FatherForce
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- Jun 22, 2006
Have you seen the videos of Pandora's 1st few weeks, or Toy Story Land? Multiple that by 100
I'm also imagining that park will be super crowded on 5/4/2020.
I’d love if this were true b/c we want to go back Thanksgiving week again but worried it’ll make those crowds even worse.I still think they're gonna wait till December to open this land, possibly to coincide with episode 9's release. They seem to prefer opening lands now around peak times now though I don't know why that is. I can only guess that they want to take advantage when tickets and hotel rooms are expected to be at their highest rates.
We went the week after Jersey Week this past November, which ended up being Veterans Day week and it was absolutely mobbed. We had to do so, because some people we were going with only could do that week.
We usually go the week before or after Thanksgiving, which has proven to be perfect, though with the nature of what Disney has become, may be over. My wife and I are going back at the end of February, just so we could enjoy Disney the way we're used to. We are definitely planning next November as well, but are going back to our normal time. If SWGE opens up in that vicinity, we'll definitely be avoiding HS.
same for my family too, our April school vacation is a little later, our tentative trip dates are April 21-28,2020.We're not going back until Spring Break 2020 and I'm prepared for it to be a full mob scene.
Wow. Were you there the entire week? Nov 12-16? Was it mobbed after Veteran's Day? The entire week?
Did you avoid the parks with Extra Magic Hours? Or did you do the parks on those days?
@DisneyMom93 We were there from the Saturday the 10th to Sunday the 18th. It lightened up a bit during the middle of the week, but ramped up again towards the following weekend. We did MVMCP on the 16th and the crowds were insane, which was a far contrast to the previous years, where we literally had the park to ourselves. Looking at the crowd calendars, the whole week was supposed to be low to moderate, but this was definitely not the case.
We never really take advantage of extra magic hours, but we also don't let it affect whether or not we go to a park on a certain day. We generally plan the days based on what dining and fast passes that we end up getting during the advanced bookings, then while there, we'll try and get spur of the moment ones based on what's available.
Being that we tend to make a trip every year we've become less concerned with missing out on stuff and have gravitated more towards doing new things like tours and events, etc.
On our November trip, there were no FOP fast passes to be found for the whole week booking 60 days out, but I was able to get SDD without an issue. We did FOP the year before, so that was good enough for us. Coincidentally, we're going back in February (trying a different time of year) and there were no SDD Fast passes, but I was able to get FOP without a problem. It's the luck of the draw and as the expansions progress, it likely will not get any easier. One thing about us Disney fanatics is that we're all gluttons for punishment and will continue to subject ourselves to this punishment, hahaha.
same for my family too, our April school vacation is a little later, our tentative trip dates are April 21-28,2020.