Last weekend it was already Xmas carrier bags for your shopping. Getting that subliminal message early on.
This is how we only managed 5 rides in 2 days: we had breakfast at the allocated time of 7 a.m. (you don't just saunter in to breakfast when you damn well fancy) then went to the park and had 5 rides in the first 2 hours. Could have done another one but one of the DDs not tall enough and I didn't have anyone to leave her with. When the gates opened for the rest of the people, goodbye 5 minute queues and hello 50 minute queues. Rides varied, some were 47 seconds long. I was bored enough to time them.
We stayed up late for the 11 p.m. scramble which was the lights show. I was on my own so I had one on my shoulders and tried to balance the other one on a hip. They are 6 and 8, a miserable experience and the 8 y.o. didn't see much. Packed like sardines for the 20 minute show.
We wanted dinner at the hotel. Forget it. At 6 pm we were 'offered' a sitting at 10 pm or 10.30 pm. Too late as we would have missed the 11 pm show. So it was McDonalds again. But hang on, you can't go inside the bloody park with your McDonalds take away, even if its fold on its own bloody Disney so called village. So we had to eat it at the gate do we could go in for the show.
I'd read about it beforehand. But frankly, when I spend £1000 for 2 days I expect to have a bit more comfort and fun and not plan everything to the most minute detail.
We couldn't go early the next day for the extra 2 hours in the morning as the DDs were impossible to wake up at 6.30 (having got back at midnight the night before). So we went later, queues.
Did I mention? The whole park came to a standstill as it rained for all of 10 minutes. All rides, including indoor ones, closed due to technical difficulties caused by the 'storm alert'. That was fun.