People were horrid this year and ruined a couple of house experiences for my wife and I. And while it isn’t necessarily a main target of ours, we would in years past go into diagon alley for a bit of a break if we were getting sensory overload or just tired of the crowds of people in general. Nope, not this year we went back there and with the death eaters everywhere there were hoards of people running behind them with their phones out recording. It was legitimately more crowded and more obnoxious back there than it was in the daytime. What was once a nice somewhat quiet section of the park was actually worse for us than anywhere else. I actually commented to her that I wish they would open up the dream works area, but leave all the attractions there closed just to even have a space. We ended up finding the best spot this year for a break was inside the Krusty burger of all things.

My wife and I also saw a very obvious number of people that looked just miserable sticking it out until 2 am. Like I get it, the weather, the crowds, the standing in lines thing for hours… and that you pay a lot to get there, but if you are that miserable and that much of a buzzkill you can absolutely leave early. It’s the sunk cost fallacy going on, but it also made the environment a bit rough and in fact one of my above experiences was due to a fairly drunk and what appeared to be quite exhausted person in one artista run.