Crowd Calendars

[disneygran]

I will be going to WDW in March. I have my park reservations, but I have been looking at crowd calendars. Do you think it matters which park I go to on which day this
year ? With no extra magic hours and limited entertainment, I wonder if the crowd calendars really mean anything this year. Any thoughts ?

[WisconsinDisneyDad]

I try to hit the "hot" parks midweek. Typically we do HS on Tue/Wed, same with MK. Animal seems to fairly slow everyday, so we do that on Monday or Friday. We usually do our trips during the week to cut crowds. Sunday to Saturday, with M-F as park days. We love finishing Friday's at AK since it closes the earliest, and provides you more time to pack without feeling like you missed out.

[randyf79]

Hi, Disneygran...interesting question.

The 'experts' who do that for a living have only had one year in the COVID era to relook their models... The other thing to consider is that all the parks are being metered right now as far as how many guests can be in the park...so that could mute your experience also.

We went (and typically go) the third week of January and our experience this year was that all the parks were operating with lower crowds.

One other consideration is what the schools and universities (in particular) are doing with their Spring Breaks this year. Most are not having them so that could also depress some of the crowds.

So, with all that being said...I would say do the parks in the order that you would like to enjoy them in. I've mentioned in other posts that we chose not to do park hopping because the park hours are really short and you make them even shorter if you spend time going from one to another. We took the approach of getting everything out of each park we could and then head over to Disney Springs for dinner and shopping because they are open later than the parks. Except for EPCOT where we had dinner.

Hope you have a great trip!

[disneygran]

Thank you so much ! We already have park hoppers, because we bought them for a trip last year. We were scheduled to arrive at WDW the day that the parks closed. I hope we will be able to get into a second park after two, since we have already paid for the park hoppers.

[CH-GenX]

My recommendation is not depend on crowd calendars. I used to be a big fan of touring plans but past two trips found to be using them way off. However, touring plans youtube videos are still a great place to start.

There is nothing like the early bird gets the worm-hit the rope drop, take a mid day break, early supper, then hit it again when folks are starting normal supper time.