Disney Animal Kingdom New Years Eve 2018
Choosing to stay at one of the resorts in Kissimmee, such as Fantasy World, during the winter holidays is a great first step to an amazing 2018. As well as spacious villas and plenty of onsite entertainment, you’re also ideally located to enjoy festivities at the major theme parks, especially New Year’s Eve at Disney World. If you’re planning on ringing in the new year with the Mouse and his friends, here are some handy tips to make the most of the big event.
New Year’s Eve at Disney is an incredible experience, but it can also be crowded. Fortunately, they put on a lot of extra entertainment to keep everyone happy without always having to stand in long lines. Parades, fireworks, characters, and shows are just about everywhere you look. Still, so are the crowds, so be prepared. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is one of their busiest.
If you’re going to be there for multiple days, go early and/or stay late. The crowds are at their lightest first thing in the morning and in the last few hours of the day. If you want to make a full day of it, aim for a very long, leisurely lunch around midday, preferably back at your resort, where you can cook up a nice lunch and then take a long nap. This will help you miss the absolute busiest part of the day. Afterward, you’ll be ready to head back to Disney World to enjoy the evening festivities.
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If you are sticking around the park during the day, definitely get a FastPass+. Schedule it for use during midday when the lines are longest. You’ll get the most use out of it then.
The reality is that there are a lot of attractions at Disney World and it’s easy enough to skip over some just to ride the big-name rides. However, everyone else has the same idea, so give some of the less well-known rides and attractions a try. They’ll likely have shorter lines and are still plenty of fun.
As for New Year’s Eve, the crowds may be big, but the fireworks are spectacular and not to be missed. They’re worth every jostle and long line you’ve survived throughout the day. The Magic Kingdom does its fireworks display on the 30th, as well as the 31st. On both nights, they also show Holiday Wishes before the New Year’s Eve fireworks, Fantasy in the Sky, so don’t miss out!
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As you make your plans for New Year’s at Disney World, book one of the convenient and comfortable resorts in Kissimmee, such as Fantasy World, be prepared for crowds and long lines, and have some sort of game plan on getting there when the park opens, and/or sticking around until the park closes. At the end of it all, you’ll end up ringing in 2018 in a truly magical setting.We return to Magic Kingdom again for a post-Christmas visit to check on the current status of several projects and random stuff around the park, including Tron Lightcycle Power Run, Liberty Square Riverboat, Aunt Polly’s, our New Year’s Eve (eve) visit to Magic Kingdom, and more.
Let’s start with the current hot topic, and that’s holiday crowds. Every year, I see tons of posts about the crowds between Christmas and New Year’s on social media. These usually showcase high wait times for shock value. “X has a Y minute wait time right now, can you believe it?! How long would you wait for it?” is a common formula, but a pointless exercise.
It’s not pointless for the accounts posting about wait times, as there’s usually a lot of emphatic engagement, but it does surprise me that people continue to be upset at or surprised about this. No one with basic theme park knowledge is going to wait that long for those attractions (which is literally everyone responding to that type of post), yet people still feel the need to chime in with their disgust.
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This time of year at Walt Disney World, which is a sharp departure from the conventional wisdom of those who mock anyone being so “foolish” to visit this time of year.
To the contrary, we think it can be a good time to visit if you’re armed with savvy strategy. Taking advantage of those 7 a.m. morning Extra Magic Hours, doing a midday break, and returning for the late night operating hours and entertainment is a ton of fun.
For this Magic Kingdom update, I ignored all of my own (good) advice and headed to the park over the weekend during the middle of the day. It’s been a while since I’ve done this during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, and I was mentally prepared for the absolute worst.
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I was pleasantly surprised. My trip began at the Transportation and Ticket Center, after I was done capturing photos for our Epcot Update: December 2018 post. I took the monorail to the TTC, where I was expecting chaos and huge lines. To the contrary, there was a ~5 minute wait for the monorail, and no wait for buses to the Magic Kingdom, which were being offered to keep crowds down (kudos).
I chose the monorail, which ended up not being the greatest idea, as the monorail in front of us had technical problems a couple of times en route to Magic Kingdom. Nevertheless, the delays were relatively short. Once I arrived at Magic Kingdom, there was literally no line at the turnstiles. I didn’t have to go through it, but in looking back at bag check, there were also very short lines there, too. I’ve experienced worse in September.
Inside the park, wait times were high. There’s really no disputing that. Space Mountain was above 2 hours throughout my visit, and other wait times appeared to be as much as double what they’d be on a normal busy day. A couple of queues were spilling out into walkways, so I don’t doubt that waits were high. (I also don’t doubt that anything posting 200+ minutes is inflated.)
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What surprised me, and what I haven’t heard many people talking about, was the relative lack of crowds. Walkways were not overly congested, and while it definitely felt busy, there was zero gridlock. Again, I’ve experienced worse in the fall and on normal busy days in Magic Kingdom.
A big part of this is due to crowd control. Magic Kingdom is not known for its crowd control, and we’ve been especially critical of that during hard ticket events and around the Central Plaza in the evenings. However, Magic Kingdom’s crowd control team brought its A-game, and throughout busy areas, there were Cast Members with “Keep Right” signs about every 10 feet. (You all are ‘da real MVPs’.)
Even during the Christmas parade, crowd flow was smooth and not nearly as frustrating as I expected. Although I’m a Walt Disney World fan who likes this time of year, I hate congestion and the feeling of helpless being stuck in a gridlocked crowd. In fact, I almost punted on this update, not wanting to hassle with Magic Kingdom crowds this week.
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Yesterday, we again returned to Magic Kingdom for the New Year’s Eve festivities. As we note in our Tips for Surviving New Year’s Eve at Walt Disney World post, the Eve of NYE is always significantly less crowded than December 31, but we were once again surprised by just how
For the 9:45 p.m. showing of Mickey’s Most Merriest Celebration, we had a better view than we did at the Christmas Parties we attended (save for the midnight runs), and we had a blast on Main Street taking photos and “enjoying” the pop music. (Well, the photo part is true…it still bugs me that they have DJs blasting questionable music in Magic Kingdom, but that’s another story for another day.)
Not wanting to do dinner in Magic Kingdom, we walked over to the Contemporary Resort for Contempo Cafe, which was delicious, as always. Upon returning, there was no wait for bag check or the turnstiles–literally
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Inside the park it was obviously a busy night, but there were more Cast Members working PAC than I’ve ever seen, and by a pretty wide margin. There was a palpable energy in the air, both in guests we encountered (we didn’t observe a single meltdown!) and Cast Members. In particular, the PAC Cast Members were in great spirits, and it seems like guests were feeding off of that positivity.
Fantasy in the Sky was spectacular. The show has been enhanced with some of the lighting effects from Happily Ever After, which is a nice touch. I’ve seen Fantasy in the Sky before, but it has been several years, and I forgot just how wow-inducing that show is.
We avoided the mass exodus immediately after Fantasy in the Sky by ducking into Country Bear Jamboree. Leaving Magic Kingdom ~30 minutes after Fantasy in the Sky ended was smooth sailing–we had a 0 minute wait for the monorail.
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Anyway, that’s all a very long-winded way of saying “nice job” to the Magic Kingdom Cast Members on handling heavy crowds
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