Lauren in NC
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We spent Thursday in DL and it felt quite busy but manageable with genie+. Like a previous poster said, there seems to be a much higher amount of first time tourists than usual (and we’ve come this week every year for 5 years-ish). Spoke with several folks from the east coast, heard lots of southern accents, were even told by a waiter at dinner the other night that we were the first family from CA he’d had all night! Group t-shirts, stopping smack in the middle of walkways, so many rental strollers and ECVs - the sort of stuff that makes me think of WDW and not DL.
Friday in DCA was probably as bad as I’ve seen it. Felt worse than just the DL crowds adjusted for the DCA effect (less rides to soak people up, no freaking shade in sight). At one point we came out of the animation academy and were literally elbow-to-elbow with people in that middle area with the sofas. Took a couple minutes to work our way out and even after leaving the a/c it was still pretty crowded. Huge waits for even incredicoaster and Ariel, and the single rider line for incredicoaster was up the ramp to the first poster. It was just nuts!
It’s definitely more manageable today though the heat is rough. Waits are a lot better - even ROTR was around 60 for several hours and we actually waited more like 45. Between extra magic whatever it is now and genie+ we got almost everything we wanted to do by early afternoon even with breaks. And definitely plan breaks and lots of water stops - we saw 2 (maybe 3? Kid said she saw but no one else did ) folks on stretchers which might obviously not be weather-related but could be exacerbated by it.
Friday in DCA was probably as bad as I’ve seen it. Felt worse than just the DL crowds adjusted for the DCA effect (less rides to soak people up, no freaking shade in sight). At one point we came out of the animation academy and were literally elbow-to-elbow with people in that middle area with the sofas. Took a couple minutes to work our way out and even after leaving the a/c it was still pretty crowded. Huge waits for even incredicoaster and Ariel, and the single rider line for incredicoaster was up the ramp to the first poster. It was just nuts!
It’s definitely more manageable today though the heat is rough. Waits are a lot better - even ROTR was around 60 for several hours and we actually waited more like 45. Between extra magic whatever it is now and genie+ we got almost everything we wanted to do by early afternoon even with breaks. And definitely plan breaks and lots of water stops - we saw 2 (maybe 3? Kid said she saw but no one else did ) folks on stretchers which might obviously not be weather-related but could be exacerbated by it.