What will MK be like during the day on a grad night?

[tinkamom]

We are arriving on May 5th a day that MK closes at 7pm for a Grad night. I'm thinking that maybe MK will not be as crowded during the day because of the early closure. Is this just wishful thinking? Do the local daytrippers know of and avoid MK on grad nights?

 

[PavelB]

We were there last Friday and were shocked at how crowded it was!
(we then went to EPCOT for pm EMH - forget Soarin' - too crowded)

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

We were there last Friday morning...........not so bad early, but by 11ish it was crazy. We left after the 3:00 parade.

 

[tinkamom]

Ohhhhh Nooooo! NOT what I wanted to hear!

 

[tiggger1]

It was packed last Friday. we got there at 10 ish and we waited forever to do the few rides we had left, Dumbo and Winnie the Pooh. We also waited in line forever to see the princesses in Mickey's Toon Town. But the weather was cool, so it wasnt that unbearable...

what shocked me was going to Epcot that night, I expected crowds since MK was closed but I didnt expect the MILLIONS of seniors....whoever said you dont ever see them are wrong......there were at least 20 buses coming into the park when our resort bus got there. we had to wait at least 45 minutes to get into the park.. I askes a girl where she was from and was told that they were going to grad night on sat but their school got them tickets for Epcot for friday night and MGM....once we got through the crowds, we walked on spaceship earth and went and waited 30 minutes for Crush.... just as we got out we got to see Illuminations... thats were the crowds come out of nowhere... you have thousands of seniors trying to get out of world showcase and to get on the rides....the only thing that made the night worth it was it was open to midnight and 99.9 % of the seniors werent staying onsite so they had to leave..... we took it slow, had pasties and ended up going on test track at 11 ish. It took me 35 minutes in the single rider line and then it only took hubby 20 ish in the fast pass line ( we did child swap)