Just back from our typical Jersey Week trip. Overall great as usual but found same day FP much harder to come by (party of 5) despite the crowds only seeming marginally more crowded than past years and standby times only slightly more than usual (with some exceptions like 250 for FoP which I haven't seen there for some time.
BUT - Monday morning and afternoon at MK . . . whoa. Do you know what MK is like on a hot day when Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Peter Pan and Haunted Mansion are all down for morning and early afternoon and People Mover and Buzz also go down for short periods. It's not fun. Never see 4 top rides all down at once for that long. The number of anytime FP that were distributed made standby times soar with many FP waits up to 30 minutes. Made one of my few complaints to Guest Services as it was our last day in the park until 2pm before we had to leave for the airport and it killed most of our day (especially with splash since it was brought online twice only to go down again within 15 minutes and because we hadn't been able to ride it that trip (daughter wasn't feeling well our first day in MK so missed it) and it was our last chance to ride this trip, we got off line for other rides and crossed the park twice to get there only to have it go down again while we were on line. So frustrating (especially since it's our favorite and it'll be down for refurbishment our next trip). Guest Services as usually was very polite and accommodating, but needed to vent especially with the ride going down-up-down-up, etc.
BUT - Monday morning and afternoon at MK . . . whoa. Do you know what MK is like on a hot day when Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Peter Pan and Haunted Mansion are all down for morning and early afternoon and People Mover and Buzz also go down for short periods. It's not fun. Never see 4 top rides all down at once for that long. The number of anytime FP that were distributed made standby times soar with many FP waits up to 30 minutes. Made one of my few complaints to Guest Services as it was our last day in the park until 2pm before we had to leave for the airport and it killed most of our day (especially with splash since it was brought online twice only to go down again within 15 minutes and because we hadn't been able to ride it that trip (daughter wasn't feeling well our first day in MK so missed it) and it was our last chance to ride this trip, we got off line for other rides and crossed the park twice to get there only to have it go down again while we were on line. So frustrating (especially since it's our favorite and it'll be down for refurbishment our next trip). Guest Services as usually was very polite and accommodating, but needed to vent especially with the ride going down-up-down-up, etc.