our opinion. Everything had long wait times, the parade was ok, the shows were again ok, in our opinion. The only time we felt was worth it was during the second parade, we rode Splash Mt. and Big Thunder over and over without gettting off. We'll be there this Nov. 26- Dec.7th and wont be doing the party this time. We always plan 2 days at MK and with it being so slow it was plenty of time for us. Hoping for low crowds this year too.
