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Originally Posted by Jewelsmom
Just ONE MORE REASON NOT TO GO to Disney. Money grubby lot they are!
My DH and I took our three teen girls this past Christmas. We've never been before.
What a huge mistake. So crowded the "fast passes" came with a 4-hour wait. It was so crammed with people you couldn't even walk. Parking was practically in another state, people shoving to get on the trams, irritable employees, cranky kids in strollers that overtook sidewalks, long-LONG lines, unstocked restrooms, overpriced food, way too commercialized . . . you get the picture.
What I absolutely hated the most was the artful and deceiving way Disney snaked the lines around walls and rooms. You think you are getting to the front of the line after standing for hours, and suddenly you turn a corning to find you are at the END of another long snaking line through yet another room. All for a ride that lasts a matter of minutes.
We will NEVER EVER do that again.
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Well, Christmas (I assume you mean the week of Christmas) is the most busy time of the whole year to go to Disney, often the parks (espcially Magic Kingdom) are so crowded that the actually close to new admitence (sp?) in the early afternoon. And high crowds mean long lines for everything. There are much less crowded times to go, notably between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, and then after T-day until the week before Christmas break. January until mid-February are also lower crowd times to go. Then end of August (right before but not including Labor Day) can also be lower attendance, but it's HOT!
As with any other destination, you should always read a few good guide books and do plenty of research to get the most out of your vacation. For Disney, I recomend "The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World". It gives you stratagies to beat the crowds, including detailed park itinearies, telling you what rides to do in what order to wait in line the least amount of time, often less than 20 minutes. And these park stratgies are developed with peak crowd conditions (like those at Christmas) in mind. It gives a ton of other money and time saving info as well.
I'm sorry you didn't have a better time, hopefully you'll be willing to give it another try someday, at a less crowded season.