How are the crowds Mike? Resort busy?
Sorry, We flew back on the 26th. Other than one evening during a big rain/thunderstorm, the resort didn't seem crowded. During that storm, the food court was full and actually had lines.
Usually the food court never had lines of more than 1 or 2 people, I don't think more than 7 or 8 tables were ever occupied. The buses always fit everyone waiting (both directions), often with room to spare. No bus was ever "standing room only" (NOTE: we did NOT stay for fireworks at MK, and usually left each park about 30 min before closing).
I went to the pool one day. It was empty. Certainly not what I'd expected in that weather.
In the parks, there felt like a lot of people, but ride wait times were what I'd consider reasonable. Even the few times we saw posted stand-by waits of over 60 min, we never waited more than 45 min. If it was over 60 min we didn't get in the stand-by queue. We did use
Genie+ and ILL each day to ride everything we wanted, and still had time for a few stand-bys and a mid afternoon break (Yeah, I never go back to the hotel mid day, but it was too hot/humid, so we did).
Even though we arrived just as morning magic was ending and the park was opening to the public, my son and I used Genie+ and ILL in DHS to get on every ride in one day except Alien Swirling Saucers. We didn't do any shows except Muppets. And we still had time left over! That too was not expected.
We managed to dodge the rain/storms except for one night, heading back to MK just for our ILL on Tron. It started raining while we were on the bus. I didn't have my full pack with me (that had my rain suit and sandals), but I did have a poncho, so my sneakers got wet and became "squeakers" for the next two days. We did have one time that it started to sprinkle as we were in the ILL for Seven Dwarfs, didn't have enough time to get ponchos out and on by the time we got in the building. As soon as we were inside, it poured and lightning hit close enough that they shut the rides down. So we waited inside for about 30 minutes and they were able to start up again.
