Omg we were at AK on 12/5 too and it was ABSURD. the busiest i have seen that park in a while, probably similar to my Thanksgiving 2018 trip which was equally as awful.
-We waited more than an hour for FOP at park open, we got to the park about 20 minutes before the early morning half hour started (which was exactly around the time we arrived at DHS the day before which was perfect) and were ushered into the park immediately and held right around the tree of life..that's how far back we were.
-Waited roughly 50 minutes for Safari
-Everest was posted 45 and we went to single rider which was closed shortly after we entered the queue. We were told immediately by CM's that single rider would take 50 minutes!! About 5 people exited the line due to his announcement. single rider took ~20 minutes and we were lucky that even though we were all separated, it was only three separate trains for our entire party of 10 to get through single riders. Two of us got front row, two of us were in back to back rows and one of us sat completely by ourselves.
-Walked over to Dinosaur as it dropped down to 25, we got into the queue which was fairly extended and we doubted that it was 25 minutes just from our experience. As soon as we hopped into line the wait shot up to 50 and about 5 minutes later we came to a dead stop. We didn't know the ride was down, and ended up waiting another 25 minutes before they COMPLETELY closed the ride and told every person to get out. We were sporadically moving, since people were exiting the queue, so we didn't think the ride was actually down. But it was an utter waste of time.
At that point it was 2 and we were completely burnt out and the park was a madhouse so we left.
Some of the rest of our party stayed and did it's tough to be a bug but we didn't find that necessary.
We didn't think
Genie+ or the LL$ (whatever it is called) would be worth it for such a few amount of attractions, but clearly it would've helped us get on the literal 5 attractions that the park has.
grrrrrrrr