Sarahslay
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2017
So I'm home from a great week in the parks solo, and aside from the heat it was a dream trip. The only ride I had a real wait for was SDD, I waited in that 3 times on my trip and all three times combined don't even come close to what a "normal" wait time would have been for one ride on one of my previous trips this past year (I think the longest wait was 30-ish minutes, shortest was 15 close to 2 hours after the park opening which was crazy). On thursday I even did ToT several times in a row and the only wait was waiting for the next elevator to come and load up each time, I even got the same exact sequence twice in a row on different elevators which never happens. I was trying to kill time before my lunch ADR and still ended up walking across the park to do Star Tours (again, no wait), sitting on a bench to call my husband, shopping in every store, and still had to stand around for 10 minutes before I could check in 20 minutes early. Lunch was at 12:45, I got in line for ToT the first time a around 11 and I don't even remember how many times I rode it before I was like "Ok, I guess I'll do something else" and went and did all the other stuff. A CM laid in to a group of college age girls who put their masks on during one of the rides once our elevator "docked", she was so mad and they didn't care, CMs at HS were some of the most strict that I saw with masks on rides, MK were the least strict. Overall compliance was amazing though, the worst I saw was that group of girls which is A++ in my book especially considering the heat.
The last two days I actually spent a lot of time just chilling around Poly, shopping, and going back to Epcot to eat more at F&W. I was very happy about the overall crowd level since it meant I didn't have to use DAS, I'd really rather not have to use it and didn't use it one time the whole trip, and was able to do absolutely everything I wanted to many times over. I only actually RD on my first day, the rest of the days I got there within an hour or later of park open and still got everything done, plus I often got a bus to myself from the resort to AK or HS so that was great too not having to cram in to a bus. Always done by lunch with what I planned to do in the mornings, always back to the resort befor the heat got too insane, and was SO happy that you can now grab a BG for Rise in the afternoon if you didn't have that as your first park, it really helped since I had zero plans of waking up in time for the 7am drop on Thursday when I was going back, and didn't want to hang around for the evening. Overall great trip, no complaints at all even if I was a complete sweaty mess the whole time.
The last two days I actually spent a lot of time just chilling around Poly, shopping, and going back to Epcot to eat more at F&W. I was very happy about the overall crowd level since it meant I didn't have to use DAS, I'd really rather not have to use it and didn't use it one time the whole trip, and was able to do absolutely everything I wanted to many times over. I only actually RD on my first day, the rest of the days I got there within an hour or later of park open and still got everything done, plus I often got a bus to myself from the resort to AK or HS so that was great too not having to cram in to a bus. Always done by lunch with what I planned to do in the mornings, always back to the resort befor the heat got too insane, and was SO happy that you can now grab a BG for Rise in the afternoon if you didn't have that as your first park, it really helped since I had zero plans of waking up in time for the 7am drop on Thursday when I was going back, and didn't want to hang around for the evening. Overall great trip, no complaints at all even if I was a complete sweaty mess the whole time.