We just happened to decide to go to Disney last week when they had this first time ever event- Leap Day -and were staying open from 6am until 6am.
We didn't give it much thought. The place was relatively empty all week, as expected for this time of year. We were walking on to rides that normally have hour-long waits.
Wed came and we didn't do anything special, we went to Epcot in the morning and planned to get to the Magic Kingdom later in the evening to see if anything special was happening.
Well, apparently this was a huge event. We had trouble getting the boat from our resort to the park, so we took a different boat to a hotel and walked. That should have been our first clue
It took nearly an hour to get there (normal commute - 20 minutes) and once we walked in people were lined up to see the fireworks. We just stood at the end of main street and watched, again, figuring it was just normal fireworks crowds that would be leaving as soon as they were over.
We were wrong. The place was packed - as in so packed you couldn't fall over if you wanted to. They had special events starting after midnight and people were streaming into the park. We tried walking toward the castle, and when we reached the end of Main Street, we could barely move. A cast member told me it was worse than Christmas.
We decided we go too often to deal with the madness and just turned around and left. We hit the outlets instead
The next night we were talking to another cast member who said it was maddeningly busy ALL NIGHT LONG and that there simply wasn't enough staff at the end of Feb to handle those kinds of crowds. Many people who worked all night called in sick the next day. This poor girl could barely stand she was so tired.
Anyone here brave the crowds and stayed in the Magic Kindom all night?