4th of July lines, as bad as Thanksgiving?

Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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Disneysea05 said:
Quite a handful of attractions closed. Wonder why?
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Trackmaster

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I think that something that you have to remember is that Florida just isn't that appealing in general over the summer -- even if the kids are off from school. I used to live in Miami, and we all knew that the tourism was absolutely dead in the summer, but very robust in the winter and fall. Obviously, if you live in Florida, you all know about snowbirds. So with Disney, even though its family oriented, and available time off from school is a factor, if you live in New Jersey, Florida just won't have the same appeal when the weather is great at home, and its 98 degrees here with thunderstorms. You'd rather go when you're shoveling snow at home and its 70 down here. That's why I think that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break is the time where WDW gets out of control crazy.
 
winstongator

winstongator

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Do you have a touringplans account or access to their historical data? We were there that week 2018. The weekend before wasn’t too bad, but week of got bad as you got later into the week. We focused on our fp, rope dropping and non-line activities: Void at Disney springs, my daughters shopping with grandma, ice exhibit at the Gaylord palms. It was a great week and I’d expect yours to be too,
 
Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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They were posting on this site yesterday that no parks were closed for reaching capacity, so I would have to say it is worse at Thanksgiving and Christmas because that often happens then.
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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The fourth of July is way worse than Thanksgiving, we go every Thanksgiving and it is just not that bad, Thanksgiving never gets into the Phased closings like it sometimes does on the 4th of July, also on Thanksgiving day Epcot and Animal Kingdom are not bad at all. If this tells you anything we are always able to get 4th, 5th ect fastpasses on Thanksgiving.
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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Tony the Tigger said:
They were posting on this site yesterday that no parks were closed for reaching capacity, so I would have to say it is worse at Thanksgiving and Christmas because that often happens then.
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We go every year at Thanksgiving and they have never gone into phased closings and most years MK does go into phased closings on the fourth of July. I think people tend to lump Thanksgiving in with Christmas and they shouldn't. We have been there every year for the last 10 years and it is just not bad at all. I tend to avoid MK on Thanksgiving during the day due to the cheerleaders and the beauty pagent groups, but hey tend to clear out after dinner.
 
Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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ninjaprincesst said:
We go every year at Thanksgiving and they have never gone into phased closings and most years MK does go into phased closings on the fourth of July. I think people tend to lump Thanksgiving in with Christmas and they shouldn't. We have been there every year for the last 10 years and it is just not bad at all. I tend to avoid MK on Thanksgiving during the day due to the cheerleaders and the beauty pagent groups, but hey tend to clear out after dinner.
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Fair point. We’ve never gone on actual Thanksgiving. When we’ve gone between Christmas and New Year’s Day, if you didn’t get there by 10 or 11am, you weren’t getting in.
 
HoldenC

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I feel that Thanksgiving is busier than 4th of July. But even then it's not unbearable like the week of Christmas.
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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HoldenC said:
I feel that Thanksgiving is busier than 4th of July. But even then it's not unbearable like the week of Christmas.
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I have been there for both Thanksgiving is not even in the ball park as the fourth of July. I Have seen phase 4 closing at MK the 4th of July, and no where even near the need for phased closings on Thanksgiving.
 
Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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HoldenC said:
Well the facts are that I've worked all the major holidays at WDW for 3 years so I have better knowledge on it than you or the Ninja Princess. 😂
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You’re confusing a fact with anecdotal evidence.

I’m not even necessarily disputing your conclusion, but don’t present it as fact without actual facts beyond “what I recall.”
 
ninjaprincesst

ninjaprincesst

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HoldenC said:
Good for you? Thanksgiving is still busier than the 4th of July. That is a fact.
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I don't where you are getting your information but it is not. Check online and historical crowd calendars, the 4th of July is one of the busiest days of the year and often has phased closings, Thanksgiving does not, it busy but not near as busy as the 4th of July, Christmas or Easter week. CHeck out touringplans.com phased closings for the last 5 years and you will see that it has not happened on Thanksgiving, but has happened on the 4th of July.
 
HoldenC

HoldenC

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ninjaprincesst said:
I don't where you are getting your information but it is not. Check online and historical crowd calendars, the 4th of July is one of the busiest days of the year and often has phased closings, Thanksgiving does not, it busy but not near as busy as the 4th of July, Christmas or Easter week. CHeck out touringplans.com phased closings for the last 5 years and you will see that it has not happened on Thanksgiving, but has happened on the 4th of July.
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According to that site the last phase closing st MK on July 4 was in 2014. So again you're lying.
 

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