Here Now & Just Back WDW Reopening Experiences Including Park Hopping

[kylenne]

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[Sarahslay]

Where did you find donut holes?

I do believe it's Westward Ho, my oldest DD and I got them a few weeks ago and they were pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty good, cinnamon with powder sugar and a little more dense (not light and fluffy, they will fill you up!). They also have a breakfast sandwich that a lot of people were getting that looked pretty good too, some people were upset because they wanted the more lunch time/afternoon snack options, but this is what is offered in the mornings.

 

[bdiddy]

The lines were outrageous this past week. Again like nothing we've seen for La Patisserie or the Ice Cream place.

Turns out. Only two people working at the ice cream shop. One at the register and another fulfilling the orders. Both times this was the case when we waited the line out (back past the doors of the signature French restaurant). We never attempted the bakery since every time we walked past, the line was back to the ice cream shop.

We tried to go to the France ice cream place 3 different times during our recent trip. Our DD saw something on a food blog she wanted to try. The first time it was peak middle of the day and the line was insane so we were just like we’ll come back later. Which we did but it was sometime after 7 and they were closed. So on our last day we were at Epcot for a bit and it was a Monday but they were closed the whole day! None of the CM’s knew why though. Bummer!

 

[NotTheBatesMotel]

I don't know whether to congratulate or console you. . At least you will have that memory for years!

We've rope dropped 3 Caballeros twice this trip because my son LOVES it and it keeps going up to a 40 min wait later in the day. Definitely the weirdest trip yet but many memories are being made!

 

[penel3]

I'm there at the same time, and I have been 6 times already since reopening at varying times while using their site to plan. Now, it's not always accurate, but all of my trips have been awesome, and I've still felt I picked the right park on the right day. I have been watching room availability onsite, and compared it to my most recent stay (3 weeks ago, where honestly there was hardly any rooms left at all), and unless most of the people coming to the parks are staying offsite you should be fine. I always look at how many hotels still have availability, and how many room categories are still available at each as more of a gauge of how busy it will be and I'm not worried at all. I know in March YC was FULL, as were almost all the other resorts, and we were still fine, same with the trip we just had. I know they are taking attendance back to normal more or less, but I do think a lot of the crowds are still waiting to come until the 50th, there is much less room availability then anyway (I had several rooms in my cart become unavailable as I went to check out, in minutes, gone). I wouldn't panic too much.

Thank you, I also just did a daily scan of restaurant availability at each of my chosen parks vs. the other parks…my choices still look good in alignment with the crowd calendar

 

[dreamit]

We tried to go to the France ice cream place 3 different times during our recent trip. Our DD saw something on a food blog she wanted to try. The first time it was peak middle of the day and the line was insane so we were just like we’ll come back later. Which we did but it was sometime after 7 and they were closed. So on our last day we were at Epcot for a bit and it was a Monday but they were closed the whole day! None of the CM’s knew why though. Bummer!

I’m not sure if this means anything but the WDW website hasn‘t been showing hours for L’Artisan de Glaces for awhile, but I can now see hours beginning July 11.

 

[epcotobsessed]

I love to hear about other people loving this ride - it's been my kids' favorite ride for years. They are now teenagers and we'll be rope dropping this ride for the first time ever next week!

 

[cwaltjen]

At AK today. We drove. Parking lot opened right at 7, turnstiles opened right at 7:15. We were held at the bridge to Pandora until 7:30.

 

[dreamit]

The dinner food offerings at HS still look dismal. Almost everywhere is still closing before 5:00. I’ll never, ever eat at Rosie’s again after the terrible meal we had there in March. Docking Bay looks okay to me but not sure everyone in my family will find something they like on that menu. I’d appreciate any tips on dinner in that park.

 

[TikiTikiFan]

We've been here for the past 10 days and here's some initial thoughts as folks that are primarily Disneyland people:

• Holy ride breakdowns! I don't know if this is normal for WDW but every single day at each park we've seen multiple rides not open at rope drop or breakdown over and over throughout the day. Yesterday Space, Splash, Haunted Mansion, and Pirates were all down when the park opened which created a wild wait for Big Thunder!
• Wait times are much, much shorter in the evening in MK. We walked on to many rides after 6PM that had 40+ minute waits all day.
• HS is stressful. The crowds and the lines for rides are just intense. We ended up skipping our last evening there and spending it at MK which is a bummer bc we normally love it there.
• No issues with mobile ordering! Everything was easily available when we wanted it.
• Uber/Lyft drivers were always in the area and never has to wait. So that issue has seemed to improve.
• The Skyliner can't be relied on much with the rain in the summer- we've only gotten to use it in the mornings. I'd recommend taking an uber if it's down when returning at park close to avoid longer than usual bus waits.
• Bus waits altogether have been minimal- it's been so easy!

I'll have more later- today is our last day and we're so excited to see the fireworks!!

 

[subtchr]

The dinner food offerings at HS still look dismal. Almost everywhere is still closing before 5:00. I’ll never, ever eat at Rosie’s again after the terrible meal we had there in March. Docking Bay looks okay to me but not sure everyone in my family will find something they like on that menu. I’d appreciate any tips on dinner in that park.

Docking Bay is my new favorite.

ABC Commissary was surprisingly good, but it does close early like many other locations in HS. That place has had a revolving-door menu for years, with more misses than hits. But the present iteration has some good choices. We got the shrimp and pork tacos, and found them to be a great light meal.

I'm also surprised how early so many of the dining locations close in HS. I would hope that this will gradually change as full operations return.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

Docking Bay is my new favorite.

