EMM today April 28, 2019:
This is the first time we do this with the expanded format and breakfast change. I have to admit that we were a bit disappointed mostly by the breakfast. More on that later..
Arrived 6:55 AM at the magic kingdom parking entrance. Free parking.
The resort monorail was our only option, but it seemed to be not running for a while, so we couldn’t get on the monorail from TTC till 7:25am. I was worried that we were going to miss the start. But the scan through and wrist band procedure was very quick. They let us in at 7:43, just a couple of minutes after we got scanned. We did:
WTP x 1 went though standby line, although it was a walk on. Not sure why not use FP line.
7DMT x 1 standby line - 10 min wait
PP x 2 FP line. Walk on
7DMT x 4 a couple of times through standby then they started letting us through FP line. Wait times ranged from 10 minutes to walk ons.
Didn’t Want to rope drop anything since we had FPs so took a video of the rope drop crowd coming on to 7DMT, then did buzz, which was a walk on mostly. The we went to breakfast.
It was a huge difference in quality than what we had in previous EMM. I did expect it was not as good after reading all reports here, but really, it was worse than what we expected. Not going to go into details, but I hope they consider going back to Pinocchio.
Overall, we did what we wanted in terms of rides, but we did see a bigger increase in crowds for the event, and having to go through standby lines wasting precious time. Breakfast is probably the reason which I’m going to think twice about doing this again. But for people who do not care for the food, I think this is still valuable.