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21 Jan 22, 04:12 PM |
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21 Jan 22, 04:44 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Feb 06
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21 Jan 22, 05:20 PM |
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As mentioned above, US schools start to go back around mid-August. So the end of August tends to be a bit quieter (note that I said quieter and not quiet ).
Last year, the parks were pretty quiet at the end of August. If you look at the last week of August 2021, the average wait time for FOP was generally 30 minutes or less. The only problem with August is that it's very hot and humid. So bear that in mind if you go then.
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21 Jan 22, 06:14 PM |
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Join Date: May 17
Location: Sussex
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Yes, I think Genie+ isn't being taken up as much as has been calculated in the wait times. Their algorithms seem to be quite simple so I think it's calculated based on full G+ usage when they're seeing far less than that. That's just speculation on my part but it's very similar to the industry I work in, so it's an educated guess.
You have to exclude August 2021 from wait time stats as this is when Delta spiked, so there were massive cancellations in an already quieter time. Attendance was down at least a third against forecast. But generally speaking, the new "low" season is late August through September. Not winter as it used to be many years ago now. |
21 Jan 22, 08:23 PM |
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With respect to wait times for both fastpass and fastpass+ with the exception when rides break down I found standby times were always longer than actual, and touring plans over the years as proven this.
If you join a Q saying 120 mins and you are through in 100 mins you are happy, if you join a Q saying 100mins and it takes 120mins you are unhappy. Its the disney pixie dust magic
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21 Jan 22, 11:34 PM |
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Join Date: Dec 08
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Did another park today that was empty, SeaWorld although it’s never been busy for us since the black fish scandal that hit it!
Walked on both rides apart from manta that was closed and shamu show or whatever they prefer to call it these days😂 was very empty in the stadium. Was a pleasant day in the glorious weather again. It’s only mainly Disney I’m hearing that’s mainly rammed these days with universal hit n miss! |
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21 Jan 22, 11:59 PM |
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Well, just wait until the Omega variant hits this coming August.
But, yeah, last August was a bit different. Late August to the end of September has always been the low season.
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22 Jan 22, 04:13 AM |
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I stood and waited 30 minutes for the People Mover today in MK. You know its busy when the queue for that is more than 5 mins ! Lol
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23 Jan 22, 02:17 AM |
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We are finding the crowds really busy for what we thought would be a relatively quiet time.
We did however brave Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Rail which said it was a 45 minute wait only for it to be roughly 25/30 minute so I do understand the sentiment above! It wouldn't surprise me tbh. We did do MK one of the days and did 1 ride in 5 hours because everything was posting 60 minutes however the day after we did G+ and managed to get on nearly everything so we left 'happy'. Maybe that's what they want however you can visually see some of the rides looked a lot busier than usual I.e. queue for Small World was outside Pinnochios, Peter Pan was by Rapnuzels WC, People Mover was snaking around Tomorrowland. We will probably do G+ for HS as we didn't really experience anything when we went without it because it was so busy everywhere. |
23 Jan 22, 02:06 PM |
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Join Date: Feb 06
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Yes, we waited 25 mins for people mover too, longest ever wait They did seem to be slowing people getting on, e.g., once the escalator was full, they stopped the queue and people getting on for a while, then load again, whereas whenever we have been on it before it was a continuous loading.
Hence I saw many people mover carriages going round overhead with no-one on them! |
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