Trip Report: Wednesday May 26th
Flight landed in MCO Tuesday night around 10:30 pm. Our flight wasn't even half full, so everyone spread out and it was exceptionally comfortable (traveling on a Tuesday helps!!!). We picked up our car with no wait and went straight to bed for an early wake-up.
We arrived at TTC right at 7am. We were the 3rd car in our row. They started letting us in around 7:11 and we chose prime parking because we wanted to be able to park close when we hopped. Took the monorail over, and breezed through the entry way. The hub was empty and we headed straight back to Splash. Cast members told us that it won't open right at 8am so we hit BTMRR, which was a 5 minute wait. Pirates was down so we rode Haunted Mansion (walk on). As soon as we got off HM we saw Pirates was open and rode that (walk on). Right as we got off Pirates we saw that Splash opened. We waited about 15 minutes...not bad considering that it was posted 45 minutes as we got off.
From there we got a dole whip and sat on the grassy area in the hub by Crystal Palace. The sun was shining and Tinker Bell came by on her gigantic treasure chest. We walked over to Space Mountain and waited about 25 minutes (posted 35). We then did People Mover and waited about 10 minutes (posted 20), and then did Little Mermaid (walk on). We hit everything we really wanted to do so we decided to grab a snack and drink from Starbucks before heading back to TTC via the ferryboat.
We arrived at Epcot around 1:45 pm and they let us through early, which as nice! Epcot felt much quieter. Spaceship Earth and LwtL were both walk-ons so we did those before heading to WS. We ate A LOT of food and it was simply amazing. While it was 90 degrees, it was a dry heat so it was easy to manage. France and Mexico had the most crowds and everywhere else was very easy to navigate.
Around 5pm we checked
MDE and saw wait times at AK were super low, so we hopped again and road Dinosaur, Everest, and the Safari with no wait. We could have done FoP but it was 6:40 pm and we were tired. So we drove back to MCO, dropped off the car and had dinner at the airport. Our flight was about 1/2 full (again, yay for weekday flights!!!).
Okay...so this was our 3rd visit to the pandemic. Yes, there were more people. BUT, because we were all vaccinated, we felt much more comfortable even without the social distancing in the lines and people not wearing masks around the in public spaces of the park. We only wore our masks when in line, using transportation, or if we were stuck around a lot of humans for more than a minute. Mask compliance in line was very good with a few people here and there not complying (y'all, just follow the rules...c'mon!). The lines were not bad at all...if you rope drop. Our longest wait was Space Mountain, and almost everything else was a walk on for us. AK was completely dead in the evening, probably because people either hopped to another park or if they rope dropped they wrapped up early. It was a great trip, and we had a BLAST.
