I’m in WDW right now and I’m going to the DVC party at Epcot on the 20th. Was it fun?
It was fun - pretty much everything was open, relatively short lines (~15 mins for Soarin, a bit more for Test Track and Frozen) - though we opted to do more of the smaller rides (was kind of neat to ride Living with the land at night) and you got a voucher for a meal (we went to the Fish and Chips shop), were handing out Mickey bars as much as you wanted. They had characters out - not that many truly unique characters, but the Fab 5 were in various costumes - like Daisy in a Norwegian outfit. And then they did a special Fireworks show and the finale felt like they used as many fireworks in the last 30 secs as in the rest of the show combined. Also had a DJ out by the fountains doing a dance party.
I mean, considering it is free to DVC members, I think it was pretty darn good
From what I have heard (I didn't go since I need my Dad to be in FL in order to take me to these things), it was a lot of fun. I heard the special fireworks that evening are incredible. Also, supposedly there were less than 10,000 people in EPCOT which sounds insane to me.
Enjoy your trip!
Not sure how many people, but definitely less than a typical day but felt like more than like the paid after hours events. It wasn't *empty* but wasn't packed either. Also, people were in the table service restaurants so everyone that was there was there for the rides and characters, etc. so maybe only 10K people, but they were all doing similar things (if that makes sense - just comparing it to a standard day
So don't expect to just walk on to every ride, but definitely smaller crowds.
Also, just nice to be there late when it isn't like 95 degrees