boilermakeric
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2018
We moved our September, low-crowd-hopeful trip into August once the SWGE opening was announced. While we know the change will bring some uptick in crowds from our original vision, we were hoping to mitigate that somewhat by making 8/16 a MK day, which is the first date of MNSSHP for 2019. We’ll be onsite, so also plan to use EMH that morning.
I know the general guidance is that these 9-6PM dates are great for MK crowd relief, and we did feel that panned out during our Oct visit last year (actually went to the park on 2x party dates). But does that strategy backfire for the very first party date? I noticed that last year’s first party date had an 8 AM start, which was one of the only ones for the entire party season. Hoping that wasn’t an omen for an overlay busy day.
On the flip side, I’d love to think that all the bloggers will be saving their energy for a full night of activity and won’t be bothering with daytime hours. I can accept that the 4 PM rush might be a big bigger than other days. Buy I anticipate we’ll be leaving by 5 PM anyways, so I’m not worried about that aspect… as long as the overall day wasn’t a bad choice.
Any insight from last year’s visitors on that same day? We have no interest to attend a party this trip, so it’s just a call between this day for MK or another earlier in the week (already planning a late start MK day on Wed as well that will go through evening EMH).
I know the general guidance is that these 9-6PM dates are great for MK crowd relief, and we did feel that panned out during our Oct visit last year (actually went to the park on 2x party dates). But does that strategy backfire for the very first party date? I noticed that last year’s first party date had an 8 AM start, which was one of the only ones for the entire party season. Hoping that wasn’t an omen for an overlay busy day.
On the flip side, I’d love to think that all the bloggers will be saving their energy for a full night of activity and won’t be bothering with daytime hours. I can accept that the 4 PM rush might be a big bigger than other days. Buy I anticipate we’ll be leaving by 5 PM anyways, so I’m not worried about that aspect… as long as the overall day wasn’t a bad choice.
Any insight from last year’s visitors on that same day? We have no interest to attend a party this trip, so it’s just a call between this day for MK or another earlier in the week (already planning a late start MK day on Wed as well that will go through evening EMH).