We went to EP for NYE several years ago and had an amazing time, I think we only went on 3-4 rides the whole day though, and 3 of those were likely FP.
If you go in expecting to ride a lot of rides you’re probably going to have a horrible time, if you go to experience the excitement, the dance parties, etc it’s a ton of fun though.
I went pre-COVID for New Year’s Eve at EPCOT and the 185-minute wait for Soarin’/Test Track 2.0, 55 minutes for Nemo/Imagination, made it unbearable to do literally anything. I’d never do it again unless I had significantly discounted tickets or something. I could think of a million better uses of my time rather than basically dealing with Mecca-level crowds
Even all the grassy “lawn” areas in Future World at the time were crowded with people, so when shops are so crowded in France you can’t even browse comfortably, or really can’t even do anything without a ridiculous waits for stands and hordes of people even for streetmosphere or entertainment, is that really worth it? The other parks again seem a lot more reasonable. I don’t like being a sardine.
It’s like they should charge less because the experience is so much worse and festivities are just not good enough to offset it, but obviously they need to still jack up their prices and limit peak capacity as today shows. This is basically the issue with Tokyo Disneyland, it has just incredibly absurd wait times during the peak weeks (Golden Week for instance). I mean, there could legitimately be 5-6 rides in each park with 180 minute waits. Universal Japan is even worse for this. In no world is that appropriate for a theme park.
I guess Lightning Lane would make it fine. Expensive but fine. Does anyone know if the on the ground crowds are crazy too?
I don’t think Disney has had waits at that extreme level since pre-COVID, are we going back there again? I know July 2022 was pretty nuts too across the parks. I mean Disney had two showings of Happily Ever After for a bit.
I’m more confused with why it’s primarily EPCOT, especially early afternoon.
I could see as a local going for fireworks if you had the top tier pass, but this is just stupid to go to for like those 1-day ticket goers or even a 4-day pass, it’s like, why? It also gives the wrong impression to a lot of people that that’s how the parks just are when they aren’t at all. It doesn’t seem like they’re manipulating waits at just EPCOT, they tend to do it across the board, or are they? I guess spending the day in Animal Kingdom and park hopping over would actually be the move today.
Long waits for rides on the busiest day of the year?
Meanwhile, Bob and Josh were secretly photographed:
I mean I know that, but look at the other parks, none come close to EPCOT or Epic Universe right now, it’s not like it’s the evening and everyone has migrated over.
I wonder what gives.
