rlk
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2007
My husband to this day laughs/jokes about his childhood trip to Typhoon Lagoon in October of '96. They showed up 90 MINUTES before park opening and they have video of them in the parking lot with ZERO cars. My husband said people started showing up about 10 minutes prior to opening and even then it was a trickle. I guess one way it paid off for them though is they were "Family of the Day" and got some special seating or something. I don't even know if they do that anymore.
Needless to say, after this childhood "trauma" we very rarely (if ever) do rope drops because DH is adamantly against it (he made an exception for our upcoming trip to catch FOP). LOL
When we were Family of the Day at Blizzard Beach, we opened the park by going down Summit Plummet while the rope drop crowd was held at an internal rope. We also got the use of the Captain's Shack for the day, free locker and towels. My kids also received a souvenir medal.