Magic Kingdom parking lot closed due to reaching capacity - park remains open (March 26 2014)

[Gabe1]

This picture was taken around 4:00, when the parking lot was supposedly "full"...

Well it is just after 730 am here and my first jaw dropper. So the lots are full at the MK because they opted not to use them all? Why?

1. Disney wanted to distribute some of the parking over to Epcot to leave room for the evening visitors?

2. Disney wants the press that leads ya to believe they are as busy as NYE?

3. The MK Leadership is so over Spring Break and wanted peace?

4. It was Transportation Leadership cost and overtime savings by sending that 1st shift group of CMs home and feeding visitors to Epcot?

 

[devoy1701]

Well it is just after 730 am here and my first jaw dropper. So the lots are full at the MK because they opted not to use them all? Why?

1. Disney wanted to distribute some of the parking over to Epcot to leave room for the evening visitors?

2. Disney wants the press that leads ya to believe they are as busy as NYE?

3. The MK Leadership is so over Spring Break and wanted peace?

4. It was Transportation Leadership cost and overtime savings by sending that 1st shift group of CMs home and feeding visitors to Epcot?

I vote that it's a crowd control tactic. MK still doesn't have the capacity it needs to handle large crowds. Close down the parking lot and make people park elsewhere, they probably aren't going to double-back and go to MK still if they're parking at Epcot. They'll probably say "well, we're already here..."

 

[Mammymouse]

Highlan

A lot of Florida public schools have spring break this week. Glad we went last week.

Highlands County, FL, which is 90 minutes south of Disneyworld, had Spring Break last week - March 17 though 21. So we went last week also!

 

[Monorail_Orange]

I vote that it's a crowd control tactic. MK still doesn't have the capacity it needs to handle large crowds. Close down the parking lot and make people park elsewhere, they probably aren't going to double-back and go to MK still if they're parking at Epcot. They'll probably say "well, we're already here..."

Excellent theory. I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Now we just need TDO to take one more step in that line of thinking and figure out they need to build more attractions to address the capacity problems.

 

[Figment2005]

When I went into work around 5:30, those lots were full.

 

[AngieTink27]

None of this makes any sense. Is MK refurbing any of its parking sections?

 

[xstech25]

Excellent theory. I think you may have hit the nail on the head.

There's no way, do you seriously think Disney wants to give free parking vouchers and send people to park at another theme park instead of just having them park at MK (closer to where they want to go) and make $15 off of it?

I was there that day, they had cars parked all along the grass outside the speedway, the parking lot was full. The reason the parking lot fills up now before the park reaches capacity is because new Fantasyland added a bunch of real estate so they can fit more people in the park than before. The only way they can fix that problem is by adding more parking capacity to MK.

 

[WDWfreak89]

I used to work in the MK parking lot and I can tell you it is only because of the demand we get at night. When we have a rush we can more efficiently and safely park cars in an empty lot row by row instead of having to search for the empty spots. Almost every time the parking lot closes you will see Cruella and some of Scar not full.

 

[Next Big Thing]

I used to work in the MK parking lot and I can tell you it is only because of the demand we get at night. When we have a rush we can more efficiently and safely park cars in an empty lot row by row instead of having to search for the empty spots. Almost every time the parking lot closes you will see Cruella and some of Scar not full.

Exactly. When they close the parking lot in situations like this, it's so they can let it empty out a bit to safely resume operations. Not everything has an evil motive behind it. There are a lot of restrictions and safety precautions involved in any part of park operations. If something happens to trigger one of those restrictions (such as the parking lot becoming overcrowded), then they take the appropriate steps to solve the situation and get operations back to normal as quickly as possible.

 

[Goofyernmost]

For what they get out of it, perhaps they can take the extra money from the parking fees and get ride of the race track. I don't know if it is ever used. I have never seen one vehicle on the track. You could park quite a few cars in that space. What a waste of money that thing was.

 

[Figment2005]

For what they get out of it, perhaps they can take the extra money from the parking fees and get ride of the race track. I don't know if it is ever used. I have never seen one vehicle on the track. You could park quite a few cars in that space. What a waste of money that thing was.

From what I have experienced it gets used quite often, most of the time during the morning and early afternoon. I almost always hear either an exotic sports car or racecar running during the day.