Originally Posted By Sparrow We were there yesterday and the park was packed! Talked to some people who said Monday was the same. With all the talk of this being a great time to go what with SoCal passes blocked and all I was very suprised. 90 minute wait for Splash, 60 minute wait for Space, even Pirates had a long, winding line. Is this just the typical time to take vacation and go to the park?
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x It's summer. Of course people are taking vacations. The crowds during the summer are mainly out-of-towners who have no other time to come, or are thinking that SoCal's weather is pleasant all year. I do not go during the summer, except for Disneyland's birthday. I can't handle the heat AND the humidity. I can take one or the other, but not both (which is why I'm in my house with the a/c on, because it's a little too humid to go with the 100+ temp)
Originally Posted By bravebrother Despite what everyone says and reports, summer is still very busy. Your 90 minute Wait for Splash and 60 minute wait for Space are like that every summer! And ever longer some days.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Uh, Princess, it was 74 degrees in Anaheim yesterday. And in the evening it got downright chilly (for the season) with a low of 60 degrees and breezy. Maybe you are confused with Orlando weather? The same weather is happening today, as it's happened all week. It's currently 71 and breezy in Anaheim. Bring a sweatshirt or light jacket if you are staying for the fireworks.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Wow, 2 weekends ago, it was borderline miserable. I am now wishing I *was* at Disneyland! LOL This year's weather has been very weird.
Originally Posted By Pollyana We were in Disneyland July 18th for 4 days. It was Packed! I am a line snob, don't want to wait too long, so we used the fast pass whenever we could. The crowds seem to get worse every year.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I've been to Disneyland in the summer when the thermometer was pushing 100 degrees. It was absolutely horrible. Isn't there a story that attendance following the July 17th opening the fist summer was sluggish due to hot weather?
Originally Posted By bravebrother I loooooooooove the heat!!!! Heat Doesnt bother me at all! The hotter the better!!
Originally Posted By Sparrow Yeah the nice thing was the weather was great on Tues. Not too hot and cool in the evening. Just the crowds to deal with. Our passes expire this weekend and we're thinking about not renewing until Sept. :-/
Originally Posted By BellesLibrarian It was also the last ride for Star Tours, so that might have brought a few more people to town this week instead of next.
Originally Posted By GoofTrooper23 We were just there last week and it was pretty busy - however, we kept managing to somehow avoid those ugly lines. Pollyana - I too am a line snob and cry if we have to wait more than 15 minutes!! HM we walked right in though (later however, the line was outside the gate) - Pirates - although long and winding - was continuous and we waited maybe 15 minutes. Splash and Space both had hour wait times minimum - naturally we used fast passes. Darn all those vacationers!! LOL
Originally Posted By Pollyana GoofTrooper I am a line whiner too. I will fuss if I have to wait too long. We found out that if we get our tired old butts out of bed and get to Disneyland early, there are no lines for our favorites. But we do like to sleep in, and since we don't have little ones its very easy to do just that.
Originally Posted By jdurk We were there from 7/15 for 10 days. I thought it was incredibly busy from the 17th until we left. We are out of towners and have gone the last 4 summers and this was definitely the most busy that I recall. I actually thought it was mostly locals.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt It's amazing to me that Disney is doing so well in this economy. Maybe it's discounts. I know they were heavily advertising 5 day passes for the price of 3 days here in the Bay Area at the start of the summer season.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Southern California residents were also offered 2 great summer passes: 3 day, 1 park passes for $108 or a 3-day park hopper for $129. It's an amazing deal, and probably even APs are taking advantage because 3 blackout tickets are $135. That could be accounting for the extra crowds, too.
Originally Posted By GoofTrooper23 Hey Dr - no offense to the vacationers - I have to admit though even though the park is now crowded with vacationers - you can still get by with single rider entrance and fast passes - which the "vacationers" don't know about : )
Originally Posted By GoofTrooper23 Oh and Pollyana we too get there for the dropping of the ropes/the countdown and are one of those people running to the first ride -it's a lot of fun and you can definitely feel the Disney magic when you do this! And yes have found this to be tremendously helpful in staying ahead of the crowd - especially when there's no Magic Morning. Dr - what recession are we in again? Because it really doesn't seem to have slowed people down. I work for SW Airlines and we are busier and our planes are more full than they ever have been!
Originally Posted By Pollyana I certainly have not seen a slow down in vacationing. We went to a lot of places this summer and found crowds everywhere. I don't know, maybe it's locals. Crowds at the Grand Canyon, Zion, Yosemite, Las Vegas, the bay area. Hollywood was thick with people. It was very hard to see handprints at the Chinese theater. I do think Disneyland also hit a near capacity crowd while we were there.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Maybe it's discounts. I know they were heavily advertising 5 day passes for the price of 3 days here in the Bay Area at the start of the summer season.<< They have them for sale (same offer, 5 for 3) at our local Safeway here in Colorado.
