It’s almost 1am, but I have to share my experience, this board is awesome and I can’t express my appreciation
. So here goes! Sunday MLK weekend...
* left AS.Sports room at 5:30am, just 2 adults, 2 kids
* after getting coffee, snack etc, called an Uber. This is where we just kinda assumed the worst case scenario. We get bounced from driver to driver, everyone is about 20 mins away, once they are 7 mins away, another driver gets assigned. By 6:15, we are still at the resort! Not sure if the bus will be better or still stick with it. We already paid for the ride share, so we stick with it. Finally someone comes and we are off
*dropped off at 6:20
*LOTS of people there, we had bags, but got through security and stayed right for the magic band tapstiles (no fingerprints)
* inside the park at 6:26
* by now I figured rope dropping and popular ride is a bust, but we decided to just be a lemming and head to GE side. We might as well see how it goes and who knows what/ where we will be for boarding group.
* we wait patiently- I had my husband run through “drills” on the app a few days ago! I’m the main app user so he had a learning curve!
* 6: 45, we turn off WiFi - side note it was extremely spotty anyway. We were standing near the frozen singalong theater. Lots of people in front, we couldn’t see the front of the rope line. Even more people behind us! We both launched the app to check our location to ensure the system knows we are in the park
* 6:55, we split responsibilities, he will hit my status and keep refreshing, I will toggle back and forth on home screen and find out more screen.... I did tell him to keep going if someone in our group doesn’t show up as “in the park”, and also told him that if you get the “processing circle”, go back to reload..
* oh, we both have Samsung galaxy s9 plus, on Verizon data
* announcement comes, I ignore and at 7am, we get to work, I’m toggling and my husband for the circle, he didn’t go back but closed the app completely and relaunched!
* He got in immediately- BG 10!!!! You could have knocked me over with a feather. We kinda just stood there in shock.. of course mr novice gets it while I’ve scoured this board for weeks
* at 7:06 they were doing backup groups!
* we decided to just stay with the pack and got in line for MFSR. Out BG got called at 7:18am. By then we were deep in the MFSR line. We decided to stay in line, it was good we did. After the ride, we went to RotR. No delays, we had completed both rides by 9am.
it was a surprise cause when we didn’t get to the park before 6:15, I just assumed the main rides weren’t going to happen and RotR is just luck etc.
the ride was great, I felt there was a lag in calling the BGs, so maybe I missed a part of the ride? Honestly don’t know. The kids want to try again later this week, will report how that goes. I think I was in shock we were actually there to be able to process the ride!
Anyways, hope this helped!
cheers, zia
