Those who have been at the time, how crowded is Christmas town on the weekend following Thanksgiving? My sister will be home for that weekend and would like to check out CT for the first time, trying to gauge if the crowds are as attrocious as I fear they may be.
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The dining situation has improved A LOT since international workers have returned and Food & Wine ended. Some super-low-notoriety locations are still frequently closed, but on all but the busiest days, that's nothing new. I'd say that the only location most people will expressly notice missing is Grogan's/O'Taters.
All other things being equal (weather, sales), the weekend after Thanksgiving will likely be the best December weekend. Expect it to be crowded as fuck (it is a CMT weekend in December still), but it should be notably more manageable than the weekends to follow.
Friday and Saturday will be miserable with crowds so thick you can't walk. The Sunday will be busy, but manageable. If the weather is cold, I mean really cold, like in the 30s, the crowds will be thinner.
I have been on Friday and Saturday in December and it was pretty crowded, are you saying it'll be worse? Zach made it sound like the best Friday/Saturday option until after Christmas
As a local I can pick & chose when I want to go. Our experience with CT is that on Fri, Sat & Sun nights it is so crowded you can barely move. If you are with your spouse or a friend, you can forget trying to walk side by side in certain places. You literally have to maneuver your way through people. I often tell people about the time a woman in a wheelchair was in a panic and hysterics headed towards wolf valley because she was caught in the crowd coming out of Abbey Stone theatre and she literally couldn't move. We cleared a path for her to that breezeway and she calmed down. That is how crowded it can get. If you can, check the calendar when they start to open on weeknights. Still crowded but nowhere near like the weekend. Don't want to discourage you because it's worth seeing.
One note here...
Thanksgiving is on 11/24 this year, so the first weekend after Thanksgiving (Fri 11/25 - Sun 11/27) will actually still be in November. Not sure if you are counting that as a December weekend, but wanted to call it out, as some folks here might think you are talking about Fri 12/2 - Sun 12/4, which is a full week after Thanksgiving.
Due to life, its been a year since I've gotten to the park. Are they still playing games with Preferred Parking and having it not available for Premium/Platinum members? We are planning to go Sat and will be there (traffic permitting) around 9:30am. We'll deal with whatever but really hoping that walking the tram route won't happen.
@SMcS We haven't had any issues with getting in England lot with the Platinum our last few visits, but we usually only get to be there on Sundays/Mondays.
It has appeared to be available lately. Also the park is constantly running trams on busy days like Saturdays it's the slower days that you might be walking.
Update. 10 am Sat got the preferred with no problem. Plus, the tram is running.
Will Thursday’s rain (expected to be over 0.5” over the course of the day) close the park or coasters?It's been a while, so appreciate the help!
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Based on the forecast (which has a 100% chance of changing by then) it should be warm enough out that the rides not the park would shut down. If it was rain like we got this past Thursday, then it would.
Why are there strips of missing trees that go through the park? I noticed this but I never knew what it was.
I believe you are referring to the clearing for the Colonial Pipeline. You can get information about it here:
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There is also a thread for issues related to it:
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Colonial Pipeline Clearing – BGWFans
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There is also a thread for issues related to it:
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Dropping this in here as we don't seem to have a general thread for the pipeline and I don't think it warrants a new thread. Maybe change this over to a general one on the pipeline instead of just the past clearing? Colonial Pipeline that runs the pipeline under BGW just had a major cyber...
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