ABC Commissary was surprisingly good, but it does close early like many other locations in HS. That place has had a revolving-door menu for years, with more misses than hits. But the present iteration has some good choices. We got the shrimp and pork tacos, and found them to be a great light meal.

I'm also surprised how early so many of the dining locations close in HS. I would hope that this will gradually change as full operations return.

My family and I have always enjoyed ABC commissary. While we are slightly sad that the burgers are not there anymore (they were nice and big and juicy) we are excited about the tacos and the buffalo chicken grilled cheese. Its a great quick service.

 

[dnw25]

We've been here for the past 10 days and here's some initial thoughts as folks that are primarily Disneyland people:

• Holy ride breakdowns! I don't know if this is normal for WDW but every single day at each park we've seen multiple rides not open at rope drop or breakdown over and over throughout the day. Yesterday Space, Splash, Haunted Mansion, and Pirates were all down when the park opened which created a wild wait for Big Thunder!
• Wait times are much, much shorter in the evening in MK. We walked on to many rides after 6PM that had 40+ minute waits all day.
• HS is stressful. The crowds and the lines for rides are just intense. We ended up skipping our last evening there and spending it at MK which is a bummer bc we normally love it there.
• No issues with mobile ordering! Everything was easily available when we wanted it.
• Uber/Lyft drivers were always in the area and never has to wait. So that issue has seemed to improve.
• The Skyliner can't be relied on much with the rain in the summer- we've only gotten to use it in the mornings. I'd recommend taking an uber if it's down when returning at park close to avoid longer than usual bus waits.
• Bus waits altogether have been minimal- it's been so easy!

I'll have more later- today is our last day and we're so excited to see the fireworks!!

Almost our experience exactly! We are WDW people, but I may have under reported just how often rides went down. It was pervasive and at all the parks, all the time. We were shocked.

HS was stressful. agree. We thought Epcot too since Test track was almost impossible to ride without a lengthy wait and restaurants, food carts, shops either closed, sporadic unpublished hours or extremely shortened hours. The college program resuming will help I think.

Skyliner was pointless anytime after 2:00 almost everyday last week (weather). AND, it also had technical problems a few mornings and evenings as well. I felt awful for the people at the Epcot station that were told they had to walk to the boardwalk and grab resort buses.

Our bus waits were almost always 25-40 min.

If this had been our first trip to WDW, we would never be going back.

 

[dreamit]

Docking Bay is my new favorite.

ABC Commissary was surprisingly good, but it does close early like many other locations in HS. That place has had a revolving-door menu for years, with more misses than hits. But the present iteration has some good choices. We got the shrimp and pork tacos, and found them to be a great light meal.

I'm also surprised how early so many of the dining locations close in HS. I would hope that this will gradually change as full operations return.

My family and I have always enjoyed ABC commissary. While we are slightly sad that the burgers are not there anymore (they were nice and big and juicy) we are excited about the tacos and the buffalo chicken grilled cheese. Its a great quick service.

We’ve always enjoyed ABC Commissary, but it currently is closing at 4:30. That’s my struggle—trying to plan for a meal after 5:00 that will appeal to most in our group. It looks like our options are Docking Bay and Woody’s.

 

[MemoryMakers]

We’ve always enjoyed ABC Commissary, but it currently is closing at 4:30. That’s my struggle—trying to plan for a meal after 5:00 that will appeal to most in our group. It looks like our options are Docking Bay and Woody’s.

Recently back from an 8 day trip...it was frustrating that most of the HS quick service places close early but we did enjoy Woody's. The second night we were there, I kept checking the app to see if any reservations opened up and saw Brown Derby, Mama Melrose, and 50s Prime Time come up a couple times. Felt like the old days looking for FPs...kept clicking on different times and got different results every min or two. Same goes for the other parks. Even got a late same day California Grill reservation (9:20 reservation...got it at 6:30 same day).

 

[SuJo]

I do believe it's Westward Ho, my oldest DD and I got them a few weeks ago and they were pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty good, cinnamon with powder sugar and a little more dense (not light and fluffy, they will fill you up!). They also have a breakfast sandwich that a lot of people were getting that looked pretty good too, some people were upset because they wanted the more lunch time/afternoon snack options, but this is what is offered in the mornings.

We got them last week when we were there and they were pretty good. Very doughy and yummy

 

[Sarahslay]

We got them last week when we were there and they were pretty good. Very doughy and yummy

I think it's the great "yeast vs cake donut" debat really lol, I like mine soft and floofy like at Krispy Kreme, these are more like Dunkin which aren't bad but not my first choice. I'll definitely get them again though, a good quick breakfast.

 

[Sarahslay]

The dinner food offerings at HS still look dismal. Almost everywhere is still closing before 5:00. I’ll never, ever eat at Rosie’s again after the terrible meal we had there in March. Docking Bay looks okay to me but not sure everyone in my family will find something they like on that menu. I’d appreciate any tips on dinner in that park.

We did Woody's on our recent trip when we ducked in there in the evening last minute, I think we got a spot around 6pm, and while the menu is small we all had something we like (most importantly, my grilled cheese loving kid and my tot loving kid were happy which made the parents happy so we were fine). My husband is happy to go to docking bay and get a ronto wrap since that's where they sell them in the evening, otherwise if we know we're eating there in the evening we grab an ADR since the food choices are so incredibly slim.

 

[DisneyFive]

We’ve always enjoyed ABC Commissary, but it currently is closing at 4:30. That’s my struggle—trying to plan for a meal after 5:00 that will appeal to most in our group. It looks like our options are Docking Bay and Woody’s.

How late is Docking Bay open to currently?

 

[dreamit]

How late is Docking Bay open to currently?

It’s currently open until 8:00.