We've been back for a week. Our trip was 8/28-9/7. Nine park days. WOW, it was amazing!! Such low crowds! We only rope dropped twice because it just wasn't necessary. Most days we rolled in at 11 or noon, and still had no issues. Looking at touringplans, actual crowd levels for every day of our trip was 1s across the board!
Both on our flight to MCO and from MCO, there were only around 40 people on the flights! On our flight down they actually announced they may have to re-distribute people in order to keep the plane properly balanced.
We had free QSDP and never waited to order for more than a minute or two. Once again Satuli Canteen was a clear favorite! SO GOOD.
We were at POP and the bus service was great! Waited 19 minutes once, but otherwise it was typically just a minute or 2. Only had to stand on a bus once.
DH wanted to go to HS on our first park day (29th) to see the mayhem around SWGE, but we didn't think we'd actually get in to the land. We got into the land around 3 PM. It was not crowded in there. We couldn't believe it! From that time on, they didn't have to do "boarding parties" again during our whole trip.
We did DAH MK on our first night, the 29th and it was awesome! BTMR 5 times in a row, no wait, trains not even full. 5 times in a row 7DMT, no wait but trains were full. They had the cut-through open that they use during EMM, so it took like 15 minutes to ride 5 times! Lovely atmosphere, would definitely do it again!
We did
MNSSHP Labor Day and also Friday the 6th. The Labor Day party was amazing! Got curb seats for the 9:15 parade at 9:20! Very low crowds and just a great time! Only disappointment was they didn't do any fireworks due to high winds (which really it wasn't high winds, but they had to make a call in advance.)
Did Epcot Friday the 30th. So the first Friday of Food and Wine. Plan was to leave if it got too busy. It did not get even close to too busy. We stayed through Illuminations. We watched from Japan (our favorite spot). We were at the fence and nobody at all was behind us.
We hardly did any of those attractions that we usually do when it is really busy and we can't get a good FP. We were having too much fun doing the top-tier attractions! Rode FoP 5 times and MFSR 5 times. Could easily have done more, but I'll admit the FoP pre-shows annoy me and even if you walk right on it's a solid 1/2 hour time commitment to ride. Didn't feel like doing it more. We got about 12 rides in on BTMRR and 7DMT as well. Maybe 8 on ToT. Easily could have done more (it was a walkon one of the days we were there, and on other days it was not hard to get a ToT 4th+ FP) but we were happy with that many rides.
We just marveled at the lack of crowds every day we were there! Amazing!