SimplyMeantToBe
Earning My Ears
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- Sep 27, 2017
We are going 10/12 - 10/22. I am a bit nervous over the extended hours as well.
They ALWAYS have late hours in October, because of all the party nights. This is nothing new. In fact, they took forever this year to update.
We love May! We actually went the last week of May this year and crowds were still manageable. The weather during early May is awesome.. warm but not terribly humid and few rain showers. I actually picked the end of April for our Disney wedding because of the great weather and low crowds.
I've been wanting to go to F&W forever, so I scheduled our planning session for our wedding for Oct 30th that way we could hit F&W, MNSSHP on the 31st and stick around until Nov 5th to maybe see some Christmas decorations. It will be interesting to see how crowds compare to late Spring.
What about all those MK 8am opens they just added, do they always do those?
Since my first trip in the fall in 2010 at least...What about all those MK 8am opens they just added, do they always do those?
This week sells out because of the Wine and Dine running events I think. We were there last year during that week and will be again. It wasn't terrible last year and hoping it won't be bad this year.I've been nervous ever since seeing the BC sell out for our week (10/28-11/5) We've stayed at the BC over 20 times and we've never experienced the hotel selling out months in advance. This will be our first Fall trip and if crowds are anything like I'm expecting it might be our last Fall trip! I'm kind of wishing we booked the first week of December. We usually do late April-early May or early December.
I am thinking we will be May people from now on. Our kids get out of school mid month. We can pull them out for their last week since they don't do anything anyways. That would put us going 2nd week of May.
If it makes you feel any better, early December has been booked up for quite a while. No one knows if it's a website glitch or a record breaking crowd but there may be similar issues in December as well.I've been nervous ever since seeing the BC sell out for our week (10/28-11/5) We've stayed at the BC over 20 times and we've never experienced the hotel selling out months in advance. This will be our first Fall trip and if crowds are anything like I'm expecting it might be our last Fall trip! I'm kind of wishing we booked the first week of December. We usually do late April-early May or early December.
They have been having those hours in October since at least 2014 when I went, and the crowds were fine.
Since my first trip in the fall in 2010 at least...
I've been there for both time periods and no, not even close. December dates are MUCH busierInteresting. In December the 8ams don't usually kick in until 12/23. Same with Easter - usually starts on Palm Sunday or after. So these October dates are busier?
They had several 8 am openings in October 2012 when we last went.What about all those MK 8am opens they just added, do they always do those?
Exactly my opinion as well. No one seems to have considered that they've listened to complaints and extended hoursThey had 8 am openings in October several times in 2012 when we last went.
MY personal opinion is that Disney realized the shorter hours this summer ( and the shorter hours that were originally planned for October ) were a mistake and they are fixing that now.
Right. I think what people are forgetting that the original October hours for 2017 were not the norm. I'm talking the MK closing at 9 ? I havent seen October hours like that for the last 5 years. Disney is just extending their hours and making them what they were supposed to be. I imagine they got tons of complaints this summer and realized their little experiment didn't work.Exactly my opinion as well. No one seems to have considered that they've listened to complaints and extended hours