We were in WDW 3/27 - 3/31 and stayed at YC.
It was definitely crowded, I can’t say what capacity it was at, but I know this was a major spring break week for a lot of school districts.
Despite the crowds, there was still plenty of space to move around, except for places in the parks that will always be “bottlenecks” - like in Tomorrowland, and walking from Pater Pan to Haunted Mansion, etc…one of the issues is that the lines for the rides are now largely outside the attraction queue, so it encroaches on the walking space. It really didn’t bother us.
We had a fantastic trip - but we have already been a bunch of times so we understood what we were missing…If you have never been, I might think twice about going now and waiting until things start opening up more….the “pre-shows” for the rides are not running, so if you’ve never been on a ride before, you might miss the story of that ride since you are ushered right pass any show you’d normally sit and watch before you go on the ride. Kind of a bummer, but if you’ve seen it, then you already know it…
Mobile ordering was great before covid, and now that you can do it for more places it’s even better. And there is something nice that you can’t even get into the restaurant until your order is ready so we always found a table with ease - better than most people occupying tables while they have someone ordering food and bunch of people walking around with trays of food and nowhere to sit - in general it was much less chaotic at the QS places.
Skyliner is awesome - we took it a lot in the middle of the day between Epcot & HS…never any lines….lines were there in the am and pm….but middle of the day it’s such a nice way to get between those 2 parks.
We used busses in the morning to get to MK & AK. It was easy and we never waited long….we used lyft & uber a few times to get from a park to the hotel - if we needed to get from a park to a dinner rez in a hurry, we used lyft or uber - waits were between 5 & 20 minutes…and costs were low so it’s a really good option if you don’t want to wait for the bus.
Mask compliance was very good - some wore below their noses, but cast members asked them to fix…..waiting in lines were generally not 6ft apart - mostly just due to people not paying attention….if you are covid-fearful then this is not the time to go - there is just no way around this and you’d spend your day telling people to “back up” - lots of kids not staying 6ft back and parents not paying attention to tell them to move…or they didn't care…and lot of adults not staying 6ft apart in line….this is just how it goes…..so if this will upset you then might be best to wait. But it really didn’t feel unsafe…
Overall it was a great trip - as most people said, lines look really really long - but they move almost constantly….it was 90 degrees when we were there so waiting outside in lines was tough at times - especially the parts of the lines that were in direct sun….i cannot imagine doing that in the summer - that part did get to us…longest line we waited in was for TOT - 1 hr…..and FOP was about an hour as well - but in generally even a really long line amounted to about 40 minutes….
Worth getting a Touring Plans subscription as the wait times on it were more accurate than Disney’s….
Definitely way less photo pass photographers around…..
My only real complaint was that it was harder to get food at the hotel - we stayed at YC for the 1st time and the market there had VERY little options....either for fresh food or packaged food. Our last stay was at AK and they had a way better "cafe" with tons of options and better hours...YC market opened at 7am, not great if you are trying to get an early bus to the parks and want to eat before, and closed at 10pm, which was a little early. And Beaches & Cream would even serve ice cream for a walk up - you had to have a full reservation to get in - I felt that was a huge miss on their part as so many people love to grab ice cream during the day.
No FP was fine since lines moved fast - a lot faster then when you are constantly having the FP merge in...and great to decide where to go next on the fly....BUT this was at a lower capacity for the park overall - once the capacity restrictions are lifted, they will have to bring FP back...
Overall, a great trip as usual