My first post! But this thread was so helpful to me, so I’ll chime in.
We went this morning. My husband, me, and my five “kids,” ages 15-23. We took the bus from Beach Club at 6:55 & arrived at the HS gate by 7:05. Made our way to wait by the the holding place. We stayed to the right, as was suggested. They didn’t let is in until 7:30. We made our way to SDD & was on the 3rd train. Off by 7:40. We ride Aliens once & TSMM once. After a potty break, we went back to SDD & rode it two more times with less than a 10 minute wait for each ride.
We decided to ride TSMM one more time. As we were near the loading area, they started unloading people & advised us to go do something else because the ride was down. It was 8:45 by then. We then decided to go to ToT. We had FP at 3:25, but we were trying to knock it out earlier. Terrible decision. It was craziness once the main park goers got into the park. I was tripped up by a stroller on purpose, and as stated by another poster, they waited to tell us the ride was down once we got to the ride.
We gave up & went to the yummy breakfast & rested.
Overall, a great experience. We could’ve ridden SDD four times, if we had not gone to TSMM after our third trip.