This wasn’t just the usual Hawaiian “drizzle a little each day to keep things green” but a record-breaking EIGHT inches one of the days we were there during a storm-of-the-century front.ĭespite getting more rain in one day than my Arizona hometown gets in a year, we weren’t going to let some moisture keep us inside. The forecast was sustained rain for several days. When I saw the forecast for a group trip to Hawaii in December 2021, I knew the Disney ponchos would be coming along. I think I’ve taken wet ponchos with me on rides in almost every park over the years. But the short lines generated by the mass exodus of tourists are usually worth the trouble. As we tromped out of the park in the downpour, we thanked our lucky stars and the cheap plastic keeping most of us and our possessions dry.Īttractions are hard with ponchos - most require you to gingerly fold them up and hold or stow them during a ride. Those original ponchos were with us when we got deluged in the back of a park (yet again), this time in the Hogwarts area of Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando. (If not, the dollar-store ones, just in case). If it looked like rain, we brought out the thicker Disney ponchos.

On future trips to Florida, we brought those same ponchos and also one-time-use dollar-store ponchos. The rest of the trip days we brought our ponchos into the parks to ward off rain, and they also worked very well for that! The ponchos couldn’t keep us completely dry, but they did much better than I would have suspected, given their $7 cost. So we bought two Disney ponchos and fast-walked all the way out of the park and to our Caribbean Beach Resort bus. We were lucky enough to duck into the large gift shop, but after wandering around for a half hour with no sign of the rain letting up, we decided to make a run for it. Cue 3 PM of our first day, in the old Mickey’s Toontown area at the very back of Magic Kingdom, as the heavens opened. My husband and I took a very last-minute trip to Florida in September 2008 and really didn’t know what we were splashing into. That way you stay totally dry and can still go from ride to ride.But I didn’t know that my first time to Disney World as an adult. We also have rain suits we wear when the rain is set in for the day. I actually used one of those little bag sealers you can buy at Bed Bath & Beyond and heat sealed the sides of our Disney ponchos so that if it's raining, the water doesn't come in the sides. If I'm carrying a larger bag, I carry the Disney ones. If I'm carrying a small bag, I bring the deposable ones that day. The ones at Wal Mart and the Disney ones have enough extra on the sides to pull under before you sit down. They are also too short to sit on with the hood on which defeats the purpose.

The hoods are too small and you get soaked. If you buy the cheaper ones, don't buy the ones at the dollar store. The only reason we bought new ones, was that we left our other ones in the car and didn't want to go back out and get them.

They don't tear like the dollar store ones. The ones we bought in May cost 7.00 each, but they are really good ones. The new ones are a little thinner, but they feel much better. We have Disney ponchos from this year and two years ago.