I haven't read the last few days posts yet. So I apologize in advance if some of this was said already.
We were there 5/17&18. Both days Mine Cart and Werewolf were down the whole day.
Saturday, arrived at the gates around 745, they opened security at 8, and it was a slow process to get thru. There was no separation of hotel guest/non hotel guest. Went right to MOM, they said hotel guests to the left, everyone else to the right. But then it turns out the line for the ride was to the left for everyone regardless of guest status... That was annoying. At 9, they started letting people into the queue. Walked pretty much thru the first room, then got stuck in the outdoor area. Waited an hour and a half, then bailed. Ride didn't start running till after 1030. The line got up to as high as 300 min. Ended up getting back in line around 500, again got to the outdoor area and got stuck. Finally got on the ride at 745, Glad we rode it, but would never wait that long again. It was a great ride, but not waste 4 hours, good.
Mario Cart was over an hour all day, so we decided we'd hit that during EPA the next day. Rode both sides of Stardust. To me it's a combo of Velocicoaster and Space Mountain lol. It's fast like Velocicoaster, but rough like SM. Even my 13 yr old had a headache.
Monsters was a pretty short line, it was a fun ride. But not something I need to ride repeatedly. We also rode Dragon Rally Racers, which is like a 45 sec ride. Not worth the wait at all. Got wands and did all the spells. That was probably my favorite part of the day. Ate at Atlantic. That was pretty good.
Sunday, got there at 715. Again, didn't get thru the line until 815 or so. Went to Nintendo world. Only Yoshi was running. They opened the queue for Bowsers, but it didn't start running until 1030. Just as we were about to give up, they started running it. The rest of the day the line was 80+ min. So glad we stuck it out. Mine Cart and Werewolf were still closed all day, so we never got to do those. We did Stardust again, saw Le Cirque Arcanus, which was great, did some more spells, ate at Le Goblet Noir, and did Hiccups Wing Glider.
Both days at some point every single ride was delayed or closed at one time or another. Monsters was probably the most consistent ride as far as being running and having a decent wait time.
Im glad we got to experience it with lower crowds. But they are in no way ready to open Thursday. I knew going in there was a chance things might not be running and I'm still irritated at paying full price for the experience, but like I said, I knew that was a chance I was taking. I think ppl will be upset to go after official opening and have this happen. We spent 6 hours to ride 2 rides between the 2 days. With Mine Cart and Werewolf being down, and the waits being so high for the 2 big rides, it seemed like there wasn't as much to do. Yoshi's was almost an hour every time I checked and it's not worth that long of a wait. Fyre Drill was 45-60 mins.
It will be a beautiful park at night. I'm supposed to go back in Sept. Hopefully everything will be running by then and we'll get to do the 2 rides we missed.
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). If he's not with us, either DD or I have some zipper pocket shorts we rotate in so we can put our phones in those for certain rides. We bring a small waist bag for pills and my prescription glasses (so I can go from sunglasses to regular). If we decide to do refillable cups and sunscreen, a stringbag for those and leave the waist bag at the hotel.
