Yesterday was the worst day I have had at Disneyland. I don’t want to dwell on it; overall, we have had a good vacation and have 2 1/2 more days here, but yesterday was tough due to the crowds and some inopportune ride break downs. I have never been at the park where crowds were so bad that my kids asked if we could leave for the day.
Ride breakdowns have been a bummer this week and maybe just unlucky on my part. Yesterday, we were walked out of Indy before we got on the ride and given a replacement pass. We used that on Space Mountain in the evening and it broke down and they had to come get us off the tracks (we were in tunnel by the end). At that point, the kids felt we were cursed so we rode Star Tours and left the park.
Today has been busy but more manageable with our magic morning start. Before lunch, we did Space, Matterhorn, splash, big thunder and had 11:00am FP for Indy. We had another problem there; this time we were about to get on after using our FP and they shut it down at 11:26am. They gave us a replacement pass, but somehow it only showed up for one of us. We had lunch reservations at noon, but went to guest relations after and they gave us 4 new Indy passes, but it is still shut down. Most of the major rides right now are 60 minutes plus, so we went back to the hotel (space is 90, Matterhorn, Haunted and Splash 85).
We will head back tonight; we have haunted FP at 5 and dinner res at 5:30pm and Oga’s at 9:15pm. Fingers crossed that Indy is back up tonight. Anyway, we are having fun with a few struggles. Just wanted to give an update.
We spoke to a number of employees and their daily attendance estimates are getting blown away this week. I think one said that they were 12,000 over estimate yesterday. I was kind of listening as my wife was talking and not sure if that is correct.