bethannie203
Mouseketeer
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- Jul 2, 2016
I’ve done early mornings at the parks, but I’m starting to wonder how ‘worth it’ this strategy will stay. People are saying they get to the bus stops 90 minutes before the parks open and then wait about 45 minutes combined for busses/temp checks. They hit two or three rides before lines start building (assuming headliners). You are getting up so early on vacation to essentially spend the same amount of time waiting in lines, just to avoid waiting in a ride line. It’s the commute conundrum. Leave earlier or later and your commute is under 40 minutes; leave to be right on time and your commute is an hour.
We usually rope drop, but we are planning to reverse this strategy for our upcoming trip in early May. It doesn't seem worth it to us this time with such long waits happening so early in the mornings, especially at DHS. We booked a 10-day trip this time, the longest we have ever done for WDW without also visiting Universal also, and we plan on sleeping in and taking our times to get to the parks, so we will be able to be there at park closing to hopefully have shorter waits. I'm actually looking forward to it - because the worst part about rope dropping is of course the lack of sleep on a vacay! It seems like our usual strategies are upside down this time!