Touring Plans is a fantastic resource for crowd levels—it’s inexpensive to join and extremely useful in planning trips!
Yeah I landed on that week because of MLK weekend I looked at the race info and there is a 5k Thursday, 10k Fri and the marathon sat and all races are sold out. I can only imagine it would bring higher crowds. I'll look into the touring plan. I was hoping to get one last Jan trip in before our passes expire.
Ok thank you. I've been on hold for an hour to change and I was hoping to get some reassurance for my change lol. We are staying at the fort in our camper and they only have availability for me to move to 1/19-1/22 not 1/20-1/22 so I'm hoping they can get us moved.
Yeah that sounds about right lol. I've always wanted to do one but I have serious training to do. I couldn't even do the 5k at this point. We got switched. I just got through to Disney and they booked me 1/19-1/22 (only way to make it work) and I'll cancel the first day tomorrow. When I tried online to do it, they wanted some to pay another deposit which is why I didn't do it but she was able to do it without another deposit so we are all squared away! I'm so glad we switched after reading the two negatives!!We visited during a Run Disney event and it pretty much ruined our last day, as transportation was so snarled up. Our "first bus of the day" from AKL took over an hour to reach MK, and when we went to leave MK a couple hours later bound for HS where we had Fastpasses waiting, we had to choose between taking the monorail and the boats, because the wait for buses was expected to be 60-90 minutes, since the roads were still blocked by "runners." [*see footnote] So from MK, we had to take the monorail to EPCOT, go through security again, walk the entire way through EPCOT from the main entrance to the International Gateway, and then catch the Skyliner to HS, where we speed-walked to our about-to-expire Fastpass attraction. So looking on the bright side, we got to do a half-marathon through Disney property without spending an extra dime.
Never again!
*Footnote: This event was only a half-marathon, and from what we saw, the Disney definition of "runners" in that context is "hundreds upon hundreds of middle-aged women of ordinary build, wearing tutu skirts and mouse ears, shambling along the street at a relaxed walking pace."
