What time are people getting in at HS pp opening

[Jennny]

Just wondering if anyone has been to HS lately, and what time have they been letting people in before official park opening?
Hoping to ride SDD this morning as early as possible.

 

[sharonabe]

Just wondering if anyone has been to HS lately, and what time have they been letting people in before official park opening?
Hoping to ride SDD this morning as early as possible.

I haven't been recently, but from reports here on the DIS, HS varies too much to get a real read on it.

If you want to be toward the front of the line whenever they do open today, you'll want to be at the bus stop around 7:00 a.m. if using Disney buses. If driving, time your drive to arrive at HS no later than 8:00 and 7:30-7:45 would be better.

 

[Lacoccinelle]

We were there last Tuesday. We lined up at 8 and were not let in until 8:50. We were pretty close in line but people kept sneaking in the sides. SDD was already back to the store cart and said 90 when we got back there. We did TSM and waited 15.

 

[sharonabe]

Just wondering if anyone has been to HS lately, and what time have they been letting people in before official park opening?
Hoping to ride SDD this morning as early as possible.

Now I really want to know what time you got to HS and what happened? Were you one of the first on SDD???

 

[only hope]

RD SDD and getting a short wait is extremely difficult. Recently I was towards the front of the crowd waiting for TSL to open on a non-EMH day, so it should have been a short wait. But people did not stay in the same order and so by the time I made it to TSL, the line was already to the giant Woody. I rode TSM instead as a pp did, with almost no wait. I wish they kept people in a narrow line and walked the line to the entrance of SDD so people can’t pass each other.

 

[Jennny]

So, we got to the bus stop pretty early on Tuesday but our bus took a very long time to arrive so we didn’t get to the park until after 8. We were a bit in front of Starbucks - where you could wait for SDD or veer off toward ToT. Anyways, they didn’t let us in until around 8:50-8:55..... there was a lot of people waiting to get in, but our wait was around 15 min when we got there. I really disliked the “walk” over to the ride .... it was pretty pushy .

 

[js]

I really disliked the “walk” over to the ride .... it was pretty pushy .

I have RD at every park, including a few times for FoP at AK, and BY FAR, think the SDD RD crowd is the absolute worse! I was with my dd-24 and we were literally getting elbowed pushing us aside.

I'm a New Yorker, worked midtown for 100 years, and never encountered the same rudeness as the RD at SDD.

Maybe it's because people have to get into the narrow waiting area earlier rather than later than other attractions, I'm not sure. I was prepared to stand my ground but my dd was getting disgusted. We were on the second run of the day so we were right there but it was very bad.

In a couple of weeks, I'll be at RD by 4 am so we will see how that goes LOL

 

[sharonabe]

It's interesting that SDD rope drop "run" is such a mess. I remember when Toy Story Midway Mania first opened, and the rush to get there or tonpull a FP was horrible. Seems like this is something endemic to HS. Wonder why?

 

[butterscotchcollins]

Is it really that important to save 30 minutes of wait time by ELBOWING people???? Insanity. I don't understand the appeal of rope-dropping popular rides, it seems like you hardly ever save that much time vs. waiting until the morning crowds die down a bit and going when standby is shorter.

 

[js]

Is it really that important to save 30 minutes of wait time by ELBOWING people???? Insanity. I don't understand the appeal of rope-dropping popular rides, it seems like you hardly ever save that much time vs. waiting until the morning crowds die down a bit and going when standby is shorter.

I'm one that gets elbowed not the elbower but I RD and can get everything done by lunch and go back and enjoy the resort. I rather stand on line and wait for RD then be backed up on every other ride that day since the later it gets in the late morning, afternoon, rides then get more crowded. We do not wait more than 15 minutes for any ride, even during Christmas-New Years, where I did a full trip report doing attractions twice, without waits.

I don't want to get elbowed, and only happened at MGM, but I must disagree with you about "hardly ever save time". For me, it saves a significant amount of time but YMMV

 

[butterscotchcollins]

I'm one that gets elbowed not the elbower but I RD and can get everything done by lunch and go back and enjoy the resort. I rather stand on line and wait for RD then be backed up on every other ride that day since the later it gets in the late morning, afternoon, rides then get more crowded. We do not wait more than 15 minutes for any ride, even during Christmas-New Years, where I did a full trip report doing attractions twice, without waits.

I don't want to get elbowed, and only happened at MGM, but I must disagree with you about "hardly ever save time". For me, it saves a significant amount of time but YMMV

Totally fair point! My experience with RD has been different (never got elbowed, but never got to be the first on a ride either - usually like 30 minute waits for the popular ones). Agreed that as it gets later in the morning/early afternoon standby times skyrocket and I can see how RD is better to avoid that, I meant more like I don't understand people who will literally TRAMPLE other people just to be first on a very popular ride (like SDD or 7DMT) when to me the difference between waiting 20 minutes and 45 minutes isn't really that significant. Being a terrible person racking up bad karma isn't worth the time save

 

[snoopy5386]

We are not rope droppers - but I am a big fan of riding at park closing. The last two trips (last week and over Easter), we got in line for SDD, waited about 30 mins, still had time to walk over and get a good spot for the Star Wars fireworks. No running or elbowing required, plus TSL looks cool at night.