was that my average wait time for rides was longer (I would have expected for it to be the other way around).
I don't attribute that to a lack of planning on my part but more to the fact that we typically stay more days at WDW and, at WDW there are fewer ride attractions per park (my lack of familiarity with DLR probably factored in a bit but not as much as the above two factors). So at WDW, we're not trying to do as many rides in a given day.
For example, at WDW we typically spend 2-3 days at MK, 2 days at EP, and 1 day at each of HS and AK. With that many park days, if we plan and use fast passes well, it's pretty easy to do everything without waiting for more than 10 minutes for anything.
At DLR, it's almost impossible to pull off the same feat unless you buy a 5 day ticket and do 3 mornings in DL and 2 in DCA. There are just so many rides in each park and you have to be even more strategic about your rope drop strategy because a higher percentage of rides at DLR don't have fast pass. So you're bound to have to wait a bit on at least a few attractions.
Along those lines, some of the non-FP rides are big time sucks (like Nemo Subs and Mickey's Fun Wheel). If you hit these at rope drop, you've used up a lot of prime park time on one ride. But if you wait until later, you're in a long line. So it's tough to devise an efficient touring plan that includes these attractions (for most DLR vets, this likely isn't as much as an issue as they probably often skip such attractions).
I don't attribute that to a lack of planning on my part but more to the fact that we typically stay more days at WDW and, at WDW there are fewer ride attractions per park (my lack of familiarity with DLR probably factored in a bit but not as much as the above two factors). So at WDW, we're not trying to do as many rides in a given day.
For example, at WDW we typically spend 2-3 days at MK, 2 days at EP, and 1 day at each of HS and AK. With that many park days, if we plan and use fast passes well, it's pretty easy to do everything without waiting for more than 10 minutes for anything.
At DLR, it's almost impossible to pull off the same feat unless you buy a 5 day ticket and do 3 mornings in DL and 2 in DCA. There are just so many rides in each park and you have to be even more strategic about your rope drop strategy because a higher percentage of rides at DLR don't have fast pass. So you're bound to have to wait a bit on at least a few attractions.
Along those lines, some of the non-FP rides are big time sucks (like Nemo Subs and Mickey's Fun Wheel). If you hit these at rope drop, you've used up a lot of prime park time on one ride. But if you wait until later, you're in a long line. So it's tough to devise an efficient touring plan that includes these attractions (for most DLR vets, this likely isn't as much as an issue as they probably often skip such attractions).
