in addition to gay days, it's also Canadian Thanksgiving. Lots of schools give the friday off, and then Monday is a stat holiday, so I bet the extra long weekend has also brought in some more people.
Hmmm. You can't mean it's crowds that are making the lines long. I've read so many times that the FP system is what causes long lines so it seems the lines should be shorter with FP down...
The regular paper FPs were down as well during the outage.
The CMs told us that both paper and digital FP were down, and there was no way to get a FP during the outage. I heard this announced to crowds a few times. I was able to get a couple by being on the app at the right time because it did come back online momentarily a few times, but then I had to remember the return time because as soon as it went back down I couldn't see the FP. We were told the adr system was down too but CMs were able to look up existing reservations.
DCA is were the expected crowds are suppose to be today with gay days.Here now and all appears to be well: crowds aren’t too bad and Max Pass works perfectly (or as perfectly as it ever has ;-)). Given what happened yesterday, I was a little concerned that today would be a... manure show ;-).
First in the park today, BTW
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A friend of mine went one day and the app wouldn't allow her to book maxpass even though she paid and it charged her. So they gave her 4 MEP's. So maybe that's another option you can ask for?
HAhahaha! Just what I was thinking
That's pretty much what we did, we went on the Mark Twain, then to the Golden Horseshoe for a couple of shows, had dinner at Storytellers and left.
It is that weekend in particular, as it is Gay Days along with it being a holiday weekend. We knew it would be crowded going in, but it was even beyond what I would have expected, it was seriously crowded to a point that I haven't seen in a long, long time. By the time we left I would say it was definitely Christmas week level crowds, not quite New Years Eve level, but getting close.
No, with FP down, the queues will be even longer, as FP manages crowds in a smart and efficient manner which reduces standby times even for those that don'e use FP. Now if it weren't quite as crowded as it was, you would have seen smaller crowds at gift shops and restaurants as a result, but that's another story.
It was insanity in Disneyland but I’ve been on NYE 3 of the last 4 years and this was busier than NYE in my opinion.
The lines may have been physically longer in terms of how far they stretched but they moved faster without the FPs.
Pretty much avoid the first weekend in October, but this year it was apparently a perfect storm, with Columbus day, then many schools were off last week and as someone else mentioned Canadian Thanksgiving and add in the Gay Days and you end up with a real mess. Then add in Maxpass, paper FP and the DAS system all going down plus all of the construction going on. I mean I should have had a clue when it took 10 minutes to get on a bus at Toy Story on the Jessie side, but we were meeting up with a friend, so we made the best of it.
I have been on some NYEs where it rained havily until about 1 in the afternoon and there was no one in either park (even managed to ride some rides multiple times without having to get off), but I have been on others where you literally couldn't move anywhere in the parks without going through gift shops.
On Saturday the incredicoaster line at 2:30pm was a posted 40 actual 15. The line physically started where it should have been a 45 min wait if FPs had been distributed for that time.
