We'll be arriving on the 19th...which resort or you in? DD's already booked us for the Friday party; we'll be doing AK leaving after our Tusker House meal at 2:50.
We are at POP Century.
I see you are at WL. That is such a beautiful resort! But POP is our Disney home
. We always travel with some of our grandkids or one of our kids and their family so saving the money staying at POP lets us go more often and we get to stay longer
.
We won't get our tickets till we get there since our MVMCP tickets are replacements from a rained out
MNSSHP tickets from this past September.
We were at Disney in September with our middle son and his family and had gone to the MNSSHP on their last night before they were leaving (hubby and I stayed 3 days longer). After about 7:30, it started FLOODING! Everything got canceled, all the parades, all the characters outside, all the outside trick r treat locations and then the party
By the time we got to the bus, everyone was drenched and wading in water up to our mid calf. It was miserable. We thought we were just out the money for the party but as we were leaving, the CM's were telling everyone to see the concierge at your resort or customer service at MK. We were going to MK the next morning before our sons family had to be back to the resort to catch the ME for the airport so we stopped by customer service at MK that morning and they offered replacement tickets for any MNNSHP during our trip but since they were leaving I just explained that wasn't possible. They then asked if we were planning on coming back to Disney in 2015. I explained yes but not until November and they offered us replacement tickets for MVMCP.
I was so grateful! I called last week to see how I needed to order my tickets and gave them a brief explanations on how I got the replacement tickets and they asked for my name and drivers license #. The CM said, yes ma'am, we have all your information here and explained to me that I just need to come to customer service with my drivers license on the date that we wanted to attend the party to pick up tickets
I asked what would happen if the party was sold out and they explained that even if they are sold out to the public, they can still provide tickets for replacement tickets so no worries.
It actually rained continuously for the next 2 days we were there. We waded in calf high water down by the bus stops trying to get to the monorails trying to get to our Ohana ressie and then again the next day trying to get through the F&W. That is when I really appreciated our poncho's.
First, thank you for reading my thread it makes me so happy that you took the time to.
I went in November when I went to the parties and I planned them right before the week of thanksgiving so I wasn't inundated with any kind of rush. However both parties ended up being a sell out...I never noticed any kind of wave of crowds or it being so crowded I couldn't view or see anything. I would always suggest to you to make sure you go on the weekdays though as when schools out or a non school day is coming that its either crowded by the locals or guests.
Weekdays are your friends
. Again I never noticed it super crowded - although I was only on Main Street to meet Santa, parade and fireworks other than that I was no where near main street
And Thank you again for all the great information and for responding to my question!
I think the 2 parties you went to are the ones that we are looking at. They are the Thursday and Friday before Thanksgiving week. I looked at the list they have out there on touring plan for the least crowded party vs the most crowded historically and the Thursday normally is one of the top 5 least crowded parties where the Friday night party is one of the top 10 of the least crowded parties but they both sold out so I'm not sure how one would be more crowded than the other one unless Disney sells less tickets to some parties than others. I can imagine that we will be a lot like you, probably not going to be around Main Street much.
Either way we will go and have a magical time.
Getting to the resort and in bed around 12:30-1am, our thoughts were to take it easy on Thursday, go to one of the parks that close earlier (AK or HS) and then call it an early evening and rest up for Friday. Then on Friday, Take on Epcot FW or WS (not both) on Friday morning, back to the resort to rest up around 1:30 and then MVMCP at 4pm. However, if the crowds are quite a bit less on Thursday, we may rethink it? 
in advance!
