We just got back from our WDW and Universal vacation. We headed to IOA on Wed, and our family will not be going back anytime soon LOL, even thought FJ is the best ride anywhere. Lots of things went wrong, and not many of the people working there were friendly, but I won't go into those things since everyone just wants to hear about WWOHP and FJ crowds ;P
We arrived around 7:30ish (as we rushed into the park, I didn't even slow down to check my cell phone), and started speed walking with the thousands of other people all walking in the same direction. I've never been to IOA before, but felt prepared from all the reading I did here and in guidebooks, but didn't realize what a long walk it would through City Walk or whatever it was and then through the parks. We arrived at the rope drop area at the edge of Jurassic park and could see where they were holding back the crowd, but were a bit back. We hiked on through Jurassic and by the time we got to WWOHP, they were just starting to direct people through the rope queue on the left for FJ but we just walked the whole way though and then went on to put our stuff in lockers. Lots of people get confused by these lockers... I basically did everything for the other members of group and placed their finger down for them so we could hurry. Most of us ran over to Single Rider, but my older sister has a young son and she wanted to ride next to him so they stayed in the regular line.
Us Single Riders went straight to the Briefing Room. We waited for about 10 min. without moving, then an announcement was made over the loudspeakers (which you could barely hear over the portraits) that the ride was down and it would be about 15 min. About 30 min later (at least it was dark and airconditioned in the room... we just sat on the floor to wait. During this whole time my sister and her son were in the sun outside), a girl walked out and again made an announcement that we could hardly hear... the ride was up but not fully functional, we could still ride or we could choose to leave and get "Fastpasses" for later, but not guarantee about the ride even working at all later. We decided to stay since we could look around the corner and see where they would board people. But the line still never moved. Another half hour goes by, and we send my niece to go ask the status of the ride and now it's completely broken and probably won't be working for awhile. At this same point, my sister in the regular line texts us to say that they just announced the ride was working. A little later, they make an announcement that it will be another 15 min. After about 30 min, we're having to really use the restroom so we send my niece up to ask again and they say it will be a few hours. Finally they told our group that we could use the restrooms (none in the ride area, we had to fight crowds to use the ones near the Hogshead Pub) and get my 67 y/o diabetic mother a snack out of our lockers because by this time she had been standing for over 2 hours (she used an electric
scooter in all the other parks, but choose to forgo the offered wheelchair on FJ for whatever reason). By the time we arrived back at and got a snack out of the lockers, we could hear the ride clanging so we ran up and were on in a few minutes. All in all we spent well over 2 hours waiting for the ride to become functional. We heard from a manager that worked the Circus eatery in Suess Land, that by 8:30 they were already limiting people into WWOHP and that FJ had already broken down again.
There was a looonnnng line to get into each and every shop. My sister waited in line to get a wand and some postcards (you can have them stamped with the postmark, but if you want them mailed, they will only mail them if you buy Potter stamps which are 10 stamps for $15). The register went down as she was paying for her postcards and she waited about 15 min until she got her change. They told her they were using hand stamps because their regular postmark stamper was broken so the ink will take a while to dry and as she was standing there, the post marks smudged. So they gave her new ones, and we each had to hold some and fan them around for 5-10 min to try and keep the post marks from smudging.
After this we ate in Suessland, tried to get one few more rides (had a few more things go wrong... a stroller getting stolen, being told the wrong info by workers, my nephew getting pooped on a by a bird, etc, etc) that half of us went home and half stayed. Even though we spent so much money, it was so hot and crowded, lines for Hulk were 2 hours and so on, we went back to our hotel to eat, swim and relax LOL.
Later that evening around 5 pm, my other sister that stayed with her teens, were all able to get back into WWOHP in about 5 min wait time, and then Single Rider on FJ in a few minutes as well. They sort of cheated the locker line to get their stuff into lockers by just going into the gift shop and using that locker entrance to bypass that whole line and then hopped right onto Single Rider. But when they opened their locker to put their stuff in, there was already stuff in it. They told a locker attendant and got a different locker. The locker security said it happens ALOT. When they were getting off the ride, they overheard the lady trying to get her stuff out... what is happening is that as people take their stuff out, they offer other people coming in to put their stuff in their locker. So the system thinks the locker is empty and the person has no way of getting thier stuff out.
The whole time we were in WWOHP, the wait for Hippogriff was 45 min each time we checked, and Dragon Challenge was 5 to 15 min. It's a great coaster and we went on several times.
All in all our trip was great, we were just disappointed with IOA, though we realize some of it was just crowds and heat.
I'd like to emphasize this part...
scared1
didn't scare her off 'cause she has stupid money.
and the kids refused to wait, so I never even got to see the castle! The entire park had wait times of 75+ minutes except for the Dragon Challenge that we rode 3 or 4 times. The line to get into The 3 Broomsticks was 40min at 12pm. The lines for Butterbeer were ridiculous!
However one of the chaperones decided to stay in WWoHP by himself and was able to ride FJ twice, buy a couple of wands, and pay someone in line extra to get him a Butterbeer...and it worked! He conveniently
didn't get my text begging for one if he purchased one! 
The good news is my family is going back for 4 days May 28th through June 3 (with one day at Wet N Wild) for my son's senior trip! We're staying at HRH and I WILL be there early and have my teary moment! 
while I was there and it was so crowded!
