olegc
04-06-2005, 10:46 AM
I went to the park yesterday to support my daughters Elementary School Orchestra performance - and I could not believe the crowds. Wow! I mean, not busy like summer but not an off-season week either.
after thinking about it - many schools have really offset their spring breaks to where now schools throuhgout the country start their break from two weeks before easter all the way through next week (Irvine Unified here in CA). BUT - the park only places a two week window (or is it one week) on their extended hours. So last night, at 7pm, Most of the rides had only one side or track working or in a queue, many fastpasses were gone by 1pm, and Splash had an 83 minutes wait at 7:40pm - and the park closed at 8. Food lines were huge, etc.
I think the park needs to rethink how they structure the Spring Break hours in order to accomodate the wider spread of school district changes. Maybe use the most hours (8-midnight, or whatever) during the heaviest weeks, and then something lighter (9am-10pm) for the other weeks. I think this would allow many more people to see more attractions. With our group we only were able to visit 7 attractions on hit one restaurant for food. not too bad but not a full day either.
I mean - if the local hotels are charging higher prices (one woman told me $50 more per night) due to it still being "spring break adjacent" then the park should make their stay more enjoyable. Maybe bring about Magic Nights like they have at WDW to allow those staying in the hotels to come back at night and have less crowds...
after thinking about it - many schools have really offset their spring breaks to where now schools throuhgout the country start their break from two weeks before easter all the way through next week (Irvine Unified here in CA). BUT - the park only places a two week window (or is it one week) on their extended hours. So last night, at 7pm, Most of the rides had only one side or track working or in a queue, many fastpasses were gone by 1pm, and Splash had an 83 minutes wait at 7:40pm - and the park closed at 8. Food lines were huge, etc.
I think the park needs to rethink how they structure the Spring Break hours in order to accomodate the wider spread of school district changes. Maybe use the most hours (8-midnight, or whatever) during the heaviest weeks, and then something lighter (9am-10pm) for the other weeks. I think this would allow many more people to see more attractions. With our group we only were able to visit 7 attractions on hit one restaurant for food. not too bad but not a full day either.
I mean - if the local hotels are charging higher prices (one woman told me $50 more per night) due to it still being "spring break adjacent" then the park should make their stay more enjoyable. Maybe bring about Magic Nights like they have at WDW to allow those staying in the hotels to come back at night and have less crowds...